New decorations every year?

[mogs0]

I've read a few comments on christmas threads recently about getting new decorations each year.

Am I the only person that re-uses decorations every year? I don't do it for any reason other than it never occurred to me to change them ever every year .

I do add to the collection each year and our tree is a big mismatch of colour/size/texture - it is properly tacky and uncoordinated (a bit like me ).

It's possibly because my mum is still using the same decorations she's been putting up for decades.

oh no Liss, I can imagine how that conversation when. Would the new owners not let you have them?

its a HA house, so everything was thrown away before the new tenants moved in. I was NOT impressed.

the dress, Im not too upset about, Im never going to wear it again and only got it down to marvel at the tininess of my waist. I still have my tiara and necklace which were my something old and new and if we ever have a dd I would like to pass on.

but the decorations I was fuming about. some were 100y old, and the fairy was the only thing I got when nan died. I used to help her dress her tree at christmas and putting the fairy on top was my job.

how sad.

We buy a couple of new baubles every year. The dc's get to choose one each.

My loft / finances aren't big enough to buy a whole new set every year .

I have been frantically buying decorations to replace them, Ive got some nice bits but Im so upset. and I have told him that if i hear one peep from him about the cost etc I will silent-treatment him into next year.

I buy a few new ones ever year (sometimes after Christmas in the sales, then it's a nice surprise unwrapping them the next year as I've usually forgotten what I bought), but definitely don't replace them all!

We tend to add a few new things if we see anything in the sales after Christmas, but most of our decorations go back a long way. DH had some from his family already, and we've bought bits and pieces along the way, often in different places and when on holiday so they all have a story.

I suspect the only people who buy a completely new set every year may also be the people who get rid of last season's clothes, and completely gut and redecorate their home on a regular basis. I always assumed the magazine spreads suggesting this year's colour scheme were just an idea for selling advertising space until I saw some comments on here!

Another one who adds to existing collection every year. We have lived in 4 countries and I have decs I bought in each one. I keep to a rough colour scheme for main tree but have some other colourful ones for another tree. We are in a new house this year and back in uk after 16 years and I have gone mad this year already!!!

Can't wait to put them all up.

Oh - anyone any ideas where I can get an empty stable? Bought a lovely nativity set but would like something to put them all in.

In our house it is Christmas tradition that Christmas starts with buying the new Christmas Baubles. The girls are told a colour and they get to choose a new one each year. If its too tacky, then this year they are getting their own trees in their bedrooms and I will generously allow them to put the awful ones in there .

I too buy a couple of new decorations for the tree each year, but tend to stick to a red and gold theme which always looks nice and chrismassy. Going to buy an expensive bauble and a couple of cheap ones from Wilkinsons.

buda - make one a la blue peter. Some "sticky back plastic" in a wood design, a bit of straw knicked borrowed from a farmer, scissors, glue and a couple of wire coat hangers and hey presto

Saltire - you make it sound so easy!