To wish Christmas Ceiling Garlands/Chains would become trendy again!?!

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We have some unopened shiny ceiling decorations, I won't put them up because I want to fit in with the modern look (don't flame me!) but so wish these were trendy again! That was the magic of Christmas for me, the ceiling all colourful and lower with stars spinning round when you passed under them! I'm 33.

Now they are classed as 'tacky'! It's a shame they won't be a memory for our generation of kids!

Now unicorn, rainbow and oil slick colours are a trend again, can we hope for a beautiful tacky Christmas again with coloured tree tights that resemble a box of Quality of Streets 😍

These!

They’re still very much de rigueur in all the residential and nursing homes I visit OP.

My mum used to have these every Christmas when I was growing up and I loved them

Christmas decorations are all about what makes you happy, open them! Pil practically have a rave going on in their house with all the Strings of lights.

put them up, i do; it reminds me of my nan. makes me feel all happy inside

It would appear myself and the rest of my relatives missed the memo that these are not a thing anymore

If you're really worried about looking tacky at Christmas, put them in a room that you don't invite visitors into? The upstairs landing if all else fails?

I come from a family which uses Christmas decorations till they drop - part of the pleasure is unwrapping each year the baubles that we hung on the tree in the 1950s and my sweet-holding Father Christmas that was that year's present from my mothers grocer to his customers' children, although I have retired the 1930s mickey mouse (theme, not quality assessment) fairy lights that were part of my childhood.

My only concession to "tastefulness" is segregation, so that the tree is purple/pink/yellow/red and the blues and greens and silvers are hung in clusters from the pretend fir tree garlands in the hall. I think you can assume that we're not very far along the path to good taste when it comes to Christmas.

We had these when I was little. They also used to have them in pubs

God yes, put them up if you like them OP. They totally and weirdly smell of Christmas too if you were a child of the 80s. That silver stuff you put all over the tree, lamenta? Lamella? What the hell was that stuff called? That totally smells of Christmas too. Oh and old screw in bulbs on the tree lights, the feel of those... oooh Christmas!

I got some gold ones and some red ones from wilkos last year and used them in various places

www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-christmas-foil-garland-gold-27m-2pk/p/0419925

Ah yes Lamella.

Used drive my mum’s cats mental

Was always lovingly rewound around it’s cardboard and put back in the red Woolworths packaging.

I saw some in wilko the other day.. I was tempted.

I love them, but live in a rented house and don't really want to be sticking drawing pins in everywhere.

If you like them, put them up. You can be the trendsetter.

I have these!! My Christmas theme is "80s Working Mens Club Kids Xmas Party".

Oh caesio you star!
I don’t give a toss about fashion, my dad covered the place in these as well as foil dangly decs when I was little and I loved them, the way the tree lights bounced off them, I was obsessed and so excited when they went up! I wanted to do the same for my lo as it makes my heart feel warm and fuzzy with the memories, but couldn’t find any! Off I go to order tons 😁

I love to see them; they remind me of youth clubs and aunties' living rooms where we would sit in the excessive central heating playing with our latest toy from Santa while snacking on Twiglets and cheesy footballs. My little bro would read aloud from the Guinness book of records. Really happy, simple times.

But I don't want them in my Zara Home / HEMA house of muted greys.

We have these! Hubby and I have just put them up. Gold and red ones to match the tree in the living room and blue and silver ones to match the decor in the dining room. I don't think they're tacky

We bought some new unused ones from a charity shop last Christmas and had them up. They looked fab as I hate minimalist Christmas decorations. Might as well not have bothered if you don't like gaudy and bright. The shinier the better is my motto.

I hear you OP. I'm 34 and have been doing the Christmas decorations for 20 years (ours now and my parents before) and in that time I've always done foliage type decorations, but I very fondly remember my childhood with the bright foil and paper decorations. Funnily enough last Christmas DH and I went to our local pub who had them up. I couldn't have felt more festive, it was wonderful. I pine for the days of foil decorations, 80s Christmas songs, cheese and pineapple hedgehogs and children's Christmas parties. That being said I love the warm and cosy feel of my Christmas greenery and wouldn't want to be without it. Do what makes you feel good.

I never thought about trends in Xmas decorations, we just reused ours again and again. We had these for a while a few years ago but they difficult to put in our house and a few were torn so we stopped. Might do them again in the future...

Put them up. We found some in a shop last year and DH put them up in two rooms. Our ds loves them. We don't care about theming though, we're adding gum paper paperchains this year too

I do the paper crepe streamers all over the living like my great grandma did in the 1950's I love it, and it wouldn't be Christmas without them.

I declare them trendy. We had them last year and will again this year. I'm in my twenties and live in a poncy area and I know a few people who had them up. Get with the times folks!

@Julianaa

I love to see them; they remind me of youth clubs and aunties' living rooms where we would sit in the excessive central heating playing with our latest toy from Santa while snacking on Twiglets and cheesy footballs. My little bro would read aloud from the Guinness book of records. Really happy, simple times.

But I don't want them in my Zara Home / HEMA house of muted greys.

This all day long! I used to love going to MILs as she would put them all up but she's gradually cut them back to none. My Mum stopped doing them about ten years ago too.

I'm hoping when we visit FILs and SMIL that they will still do them, it truly is the most festive look for me! I'm really toying with the idea but equally haven't put half of my decorations out this year as they didn't fit with the look I want. I wrestled with DH about not having tinsel in the tree, he won and we have tinsel on. It doesn't look stylish but mixed with our mismatched memory baubles and some modern ones it does look cosy! Not at all fitting with my modern decor, but equally that's supposed to be what makes it magic???