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Fucking tinsel

158 replies

Foxysoxy01 · 05/12/2016 21:05

I am quite ready to be told IABU!

DP and I have put up the xmas tree. Its great, nice size, red and gold with a few vintage style baubles along with some other nice red ones.

Now the problem.....I hate tinsel with a passion and we had some inherited hideous red with gold holly tinsel that is quite threadbare in places.

For some reason DP thinks it looks lovely and has put it on the tree. It looks awful. I gently suggested we put the gold beads on instead and used the tinsel round the mirror but no he won't hear anything against the fucking horrible stuff!

Just so I'm not drip feeding it wasn't from his family so no sentimental feelings towards it he just has really bad taste.

I will be having family over and I am really embarrassed by it as I cannot describe how hideous it is!

Wibu to wait till he is asleep, take it off, put the beads on and ignore the fallout or do I just suck it up and try not to look at it (it's in my living room so will spend a lot of time with it)

* I know first world problems and it is slightly tongue in cheek.

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MrsBrew005 · 06/12/2016 10:10

I love tinsel its part of Xmas for me!! Gotta admit though, that's a bit bare why not treat him to a new fluffy one!! Tbf at least you don't have a oh who is obsessive about the tree!!! I leave him to it these days and hit the baileys me and kids do our mix of everything sentimental tree in the dining room!!

Fucking tinsel
StrongerThanIThought76 · 06/12/2016 10:13

I HATE tinsel, with a passion. Can't stand it. Have never had it in the house.

It SMELLS horrid!

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MrsMarigold · 06/12/2016 13:40

WTAF above!

I liked it with tinsel on sorry - I'm with your DH it looked more homely. We let our children decorate our tree while we eat mince pies, drink sherry and listen to Frank Sinatra. It isn't amazingly tasteful but it's jolly. I hate that fluffy tinsel.

CozumelFox · 06/12/2016 13:43

When my DH and I disagree over something quite petty like this - ie: I have a sensible opinion and he wants to do something fucking stupid, like this tinsel - we 'compromise' by having separate items. We have two separate veg peelers because his is from the Bronze Age, we have two separate sieves because he feels mine shouldn't be used for pasta (I can't lift a colander with one hand, I have a wrist injury), and frankly, if he had stupid tree ideas, I would tell him he can have his own tree somewhere else in the house and make it as ugly as he liked. I have no energy for arguing who is 'right', only that our opinions clearly differ and we'll never agree. So, separate ones.

No arguments :D

beanabonce · 06/12/2016 13:53

The tinsel is now in our Dcs bedrooms for the simple reason that I hate the shit out of it and they love it. Get a little tree for your dh to decorate and stash it away :D

BravoPanda · 06/12/2016 14:10

Can you borrow a neighbour's dog to come and pull the tree down, by accident, then have it drag the tinsel out in to a muddy garden while it's playing?

SootSprite · 06/12/2016 14:59

I have a giant yellow octopus from space on my tree this year.

I kid you not. We have a different theme each year.
2016 is an anime/manga theme.

Clothears123 · 06/12/2016 15:22

This thread is very timely for me - I have loved tinsel all my life but only this year realised I didn't want it any more and have no intention of including it in decorations. Having said if some people love it why not and kids always love bright, sparkly, coloured, tacky stuff so if I had them I would make an exception and wrap some around!

WuTangFlan · 06/12/2016 15:35 
  • Tinsel
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shovetheholly · 06/12/2016 15:46

YANBU! I hate tinsel too!

It looks like a giant shiny metal caterpillar. And the gardener in me just wants to get rid of it!

HallowedMimic · 06/12/2016 15:47

Aww OP, your tree looks like a shop one now. No character.

Put the tinsel back!

Sammyislost · 06/12/2016 15:55

No tinsel on our tree, but I wrap it around the stairs and drape it over picture frames etc!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 06/12/2016 15:59

I've suffered a christmas light related trauma at work today. I need therapy.

PopeMortificado · 06/12/2016 17:57

Does anyone know where you can buy fluffy luxuriant tinsel like WalkerBait has?

he type with lots and lots of thin individual strands densely packed so that it is like a fluffy foxes tail?

It seems that this sort of "thin" tinsel that OP has is all the rage in shops now and online - it has thick individual strands widely spaced so it's more like a line with bits of washing on it.

Good fluffy tinsel looks amazing but you don't seem to see it in shops anymore.

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Foxysoxy01 · 06/12/2016 18:28

Well DP has seen it and said he thinks it looks nice. No sign of disappointment so I think all is forgiven!

If anyone can link to some lovely gold fluffy tinsel then I may reconsider Grin I do agree that the tree lacks a bit of character now but I think the bright white lights don't help so I have some new warm lights on order. I think I'm getting a bit too invested in my tree Blush

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Paddington68 · 06/12/2016 18:47

I remember tinsel, we had it in the 80s

Heathen4Hire · 06/12/2016 18:52

YANBU. Tinsel costs a quid from Poundstretcher. Your DH needs to move on.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 06/12/2016 18:53

Lidl have some nice xmas decs. My baubles come from there.

Cindbelly · 06/12/2016 18:59

I prefer it with the tinsel op, but then as my tree proves I like my tree to look like a Christmas tinsel and glitter factory exploded on it!

Fucking tinsel
Idiotxit · 06/12/2016 21:45

I used to leave tinsel out, but then had a total about-face and now love an American style massive tree with layers of thick, luxuriant tinsel looking like magical snow (in my head) circling the tree.

I'm over 'tasteful' trees. Christmas trees always look nice, but completely matchy-matchy ones don't look jolly enough for me. While the kids are small I want thick silver tinsel, 9000 baubles and 14 sets of lights. But I do arrange them all carefully then scream seasonly at anyone who tries to move anything.

I don't like coloured tinsel though, so YANBU.

gillybeanz · 07/12/2016 12:12

Buy some more tinsel to camouflage the other, and then you are both happy.
i suppose it's in his living room too?

Wincher · 07/12/2016 13:41

I hate tinsel too but my DH loves it - and now it's become a Thing so he always insists we have to have it. I normally decorate the tree beautifully and then he comes along and plonks on the tinsel - I then surreptitiously put it right on the inside and at the back of the tree so you can't really see it.

CauliflowerBalti · 07/12/2016 17:12

I do think this is a man thing. Mine came with some tinsel his mum gave him. He is ridiculously attached to it and last year I had to indulge him and put it - and the two ancient ugly unpulled crackers she gave him - on the tree.

This year, i decorated the tree on my own and they went back in the shed. I am FINE with sentimental baubles - our tree has no theme and is a glorious mishmash of handmade by toddlers and kitsch and precious and sentimental and handmedowns.

But skinny cat's tail tinsel can do one. His mum was canny, giving the fucker away.

LaundryFairy · 07/12/2016 17:37

You absolutely need to get this:

Victorian tinsel made in Canada.

It is actual twisted pieces of tin, and it catches the light beautifully. No tackiness at all! I call it the Tinsel That Saved Our Marriage.

Oh, and they will ship anywhere in the world.