Early Christmas decorations = working class

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I know Mumsnet loves a class debate, so thought I’d share an argument I had with a friend last night.

She insists that only working class people put their Christmas decorations up in November, I insisted she’s a snob and class is more redundant these days so it’s a ridiculous argument.

So Vipers, I’ll ask the question as if it is coming from me to make it easier:

AIBU to think only working class people put their Christmas decorations up in November?

Yabu - No, don’t be such a snob, middle class people do too.

YANBU - Yes, it’s a working class thing.

I will be showing her the results of this.

Only because I think it makes Christmas a little less special the earlier you start, not from any delusions of grandeur by holding out 'til December 😂

I've seen cut glass baubles at well over £100 a pop.

@LoisWooookersonsLastNerve I have that dinosaur! my mum bought it for the dc 😆

brilliant. Look at its bum

@lawnotorder

Well that poster has explained that buying them all at once so they match means you’ve bought cheap ones, and that is ‘tacky.’ I have asked why it is tacky (generally meaning gaudy, vulgar, tasteless, or trashy) rather than just cheaper as some people can’t afford expensive baubles, but the poster has declined to explain.

Got a bit of snobby bauble issues creeping in now. Fabulous.

@Curtaintassels loads of shops that only sell baubles that cost over a certain amount? I've never been into a Christmas shop like this hence why I want to know where they are.

[quote lawnotorder]@Curtaintassels loads of shops that only sell baubles that cost over a certain amount? I've never been into a Christmas shop like this hence why I want to know where they are. [/quote]
Hmm. I thought it was a bit faux confusion to be honest. This thread is just so funny.

And there was me thinking Christmas decorations were supposed to be fun...clearly it is serious business!

Gotta love a judgy Christmas thread on a Sunday evening.

I just found a bauble in Wilkos that's a sprout wearing a little Santa hat. It's the cutest thing ever and I've bought half a dozen for my tree

To be fair @lawnotorder I feel like going completely the other way on these threads just to draw out the posters with big chips on their shoulders. So ignore me.

@Curtaintassels

Got a bit of snobby bauble issues creeping in now. Fabulous.

Snobbles. Might try selling that as an idea to M&S. These are not just baubles… they’re M&S snobbles.

Of course the fine print will explain that snobbles must NOT be put up before mid-late December, and certainly must not match the other baubles on the tree.

Our trees went up early last year simply because we were in lockdown and it cheered us up. I’ll be doing the same this year and putting them up next weekend because I found it so much easier with more time. We always get at least one real tree and they easily last until 6th Jan

You can tell your friend that we are middle class but absolutely love Christmas and all of the associated tat.

Decorations going up in historic houses like Chatsworth aren't really a 'class' marker of a relaxing of convention...The public areas will be decorated early to maximise profits, the private apartments/wings is different.

Snobbles 🤣🤣

@Curtaintassels I actually love Christmas decorations hence why I'm so intrigued.

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[quote lawnotorder]@Curtaintassels I actually love Christmas decorations hence why I'm so intrigued. [/quote]
Honestly I am being contrary for the sake of it. Let’s enjoy the snobbles.

I saw the update too late

if you look at somewhere like Harrods or Selfridges the top-end baubles are £300 each
Those are for the nouveau riche

Honestly threads like this make MC christmas sound well boring! I don’t want it to be “tasteful”, I want it to be fun xD

What’s snobblish then. I have my dc names on glass baubles. Chav? Snobblish?

Did someone carve it with their fingers from a fallen 300 yr old oak or is it just a generic printed on name?

I think that MC families tend to be more restrained about Christmas in general.

I come from quite a working class family (mostly builders); married into a middle class one (mostly teachers), and SIL married into an even more MC one (mostly barristers and judges).

Our Christmasses tend to go thusly:

My WC family: everyone up at the crack of dawn, and tears into the presents in a orgy of consumption. Then everyone watches telly and grazes on chocolate while the family matriarch wrestles with the turkey. Christmas dinner served around lunchtime.
DH's MC family: everyone up a civilised time, and has a breakfast of Buckfizz and bacon rolls, before presents are opened in a more civilised fashion, taking turns to open and exclaim in delight over each one. Turkey wrestling duties shared out, mainly between Matriarch and Patriarch, whilst the others play board games. Dinner served mid-afternoon, after which snoozing on the sofa with a film in the background is permissible.
SIL's UMC in-laws - I don't know the details, never having been invited, but am aware that it involves church, a bracing walk, and that no-one, not even the smallest, most excited child, is allowed to open any presents until after Christmas dinner has been eaten at around 1-2pm.

The amount of presents the children get seem to be in indirect correlation with the wealth of the parents, with our kids getting as much as we can afford, SIL sticking with "something they want, something to read, something to wear, and something they need"; and her in-laws kids getting a satsuma and a penny whistle and a reminder to be grateful for that.

Having said all that, I can't say I've noticed much difference in when we all put our decs up. My very WC grandma went with keeping them up for the 12 days of Christmas, but admitted if it was up to her they'd go up on Christmas Eve and come down on Boxing Day.

@DaphneDeloresMoorhead

if you look at somewhere like Harrods or Selfridges the top-end baubles are £300 each Those are for the nouveau riche

😂

Cheap baubles are for the commoners. Expensive baubles are for the nouveau riche (commoners who have got their grubby hands on some middle class money). The appropriate price for a bauble is £20-40. This is respectably middle class.

If I’d paid £300 for a bauble it would be brought out on a red velvet cushion with DH walking behind me playing the violin to announce it. Then all my children would take turns kow-towing to it like the children in the king and I do to their father.