Fucking tinsel

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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.

I hate fat fluffy tinsel - DH likes it. For several years I would stuff it right inside the tree so it was barely visible, which was much more tolerable. Eventually I threw it away.

I quite like the individual thin strands of tinsel, silver only, but have never bought any - looks great on big, natural, old-fashioned-looking trees I think.

My DH loves tinsel too! Is it a guy thing?! Seems to be more men than women who love it

He says it's jolly and Christmassy and I think it reminds him of his Christmas childhoods (a bit Home Alone style, lots of everything including greenery and tinsel).

With respect Laundry... that ain't tinsel Ain't no chic icicles going to cut the mustard in place of cheap plastic strands (as far as my DH goes anyway, and beautiful as it is!)

Are you sure, Jenny? Couldn't you sell it as manly Tinsel, as it is made by a bloke working with hot metal?

Threadbare tinsel is lovely, just like a threadbare teddy is the sign of a much-loved toy. YABU, leave the tinsel alone.

Aah, I see you like teddy bears

I am with you on the "Fucking hate tinsel" , It is banned from the house, I don't care what anyone says. the metal ball garlands are far better and you are not finding it in godforsaken corners of the house until June.

I feel the same about bastard glitter too !

KILL IT WITH FIRE! That is very thin, nowt better than bushy tinsel

I love, love that Victorian tinsel Laundry. Thanks for the recommendation, I'm on a campaign for a tasteful Christmas despite efforts by DD to undermine it!

She is allowed a pink sparkly tree in the front room, which to be fair is growing on me...

But the hall tree will look fab with that tinsel

I am rubbish with Christmas decorations. I put some tinsel on a couple of our lamps (not near the bulb...no fire hazards here). My DP said it was how he imagined the Christmas decorations would be in a sad grey office on an industrial estate on the outskirts of a small town. I had to agree with him!

So glad you like it, Butteredpars! It really does look sparkly yet elegant.

The Victorian stuff is lametta, not tinsel!

Sod everything I've ever said about tinsel. I'm getting Laundry's metal lametta - gorgeous.

I love tinsel, it's shiny and festive and a little bit kitsch. I also don't do a colour coordinated tree - I have Christmas baubles which I inherited from my Gran, as well as a couple of decorations I made with her when I was at primary school. And a couple I've made more recently, including a glittertastic T rex.

Those strings of beads always remind of another kind of beads which are not nearly as family-friendly.

Compromise is the key. I'd discreetly tuck it in among the branches a bit more each day, and perhaps get some more baubles.

My dh has a really weird thing about tinsel. He can't stand the smell or the texture. Therefore, none allowed in the house. This perturbed me a bit at first, but over the last 15 years, I've got used to a tinselless tree.

I hate tinsel, even nice looking tinsel. Vile stuff

YANBU.

Tinsel works if you put it further into the tree's branches, near the trunk, so it sort of magnifies the twinkliness and gives it greater depth.

Probably not so much if it's threadbare, red and ropey though.

What does tinsel smell of ? (Apart from dust which is what my tree smells of )

You see I cannot bear tinsel as a room decoration at all but nice fluffy thick tinsel on a tree just has to happen. It is not a Christmas tree without it.

I am not very keen on those tastefully decorated, colour themed, beautifully balanced, tinsel-less trees. They are fine in hotels and shops etc but in homes they always seem a bit to impersonal to me. I accept that is just me though

As for the OP. Just buy better tinsel and throw that admittedly awful stuff away

Also meant to say that our decorations are a mass of higgledy piggeldy mix of some decorations bought in packs left over from when I was single (gradually getting fewer over the years) and some of the nicer ones ones that DS made in nursery/primary school and individual ones that we buy each year.

DS and I always choose on new tree decoration each year and have done for 9 years now since he was 3 years old so we have 9 mis-matched but expensive/lovely ones . I love looking at them all a remembering when we bought them and when DS made the handmade ones

I hate tinsel! With a passion! And this year for the first year ever, I went out and bought well thought out decorations (I've had the same cheap plain ones for about 10 years) for my tree. Well when I suddenly hear talk of tinsel from my husband and kids I was horrified!

So I went out and bought a tiny tree and a tiny bit of tinsel to go on it.

Now my tree is safe and beautiful

Yanbu, I hate tinsel, although it smells lovely.
Dh thinks a tree should have tinsel, luckily I get to decorate the tree though.

This year has brought a new Christmas tree debate, angel or star at the top? Despite having a star for the last 4 christmases, he now insists on an angel

It could be worse.