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!

Yanbu

we even have plastic icicle lights from 1982 on

Agree. A collection of handed down, hand made and more tasteful chosen decorations in clashing colours help make "your" Christmas tree special. Matching trees look very bland and unloved.

Having witnessed my friend spend 2 hours decorating her tree with much standing back to view from afar, and readjusting everything 5 times, I definitely agree with you!

2yo DD will be decorating our tree and everything will be left exactly as she wants it

Couldn't agree more. DS2 (2 and 6 months) "helped" me decorate the tree and hasn't got the hang of spreading things out either - one branch has 11 decorations on it but I don't care. Our fairy was made by DD at nursery when she was 3.It also has 6 sets of lights on it which all flash. and it's plastic. My mum is an uber snob and has been casting withering looks at our tree but it's far better than hers which just resembles a kind of silver stick thing.

We are another two tree household too

As much as I adore the tat beautiful decorations my children have produced over the years I don't like explosions of colour and mis-matching ornaments.
So we have a deal - the dining room is theirs with their own tree, lights, tinsel and decorations and the lounge is mine with it's "just so" tree, white lights and co-ordinating decorations.

The compromise works for us

Ultra kitch tree for us too!

I have had to relent on one thing with the tree. When I was a girl, we always had a fairy on the top of the tree, but dh had a star. Our tree has a star now because our fairy has seen better days. Not sure I should have given way on this one, but I guess marriage is about compromises... (and dh does decorate the tree with the dc while I drink tea).

Two trees here.

One a cornucopia of baubles and bells, collected over the years.

The second only white lights and silver.

My mum has 2 too, a garish tree and a stylish, colour-coordinated one. More space/time/money than sense but it makes her happy so why not. She doesn't decide which guests sit where but she probably wants to.

We always have a real tree (love the smell!) and all our mish mash of decorations are piled on there. Obviously they are all very tasteful, especially the large red felt kangaroo.

I don't have a problem with stylish trees, but draw the line at the upside down ones that were around last year. wtf was that about?!

I do think co-ordinated trees lack something in the way of soul. Our decorations are red gold and silver, although DD added purple last year. I don't have tinsel, the feel of it sets my teeth on edge for some reason, we have strings of little beads instead. DC asked for popcorn like they'd seen on some American film but I chickened out. Am thinking that decorating the tree in the garden with strings of popped popcorn for the birds might be nice though. I let the children decorate and anything they make is automatically added to the tree, and any left-over baubles are hung around the room. There is going to come a point where I'm going to need a bigger tree I think...

Gosh, I dont think it really matters as long as people have the tree they like in their house.

Pouring scorn on the type you dont have is not very in the spirit of Christmas in my opinion!

Each to their own.

YABU

A friend was explaining to me that she had had to put trees in the children's bedrooms for them to hang their decorations on as her tree was covered in decorations from Harrods! She is absolutely lovely and very stylish and fabulous generally but I did have to laugh.

My tree has mostly homemade loveliness on it.

Our Christmas tree has an urrrrmmmm style...

... the style is very strictly that everything must look like it was made for by (let's face it trainee) elves and everything on the tree must be able to be touched and played with.

Aother 2 tree family here! Neither particularly stylish but the one on the landing has a monkey on the top.

ds gets one new decoration every year and these are put on the tree.. otherwise the decorations are gold, red and silver....I like the 'randomness' - it is our tree and tells his story...

I blumming love my tree.

Its pink with pink tinsel and pink baubles and pink fairies and any other pink thing I have found.

But it is also covered on nearly every branch with butterflies of every hue. For my DD.

It is beautiful.

The boys have a silver one in their room and they can put anything they like on it.