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?

Gonks. Who made them a thing? I don't recall ever seeing them until about 3 years ago and now they're everywhere. Hideous things.

See also polar bears
I like polar bears, don't get me wrong, but they aren't Christmassy

Traditionel Swedish jultomte are creepier than your British gonks. Yours at least have limbs.

Fucking elf on the fucking shelf. I mute a few of my friends til January when they start that shite.

Tinsel. I hate the smell and the feel of it.

Those gonk things. I don't get them. Where have they come from?

shudders

Don't start me on the fucking angels.

Giant candy canes/ lollipops ( anything 'candy cane lane')

Any lights apart from warm white

Nutcrackers

Gonks

Inflatables

Life size Santa

Anything too B+M

Shitloads of tinsel and faux foliage garlands wrapped around the handrail on stairs in fairly ordinarily proportioned houses. If you live in a grand mansion and can gather armfuls of holly and ivy to deck your literal halls, great. Cluttering up your skinny terrace hallway with plastic tat just looks awful.

Anything tasteful and “Cotswoldsy”. But equally anything pointless such as the Christmas pudding ornament my MIL gave me last year: why?! Not a bauble; not something to hang on a tree; just a random thing. Christmas decorations to me are: greenery if your house can handle it (mine can’t), Christmas tree decorations, candles, and cards you’ve been sent.

Those trees that only celebs have that are packed with baubles, giant bows & frosted tips. 🤮

Covering your entire house and garden in an assortment of flashing lights for that 'Gatwick at night' effect. How will they afford it this year? It will be a real mark of wealth

Fuck me! Those are terrifying

My mother used to put swathes of lametta on the tree. Never see the stuff now. Same for blue tinsel. I feel a deep nostalgia for how crap everything looked in the 80s and 90s when I see the 'prepped for the gram' shots.

Jeez - seems a bit of a mean spirited thread 😳

Tis meant to be a season of goodwill after all 🙄

Whatever makes people and their families happy is fine by me 🤷‍♀️

I agree with @StuntPineapples (happy memories of that classic thread, btw, thank you).

If your tree isn’t looking like it’s 1983 you’re doing it wrong.

I don’t like cold white lights, LED lights (too harsh, what you need is soft, coloured filament bulbs), bows on front doors or inflatables.

When we lived in SE London a local house used to put their Christmas inflatables up AT HALLOWE’EN. Then, to add insult to injury, they’d only reinflate them once a week, and they dangled out of the upstairs window, so once they had deflated by day two, it just looked like the neighbours had hung Father Christmas.

Nutcrackers and gonks give me the creeps.

Anything else I love.

Can't wait to get everything up last weekend of this month.

Those creepy wee elf on the shelf fuckers

Tinsel. As others, loved it in the 80s, but it can well and truely stay there.

Going to go against the grain and say I love the blue lights we put on one tree, makes the dining room have a chilled ambience.

Tinsel
Glittery flowers as tree decorations
Feather boas on trees
All black tree decor
Black or white trees
Those harsh white lights (cold white)
Door bows

What I often wonder is if the elf comes with a note that says the parents HAVE to share a picture of him and his japes on Facebook every bloody day. If you want to do it then fine, but why do I need to see what he's been upto every time I log into Facebook?!

I'm dying 😂

Cold blue lights. Everything matching together in blues and slivers or silvers and pinks. I wouldn't have that total matching look in my home but don't dislike it when it is gold and red. The cold, frosty colours seem to miss the whole cosy, welcoming vibe of Christmas decorations!

Those giant bows on front doors

Now see, I love me some pretty angels 👼

Cutesy, Disney, Elf etc. Give me proper Victorian any day.

All of it, apart from natural greenery. I don't understand why people want to fill their houses with piles of tat.