Christmas decorations

[Pumpkittenspice]

Do you buy new decorations every few years, or do you add to your collection over time?

We reuse our decorations each year, but we buy one “special” bauble every year.

I prefer a traditional Christmas theme, personally.

What a wonderful idea, I would love to do this but DGC is a nightmare and I wouldn't trust her with glass baubles. All my non-breakable go on the tree in the lounge as we have had trees fall down and also we have cats and of course DGC. One day I will be able to put my breakables on the tree again, some are very old and cherished and I would be upset if they got broken

Edited to hopefully make some sense!

We’ve built up our tree dec collection over 17+ years - we use all our tree decs every year and add to them every year. The dcs also pick a few each.

I’m very proud of our collection and I could probably tell you where every decoration is from, especially the ones from Christmas markets and other special places.

We never do a colour theme. It’s a free for all, a very full to the brim tree (probably close to 300 decs🫣🫢) I love the traditional & nostalgic style.

I have a huge collection and I seem to add to it every year. I do two trees. One is more tasteful and colour co-ordinated- usually white and gold and silver but sometimes I switch that up and use red and gold and silver. The other tree is memories tree. Decorations I bought the first year I moved in with now DH in London in 1988 and decorations we got living overseas or going on holiday. I tended to stick with traditional red, green and gold for all of those so it’s still a bit colour co-ordinated.

I also have a selection of some American Shiny-Brite ones and some rainbow coloured ones from M&S and have done a more colourful tree a few times but i think that needs some lovely old fashioned coloured lights and I don’t have any as yet.

I also put a lot of Christmas stuff around the house. Every year I say I’ll keep it simple and every year I don’t!