To love glittery tat Christmas decs and not two colour trees and tastefulness?

[CowboyJoeFromMexico]

It's not just me, surely? My friends and family all have beautiful tasteful matching decorations and colour schemes and I'm the only one who loves tat and tinsel and coloured lights. It's colourful and sparkly and Christmassy. Where are my people?

YANBU

I love colour. I don't like tacky really though....

Glitter and sparkle and tinsel! YES.

Tacksville in this house. Love it.

I like multi colour, but not really tack.

I want a white tree with multicoloured baubles on.

Tacky McTack no doing but I want it!

Me, me, me! I have eclectic decs gathered together over the years including all the ones the kids have made. Nothing matches. We drape tinsel in various hues over picture fames and put out my knitted nativity compete with spray painted polystyrene star dangling abve. I have foil garlands and hanging thingys on my ceiling. My house looks tacky for weeks but we love it.

I don't have coloured lights but I have tinsel in abundance

Not tat, I think the phrase you're looking for is "more is more"!

First year I was with DH he thought I was done before I'd even got hald of the stuff on the tree!

Here! I am one of your people!
I am highly suspicious of beautiful matching trees and Christmas colour schemes. Our Christmas tree does, it's true, have a few rules (white lights, no tinsel, and lots of beads) but the only rule for all the baubles etc is the more the merrier. Every colour. All the glitter. Home made, shop bought.
There is NO SUCH THING as tacky during the month of December. It does not exist.
I suppose I could in theory conceive of having a colour co-ordinated tree in, say, my second home ::enters fantasy world:: or in my huge palatially spacious hall, next to the spiral staircase. But I would still have a family tree in another room, covered with all the decorations I have collected over the years, the fragile ones the girls made, the handprints, the random cuddly toys, the plastic ones from Woolies we bought when we first moved in together. All of that. All together. Regardless of whether it 'goes' or not.

Me too
Think colour schemes are pants

Multicoloured lights, tinsel, a multitude of different styles of decorations, I fucking love my Christmas tree.

I have a white tree hung with multi coloured baubles and three sets of non matching lights...

MmXmas tree is beautiful and multicoloured and looks like Christmas threw up on it! Complete with multi coloured singing lights! Love it. Hate matchy matchy decorations!

I love sparkly tat.

I have glittery sparkly coloured twigs and I love them.

Where is the best plave for white trees?

I still hang the Pom Pom robin and penguin (?) I made around 35 years ago on our tree!

I have an artificial tree with a mix of homemade and shop bought decorations. No colour scheme. I have 3 different types of coloured lights that all flash at slightly different times. I also have a range of tinsels.

I agree - I think matching, colour co-ordinated trees a little too tasteful. It's Christmas fgs!

I have a small white tree I stand on the sideboard in the kitchen.I hang pound shop candy canes on it.

As I get older I find the little illuminated village scenes quite charming. All the more if there is a small mobile train.

Sad, I know.

Gusthetheatecat- I want a house with a big staircase that leads to a flagstone floor hallway (like the one in an old boyfriend's mother's house).

I would put one (yes I did just say one) of the decorated Christmas trees at the bottom of those stairs......

Anyway - to me white lights on a tree or anywhere decorative look classy. Coloured lights, tinsel and plenty of etc look like a party and I love both.

YANBU. No such thing as tacky at Christmas.

After shunning the shiny ceiling decorations from my working class childhood I put a load up last year (one long one going from each corner to the light fitting) and it looked blood marvellous and festive. And a bit like a working men's club.

I can't stand the matching colour scheme bollox.

^Here! I am one of your people!
I am highly suspicious of beautiful matching trees and Christmas colour schemes. Our Christmas tree does, it's true, have a few rules (white lights, no tinsel, and lots of beads) but the only rule for all the baubles etc is the more the merrier. Every colour. All the glitter. Home made, shop bought.^

Gus You and I share the same philosophy on Xmas tree decoration. We also homemade, sentimentally important decorations, including the crap papier mache ones DH & I made the first year we lived together and were too skint to buy any.

Christmas is tacky

I want a giant light up reindeer but DP won't let me buy one

I did turn against tinsel but I think I was suckered in by fashion, its not the same without it LOVE tinsel....and love colored lights.

I have lots of different schemes in the one room