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.

Kladdkaka- my nan always used old wall paper (leftovers)

We have a real tree this year and it has silver and red and white decorations on it (Plus some of the kids homemade decs that I have hidden artfully arranged round the back) all the presents are in red, white or silver paper (one s that aren't are hidden in the bottom of the catboats box I have wrapped in red and white paper!! Kids presents from Santa are in Disney paper - cars, princesses etc but won't be Put out til Xmas eve anyway so doesn't matter.

Aside from the carols, that is my house at Christmas.

I have to have a real tree (had a fake one once, just wasn't the same), but I am not precious about colours on it. The more the better I say, although I draw the line at brown and black decorations!

I don't understand OP. Do Christmas however you like in your house.

I am in good company as I too am a vintage christmas gal

I had a gasp at Sidge's paper

I too embrace the christmas as was ruined as a kid (parents split on 5th December - baaaaaad times) so now throw myself into it to make it happy

Baubles This is the thread for you my festive friend

Re that fabulous paper I have no idea where DMIL gets it - must ask her. I have a feeling they get it from Roys of Wroxham, the most bizarre "department store" known to man.

All our Tree Stuff are things that weren't originally meant for tree, but hat the kids and we tarted up and tied bits of ribbon onto to hang.

Like those (useless) wicker balls, we painted those with glue and rolled em in glitter (gold, silver, red & green), and made papier nache thingamabobs, and salt dough "sugar cookies" decorated with glitter, so all our tree stuff is that sort of thing.

Honestly though, I do not even know where to buy non-tacky decorations - I was at Matalan and Wilkos today and the stuff they had was crap of the Highest Order.

Maybe I sought new stuff too late in the Season so all that's left is ick.

haha! *mache!

I have a lovely big tree in my hallway (sounds very ooh la la doesn't it??!) with all vintage decorations on. I hate modern stuff- just can't stand it.

I like sheets of wrapping paper ,not rolls ,I buy them in wilkos

My mum got a woman she worked with to knit a 2ft snowman for ds1's 1st xmas.

Thats not too bad, I hear you cry??

Mother of God, you ought to have seen it!!!!

It was the most sinister, evil, twisted looking snowman you have ever seen

Its eyes were wonky, its smile was a hideous leer and it had what looked like blood stains near its mouth....it could have been in a B rated horror movie, honestly!!

It went "missing" sadly.

I like "proper" xmas's too...my dsis has a white tree and silver decs and blue lights and the dc arent allowed near it

We will have the usual eccentrically decorated tree...mostly green and red but with some great creations from ds1 and ds2 too

Oh Exotic it's just away of getting a good memory fest going! Sort your face out ffs.

sidge and where pray is this "Wroys" of Wroxham???? I have a fave shop in my home town...it's run by 2 90 year olds who seem to have kept the same stock from about 1967 onwards...its ACE....

they have the same hair accesories that I wore in the mid 1970s....ancient stinky colouing books and cards...kitchen accessories made of brown and yellow flowered plastc and last time I went there, she had the most amazing vintage angels....also some odd looking crayons which must have been 1950s if they were a day!

Market stalls selling traditional wrapping paper in sheets appear every Christmas round here. -Wouldn't- -be- -surprised- -if- -they're- -shifting- -70's- -stock!-

I'm a seventies kid. I am appalled by Disney fecking Pooh rubbish. I remember loads of clashing coloured tinsel, unspeakably lovely baubles and multicoloured christmas tree lights that always broke down. I would spend ages as a child just enthralled by our christmas tree. Every year I would spend every bedtime in a trance at some beautifully illustrated book showing pictures of santa. My kids don't really seem to get this.

We tie Quality Street on the tree, drives the dog mad, good thing she's too old to make a leap for them.They are the only colours apart from red,gold and silver allowed Only 'soft glow' lights and if I find DC's have sneaked the one piece of multi-coloured tinsel onto MY tree I shall have a tantrum.

I'm so cool now, I let the kids decorate the tree all by themselves.

WhoopsyLa I give you........ Roys!!!!!!!!

It's not far from where my inlaws live, they go each week. It is quite bizarre in that it's a mix of village shop, Poundland, the old House of Fraser-style department store and supermarket.

I'm not 100% sure that's where MIL gets the funky wrapping paper - she's very thrifty so she could have kept it from 1977, ironed it and reused it. She probably grimaces internally each time my girls rip it from gifts with gay abandon.

Oh my goodness Sidge LOVE places like that! We have a similar place in North Wales...it has the original lifts where you can watch the walls whizz past and the assistants look like Mrs Whatsit from Are You Being Served!

Bligg you just have to buu original vintage books and decorations...I do! Ebay an charity shops are full of them...well...I spend hours going round them all an combing through heaps of crap!

I love Christmas so much. You may hate me for my pink and turquoise baubles but it doesn't matter because I still embrace all of you for rejoicing in the joy of Christmas.

I think you'll agree that that ^ right there, is THE TRUE MEANING OF CHRISTMAS

Can I resurrect this thread?

Tree goes up today and we have lost the box of decorations apart from a purple tinsel circa 1952 with three bits of tin on it, four glass baubles and a fat modern gold tinsel plus some orange bat decorationy thing from halloween.

I refuse to buy new decorations so what can we make? There are two 'helpers', cotton wool, wool, glitter glue and everything.....