to think these are the tackiest Christmas decorations?

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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?

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@slightlysurviving she is so cute

Aww. I used to love those foil ceiling decorations, had them as a kid, can still remember the smell! I also loved the foil baubles too, I used to like poking my fingers in the cone bits. The old Christmas tree lights were awesome too, multi coloured with plastic shades on, used to take ages finding the blown bulb to replace and make the set work!

Love to wear beads and tinsel at Christmas but don't put either on my tree. You can't wear lights! Love lights and baubles.

Growing up we had three Christmas trees at home. One in the front porch with just lights.

The big one in the living room - mums tree all themed and beautiful. And ours in the playroom/conservatory.

Ours had all the home made decorations. All the colourful tat. All the tinsel. It was always glorious. Dm disagreed.

DMs tree last year was silver beads, jingly bells and white roses. It’ll probably be the same this year.

Two years ago our Christmas tree was all wooden decorations and silver things. Lovely and minimalist.

Now we’ve got kids. Ds is 2. And this year I’ve spent a fortune on ridiculous decorations. I took him decoration shopping and my rule was if he could say what it was we’d buy it. Hence why we’ve got “menemen” (elephants) “rafff” (giraffe) tiger “edog” ( hedgehog) owl dinedor ocopoo (octopus). In all sorts of colourful glittery tacky ness. We threw it all on the tree yesterday. Looks awesome. 👍🏻

@ememem84 omg 😭 can you share a picture? that's so cute, i'm gonna do that with mine next year as i feel like Christmas is all about the kids now that we have our own x

Everything on this thread (apart ftom cardboard santa sleigh ☹) I have bought or dug out this year for 70s Christmas. Even the wrapping paper. It's ALL still available.
Don't give up on your nostalgia gals. It CAN be done..
To the pp who said 40 pickwick lights no good for 7ft tree I say 3 sets and you're golden. I have 3 sets of the Canterbury Belles on a very wide 8ft tree and it looks fab. Bear in mind how much larger these lights look with the shades. Trust me, it works.

This is our tree. If you zoom in on the mantelpiece you’ll see my neon glitter robots.

And an “owl” that ds wanted.

Saying that it doesn’t actually look very glittery in that picture. But that was an earlier one.

I bloody love foil decs! Grew up with them; very nostalgic.

I'll put them up (upstairs probably) for baby DS when he's old enough to understand.

I actually think matching Christmas decorations, harsh white or flashing lights and artificial trees are tacky- but good job we don't all like the same thing...

To me, a matching tree looks corporate and like something you'd see in a hotel reception. I'd far rather have good old tinsel, soft coloured lights and coloured baubles that we've had forever.

Bet kids prefer a colorful tree anyway ;p

@ememem84 those robots are amazing 😂 love the owl too, your DS has cute taste

@VestaTilley we have one for the kids to decorate how they like too, gotta keep some but of childhood Christmas. i'll have to persuade DP to let us do the big tree next year with all the tacky decs and baubles 😍

kids tree that my 3yo decorated how he wanted. plenty of bells, red bows, Tinkerbell baubles (😂) and a hot pink stag!! and of course the colourful fairy lights have to stay every year.

Ooh tinsel umbrellas! I remember them. And rather creepy little fake robins which had wire to fastwn them to the branches.

@iheartchristmas92 that sounds great!

My DH always wants white lights and no tinsel. Every year we have coloured lights, mismatched baubles and tinsel :D

The sleigh just sold for £140 on ebay!

@dementedma I've still got one of those robins!

£140!!! Which one of you lot bought it???

Just love this thread.

@evilharpy jesus christ that's absolutely insane!!

@Puliperusal me too, im glad i started it. brings back so many memories and it's so nostalgic ♥️♥️

I think the tackiest Christmas decorations in the world are currently being strewn about my lovely house.

I love light. Pure, white light, candles glowing in the darkness, a big paper star I got years and years ago when I first moved out from the Hoarder's Treasures, birds, holly, ivy, flowers, pine cones, ribbon, everything lovely and tactile and clean. I loved the little angels that moved around, making tiny bells chime, if you lit candles underneath.

DP is asking me whether the strong of cardboard printed Christmas trees is dangling centrally over the window to frame the hideous gold fold out approximation of my paper star that he's pinned up in the (sort of) centre.

Foul red and gold tinsel is strewn across the TV.

Lights in every colour of the rainbow are glittering in the corner of the living room.

I can hear fucking sleigh bells in the kitchen where the DTwatCat has discovered them dangling from the back door.

He's happily chatting at me about his having ordered some crepe paper to make something else. The Poinsettia (my one concession to colours is bright red, as you get it on Robins and berries) I treated myself to earlier this week is being totally obscured by more plastic foil crap. There is no lametta following my tale of an old cat's sparkly disco poos in the litter tray.

If he brings out the long string of multicoloured lights and dangles it around the walls, or worse, the staircase where I'm planning an Ivy garland, I might have to strangle him with the knackered foil foldy up things he wants to criss cross across the already cluttered ceiling. Especially if he puts them on the fucking random flashing sequence like he did last year.

Twat. No taste Twat.

It's making him happy. So another year of tack. And maybe one day I'll get to decorate without it. But I wouldn't want to be decorating without him, so that's how it's going to be.

AIBU to consider wearing sunglasses indoors for the next 3 weeks?

Not tacky, very nostalgic:)
Our office/spare room is currently covered in those foul streamers, the big foil danglers you unfold and stick together and flashing multi colour lights! We decorate every room for Christmas and the spare room is our 80s childhood Christmas is full glory!

I loved those conical baubles there were my faves!!

Sorry if this has been put up already - I got over excited. We had one of these as a kid and this was what I loved.

We also had tinsel that stretched across the ceiling and we used to use the same hole in the middle for a drawing pin!

@dementedma when I was at uni someone in my flat bought a pack of 30 of those creepy robins and we would hide them in weird places all round the house

My grandma always had loads of tinsel on her tree and I LOVED it, but growing up my parents never used it because my mum hated it. I don't use it either because it's dangerous to cats, but every year I want to buy 100lbs of it and cover my tree.