To like foil hanging decorations and tinsel?

[MillyA]

My DB is aghast that I have tinsel on my tree every year and today my friend was saying she would never have hanging foil decorations up in her house.

I feel like I've missed something.

Are these things considered tacky nowadays?

Not my taste but do what makes you happy! Xmas is supposed to be camp!

I LOVE the old foil decorations. They remind me of my childhood and the smell of them just takes me right back!! I dont care what others think if I love them they are going up....however I do think the majority of people think they are tacky nowadays but what do they know!!

@Letsbepositive

Thats lametta, angel hair in its day was made of spun glass and highly flammable, it changed to a kind of candy floss texture and you unrolled it and kind of fluffed it out and laid it on the tree, it looked really pretty, but it hurt if you had cuts on your hand! a bit of a H&S nightmare for a tree!!

You can get (all be it in smaller lengths) lametta in the likes of Homebase/Wilkos.

Wish I had a pic of angel hair to show you.

Angel hair?

Iridescent Metallic Angel Hair - 20g https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005F5LOOG/ref=cmswwrcppapifabt11OYwTFbTA3W7HP?encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Tinsel and coloured lights are back! Retro Christmas vibes. Mismatched decorations never went away. IMO there is nothing tackier than a matchy-matchy tree in 'sophisticated' colours, or - even worse - whole room decoration theme. But who am I to judge?

Don't tell the others, but I can spend hours sniffing tinsel. I do it in Tesco, Wilkos, anywhere its sold, you'll find me with my face buried in its sparkly loveliness inhaling that gorgeous smell.

I done away with tinsel and bought fluffy feather tree boas for my tree... They so fluffy...
I remember the foil hanging decorations, the ones you criss crossed on the roof my mum used to attach balloons to them as well.. Wee trip down memory lane, it reminds me of what Xmas used to be like

We always have tinsel, multicoloured old fashioned fairy lights and foil decorations. People call it a retro Christmas look now, but to me it’s just what’s normal as it’s what I grew up with.

And we’re a very naice middle class family

I think having everything matching and in one colour actually looks tacky, and white lights are like something you’d see in the lobby of a big corporate! Each to their own.

I do think a feather boa wrapped round the tree and coordinated baubles look attractive, but to me Christmas is all about the reds, gold and greens (inc tinsel and foil decorations)

I think like others it's because that's how it always was when I was growing up. I have fond memories of my late grandparents house at Christmas, full to bursting of those things. It's nostalgic for me and I love that.

I wasn't aware that's now known as a retro Christmas, it sounds nicer than tacky

Those who don't like the retro Christmas look would despise my tree skirt. It's red with a thick gold border

I love tinsel. I don't have the foil hanging decorations but I have lovely memories of them.

I have loads of hanging foil decorations for the ceiling, my kids love them and this year they cant do a lot which would normally do so i spent an extra £30 so all of downstairs can be done! It's tacky yes but i dont care!

We have very old fashioned Xmas decs... lots of family heirlooms from 50s and onwards. I don't do lametta, since fishing some out of a cat's arse put me off several years ago...

@MillyA

I do think a feather boa wrapped round the tree and coordinated baubles look attractive, but to me Christmas is all about the reds, gold and greens (inc tinsel and foil decorations)

I think like others it's because that's how it always was when I was growing up. I have fond memories of my late grandparents house at Christmas, full to bursting of those things. It's nostalgic for me and I love that.

I wasn't aware that's now known as a retro Christmas, it sounds nicer than tacky

I use white fluffy boas because I don't have white tree, I'm the sorta person that will keep a Xmas tree until its down to one branch and sitting slanty, I hate waste lol so until my tree ends up that way they'll be no white Xmas trees. Plus I brag my tree cost a pound in the boxing day sale from bnq.

Decorations going back decades here. Children always bought some that they liked every year so lots of memories. Tinsel oh yes. This year have bought some of those cork bottles with wire and lights am going to attempt to wind them around the tinsel and hang them over the pictures we have to light them up a bit. Will probably get bored of switching them on at night though. Bought some spiral tinsel this year not sure if I like it but will try it out.

I love 80s style Christmas decorations.

A few years ago I spent an entire afternoon trawling round various lighting shops looking for old school (non-LED) multi-coloured Christmas tree lights, which still go on my tree every year.

I don't have any foil decorations but I remember having them as a child. Might treat myself!

I LOVE tinsel!

Where do you even get those foil ones? The kind they had in pubs and schools when I was a child. Tinsel, I'm not keen on on a tree but like it otherwise. Those foil ones though, they were everywhere and now I only see them in old pubs and I'm sure they are decades old!
Everything in the shops looks too 'trendy'.

I do like making paper chains, that's Christmas to me. I was amazed you can buy them ready made in strips, we used to cut up magazines!

@Letsbepositive

Is this the angel hair? I vaguely remember having it on our tree as a child.

(hoping this link works )

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I bought some foil decorations on Ebay years ago, cheap as chips.

Poundstretcher also sells them.

They're not so common these days though as you've noticed.

I'm glad some stores still recognise the beauty in a good old 'retro' Christmas

Oo thank you for the angel hair links! Wonderful

Definitely! Nostalgia.. I used to be fascinated by them and how they hung down. Moved in the Light and twinkled.
I veered away from tinsel one-year. How dull!.
I adore it, the smell, the effect... Love it, love it....

Wilkinson does fabulous Dec's of tinsel..

Wilko also does loads of the old fashioned hanging down foil Dec's.

Love wine more..

Speak for yourself! Tacky!! Mine certainly do not look tacky....

Massively tacky but also wonderfully festive and nostalgic! A completely non tacky Christmas makes me think of one without kids where no one gets up until late morning, has a civilised meal with a single glass of champagne and the 2 presents under the tree are opened at dusk. That might be wonderful for some but it’s not for me

My other nostalgic memory is the colour of the old fairy lights. The new versions don't look the same. I'm not sure exactly why, possibly the yellow looks too orange. But the multicoloured ones looked so pretty.