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to think these are the tackiest Christmas decorations?

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iheartchristmas92 · 06/12/2019 06:21

but i love them because they remind me of childhood! hanging from every corner of the ceiling and meeting in the middle of the ceiling around the light fitting. i haven't used any since i left home at 18, but i think my mum still uses them. some parts sellotaped together still 😂 they 'smell' like Christmas. also foil tinsel .. any foil decoration really 🙈🙈

what Christmas decorations do you find tackiest, whether you use them or not?

(pic from google)

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ThePawtriarchy · 06/12/2019 07:08

I love the tinsel smell. Nothing like that smell plus a 90’s copy of Radio / TV Times with only four channels to make Christmas!

BelfastNonBlonde · 06/12/2019 07:09

IM OFF TO BUY SOME FOIL TAT RIGHT AWAY! Yay!!

Love these, and generally anything tacky and nostalgic 😊

LateToTheParty · 06/12/2019 07:10

@evilharpy I knew what you were talking about before i scrolled down as far as the photo - my parents have the same decoration and have been putting it up each Christmas for 40 something years!

We had the garlands too, loads of them across the lounge ceiling all meeting in the centre Xmas Smile

PixieDustt · 06/12/2019 07:11

I love them.
Reminds me of my Christmas's at home as a child and they would be in the front room.
You can still get them in the pound shop.
My mum doesn't even put them up anymore Sad

BrigitsBigKnickers · 06/12/2019 07:14

Tacky as hell but our house is always festooned with them at Christmas!

They are getting harder to find though as the years have gone on. Managed to find some in the Poundland a few weeks ago and bought a load as they don't last long.

So right about the smell too! Very nostalgic!

GiloulovesLaure · 06/12/2019 07:16

I remember cutting strips off two differently coloured crepe paper rolls, unrolling them and twisting them back to back and then my dad pinning them from the corner of the room to the middle. There was also only one type of tree, which shed its needles from the moment you brought it home.

Livpool · 06/12/2019 07:16

I love these too.

Reminds me of Christmas in the 80s, when I was growing up. I think Christmas decorations should be a bit tacky

Bloodybridget · 06/12/2019 07:18

We had the matt paper forerunners to the OP's decs when I was a kid in the 60s. And some of the ones that open out into a bell shape or whatever - in fact I saw some of the latter in a very posh shop the other day, they must be back in fashion!

Shannith · 06/12/2019 07:18

@evilharpy oh my god we had that exact same one! Going up the stairs. How I loved it.

Now I'm going to be hunting for one. So many memories.

Sipperskipper · 06/12/2019 07:19

We used to have these all over the house! Late 80s early 90s when I was about 5. I vividly remember the smell, and have actually been trying to buy some for our house this year. Love a bit of nostalgia at Christmas!

Tackiest thing for me is co-ordinated trees that change every year, and bright white / blue lights.

BeyondMyWits · 06/12/2019 07:20

We used to have twisted crepe paper strips from the corners to the light fitting. In totally unseasonal colours, yellow and a sort of mid blue and white, and a green that did not belong to Christmas type of green...

And then we used to fold them together to make a boxy type "chain" - anybody else...

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dementedma · 06/12/2019 07:20

We had these too and dad was obsessed about them being symmetrical in distance and "swag". It was all very tense. There would be balloons pinned to the wall in each section.
I still do tinsel on my tree its just so damned sparkly!

diddl · 06/12/2019 07:20

Used to have them in the childhood home-in paper as well.

Also Chinese lanterns above the fireplace!!

Also in the front room as well-which we used to "move into" for Christmas!!

Emetophobe · 06/12/2019 07:22

So tacky but I love them so much. I haven’t had any since my parents deemed them to be tacky in the early 90s, but I miss them every year. I have a bit of a kitsch theme in my house so wondering if I could get away with some.

Also love the long lost cardboard reindeer garland that someone posted and agree strongly about the smell of musty tinsel that has been sitting in the loft all year being the smell of Christmas. Musty old tinsel, satsumas and sherry (for the Birds trifle) = the scent of 80s Christmases.

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 06/12/2019 07:23

I had no idea foil garlands were tacky until the first year DH and I decorated our house for Christmas.

MIL was a little shocked, but never unkind about it! She said it was very 70's. Her front room looks like an M&S advert every year which I love.

I'm actually looking at my living room right now and laughing because it is sort of decorated like a 70's pub. Shock :o

Emetophobe · 06/12/2019 07:23

And I am another one who doesn’t like colour coordinated trees. I recognise that it’s just a personal taste thing but I always feel like Christmas trees are for memories and the joy is in getting out the decorations every year, adding new ones and throwing it all on.

SalemShadow · 06/12/2019 07:24

I love them too. Wish they would start selling them again!

longleggedgal · 06/12/2019 07:24

Thanks everyone I'm off today in search for them. Excited Xmas Grin

tinselbaubletinselbauble · 06/12/2019 07:24

My mums still got those foil garlands upGrin.
I don't know what they made them of in the 80s but she manages to stretch them to the big light. She also insists on putting the beads on the tree with the big red bows but it wouldn't be Christmas without themXmas Grin

1point21gigawatts · 06/12/2019 07:24

Totally agree, soooo tacky, but also I love them!!

They define my childhood Christmases, along with lametter and that weird old mans beard floss stuff that grannies (and the local theatre) always used to have on their trees. I'll see if I can find a pic....

MagentaRocks · 06/12/2019 07:25

Of course they are tacky but not a reason to not have them. Definite reminders of childhood Christmas, if I put up Christmas decorations I would definitely have them. Maybe next year when our house isn’t a building site I will put up a tree and decorations and get some of those.

SnowyChristmasTree · 06/12/2019 07:25

Evilharpy I love the reindeer decoration, we had something similar I'll try to find a picture.

I also love those foil decorations, we called them 'trimmings', we didn't always have trimmings every year but I'd nag my dad to put some up. They remind me of going into little cheapo shops on the high street that would be full of Christmas decorations.

We used to have these baubles. They remind me of Christmas.

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BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 06/12/2019 07:26

These are my strongest memory of decs from my childhood - satin tiny baubles and baubles of conical foil.

to think these are the tackiest Christmas decorations?
to think these are the tackiest Christmas decorations?
BeyondMyWits · 06/12/2019 07:30

I remember the satin baubles - all the threads used to snag on things and they'd end up looking a bit shaggy (but we'd still put them on the tree!)...

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou · 06/12/2019 07:30

dementedma My dad also put balloons in the spacing!

The most unfestive colours too.

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