to think there's a grain of truth in this article about Christmas decs

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www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6430199/Etiquette-expert-William-Hanson-reveals-Christmas-decorations-make-look-common.html

Yes it's a Daily Mail link, so what.

Totally tongue in cheek article about how Christmas decorations are a class thing. Very funny. Highlights include:

"Covering your PVC door in some enormous, shiny taffeta bow is not going to make the door look any better. "

"The rule is: the further away from green it is, the more common it is. Thus: pink and white trees - the pits."

"should your husband (and it is always men) return home with an electronic dancing Douglas Fir, or a fake mounted reindeer head that bleats Good King Wenceslas to passers-by, then you have two options: get rid of it, or get rid of him."

"If a house’s baubles have gone up in November then however much repenting you may do during Lent, it will never be enough. "

So, so true.

SonEtLumiere

Please do tell!! Real silver tinsel!!

It definitely not home bargains 🤪

@Curious2468, I missed your tree earlier. It is utterly insane, utterly ridiculous, utterly over the top, and truly, fabulously epic!

If there was a Christmas gay pride fair, your tree would be the Christmas tree they had.

I'd also like to know more about real silver tinsel! I bet it's lusher than lush.

Who cares? Everyone should just do what makes them happy.

Thanks for the tree love! When I first saw it I knew I had to get it. I do have a ‘normal’ tree in the living room too.

Tinsel is tinsel.

I use strands of silver beads.

I take exception to the idea that it’s only the men who bring home the naff singing decorations.

I was very pleased when I found a dancing reindeer that plays “grandma got run over by a reindeer” and he comes out every year

Personally I couldn't give a big hairy bollock how anybody else chooses to decorate their home for Christmas. I won't have to look at it, I'll be in my own home doing my own thing my way.
The daily fail is not something I choose to read. Again, personal choice. Quite easy to mind your own business if you try hard enough......

BertramKibbler
So few people get what this guy is about.

He is a narcissistic wanker, that some people think has views worth listening to,

I actually agree with him on tacky Christmas decs but he’s still a twat.

I think he is right about tacky Christmas decorations but it’s common sense anyway.

I like him.

Some people think less is more, others think more is more.

I happen to be in the restrained camp, but mildly bemused by anyone inferring anything about me based on this single aesthetic preference.

If I had kids I would expect we would be going large and keeping everyone happy.

The article itself is no more than the usual clickbait, and we are all piling in 😀

But big thanks to sonetlumiere for the link to a rather lovely website which I would not have discovered otherwise 👍

Hope everyone has a fantastic christmas, their way. ❤️

I was raised by my dm displaying the most tasteful of Christmas decorations-tinsel would never have been allowed let alone a fake tree! I, now aged 42, love having a mixture of tacky and beautiful. Life is too short and precious to not enjoy Christmas, whatever your taste may be.

The thought of having Christmas decorations up since November makes my head hurt. I would argue that the entire article is purely a question of good taste rather than class. I don’t see any obvious class markers in there asides from the pvc door and the colourful Christmas trees.

I also quite bemused that he thinks it’s a fairy. The thing on top of the Christmas tree is an angel or a star (or a pike if you have Russian roots which is by far the prettiest option).

I don’t think there’s anything more ‘low class’ than sneering at other people’s decorating choices under the guise of ‘lightheartedness’.

This thread should have ended at the second post, because it is a full and final answer to the issue at hand.

Though tbh, the topic lost all validity at the introduction of the 'Daily Mail link'. The irony is, Mail readers will liberally (first time for everything) drape their tree in lametta and sneer at tinsel-lovers.

Firstly every body reading this is a individual person with their own personal tastes and how each of us chooses to decorate our homes, during the Advent and Christmas period, is our choices.

When I was a child we were extremely poor and affording a real Christmas tree in our front room, was a major expense.
We had a few handfuls of cheap tinsel and a few tree ornaments and yes, a fairy on the top.

I left home as soon as I could and for several years was living in hostels or cheap shared housing, where feeding ourselves and trying to keep warm were much more of a priority, than trees and decorations.

I had a career in central London and upset my family by not spending Christmas at home, instead I spent the week from Christmas eve onwards helping the homeless and caring about other people.

When I got older and had relationships and my Son was born, in mid December, Christmas took on more significance but was never about impressing my family or the neighbours.

Oh dear I'm so conflicted. We put a fake tree today and next week we're putting up a real one. One has coloured lights, the other white. One an angel (fairy) and the other a star on top. A bow on the front door, wreath on the back. Where does that leave me ?

@SonEtLumiere thank you for the link, it's a beautiful site, the sort of site I'd bankrupt myself on if I could!

For the moment I've bookmarked the parrots because they're quite cheap and I might ask a friend to get them for me as a present. I bloody love parrots! I could have a go at making one of those lamp shades that look like chicken wire and have birds on them!

I love this thread! The nob who wrote the article is an almighty nob, but there's a lot of Christmas spirit here.

Also, @Friendlylynn, I love that you've used the Christmas week to look after people. You are good people.

I worked in a nursery in a very nice town as a Christmas tree decorator. It was my task every year to sell the unsellable things my employer's wife purchased. He would choose the ugliest/oldest/gaudiest thing and challenge me to find a way to display it and sell it. I never failed.

Now. I have one live tree and sometimes 3 or 4 artificial ones and villages too. And roping. And tacky mixed with classy (?).

I decorate right up until Christmas as the whole family comes and they enjoy it.

As a former retailer, my suggestion is to please yourself and do as you wish. Maybe be "less is more" outside. But go wild or not inside.

*you're not killing trees by using real cut ones; they are from farms. Not forests and they are a crop that supports families. Often it really helps them out; they grow for years and the land isn't used for anything else. Think of them as larger green vegetables. Same premise. Paper is also from tree farms. Although that is a process that uses energy.

Best wishes and happy decorating!

The guy is a twat. My Christmas decor is retro this year to match my decor so coloured lights all the way! Why would everyone have the same shit?

Surely you decorate your house to suit yourself and your family not to suit sneering and pretentious snobs who have nothing better to do than judge others even though they're far from perfect themselves.
I've just put a bow on my front door to match six or seven others in the road don't care what internet or daily mail says