Is decorating with holly considered 'common' then?

[bytheMoonlight]

Just wondered?

I thought it was traditional.

Seems I could be wrong?

What do you think?

Not at all.

We decorate the house with holly, and we are posh.

quite, George, same here

we trog out to the woods and steal cut boughs

What in God's name is common about holly?

What are we supposed to use? It is common because you can get it for nowt so no-one is making a profit from it?

I'm so angry tonight. Calm, calm, calm.

And tinsel is fine too. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Common, really? Better tell my properly posh mother in law.

Plastic holly with tons of red-berry-beads is common. Especially if it has glitter in. And lights. I appear to own some of this but I can't for the life of me think where it came from.

Real holly isn't common - it's lovely.

Who has made you think this??

depends what you are decorating
house, no
hohoho vajazzle, probably

Don't tell me this.

I do a lovely swag over my ingelnook, ergo posh!

Another MN'ers mother was told it was common ... hang on, let me link to here.

Anyway good to know as I am planning on decorating with some this year.

Can I ask what you all do with it as I want to steal ideas use it for inspiration

Sure they didn't mean from the common?

No. It is most definitely not common to decorate with real holly.

I make wreaths with it for my front door, I mix it with other winter foliage and wire it to a red tinsel coat hanger à la Blue Peter.

I am very, very posh, so it can't be common

oh you englishe never cease to amze me with your constant addtions to the 'list'. Who gives a flying fiddlers? Its the ultimate traditional festive foilage. Its in season, its free, get your clippers out.

Yup. Wreath (wear gloves ). Mantelpiece. In bunches, tied with Christmassy ribbon and hung.

the holly and the iveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Can't stop sniggering about post regarding using holly to vajazzle and then next post covering her ingelnook in holly. Ouch.

Oh it's been a long day, cut me some slack!

I cut a lot from the woods on Sunday, and every man and his wife was out doing the same - in Switzerland - probably the world's poshest country!

My Holly bush doesn't have many berries so I decorate it with red fairy lights and leave it in the gardern.

I put fairy lights in mine too, Jajas.

It's vair not common

I saw lots in the woods on Sunday ... but thought it would be too early too cout, am I wrong?

Of course it's not common. I will be decorating the twiggy shit next to my leather sofas with it in a rather posh fashion

Who cares? If you can't get a bit common and tacky at christmas, when can you?

Last year I bought some really good fake holly in the sale.
This year I bought some fab red berry lights that I'm going to put on it.

My real holly days are over. Until I get bored with my fake stuff.

Jajas I like the date. It gives me structure and confidence. Thank you