Help solve a debate (Christmas)

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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?

I sent a post which seems to have got lost!

When my children were small, I was ,perhaps, influenced by magazines illustrating "tasteful" decorations, but came to the conclusion that life is too short for sorting about what visitors think about your elegant tree. Let husband and children enjoy decorating it themselves with any thing in the decoration box and even their own clumsily executed decorations He is probably reliving his childhood and so it goes. Later, on your own, you can re- space the baubles and reduce some tinsel. They won't notice. And you can control what is put away in the box after Christmas!

The tinsel is a bit sparse. Need more if you’re going to run with it

You HAVE to have Tinsel! Trees just look bare and as though nobody has really made an effort otherwise!

As for those saying it’s tacky - To me, Christmas is the one time you can get away with being as tacky as you like!!
My parents in the 80s always had tons of tinsel on the tree and I always admired how pretty it looked with all the colours. So I’ve done the same for my almost 3yr old

Could be worse OP, he could have drowned it in lamenta!!

I love tinsel but it needs to be done properly to look good.
The long furry tinsel should be put onto the tree after the lights and before the baubles and it should drape so you need plenty of it to have nice curved drapes - it is supposed to look like drifts of snow and should reflect the lights and hide the wire the lights are on.

After the baubles are on then the lammetta should be place onto the tree to represent icicles and it should hang in strips. Then last of all the non-bauble decorations go on - such as wooden figures or candy canes etc.

I've found if I follow that method it always comes out looking nice.

On the back of this thread I didn’t put tinsel on my tree this year, I do have a tartan ribbon on it, but that’s it, have to be honest, it looks much better.

Happy to be absolved of the tyranny of putting tinsel on the tree...🤣

I love tinsel
we put it on picture frames and over lights
but never on the tree

we have an incredible collection of baubles - going back decades - so they are on the tree

then lights are elsewhere in the house with tinsel to hide wire / create reflections

I used to be anti tinsel on the tree, (though wound it around the centre sometimes and at the base) but dh thinks it's bare without. Had it on the last couple of years and have to say I like it. But not loads of it! Too much is overkill and tacky.

When did everyone start hating on tinsel? Ffs! It’s funny that people are saying it’s tacky, um hello Christmas? #MissingThePoint I bet the haters are the same people that Love wearing “tacky” Christmas jumpers.

I bought tinsel. I felt a bit dirty. I've wound it around the trunk as advised up thread. Haven't actually finished decorating the tree though so can't tell if it's made any difference.

Currently in bed recovering from a night out. May manage to finish the tree later.

I bought tinsel. I felt a bit dirty

Where did you buy it from? Don't tell my DH, or he will be insisting we go out and buy some instantly if that's the effect it has. I'm a tinsel hater, so he's never known what effect it can have

Tinsel goes on the banister, the glass icicles go on the tree.

No tinsel but "ice" bead garland here.

My tree says he doesn’t mind, but would I please put something on him as he’s fed up of standing in the window naked! I’ve tried telling him he’s beautiful as he is, but he’s having none of it. I suppose I had better go & do battle with the bloody lights. The ones that were beautifully & carefully put away, but will now, somehow, look like a cat has been playing with them. My Christmas ‘hate’ putting the effing lights in the tree. I can’t delegate either as they’ll just end up in a worse state.

Tinsel...not sure yet, I’ll see how the mood takes me.

As for it being tacky 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it’s CHRISTMAS 🎅🏻🎁🎄🎉🍾⛄️❄️ It’s a TREE inside a HOUSE. Tinsel or not it’s ‘tacky’. Fantastic, fun, beautiful & essential. But tacky.

Natalia! Not that kind of dirty! But I suppose it could be used imaginatively!

I bought it in Dunelm. Nice and thick. I bought silver but they had red and green too.

Cider Trust me to lower the tone..... (DH now googling nearest branch of Dunelm....)

Growing up we always had silver tinsel dripping off the tree, and dh and I just carried on that way...until..cats! So 20 tinsel free years, and no ribbons on presents under the tree.
I tucked frosted tinsely garland back in near the trunk like others mentioned already, as compromise, to relect the lights.
PeanutButterCheesecake I love your tree.

Tinsel everywhere except tree here.

Tinsel is just more plastic to landfill. It looks awful anywhere as well. I vote for a tinsel free life (but also tree free but that's another thread!).

Tinsel is just more plastic to landfill.

Only if you chuck it out, but that’s the same for all decorations, surely.

My mum has the same box of Christmas decs (including tinsel) as when I was a child. It’s the constant ‘upgrading’ that’s envirentally unsound.

Some of my Christmas decorations are older than me
and I'm old as my kids keep telling me

Buy well, buy once

We compromised :)