What do you like about Christmas (that a lot of MN seems to think should be "banned"?)

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I love picky bits and picky tea.

I LOVE tinsel. Draped all over the place.

I think a Christmas tree without tinsel looks 'unfinished' and bland... I much prefer the old traditional style of decorating a Christmas tree, (well 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s,) to the 'modern' way of doing it. The modern way features pretty much just baubles, and maybe a few lights (and they're pretty much always white.)

Pic 1 is how I like to see a Christmas tree! Pic 2 is how many seem to look these days. (I'm not a fan of the way they often look now!) Give me lots of different decorations - bits of holly, red ribbons, snowflakes, little robins, stars, fairies, gingerbread men, coloured baubles, gold bells, silver bells, and all manner of tree decorations - as well as lashings of tinsel, and pickwick lights!

if you know etc threads with peoples fridge displays

I am convinced that retro Christmas tree decorations like tinsel will make a comeback

Im not a Wham fan but I adore the Wham-song list film, Last Christmas. I’ve seen it four times in the cinema and five times at home - including twice the last ten days. There’s just something about it

I saw one in Stratford upon Avon this year

I love round robins. Very sad not to get any this year.
I put substantial (small) presents in stockings.
I love going to church.
I love coloured lights. Mine are boring white.

DCs being blindfolded before receiving their really big present, and being led to it, or while it is brought in; or for other surprises, such as seeing the decorated tree.

This seems to be met with indifference on MN and in the real world, but some of my fondest Christmas memories are receiving a present in this way.

Yay Tinsel Gang!! Its beautiful and I love the dusty foily lofty smell it gets when its old. Its the best and I love it!

Christmas cards are the best I LOVE them. Possibly too much. I think recent years cards need more gold foil and glitter and thd colour red. I collect old 80s and 90s ones when I see them in charity shops. I've always loved the art work on them. I love getting them so much and also giving them. And buying them. And talking and thinking about them tbh.

Giving as many presents as I can afford (none of that "something you need, something you want" business).

Christmas films.

Putting the tree up mid November; taking it down New Year's Eve.

"Christmas Lights" by Coldplay. Banger.

Light trails.

Tacky tree ornaments (we have an air fryer on the tree this year).

The most outrageous lights possible (gone full 90s with multicoloured lights on the tree this year).

Fridge photos

Christmas cards.

Wrapping paper, tags and ribbons.
Making and receiving calls on my landline without making an appointment first. Champagne at breakfast time on Xmas morning.

Calling Christmas Xmas if I feel like it.

Taking the piss out of Round Robins.
Looking up the late Simon Hoggart's old newspaper columns where he took the piss out of Round Robins sent in by readers.

Fairytale of New York.

The Season's Upon Us by Dropkick Murphys - on Youtube, with all the bad behaviour in the video.

Presents - giving and receiving.
A real tree, up until Twelfth Night.
Snowballs (the drink).
Lowering my standards because no-one else is bothered if the house is not immaculate.

It’s the one time of year that I don’t stress about money, the one time of year that I buy whatever I like for my family. I don’t do a budget, it’s my one annual extravagance.