To be hankering after a proper, old-fashioned christmas?

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I hate the modern christmasses, with their pink and purple and wrapping papers/baubles. I don't like modern christmas trees, I've seen monstrosities in BLACK and turquoise fgs! What is the meaning of this?!

I would like to see a return to proper christmasses like what we had when we were little. One "big" present if you were lucky, wrapped in proper thin paper and then a few bits that would keep you amused for all of christmas. I wouldn't mind of someone wanted to come carol singing at my house, either. They would be invited in for gluhwein and mince pies. After dinner, everyone sits down to watch a proper christmas film instead of having their faces stuck in their Nintendo WankStain.

Sorry, all of the pink/purple decorations on This Morning have mad me feel a bit stabby.

Me too, i have great memories from when i was a child, presents under the tree and trying to look through the thin paper to see what was inside, one big present from father christmas plus a few colouring books and pens, my gran coming over for christmas lunch, crap christmas crackers on the table and a tree decorated with red and green and lots of tinsel .

We still have a traditional tree (greens and reds), i dont like all the pink and purple bits.

My Christmases are like that. Yours can be too if you like.

Why can't you have that? Nobody is obliged to buy pink/purple decorations (although my favourite colours are purple, green, black and silver so I have these sorts of colours).

Mine is like that (in my house) Tree is white, red and green.

But someone is going to come and ruin it with glittery wanksplat wrapping paper, aren't they? Then the BBC will ruin it by putting "Rambo 12: Born To Kill" on as the christmas film.

I have used traditional(ish) paper but i know someone will turn up with some winnie the pooh paper or bright purple

TV is just not the same anymore , i guess things change.

Oh, you mean other people's dreadful taste invading your home. I'm with you there. Well if really pushed you could re-wrap the wanksplat offerings.

Exactly that, daveywarbeck. I just didn't want to say it.

I remember the one year that my mum brought round this dreadful snowman sat in a sleigh that rocked back and forth to the tune of Jingle Bells being sung by dying cats. DS LOVED it but it was migraine-inducing. Really, it was awful and it might have accidentally got broken when I put the decorations away that year. My mum asks where it is every year.

We do that. Well more or less. Much to my DD and DS2's disgust They are naturally attracted to the sequins and tinsel end of the christmas dec range! I keep hoping DD wll grow out of it but she gets worse! This year she wanted to buy a red plastic reindeer entirely covered in glitter....she took one look at my face and found something else....

We have a mixture of red/green/silve/gold with lot of clear glass and wood on the tree. Fir,holly and ivy round the house. Lots of tealights. I make a wreath with stuff from the garden. Kids have one main present and a stocking in the am with little things in it.

Btw I totally agree that pink, purple and that weird pearly white say 'tart's boudoir' not christmas tree

We have traditional Carol singers from the local church, it is lovely. I don't think the Christmases my children have are any different from the Christmases I experienced as a child. It was already commercialised when I grew up in the 70/80s. We do make an effort to do some traditional activities.

Orm, you are my christmas kindred spirit.

I could lend you my Morecambe & Wise DVD if you like.... And if you want to experience the true essence of my 1970's childhood Christmas I'll also throw in a packet of Angel Delight and a tin of chopped ham and pork. Bleurrggghhhh....

I do so hate giving away my nicely wrapped presents with bows and in boxes, co-ordinating wrapping paper and labels (seen as an unnecessary bonus with both my parents and inlaws, leading to much reassigning of presents later) and swapping them for clashing, thin wrapping paper covered odd shaped articles under my perfectly balanced tree

Yes to the Angel Delight, I'll leave the chopped ham and pork (bit worrying that it says chopped ham AND pork on the tin, aren't they the same thing?

I was always allowed a thimbleful of Bailey's on christmas eve from the age of about 5. Do you want to call the SS or shall i?

Oh I totally agree. I still insist on making home-made tags out of last year's Christmas cards and regard shop bought ones very snootily.

Yesterday I saw a black door with a black wreath decorated with black bows and black baubles. The horror. It was in Chelsea though.

Our Christmases are like that :)

I saw a display of tins of chopped ham in the supermarket the other day, the proper old fashioned oval ones with a key. The kind that we used to get in the Xmas hamper and my Nan would splat out onto a plate and festoon with lettuce.

I nearly bought one.

But not quite.

Yes I love the more traditional Christmas 'look' too - but to me, traditional wouldn't be green, red and white; more a silver plastic tree with just about every colour bauble you could think of thrown at it (ala late 70's).

I tried to go with the oldey-worldey look last year and only have green and red baubles on our tree, but the DCs and DH held a mutiny and messed it up with other colours that didn't match

I have insulted too many people with black trees this year already . So I will not be drawn on them.

Hide the crap wrapping paper at the back, rewrap or buy some of the plain red giftbags from Tesco (about 30p) and stick them in those. Ditto with the Disney Christmas cards (why? who does this?), hide them behind the others.

Make Birds trifle and watch Mary Poppins, all will be well.

Ours are proper ones too. I seethe inwardly at all shitty explosion in a fairy factory wrapping paper, and gaze smugly at my beautifully wrapped, co-ordinating presents. My tree looks gorgeous until I have to swap presents. :(

Trees in any other colour than green should be banned.

Oh, I see what you mean, not what you have but what others bring, duh. I do like natural decs - holly, misteltoe, lots of green etc. My tree is covered in all sorts we've collected, particularly birds, some lovely real feather ones we got from the Tower of London, some with long feathery tails and this year's addition will be a camp parrot! I love having differents baubles and decorations collected over the years; we have glass from Venice, wooden toys from North Wales, a bauble from New York and the Tower ones.

I'm not anal about what others bring. If I get a present, I spend too much time squeezing it and shaking it to try and figure out what's inside to mind what it's wrapped in

As for what's on the telly, Doctor Who, Mary Poppins and my (Jeremy Brett) Sherlock Holmes DVDs do me nicely for entertainment whilst I clean tack for the Boxing Day meet

I HATE the Disney christmas cards (will make an allowance if they're from hildren TO children, but grown-ups? Really?)

Am also a fan of every colour decoration on the tree. As long as it looks traditional in some way, I'm in. I hate trees that look like they've cpme out of the Next Directory.

Where did you get the camp parrot muffin? I'd love a camp parrot for my tree.