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?

My living room resembles a working men's club! DH loves decorating so I leave him to it.
I draw the line at Father Christmas riding a penny farthing / parachuting though.

Hey, let's not diss the matching decorations brigade who update every year. They enabled me to pick up big bags of baubles from the charity shop at bargain prices. My house is baubled to death already and none of it matches anything.... I lurve it!!

I leave decorating the tree to my DDs. Before I had DDs it was DSS and his cousins. The first year they, and their DMs, couldn't believe I wasn't going to redo it properly as soon as they'd left.

I must say this year's offering is a little sparse for my liking because DDs decided on a minimalist approach. seriously, who does minimalist on a Christmas tree?

Suspicious God me too! I so want one! All the little tiny windows!

I am your people. I love multicoloured trees and decorations that are meaningful and collected over the years. Wonderful. And I hate hate hate matchy 'themed' stuff, it's so grim. I'm feeling especially disgusted with my local
parents facebook group which is full of people moaning that their children want to help make decorations and looking for advice on how to avoid it. Like the stupid B&Q advert last year. I can't imagine what kind of person prefers a horrible set of matching baubles to something their kids have made and love. Madness. In conclusion, YANBU.

That has actually made my heart leap, knowing it's not just me.

I am extremely lucky to live very close to a B&M which sells all manner of tacky shit from August. It's a joy!

Pmsl at father Christmas on a penny farthing.
when me and Dh spot Christmas 'wrongs' like that we point it out to the other saying something like "ah, a penguin on a surfboard, it's just how baby Jesus wanted us to celebrate his birthday".

chachaboom surely Christmas 'so wrongs they're right'

I love B & M at christmas. My Favourite lights this year are little red stockings from the pound shop.

They are strung across my kitchen cork board. I may leave them there all year.

I really don't enjoy 'perfect' trees. I absolutely love Christmas, the run up, the presents, the look on the kids' faces when they see what Father Christmas has brought..love it all.

I like my deccies to be in line with the rest of my Christmas - a little bit wild, not too concerned with being tidy, and full of lovely Christmassy things the children have made. As many colours and lights and sparkly things as possible.

Oh, and some Shakin' Stevens

Work has a white tree and blue baubles. I mean....it's pretty, but it's just not Christmas.

S'ok for corporate though I spose

I love you all. This has made me so happy after I've been sneered at by my mother for my love of tack. I need more pink tinsel and glittery window stickers.

You'd all love my downstairs neighbours. They've strung these....well...they're best described as "Tinsel Heads" up all along the communal corridor and on the main door...there's a Father Christmas, Snowman, penguin...other weirder things I can't name. Heads made of tinsel...fabulous!

I like tasteful, but I include tinsel and glittery colourful stuff because it's what ds likes. A number of his contemporaries have parents doing stylish Xmas and 'oh we don't do tinsel darling' which I think is a cruelty to tinsel-loving toddlers!

YANBU. I think it is so sad for children to be presented with a 'tasteful' tree. Tne fun comes in decorating it and using all the old decorations which have a special meaning.

Tinsel head! I need one.
I overheard a playground conversation about how the tree had to match the wrapping paper and the kids weren't allowed to help decorate it and it made me sad. Even the cats help us decorate.

Tacky...odd...I like some more than others

They are awesome Timely

Snatchoo: Your work's tree is screaming out for a neon Elvis bauble.

How about this

I sometimes admire "themed" trees just as I sometimes admire photos of tasteful, immaculate rooms in magazines. I appreciate them from an aesthetic point of view.

But they''re just not for me. I love the eclectic mix of gaudy baubles that I''ve collected over the years, that bring back memories of Christmases past. Some of them date from my own childhood. They''re familiar and cosy. They''re homely and make me feel warm inside.

White tree with monochrome baubles? No thanks, too cold for me!

I really really can't understand why people don't let the children decorate- it is massively more fun than just being presented with one already done- they can see hundreds of trees that they haven't decorated so it is hardly special.

I have white and pink lights on my tree. With 3 colours of tinsel and diffrent baubles, snow flakes and other tat.

I love Christmas tat.

Love seeing houses done to the extreme as well.

I really can't believe that there is a young child who wouldn't like to decorate the tree! Or who is remotely interested in colour themes.

My 'tasteful' days are long gone. One year I went very minimalist with the tree, it ended up pissing me off every time I saw the damn thing. Have spent the last couple of years collecting 1960's decorations, the Woolworths stuff I grew up with. It's now listed as 'vintage' or 'retro' and has ridiculously inflated prices. Still - it looks fabulous and tacky and proper Christmassy.