What decorative objects annoy you? Let's have a MN rant thread (for a change)

[Bucketsofdynomite]

This week I am mostly hating decorative picture frames for tiny photos. Especially ones with teddybears on but that's not the point. Whether they're 6" across or marginally bigger than the photo itself, wallet-sized photos belong in wallets.

Those lacy things that people put on top of loo rolls. You know, the ones that look like a spanish dancer's skirts or something else equally trashy.

air fresheners of any sort but especially those in poncey 'decorative' containers displayed on side table/mantelpieces/top of toilet.

porcelin ornaments

Dream catchers

oh yeah, dream catchers!

I have a mug tree. I've looked askance at it many times and thought I ought to get rid of it (had it at university, and somehow never got rid of it afterwards), but somehow haven't managed to.

crappy toby jugs
ninja swords mounted on walls or on stands
crosstitch framed on the wall of lounge
african wooden heads/figurines
model/toy cars/aeroplanes
anything depicting ones breed of dog, like wall plates etc

those really shite life-sized dolls of toddlers hiding in a corner (does anyone know what I'm talking about?) - freaky and pointless...

a-ha... just googled them and apparently they're known as 'timeout dolls' in the US (WTF?) and 'shy kids' in the UK: www.shykids.co.uk/
bleurgh.

Oh yes those are awful.

little decorative china boxes
I've never seen a butterfly on the outside of a house before, what on earth are they made of?

All those things you can chuck but what do you do with:
The complete cardboard wildlife park containing all my favourite animals hand chopped out of cardboard.
The large brown paper bag stuffed with newspaper balls and decorated with beak, legs and feathers thus forming Mummy's owl.
The great big picture of Me on a Boat framed in used lolly sticks (brownies)
The 3d wall plaque of felt teddy holding fake flowers.
The milkshake bottle filled with gravel decorated with loose glitter containing 4 year old plastic daffs.
The WHOLE BRANCH OF A TREE rescued and decorated with paper roses....
Not to mention fake roman postcards, gluey shell boxes, jewel boxes containing pasta necklace, reconstruction of Our Garden in series of shoeboxes (to compliment reconstuction of Our House) etc etc etc
What do you do with it? Pictures I scrap book, cards I file, poems I keep proudly for ever but what do you do with all that other

(tatt)

Jeebus! I've just looked at those Shy Kids , I've never seen anything so scary in my life!!! The real little girl in the picture looks scared too. It's like something out of Dr Who, what kind of PSYCHO would have one of those in their home???!!!!

Take photos, scrapbook with any salvageable (sp) bits from the item, heave large sigh of relief as you chuck the rest in the bin

anyone said Trophy Wives yet?

Shy kids WTF???!!!!! I am truly scared by humanity now....

Seriously spooky! I would not be surprised and delighted to get one of those!

Shy kids??
Fucking weeeeeeird.

I can picture it now, you're watching Emmerdale and hear a little voice,
'Are you my mummy?'
You freeze, look to the corner where you beloved Shy Kid stands facing the wall, and slowly, it turns it's head towards you and IT HAS NO FACE!!!!! Then it attacks you with something sharp etc etc

GOOSEY, so agree with the beds thing. why, why, why. how many days of your life would you spend taking them on and off the bed?!

there's a sweet stall on the market that has a load of those shy kids standing in front of it

they are obviously meant to look as if they are peering through the window which would work... if there was actually a window

as it is they have their heads up against the canvas of his stall and they look as if they are all collectively suffocating

When we had our wedding photos done, despite having lovely tasteful candid style pictures in a beautiful album, the photographers gave us a free small print of DH & I in a hideous teddy bear frame, engraved with the dates of our marriage - I can;t quite bear to ditch the frame & DH wouldn't understand, eitehr, but it IS hideous.

Gawd. My graddad's house is filled with ornamental plates, china dolls and model cars.

Grandma's house has a cabinet full of those dolls in national dress from countries she has visited.

She also has some choice ornaments in the loo. One saying "The Wee House" and one is an ashtray in the shape of a bum saying "Rest your weary ash".

Oooh, ooh, forgot about Granddad's wife having all those knitted things in the loo like the spare soap "holder" in the shape of a swan with a pipecleaner neck and a crinoline dolly that fits over the spare toilet roll.

Twelve.
Things like that are so awful that they are actually quite cool now.
Very 60s humour.
Much better than shitty 'ethnic' ornaments from Next or somewhere.