to hate "stylish" xmas trees!

[JJ17]

Our tree looks like shit but has every piece of rubbish that my DS1 and DS2 and even I have ever made at school.

I love it, it is filled with milk bottle tops, pipe cleaners, fragile clay stars.

I just love it, I feel that it tells a family story.

I hate trees that are fancy pantsy and "all white" or just "stylish".

I love my tree!

I agree with you :)

I agree, stylish trees are boring and really naff too. Anyone can have a coordinated tree by visiting b&q.

My dd is too young to make decorations, but I always pick up a few every year. None of them match, but I love them all and my tree is definitely unique!

Can't wait to put pipe cleaner decs up in a few years.

I completely agree!

Ours is a lovely tree, but the decorations are a mish mash, and we have 'proper' (to me) coloured lights rather than those boring white LED ones that will flash or whatever.

DS and I have made some salt dough stars to hang on there, and seeing as he is 2 and I don't have an artistic bone in my body, they are very, er - rustic!

I am so looking forward to having things that DS has made at school to go on there in a couple of years time :)

Agree.

Have seen a few white trees already, and loads of trees with just blue lights peeping out of windows on my street at the moment. probably young couples with no kids and minimalist interiors

I love a good old fashioned tree, me. Complete with tinsel and homemade decs.

The stylee ones are too sanitised looking.

I have everything on my tree. Including a big rubber ball with eyes that smells of cola sweets. All colours of tinsel (the day I find orange tinsel, I'll be a happy woman :)), ornaments from my childhood, ones the DDs have made, some they have chosen, some I've bought. A different silly topper each year. Old fairy lights from donkey's years ago that DH had to rewire!
I LOVE it. Tasteful it ain't.

Has has red and gold mismatching baubles, multicoloured lights and pink, green, blue and gold beads

oh, and has a toy leprechaun on top!

i saw orange tinsel over here at halloween purple and black too:o

YANBU

I also believe that IANBU to prefer my 'stylish' one .

Ours is a plastic jobby from Tesco and as such I took great delight in covering it with all the ugly little gnomes and raffia items that my parents had for our family trees in the 70s. It also has coloured lights and is a monument to trashy festivity. I LOVE it and although I've done the whole "only red and gold and expensive baubles from Habitat" stuff on a real tree bought from Columbia Road market (oh how twee was my tree), now that I am no longer a Hackneyite but a bedraggled seaside mother, I have to say I prefer my tacky tree as it looks like what it is - a collection of crazy ornaments that DS takes great delight in grabbing at. I do draw the line at tinsel though, can't stand the stuff!

To give you a taste of my tree style- Buzz light year is taped to the top of the tree wearing barbie fairy wings.....That is one of our more classy decorations!

Stylish no?

Me too. We let the dc loose on ours (4 and 2!) and so it does really look the opposite to stylish. And yes, we have coloured lights and TINSEL. In lots of different colours

Different strokes for different folks. Who really cares?

Oh no...I don't hate any Christmas tree! They're all an expression of joy.

[Holier than thou emoticon]

I think you can still get orange tinsel in Poundland...

I agree that overly 'stylish' trees are dreadfully naff and look awful. We will get our tree this weekend and I love getting all our old decs out every year. We do add a couple each year, very excited this time as we have moved to a Victorian house and have the ceiling height for a 9' tree :o :o :o

Ooh, must be white lights though, no idea why, they jst must be.

lolol

I have two trees for this very reason.

One is just like yours JJ and very special and lovely it is too. The other one is mine all mine with just gold ornaments and the soft twinkling lights. It's extremely stylish and tasteful .

I get a lot of pleasure from looking at both.

I have a plastic tree which get shoved in the loft every January. I love it! I also love buying more shit every January with my kids and we have so much rubbish for the tree that I have had to consign tinsel to the loft.

I love tinsel, I was born in 1969 and, what can I say, I miss cola spangles!

I dont decorate the rest of the house at all, cant be arsed, it's just the mental tree. 3 sets of lights atm.

I want trash!

slubber

how interesting - I used to have 2 trees too, but my child(free/less) sister nicked my "stylish" one!

JJ17 YANBU - ours is wobbly, bent and looks like someone vomited the decorations on it Full of homemade stuff too.
Waitwhat - love the idea of Buzz on the top.

YANBU. 'Stylish' trees are (IME) totally devoid of soul.

I agree my mum always used to buy random decorations that she liked throughout the year and we had things that we'd made at school etc. I really like having a random mix of stuff. That said some people like having a colour scheme/theme etc and maybe this makes them equally happy. Also some people may not want a childhood-memories type tree for various reasons. So each to their own

Im another that has two trees!

One with red and gold decorations and white lights.

And one covered in crap tinsel in DDs room!

But YANBU to like yours1

Stylish Xmas trees only belong in department stores or in homes where there are no DC.

My DS is grown up now and our tree still has stuff on it that either he made or the GPs or us bought for him when he was little. My DM bought him a tree ornament every year from him being born to being about 18. Random is good!