To think that THIS is not a Christmas tree?

[Porkpies55]

Absolutely hating this trend. It just doesn’t give me that warm, fuzzy festive feeling at all. My friend has a similar tree and I know this makes me sad & pathetic but for some reason it’s really grating on me 😆 AIBU?

I like them. I'd hang a few icicles and snowflakes from it.

It’s fine as a decoration, or second tree. I do like it, but not as an only tree.

We have a twig tree. Ds with asd can't cope with the green 'busy' ones.

My second tree!

I like it.

Friends with a very modern minimalist house who live in a nice seaside town have one made from driftwood by a local artist.

It's lovely and perfectly them, although the man in the couple is a typical tight Yorkshireman and I can hear him saying 'ow much' every time I see it. It was expensive, but cheaper than those Balsam Hill trees that seem so popular on here.

A little love and Linus's security blanket and it'll be swell.

Our only tree. And has been for the past couple of years. We love it and it has made my life much easier.

It is nice enough but looks like it should be in the garden. It feels a bit like those themed 'tasteful' trees which were all the rage 10 years ago. A bit department store with no soul.

I think I must have got to that
stage in my life where random ornaments collected over the years, decorations brought back from holidays or given by special people have become a thing of beauty. My 20 year old self would be mortified that I prefer this over colour themes. I also now have major anxiety about packing special decorations away properly and the bloody cat getting hold of late DH's special football baubles!

I have also been checking ebay every year recently for those coloured, tulip shape bulbs we had when I was a kid and hated with a passion. They now cost loads! I also admit to driving around with DD the other night to the streets with enthusiastic house and garden decorators. The more flashing, multi-coloured lights and blow-up giant Santa's the better!

Oh I'm not sure what to say. I always though they weren't very nice but I actually have something similar this year (with coloured lights) as me and DH are away over
Christmas and I couldn't face coming back to our usual tree and eleventy billion baubles.

Ok, so it's not the big traditional tree (and the million of arguments for and against colour schemes / coloured lights / tinsel) but it's cheerful. We've put our favourite baubles on it and it's really growing on me but I will definitely be putting up the big tree next year 🎄🎄

Does it matter? If someone likes it, they can have that, if you don't, don't. We decorated one of my dad's banana plants some years. It wasn't a traditional firehazard Evergreen, but it suited us. It isn't compulsory to do it in any particular way.

I like it.

I, in fact, have one.

I also like traditional trees.

I also like white, glittery, fake trees.

It’s all pretty!

I have a smaller version of that tree, and hang a few decorations in reds and browns on it as well. It suits us, as we live in a teeny flat, and are very into minimalism.

I can see why it would seem miserable to some, but then I couldn't ABIDE having some great, multi-coloured, cluttered, non-coordinating tree in my house, which I reckon is the exact opposite.

I think my DS may have inadvertently started this craze the year he stripped the needles off our tree and left it bare. We bought an artificial tree the following year, but not a bare one.

Did they forget to take last year's real tree out?

It looks so sad, give it some decorations at least, it's not fulfilling its Christmas destiny.

My mum has one, it looks lovely with oversize red baubles, it’s one of their 4 trees so I let her off ( we do all call it the miserable tree)

I have one as my second tree. MY second tree. My baubles, my taste, my tree. The main one is the kids' domain.

I saw the one in the OP on a website (forget which one) & thought it looked rather nice - as a ready-lit decoration, not the main tree, obv

I have a very artistic friend who used to do this kind of thing off her own bat years ago & I always though how lovely it was

I wouldn't be paying £55 for it though!

Agree that it's a second tree...actually that would be perfect for my dining room.

we have something similar hanging in the window of the kids bedroom, but it isn't our tree.

My tree is basically the same... Lots of pretty (tacky) decorations, and no presents under it, if that helps. Plus I'm single and spending most of Christmas day at my sister's. And I've gone to town with the decorations in my classroom... (I can still feel you all judging my choices.....)

It's a festive twig. We've got one and no "proper" tree because frankly I can't be arsed this year!

But I have put some tiny baubles on it.

I bet people with tree like that also have things like baked salmon for Christmas lunch

Haha, that made me laugh. My nan usually does a salmon for Xmas lunch as well as whatever roast meat she did that year, and the family are proper working class, and there's no way she'd ever entertain a tree like that. Funny how people all have their own little Christmas quirks.

I had a similar tree like that one year and loved it. It was my chic minimalist year for Xmas.

I still have it, but now it's the second Xmas tree - I think it's in the conservatory. I still like it. Each to their own and all.

I have one. It is the second tree. I put red, green and silver baubles on it. It's not quite in the right place in our house. Needs a darkish corner. But it's way easier than putting up an entire second tree which is what I used to do.