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?

No tinsel allowed on my tree, however Queen Kirstie of Christmas Allsopp says if you have it, it needs to be pushed into the tree near the trunk, not on the outside.

Christmas brings out the 'I cannot divert from my childhood Christmas' in most of us.
Try change, OP. Try change, everyone.

Yes, tinsel is tacky. Classy trees have no tinsel. This is a picture of mine and I love it!

Christmas is to spread love. So why not let your DH have it his way this year since you had it your way of not having tinsels the last year?? It doesn't look bad after all!

Are Christmas trees not meant to be a bit tacky?

I wish I could get my hands on some of those fold-out foil decorations that festooned the Christmases of my childhood. And coloured lights on the tree make me feel happy, just like they did when I was little. So we have some (non-LED) multi-coloured lights. I think I'll cry if/when they pack in and we have to get tasteful-white LEDs because coloured LEDs look like the emergency services have parked up in your living room.

I HAd no idea that no tinsel on a tree was a thing 😱

Seek a compromise. My dh didn't like coloured lights, so i put them somewhere else. Now he prefers coloured lights. Maybe less tacky and large tinsel?

PSSst “the holiday armadillo” try the pound shops - they have those delightfully tacky foil fold out bells, etc etc etx

No tinsel on my tree- I’m such a tinsel snob. But it is allowed on the trees in the children’s bedrooms where I don’t have to look at it.

No tinsel on big tree in sitting room that is all tasteful in silver and white with clear glass decorations . Tinsel needed on 22 year old tree in kitchen as it's sparse. DH and I bought that tree for our first home together from Woolworths for a fiver. We were young and had not long finished studying, I bloody love that tree.

I love tinsel! It's obviously a personal preference thing.

I have tinsel on my tree. It would feel bare without it. I decorate my tree in a colour theme of mainly gold so it has to look tasteful and not just like you’ve thrown it on

DH and I bought that tree for our first home together from Woolworths for a fiver

Ha ha! Me too! I bought my first tree for £9.99 in Woolworths around 20 years ago and it’s still going as you can see in the above picture!

No. No tinsel.

I've done simple/minimalist tiny pin lights and carefully selected ornaments for years.

I'm now completely the other way and love big bouffy loops of tinsel and 5 million lights. A bit New York lobby, circa 1992.

YES, you need tinsel on the tree, YABVVVVVVVVVU to say no tinsel!
Love the stuff, the more the merrier

I don’t think Christmas is the time to be stylish. It’s the time to let loose!

Tinsel on that tree!

I wish I could get my hands on some of those fold-out foil decorations that festooned the Christmases of my childhood.

We've got a Christmas Shop in town, if you've got one of those they;re brilliant - ours have got the big, foil chains of the 80s childhood nostalgia variety! Really cheap too.

Tinsel smells like, well tinsel. It's really hard to explain. The big new thick kind of tinsel doesn't smell the same. My sister and I are known to go round and do a little tinsel sniffing (google tinsel sniffing and she's the first meme to appear ). We find the green and red tinsel smells the most tinsel like. We used to have it on our tree growing up but now mine is more lights than anything, a navy, purple and silver theme with one of those wire star garlands for good measure.

ASDA has an array of retro style fold out foil decorations

No tinsel on the tree - just loads of lights and decorations.

Tinsel? Tree? Bloody hell, is it Christmas again?

I don’t think Christmas is the time to be stylish. It’s the time to let loose!

Agreed! I can't be doing with stylish trees, I don't even have a colour scheme as such!
Christmas to me is sticking on the Christmas songs such as Shakin' Stevens, Wham etc, and me and the kids decorate it together dh does the boring bit of untangling the lights
Then we all decorate together. We have tinsel lots of tinsel, pretty baubles, and also a Santa and a Snowman that were on my childhood Christmas tree (both still going strong), a few baubles that both dc have made over the years at school and nursery, and a "Baby's 1st Christmas" bootee bauble still up there.... etc
At the risk of sounding like a Facebook cliche, it's all about the memories
Screw your tasteful, stylish trees, and bring on the tack
Merry Christmas

I hate tinsel. I don’t like how it feels mostly, but am also. It find of how it looks.

My tree is as tacky as they come though. Nothing matches, which is right and proper.

I like to decorate my tree all tasteful like and then wind a crap load of tinsel round it, just because my DM hates tinsel because it's tacky.

It starts Xmas for me