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Help solve a debate (Christmas)

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Tinselled · 04/12/2017 00:42

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 Hmm

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?

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flingingmelon · 05/12/2017 18:48

But only gold obvs. Green is the work of the devil.

Raisedbyguineapigs · 05/12/2017 18:52

I let the kids decorate the tree this year, and it's literally covered in tinsel. Its hardly recognizable as a tree it just looks like a pile of tinsel in the corner of the room!

Cockadoodledooo · 05/12/2017 18:54

Tinsel (silver) wound round the trunk, then lights, then baubles/hanging decs. That's my ideal. Usually though the kids do it and it looks like the decorations box has vomited on the tree Hmm
Back in the 80s we would get the tree looking all lovely and then chuck lametta over it, wtf was that all about?! (interestingly, my phone autocorrects lametta to 'lamentable'. I think it has a point Grin)

Frogletmamma · 05/12/2017 18:55

My daughter will just stick THINGS on the tree. Ill go with that

abouttimeforanotherone · 05/12/2017 19:00

Yes to tinsel, but it has to be the thinner old-fashioned sort, not the great fat stuff they sell now. The old type smells of proper tinsel too, whereas the new sort doesn't smell the same. Some of our tinsel is decades old and it just smells of Christmas.

jarhead123 · 05/12/2017 19:01

No tinsel here

MarvellousMonsters · 05/12/2017 19:04

It depends on how big the tree is. We have a small tree (our house is tiny) and fluffy tinsel would swamp it, so we put single strand tinsel (lametta?) on the tree and have tinsel around the pot base, and on window frames etc. If we had a big tree (like when I was a child) I would put some on the tree, but only if it wasn’t going to dominate the whole thing.

manicmij · 05/12/2017 19:07

No tinsel unless you have young children who will demand to cover the tree in the stuff.

Sparklyhousedust · 05/12/2017 19:13

I think tasteful matchy trees are naff. But if you don’t like tinsel and he does, you could try getting some of that thin sort- pound shop- and shove it on first, tucked right in to the branches, then lights- that way you get a bit of sparkle but can mainly ignore it?

ElephantsandTigers · 05/12/2017 19:18

It's taken three days but my tree is now decorated. By DS. With tinsel. All this talk of tinsel towards the inner part of the tree has made me realise I've been decorating the tree wrong for years and struggled with fitting all the baubles on when all I needed was to push the tinsel in a bit. HmmBlush.

Ropsleybunny · 05/12/2017 19:19

No tinsel, I hate it.

lorelairoryemily · 05/12/2017 19:21

Here's my tinsel free artificial tree😊

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CurlyRover · 05/12/2017 19:22

I always had tinsel on the tree growing up and DP and I normally put tinsel on our tree. Currently though we just have a real tree without any decorations on it.

hanr84 · 05/12/2017 19:24

We normally have tinsel but dh bought a new set of lights this year (1000 to replace our old 120 set!!) And once it was on the tree we decided tinsel would he too much. It is literally all lights!
So I think it depends on your tree/light/ornament ratio

purplebunny2012 · 05/12/2017 19:27

One line in the song DS has to sing in this year's school play is "Cover us in tinsel and baubles", so yes, tinsel on the tree

Leela2 · 05/12/2017 19:27

No tinsel, but tons of bead strings .

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LapdanceShoeshine · 05/12/2017 19:30

We always have tinsel. (It’s generally much more uneven than this & tends to get mangled by the cats.) We do like it though & it also gets draped over pictures etc

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ifonly4 · 05/12/2017 19:33

Funnily enough this came up when I was speaking to my Aunt on the phone today. We always have tinsel on the tree and around the house, apparently they never have tinsel anywhere in their house. I think it's down to personal preference.

DownstairsMixUp · 05/12/2017 19:37

Tinsel is tacky on trees

Lamaitresse · 05/12/2017 19:55

NOOOOO!!!! Just say no. Can’t bear tinsel, although I do love looking at the sparkly stuff with lots of little colours in it. Wouldn’t want it in the house though.

Nelly1727 · 05/12/2017 20:04

Never on a tree!

allinclusive · 05/12/2017 20:05

No tinsel but I have been swayed by a garland or some organza. Maybe a compromise there?

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peanut2017 · 05/12/2017 20:05

Personally think tinsel looks tacky - sorry 😐

allinclusive · 05/12/2017 20:07

That's not my tree btw, just one I saw last week.

MsJudgemental · 05/12/2017 20:07

Nope, no tinsel here. I have heard that it’s become very fashionable this year, though.

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