Help solve a debate (Christmas)

[Tinselled]

Please help me!

We have decided that we're going to have a real tree this year! Yay!! However... we need help to settle a debate.. this happens every bloody year!

Tinsel on the tree or not? I say not, we never had it when growing up it just doesn't feel right.. DH is adamant tinsel only goes on the tree and they always had tinsel on the tree as a child.. his Mum disputes this fact and her tree is always beautiful and tinsel free

I did the tree beautifully last year with no tinsel, went out for a night shift and he covered it in tinsel...

I've attached pictures of our first tree together which he did himself and is atrocious and his mums to prove there's no tinsel!

TLDR- tinsel on tree yes or no?

[ElizaDontlittle]

Thinner tinsel, deeper in the tree, and then loads more baubles than in your L hand picture. If that's the tinsel he wants, then no way!

No tinsel OR tree here... 8 month old kitten

[OJZJ]

Every year i buy tinsel to go with the theme i am doing for my five year old (last year starwars tree this year supermario apparently next year we are having a minions tree) anyway I never think it looks right when it goes on so take it off and put it back in the bag in a few years I will be having a christmas tree made entirely of tinsel from the mountain I keep under the stairs 365 days a year!
I actually bought some white maribu (probably not how you spell it) lengths and use that instead as "snow" tinsel on the tree... when I did a festive white tree and still tend to use that as it's not as in your face as tinsel..

[OJZJ]

elizadontlittle what about this one?? wish I though of that with our car....

[OJZJ]

CAT bloody autocorrect

[cheeseandpineapple]

Before this thread I would have said no no NO to tinsel! In fact before this thread I completely forgot tinsel is used to decorate trees as it’s been ages since I’ve seen a tinselled tree where we live.

But having seen some of the pictures on here, there is a happy medium and you could do a tasteful tinsel and bauble tree, in fact I’m now thinking a tinsy but of tinsel might be a novel change on our tree

[Frogletmamma]

tinsel is fine but those evil strands of shiny glittery foil you put over trees are right out. I put some on one year and was still pulling out of carpet in June (maybe its the cleaning!)

[DrRanjsRightEyebrow]

no tinsel but not a single branch goes without a bauble or decoration so it's covered enough!

[Todamhottoday]

Just bought some tinsel.......in India, its positively tacky but the best I could get

[PieAndPumpkins]

Noooo! I hate tacky tinsel!! Beads all the way!

[DuckbilledSplatterPuff]

Hate tinsel. Reminds me of pubs in the 1980s. OH keeps buying it and I keep trying to avoid using it.
You have gone to the trouble of supplying proof which means that he is probably very hard to convince and may never be convinced.
I wouldn't argue anymore, just sneakily sabotage the tinsel so that when it comes out of the xmas box it looks ultra tatty ( don't make it too obvious) and mysteriously there's much less of it in storage than he remembers. It you wanted to take this really far, you could even buy a new strand ( treated to make tatty) and say that they really don't make it like they used to, but perhaps that is a subterfuge too far! BTW I say this light heartedly.

[Ciccione]

Think it depends on the size of the tree. A little tree is swamped if you put tinsel on it, whereas with a larger tree, you can get away with it. Here's a tree I did for my local amdram group - won 2nd prize in a competition amongst the users of the village hall! No tinsel - theme was the next show we are doing "Singin' in the Rain"!

[GreenTulips]

Think it depends on the size of the tree

Nope -all tinsel looks bad whatever the size of the tree

[SoupDragon]

All people who don't like tinsel have no soul.

[chunn65]

No tinsel here, gold beads swayed on branches and lovely decs. very 70's is tinsel imho. (sorry if to offend)

[Maireadplastic]

Chinn- calling something 'very 70s' is far from offensive....

[roundaboutthetown]

People who have a blanket ban on tinsel just don't know how to use it properly. And they have a cheek to be offensive about other people using it when they are sticking gaudy baubles and lights all over a dying or plastic tree that they have plonked in the middle of their house for a month - it's not as if any of it is the height of good taste . Either everyone should get to put something they like on the tree, or you shouldn't be getting a tree in the first place. So ner!

[sodabreadjam]

I like tinsel ropes - they reflect the tree lights in the dark.

I absolutely hate lametta - tinsel strands like this.

So ugly, I think. MIL used to be a fan and DH still pines for it whenever we decorate the tree.

[MrsSteveMcDonald]

A tree without tinsel just looks sad and you shouldn't be sad at Christmas. I also don't like real trees, they are always a weird shape and stink

[Amiable]

Tinsel, baubles, lights, "handcrafted works of art" from the DCs, chocolate decs, more tinsel, more baubles... DH reckons I go overboard on the tree, but it's Christmas, good taste doesn't get a look in - the tackier and cheesier the better, I love it!

[BewareOfDragons]

Noooo. I hate the stuff.

Plus it's not good if pets nibble the pieces.

[LilQueenie]

I always have tinsel. It bulks out the colour on the tree.

[StarWarsFanatic]

I love tinsel on trees, reminds me of my Granddad, he always went massively overboard with trashy decorations . Goes on to massively contradict myself Won't be having tinsel this year, trying to get the cat used to Christmas trees so just having our 4' purple fibre optic one without decorations.

[Ta1kinPeace]

No tinsel on the tree
ever ever ever

[StarWarsFanatic]

sodabreadjam I didn't know it was called lametta, we just called it angel hair, but I hate it too. Tried it one year in my parents (shops had run out of proper tinsel) The clean up is awful.

[itneverrainsitpours]

We always had tinsel as a child but I never have it on my tree now. I use bead strings instead and LOTS of baubles.