To throw away ugly Xmas cards I receive?

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Some of the Xmas cards we've received this year are really horrible, gaudy, cheap looking things.

I don't want ugly cards on display in my house so I want to just keep the nice ones that fit with my colour scheme.

DH said he doesn't care and also doesn't want ugly cards up.

My friend came around today and was horrified by the idea that I wouldn't display every card we get, no matter how ugly.

So WIBU to dump all of the cards I don't like? We don't have any visitors over Xmas so no risk of offending anyone by this if they come and don't see their card up.

You should have included Christmas cards when you sent out details of your wrapping theme a few days ago. . How very remiss of you.

How else would all your friends, family acquaintances etc know what design of card is appropriate for your tasteful abode.

People change their 'colour scheme' every year?! How do you afford it?
Do you keep the old decorations in the hope that the trend will come round again, like clothes?
I suppose it would be handy to just bag up the whole Christmas tree and shove it in a skip in the new year though. No tangled lights!

Back to the point of the cards. YABU. is the sentiment, not how attractive the card is that matters. This year my cards aren't exactly 'pretty' (although I personally really like them), but they are cards from a charity who are helping my family a lot at the moment and I'd be really upset to think someone chucked it just coz it didn't match their decorations.

Cross post Stasie

My first thought at the mention of teal Stasie. But it sounds like everyone is doing teal this year.....

OP, is this you?

How wonderful if it is!

(sorry. ahem)

You don't want horrible, gaudy and cheap looking, but in the next post you say your theme is white and teal. If white and teal is not horrible and cheap looking, I don't know what is.

I'd quite like to see a Christmas card that looks 'gawdy' or 'cheap' in comparison to a white Christmas tree with matching teal Argos decorations...!

Pictures? Please?!

My colour scheme is every colour and every bit of twinkle and sparkle. Christmas is supposed to be gaudy!

However I don't like cards, I don't send them and I don't display the ones we get. If I speak to you enough, we'll say Happy Christmas on the phone or in person. If we don't, then why do I want a card from you?

I think YABU to not display them all though. All or nothing I say.

I have to admit, though, I do recycle cards pretty quickly after Christmas unless they contain an actual message, or letter, or are especially pretty.

I don't have a colour scheme as such, but I'd hide anything particularly hideous behind the nice ones

el Quinto No-one whose cards I'm dumping will be coming so they'll not find out.

Stasie Is that another thread? I would never ever ask anyone to wrap/send cards to match my colour scheme. Super rude! My mum always asks what colour scheme and gets paper to match but that's a joke between us. No, that's not me if you are talking about another thread.

No, not me Stasie Sorry!

My tree is exactly the sort that gives the OP a headache - lots of decorations, with no theme other than I liked them when I bought them, that come out each year. I love seeing the old favourites come out, when we do the tree, and I add one or two new ones each year. Eventually, I guess, I will run out of tree for them all.

YABU. You sound incredibly shallow.

I am a bit of a gobby cow and as such was just considering my wisdom in linking to it, after the event...

Glad it isn't you.

Hmm...I would say that a white tree doesn't necessarily suggest someone in a very strong position to criticise the taste of others, to be extremely, brutally frank. Personally, I can imagine little worse.

OMG, I've just realised. I have white and teal decorations for my Christmas tree. They make up 2/3 of one of the two packs of baubles I have used every year for the past 20 years, the other third being mauve.

However, the other pack is a rather festive mix of gold, pink, purple and orange and I just throw everything at my prelit tree and then stick on a few 'heritage' baubles that have been collected over the years.

Proof that if you keep things long enough, they do come back into fashion again.

I'd be more worried about the fact that people send the worst cards to their least favourite people so if you have a few horrors then maybe they think the dance about you as you do of their cards......

If you ever get a card with a candle picture on it then it's safe to say they can't stand you.

*same not dance (new phone)

If you ever get a card with a candle picture on it then it's safe to say they can't stand you.

Or a bird unless it's a cute penguin I hate bird cards!

I am not a fan of a white Christmas tree either abbie.

Christmas Decorating scheme in my house is holly. No pointsettias, snowmen, elves, etc. just a mildly Victorian holly & white lights. Holly wreaths, holly embellishments on candlesticks, holly plates for appetizers, holly paper napkins etc.

To answer, yes, sister and best friend do wrap my gifts in holly themed paper to accommodate my decor. It's all in fun.

Thinking of doing retro 40s-50s Christmas theme next year.

My tree however does sport some 45-year-old homemade by me ornaments in among the blown glass and vintage

I had a lovely white tinsel tree once that I found on top of a bin

It was ancient and quite sparkly and thin. The old ones are sometimes quite nice.

The new white ones can also look really pretty with enough colourful decorations.

We have a real one though for the scent, not that I can smell it any more, I'm not sure why. The boys like it.

I'd like a wooden flat pack one I could hang things on, really, as it seems wasteful to have a living tree that then dies when you plant it. Poor tree.

I have culled my Christmas card list down this year to 20 lucky people, all nice cards, no robins or candles.

I don't much care what they do with them TBH.

Abraid2 I have to say I agree with your in laws. Colour coordinated trees remind me of cheap shopping centres.