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?

Seriously who cares. I remember a couple of years ago tinsel was declared tacky on here. A few months later John Lewis reported their sales of tinsel had doubled. Too many people on MN are obsessed with being middle class. Decorate your tree with what you like.

I love tinsel, lametta and foil decorations.
My lounge looks like an explosion in a tinsel factory when I put the tree up.
I don't care what anyone else thinks. Do what you want to do, not what others think you should do.

It is tacky and very council house but who cares aslong as you like it.

I didn’t even know they still sold those foil things you hang from the ceiling either.

Council house? 😂
I've known just as many people in owned homes be just as ' tacky '
What a snob.

@IceFrost

It is tacky and very council house but who cares aslong as you like it.

Would love to see your tree, is it REALLY tasteful?

@NoddyWithAVoddy

Council house? 😂 I've known just as many people in owned homes be just as ' tacky ' What a snob.

I’m sure there are lots of people that own their own homes to that like them but they do shout council house. 😂

Same as those Biscuits in the red box that are sold around Xmas time to... council biscuits. 😂

@ZaraW - My tree isn’t up yet as it’s only November.

[quote IceFrost]@ZaraW - My tree isn’t up yet as it’s only November.[/quote]
Don't worry I was being sarcastic.

I love them as well.

You know the old fashioned fairy lights, with the proper bulbs and non LED in lovely soft colours.
I cant type all that into Google, what is the proper name for them so I can search?

@ZaraW - Oh no, I would never of guessed that 🤣

I'm only happy if the end result is 'Christmas threw up over my house'. Bring on the tinsel!

Christmas is all about memories and resurrecting the happiness of previous years. I don’t believe it’s about making a fashion statement. There is an advert on tv which shows a mum apparently dismayed by her child’s offering of a decoration so she turns the tree around. So what if it looks odd? I would have put that away after Christmas and bought it out each year. Christmas should be fun not upmanship. So tinsel away and enjoy.

The new type of angel hair is not quite the same as I used to use, it was like this

susiej.com/angel-hair/

The last few packets I bought were in Germany about 12 years ago and its sadly all gone now.

I am loving reading everyone's story's of their trees with family, warms your heart, thanks MillyA for asking about tinsel, and this year I am going to have some as well. I am all for having what makes you happy and today I am going to start on the Christmas decorations at least 3 weeks early, tinsel lametta all the way (but still dont like coloured lights, sorry!)

Now if I could find the holy grail of a 'vintage' tree decoration, it was a set of 3, red, green and blue a quarter moon with a face on about the size of a medium banana. My fav was the blue and silver one, glass hand painted, no idea what happened to it, prob bought around the beginning of the '60's.......

Definitely tacky but do what you like

Fwiw I don't like colour coordinated trees or anything either

@7Days I got some from Homebase a couple of years ago that were proper old school non LED. Also if you search for Noma coloured lights you'll find ones very similar to the ones we had in the 70s, their pickwick ones are identical

www.ukchristmasworld.com/Brands/Noma.html

YES!!!! I have been longing for the 1980/1990s Christmases of old. God knows we need the comfort. I want tinsel and foil decorations, coloured flower/bell fairy lights, angel hair.

Off to Amazon I go......

I know I'm being a pedant but I'm not sure the Pickwick yellow quite compares to the yellow of old, it looks a bit orange. Although the fact it was probably 30 years ago may well have distorted my memory of my grandma's fairy lights!

Thank you Wellthisismorethanabitgrim

What I will not miss is annual ritual of one fairy light bulb goes and the whole thing then won't light up. Memories of my father lying under the tree & industrial language as he tested every single bulb

Ah yes, it was such a relief getting all the tricky little b*ggers to light up that they looked even more heavenly!

I’ve been looking for a long time for fairy lights that
do a proper twinkle. All the ones now seem to have the same however-many-functions control box in that area all headache inducing flashing. I want a nice slow pretty twinkle :(

Love a bit of tinsel on the tree. Don’t use lametta anymore though after seeing a strand hanging out of the cat’s bum one year.

@JMG1234

Ah yes, it was such a relief getting all the tricky little b*ggers to light up that they looked even more heavenly!

We used to check them before they went on the tree, and they'd all light up; then you'd put them up and one would have come loose!