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?

We have loads of weird and wonderful decorations, but they all relate to certain times or people or places. When we do the tree, everyone remembers that so and so gave us that one, or we bought that one on holiday in this place etc. All lovely memories.
Dd2 is bringing her first boyfriend this weekend to do the tree. Apparently he has brought a decoration for the tree. Its a Christmas pudding with a moustache. He sounds like the right boy for our family!

Mil has bought a lit twig as an Xmas tree. Am I aibu to refuse to visit til new year to be sure my tat-loving eyes are not offended by its xmassy minimalism?

Btw they are at ours Xmas day. I'm making the kids make extra 'stuff' decoration wise to really ramp the Xmas tat-a-thon up mwah ha ha ha

2 four year olds and a toddler decorated my tree this week.
Tastefully decorated it is not

ninety

Imagine a box of tinsel upended with all the ends dangling to the floor which makes it look like a fucked up Christmas tree spider.
With baubles.
I love it

People who try to do tasteful with a real tree are missing the point. Fibre optic tree, tinsel and glitter balls here.

You can use literally anything for an ornament. I remember in a house share at Uni we put everything sparkly, including condom packets (we were being ironic), and I bought two Reach toothbrushes (one each in red and green). I still have those (not the condoms, though ). During a "lean year" (1989) I bumped up my collection fast & cheap by buying two packs of cheap party whistles: one the "normal" kind, the other pack of whistles were bird-shaped. I still have those, too.

I've put on video and in writing the history of the ornaments DS is going to inherit. I don't specifically know whether I've written a Will about anything else he's going to get. Shows you my priorities.

We have a white tree that is huge and coloured lights, I put the tree up and put the lights,tinsel and stings of beads on and leave it to the kids to do. I'm desperate for a flashing/twinkling set of lights but I've yet to get some. As for baubles well it ranges from lollipop stick reindeer heads, paper robins to pink glittery baubles. Tinsel, strings of silver beads and snowflakes.

My most loved Decorations are the hama beads snowflakes and stars. Nothing matches on my tree and I frakking love it that way.

But I will be buying more Xmas decorations as some if them had to be retired this year due to irreparable damage. OH is adamant that I've got "enough" decorations, well it's my money so he can go whistle.

Well someone has to speak up for minimalism, so here goes. We have a real tree and the only colour decorations I allow are silver, gold and red. White lights. NO TINSEL.

(I do let the children hang the baubles themselves though.)

Go ahead and flame me!

I bet that when they 'hang them themselves' they are given a colour and told where to put it!!

We buy a very tasteful real tree which me and the kids then totally adulterate with swathes of tinsel, multicoloured flashing lights, and uber colourful sparkly mismatching baubles. Last year I bought a load of neon coloured ones in varying textures of glitter and velour. And I picked up some retro style snow globe fairy lights for t'kitchen. Poncetastic!

Well someone has to speak up for minimalism

No, really, you don't.

Apparently he has brought a decoration for the tree. Its a Christmas pudding with a moustache. He sounds like the right boy for our family!

Thats so sweet but the sweetest thing about it, is you will let him add it to your tree.

My Mil would shudder with shock If I tried to add my own dec to her tree, she would shudder in so many ways!

We've tried matching our Christmas decorations. But, we kept switching colors and themes each year, so we have a ton of mismatched decorations.

Christmas decorations have a sort of... allowable tackiness... to them anyway. As bogqueen said, Christmas is tacky. That's sort of the whole point of putting up flashy decorations everywhere.

I'd love some lametta (sp?) too but I remember the year DM had to pull a whole length of it from the cats bum.

Kind of put me off a bit

PutThat you could consider waiting for the after Christmas sales (though many of them start before Christmas these says). I used to do this and pack away the new ornaments away with the old ones I'd just taken down, then I wouldn't see the new ones until next Yule season: early pressie for me! And since I'd forgotten what some of the purchases had been, surprises as well!

beyond repair aww. And in years to come ( if they stay together) when we do the tree someone will say "ooh look, here's the pudding decoration that Andrew brought when he was going out with dd) and it will have its little place in history! Of course, if he dumps her, I will make him eat it!!!!!!

Our tree is now up. There were so many decorations my boys got bored after a while and went back to their Playstation. Still, it meant they didn't see me straightening/evening things out as things were a bit - erm - lopsided. What the boys referred to as "the lonely side", but failed to cheer up before leaving.

Until last year I was white lights/gold tinsel/green-bronze baubles. This year our tree is pretty much all DC made and I love it so we now have paper chains galore and colour in the sitting room :o

There is nothing I hate more than a tasteful tree. YANBU.

all random decs made by dc or chosen by dc here.

Starting married life nearly 20 years ago, I only bought 2 colours of decorations and really enjoyed my tree, the DC came along and my tree was taken over by random flashing lights and Disney decorations than normal baubles it was a fun tree, loved by all, although we had to ditch the tinsel as there wasn't room and the cat attacks it.
Last year I did the tree when everyone else was out at school/work and it was a more adult tree, suitable for a family of 2 grownups and older teenagers, no one commented.
DH has put the tree up today (a week earlier than I wanted) and half decorated it with the cat's help, ALL the Disney decorations are on and NO baubles, I am quietly despairing. His reasoning is that we have a 4 yo Disney Princess mad niece coming for Christmas.
I am sure that the tree will slowly get over decorated as we go through the week.

A tasteful tree is fine- but not for those who have children who do not appreciate it and want the fun of helping.

I don't do themes and matching, my house looks like Christmas threw up in it and that's how we like it!

None of my baubles match because I started a tradition as a child that every year I secretly swap one of our baubles for one from another tree without telling the owner. I must add before I get labelled a thief that it's never from public displays or anyone that's not friend of family. As a result I have baubles from all over the place.