How many Christmas trees

[Maisieme]

How many Christmas trees does your household have. Am I bonkers to have 3?

@justasking111

OH would divorce me if we had more than one. Which we have always had in the sitting room, he wants it moved into the conservatory this year which we never use in the winter which made me sad.

DIL has three one in a very large hall, one in the sitting room and a small one in the conservatory.

If the tree in the conservatory makes you sad, then don't do it! What about what you would like? There's more than him living there!

We used to only have one (real) one, in the hall (big room and very high ceiling so we can have a large one). But I missed seeing a tree whilst sitting in the living room so we have a little 4ft one there as well that lives in a pot outside the rest of the year. Then I saw a cute lit twig tree in John Lewis which was nice for the dining room. The kids got older and wanted trees in their rooms so they have those (artificial as I couldn't handle wrestling real dying trees down two floors in January!) and now we've built a new room which is now our biggest room so we'll probably get a real one there too this year. So 6 (but including fake ones).

1 for me. I would find it stressful trying to decide what decorations go on each tree as i have the same baubles and decs that i have accumulated over 30 odd years. It would be too much brain power for my liking. It takes me days of fiddling around shifting baubles around to get it perfect on one tree as i am quite fussy tree wise so anything more would tip me over the edge.

I buy one real one every year and have two others, neither of which really look like traditional Christmas trees.

One is about 2'6" high and made of wooden branches/twigs. I bought it when my 23 year was a baby and I didn't want to risk a real tree. It's very plain, stands on a side table and is always decorated only in gold, which looks lovely.

The other is a pre-lit one for outside which is really just bare twigs. It looks a bit boring during the day but lovely in the dark.

Large artificial over 10 foot one in living room, looks so real had it about 23 years now from John Lewis

7 foot artificial in dining room, another JL purchase about 15 years ago.

7 foot slim one in the hallway.

Always have a real one usually about 5/6 foot in the Kitchen.

The lastly a 5 foot artificial one in main bedroom.

So thats 5 but I do do a couple of large outside trees and the box trees at the front door have twinkly lights, I spend ages dressing the house, never the same each year. And no I dont spend £££ on decorations, had many for years and years and I use a lot of things dried from the garden, just cut hydrangea to dry out and will spray copper this year..........love doing it all!

3 downstairs - 1 large real one in the living room, a 7' artificial one in a spacious hall and 6' white one in the play room. Then the DCs have one each in their bedrooms, so 5 in total. Love decorating for Christmas

@flapjackfairy

1 for me. I would find it stressful trying to decide what decorations go on each tree as i have the same baubles and decs that i have accumulated over 30 odd years. It would be too much brain power for my liking. It takes me days of fiddling around shifting baubles around to get it perfect on one tree as i am quite fussy tree wise so anything more would tip me over the edge.

Ah you need A System. I have the decorations and lights for each tree stored separately in a large plastic storage box from Ikea . Each one is labelled and colour themed.

The baubles are in layers separated with bubble wrap. The lights are coiled neatly, tied with cable ties and each set is in a plastic bag on top ( as they go on the tree first ) .

So the family room tree is green, red and gold decorations with coloured lights.

There’s one that’s red, blue and turquoise with cool white lights on the half landing.

My other two trees are gold / copper and gold / silver, both with warm lights.

I just take each box to the relevant location and unpack It.

I hate having warm white and cool white lights in the Same room, let alone on the same tree.