Page 9 | Lack of Christmas tat might not be a bad thing?

LolaSmiles · 15/10/2021 09:40

Wazzzzzzzup
I'm assuming they were llamas. Last year one shop near me had reindeers, llamas, pineapples (what pineapple figures have to do with Christmas, I have no idea ).
They looked like a child had got some polystyrene figures from Hobbycraft and dipped them in glitter glue.

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 10:04

@LolaSmiles i am disappointed by lack of glitter llamas on google now😂

LolaSmiles · 15/10/2021 10:11

I wish I'd taken a photo. It was a shop that also sold home tat about gin and prosecco. They also had a phase where everything was cactus themed for the summer.

Have you seen the reindeer ones Wazzzzzzzup?
These are bauble versions, but the free standing ones were similar www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-Glitter-Reindeer-Christmas-Baubles/dp/B077PJN3T7/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=reindeer+glitter+pink&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1634288913&sr=8-3

CounsellorTroi · 15/10/2021 10:13

No I didn't. It went to the tip. But as others have pointed out, it was at least 20 years old, no idea exactly how old as we didn't put it in. The one which replaced it will last another 20 years, probably more as if the doors start to look dated or scuffed we'll have them painted or sprayed. Or replace the worksurface rather than the whole thing.

We’ve had 2 new kitchens in 30 years in our house. First one 2 years after we moved in (original was bad DIY job) 2nd one 22 years later! I think 20 years is good going for a kitchen. I heard someone talking about their new house “the kitchen’s 5 years old so it will have to come out”.

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 10:16

That's too ordinary @LolaSmiles. It's llama or nothing😁

LolaSmiles · 15/10/2021 10:29

Wazzzzzzzup
This year I'll have to take photos. It's a grotto of tat. Think stuff that wouldn't look out of place on a Mumsnet Facebook hamper/selling page thread.

What I still want to know is how anyone who buys that tat does around the house as their floors must be covered in glitter. 🤔

nyprincess · 15/10/2021 10:29

orangespotatoes

I agree OP. I'm dismayed at all the Halloween decorations too. Christmas i understand a little more, but Halloween? Fuck off.

It's fun. My giant spiders are patiently awaiting their return into red lit window😁

My Halloween decorations have been up since Monday 😂 most of them I have had for years, my giant spider is 17 yrs old. And most of them are made of paper. My Halloween tree is my black Christmas tree with foam decs, though it does have led plastic lights. I don't care if it's'tacky' me and my daughter love Halloween

Sunshinealligator · 15/10/2021 10:35

I'm looking forward to it to be honest.

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 10:38

@LolaSmiles that's a fair point.
Range is like home bargains on steroids with glitter bomb wplosion added.
Totally amazingly horrible. I love it. And I am not even into glitter really! Or wasn't...

cushioncovers · 15/10/2021 10:44

I have Xmas tat thats years old as I'm not a person who buys a lot of crap for the sake of it so I couldn't care less if the shops are short of tat this year. We as a nation buy and throw away far too much too often. I also don't care if we are short of meat this Xmas as again I think we are far too obsessed with having meat at every meal, my Xmas lunch year was just loads of veggies and Yorkshire puds with gravy.

woodhill · 15/10/2021 11:15

[quote TuftyMarmoset]@woodhill I’ve never heard of anyone doing it, just pointing out that by choosing to have a larger family OP would have created a lot of landfill compared to someone with a smaller family - something like Christmas decorations would be a drop in the ocean compared to the landfill associated with one of OP’s children over a lifetime.[/quote]
Yes true

woodhill · 15/10/2021 11:17

@nyprincess

orangespotatoes

I agree OP. I'm dismayed at all the Halloween decorations too. Christmas i understand a little more, but Halloween? Fuck off.

It's fun. My giant spiders are patiently awaiting their return into red lit window😁

My Halloween decorations have been up since Monday 😂 most of them I have had for years, my giant spider is 17 yrs old. And most of them are made of paper. My Halloween tree is my black Christmas tree with foam decs, though it does have led plastic lights. I don't care if it's'tacky' me and my daughter love Halloween

Yes horrible Halloween decorations up in our road. That white net stuff on bushes for instance

nyprincess · 15/10/2021 11:40

My decorations aren't horrible, they are wonderful.lol.I don't have any of the fake spider webs on my bushes, but do inside. I have bought a spooky ghost to go in the garden though. I tried to make a scary scarecrow but it didn't work out. Some people like Christmas, I love Halloween. It would be a shame if we all liked the same stuff 🤷

woodhill · 15/10/2021 13:18

Yes, I really don't like Halloween and what it represents but you are right

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 13:24

One person's tat, another person's treasure

Notcontent · 15/10/2021 14:19

@KingsleyShacklebolt

News this morning about all those containers stuck at Felixstowe from Asia, and similar problems at ports in the US which are now working overnight to clear the backlog.

