What Christmas decor do you hate?

[MistyGreenAndBlue]

Following on from a thread about interior design hates, I thought I'd do a festive version.
I'll start

I do not like:

Pop up trees

Blue lights - flashing or not

Inflatables

Rope light figures

Fibre optics

Projectors on houses.

What are yours?

Also real trees take up a lot more space than fake ones, they are wider in the middle.

That’s why they look nicer! Solid and substantial: nothing worse than a scraggy tree. Plus the post-Christmas real tree bonus: when you take it down and hoover up the needles it feels like you’ve gained miles of extra space for a fraction of the price of an extension. Then there’s the ritualistic joy of buying a tree and carrying it home – bonus points for a snowy day for full When Harry Met Sally montage feels – and the trip to the park to add it to the tree mountain there, rewarding oneself for the effort with a large iced bun. Fetching the dusty frosted plastic twigs from the loft just isn’t the same.

I still feel sad seeing so many trees put out with the rubbish after Christmas though.

We have a fake tree but we have only had 3 in the last 30 years.

Plus the post-Christmas real tree bonus: when you take it down and hoover up the needles it feels like you’ve gained miles of extra space for a fraction of the price of an extension.

😆

All of them every single fucking one.

Outdoor flashing lights.

Oooh, I hate scandi decor too. In general. Houses that look like jail. Ugh. You can barely notice Christmas spirit there.

I don't like tinsel, and inflatables. And Christmas jumpers 😬

I'm somewhat intrigued by this. The connection between 'tasteful' and scandi confuses me. As a Swede my experience of scandi Christmas decor is houses full of red tat, them scarey gonk things, anything resembling a gingerbread man, anything in a santa hat. We change all our curtains, cushions, and other soft furnishings for utterly tasteless Christmas themed ones, and more lights than Blackpool.

Elf on the shelf!

Creepy, little, workshy fucker running riot round houses when he should be in the North Pole helping Santa!!

Fake Xmas trees, especially the white ones. I always have a real Xmas tree.

Plastic tat and cheap baubles. I like glass ones, preferably hand blown ones. I buy 1 or 2 new ones each year now I have a stunning set.

Plastic table clothes. They are disgusting. I like a nice linen table cloth.

The damn tinsel that youngest DS (ND) winds along the curtain pole EVERY DAMN YEAR. Yes dear, it looks nice.. but I can't close the bloody curtains..

(Sorry for Caps, realising just HOW much it annoys me..) ;-)

I still feel sad seeing so many trees put out with the rubbish after Christmas though.

Me too* *@KimberleyClark I know they are grown specifically but still sad to see living trees dumped out randomly or destined for the chipper. (Yes, I am Phoebe from that episode!).

Soil Association Forestry recommends real Christmas trees rather than fake, as they’re a renewable resource that don’t involve carbon-intensive production or pollution (provided you opt for a locally sourced one and consider transportation), but that if you have a fake one, hold on to it for at least 10 years but ideally forever (however tatty it becomes).

Assuming proper disposal of real trees, carbon footprints are: 2m tree without roots: CO2 16kg. 2m tree with roots: 3.5kg. Fake tree: 40kg.

Maybe it's the same tendency, as people outside of France tend to think: French women = beautiful and well maintained?

Blue lights and gonks.

Blue lights
Bright white lights
Black or white Christmas trees
Colour co-ordinated wrapping paper
Door bows
Different theme every year

I just did some extensive research (googled). The first Christmas at IKEA picture on the UK iKEA website is a tasteful, minimally decorated Christmas tree. The first picture on the Swedish IKEA website is one of those sodding gonks.

The fucking elf on the fucking shelf.

Fuck off elf.

Scarey life size santas climbing up the house/roof eeuuwww

I hate blue lights and tinsel as they set off my light affected migraine. Any thing else is fine

I once had a cat that would drag piles of lametta off the tree and make a sort of nest out of it in some obscure corner. To make matters worse she had an unfortunate habit of eating it.

When the hideous stuff came out the other end, can you imagine? Ever since then I've had a total aversion to any tinselly stuff.

I agree with all the people who hate blue lights-they give me a headache!

I am v partial to Scandi like Christmas decs, twigs included!

I only like lights in soft warm white/cream lights. I hate the new white light yet you get now that is bright and cold. Reminds me of prison lights. Keep expecting to see a guard with his Alsatian lurking nearby. Is that what people are meaning by blue lights, or just as written proper blue lights?

I also don’t like multi coloured lights. I like Christmas trees in reds, greens and golds as a base but I enjoy Christmas trees that are decorated with baubles collected over the years whatever their colour.

Anything too matchy matchy or too perfect.

At the other end of the spectrum, blue lights, flashing lights, anything very “in your face”

So I kind of prefer a mid way between the two!