A tacky, tinsel loving Christmas thread!

[TheBonkeyMollocks]

Come on!

I know your out there! I cannot be the only one!

Stuff the home made crap!
We don't need it to have a fab christmas!

This year my beloved plastic tree will becoming out for year 8. It will be covered in tinsel and a variety of random decorations chosen by ds and I over the last 4 years.

I can't wait!

I have a possible name change on stand by should this thread go unanswered or if I get flamed

see, we have a mix of homemade [recent and childhood] and tacky decorations. Our tree is so decked out it struggles to stay upright. DD was in heaven last year, she'd just turned one and loved pulling off all the baubles.

I have some lovely tacky ronald mcdonald decorations from when I was a kid in the 80's, when I started my home, my mum went through her big box of christmas tat and handed over my share of homemade or tat for my own tree.

All our neighbours go a little crazy with the lights, we were the only ones in the road without flashy crazy lights, so we bought some outdoor LED's in the sale as we have a huge old laurel tree in the front garden that can be twined with it.

I also bought a lot more plastic baubles, tinsel, and that strands of glitter stuff that my cat used to go berserk over. I have some homemade crafts planned so DD can start the next generation of stuff for my tree.

I did inherit my great aunts xmas decorations. She has a fab ceramic christmas tree with a bulb in it, it has lots of glass lights resembling baubles and it's beautiful and about a foot high.

Santa is part of the family. We bought him about 9 years ago (pre DC's ) Which probably explains why I am on the Christmas threads in December

Before we moved to the house we are in now we lived in an upstairs cottage flat. Santa would be positioned on the balcony overlooking the street waving to passers by. We are reliable informed he scared the bejeezus out of more than one drunken reveller on their way back from the local pub

Very of the big outdoor santas and lights!

I give in a ground floor flat and have no where to put such fabulous - ness! :(

I may have a hunt round for something to put in my windows!

ooooh yes, we have loads of lights and a little light up tree for outside - all around the front door and round the garage, and also in the tree in the garden. We even have huge baubles on the tree in the garden!

i have a few strands of tinsel that i was becoming ashamed of but might wheel them out again this year on the back of this thread

i buy new stuff every year and always forget what i've got when i come to unwrap it all again - love it!

6 trees, we ended up with one in our room because DH got a new conservatory one.
12-14 sets of lights in the house.

10 in the garden and 3 on the house and snowy out the front.

It was very funny the year it did snow heavily, snowy's blower wasn't strong enough to cope with the weight of snow.
Poor chap looked like he was melting at -12°C.

Feeling the need to go Christmas bauble shopping now...

Bonkey, I am very upset by your hatred of coloured lights. This has to be corrected. You have to embrace even the multicoloured ones with plastic flower heads around them that come free with every pound you spend at Poundland. (Or something like that.)

Can my FIL join in? He favours Santas that sing and shake their tush and drop their drawers to moon at us. He really as created a whole new level of tack.

I want outside lights this year.

I'm partial toi a mix of the tacky and the poncey!

I think this is the thread for me! I don't put tinsel in the tree, but it goes on everything else in the house! We have a varied coloured scheme of baubles and homemade baubles on the tree - it's a bit like a rainbow or so dd tells me!

I really, really want to decorate the garden this year. I would love a giant Santa for the garden but DH is having none of it!