These aren't shipping containers with food, it's all the other toys, decorations and associated tat which line the shelves of supermarkets and places like Home Bargains earlier every year.

Maybe if people have a year where they can't buy tinsel, or a musical Santa which drops its trousers, or Christmas bedding, or elves on shelves, or any of the other crap, they will maybe realise that you can have a brilliant Christmas with last year's decorations, or homemade decorations, or charity shop decorations? Consumerism at Christmas has got WAY out of control and this might force a halt to the buy buy buy mentality, focused on single use plastic and cheaply made rubbish from China.

Yep - the production, transport and disposal of that tat is killing our planet. And it is already killing us.

MarshaBradyo · 15/10/2021 14:21

I was pleased to hear R4 Tim H talk about the realisation that all this shipping has a human story behind it this morning. I think it’s good it’s highlighted rather than just order and deliver

CatsArePeople · 15/10/2021 15:10

I love my tat but i keep the tat. I do buy a few new docorations every year but most we reuse year after year.

simitra · 15/10/2021 15:47

I began to opt out of Christmas back in the 1970s except for small token presents for my parents. Now Im completelyy opted out. For me its just a couple of weeks to chill, watch Tv and sleep in. Things I normally never do as I run a business.

I believe that the impact of covid and last years enforced quiet christmas has helped many families to re-evaluate the huge and often horrendous family get togethers and the amount they spend on tat.

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 15:52

I believe that the impact of covid and last years enforced quiet christmas has helped many families to re-evaluate the huge and often horrendous family get togethers

Tbf here I find the way Brits do (most it seems) Christmas stressful. So yeah, hopefully the last year and the fact that lots of shops are closing on 26th will change that.
We have 3 days. 24th just us, 25th one side, 26th second side. No one is hosting 16 people in a tiny semi (all of them are tiny😁) because it's spread out.

I would totally opt out of Christmas if I was forced to do it the local way now

InPraiseOfBacchus · 15/10/2021 15:54

@Wazzzzzzzup

One person's tat, another person's treasure

Your "treasure" is cluttering our neighbourhoods, filling up our landfill, and choking our oceans. Well done for keeping up a sense of misplaced pride about it despite all that!

Wazzzzzzzup · 15/10/2021 15:58

My treasure is sitting in the attic currently...

ABCeasyasdohrayme · 15/10/2021 16:00

@Wazzzzzzzup

My treasure is sitting in the attic currently...

😂😂😂

VeryLongBeeeeep · 15/10/2021 16:42

@Babdoc

I agree absolutely on environmental grounds, OP. I also think it’s sad that people don’t seem to treasure their family Christmas decorations and bring them out each year. I have some carved olive wood tree ornaments that a late aunt brought back from Bethlehem on her Holy Land pilgrimage decades ago, a Russian doll style santa bauble that I got in St Petersburg, some wonky decorations made by my DC (now in their thirties!) at Sunday school yonks ago, a carved wood bauble from the Oberammergau passion play… So many lovely memories as we decorate the tree each year. And each day in Dec, I still open the DC’s beautiful advent calendar sent by my sister 25 years ago. For 20 years, our tree lights were the ones from my childhood home - I used them until they finally fused when my own DC were grown up. Our tree may not be the latest designer chic, but it is full of love and memories of Christmases past. And as well as our main presents for family, instead of plastic tat stocking fillers, we get each other gifts like mosquito nets for Africa, a well for an Indian village, books for a literacy project etc. It would be nice if, in the absence of plastic tat, more families this year rediscover what really matters about Christmas - the birth of Christ and the gift of love to the world.

Chuckling at the lovely middle-class homespun heirloom tree decorations...with an air miles carbon footprint bigger than Waitrose's vegetable aisle...

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 15/10/2021 17:01

@GoodnightGrandma

We get sent two hampers by family every Xmas, that we don’t want. But DH won’t ask them to stop. I hand it all on to people who eat that sort of stuff. I’m definitely going for a smaller Xmas this year. Not buying all the food I usually do, and the kids are getting money with one or two things to open.

I won a very nice hamper very soon before one Christmas, but the house was already full of food and TBH I felt a bit bad for having won it when somebody else could probably really do with it.

I phoned the local Sally Army to ask whether they’d like it, and someone came within about 20 minutes to collect it!