Tell Homebase about your favourite Christmas essentials for a chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

[RebeccaEMumsnet]

With Christmas around the corner, Homebase wants to know all about your festive favourites and the seasonal must-haves you just can’t live without.

Would Christmas without a tree not be Christmas at all? Have your baubles got to be a certain colour to fit in with the rest of the décor? And is there only one style of lighting you could ever have in your home?

Whatever’s essential to you this Christmas, visit homebase.co.uk and post a link below to the products you just can’t live without - and tell us why.

So for a chance to win a £300 Homebase voucher, simply take the survey and add a comment below.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

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It has to be a lovely real Christmas tree for me.

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/christmas-shop/real-christmas-trees

Candles and Baileys!

Outdoor Christmas Lights - which makes the front garden very festive very year!
www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/set-of-4-spiral-tree-path-finders-370978

Candles...LOTS of them! I have them lit every evening. I've started investing in soy ones though, for the sake of health.

Lovely lights www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/100-warm-white-led-timer-lights-371246

A Christmas apron ready for the mammoth Christmas cooking!

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/christmas-shop/christmas-tablewares

White lights outside and in, tree decorated by grandchildren, and a noisy house full of family

The essential has to be batteries and cleaning products for all those spills that always happen with a house full of people

Christmas decorations, and a turkey with all the trimmings.
And a tub of sweets!

Bread sauce with my turkey!

We have these in our living room in a pretty mosaic style metallic vase, it looks so pretty and instantly makes the room so much cosier when they are turned on.

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/christmas-shop/real-christmas-trees

Has to be real christmas trees for me, nothing beats the smell of a real tree!

wine, fizz and brandy plus christmas pudding and brandy butter et al

Maybe a not very exciting answer, but I just love lots of little white fairy lights draped around (not just on the tree).

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/100-warm-white-led-timer-lights-371246

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/bright-white-led-christmas-lights-371088

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/80-bright-white-led-green-wire-christmas-lights-371091

I couldn't give up anything. Food, drink, chocolates, sweets, cheese. Bring it all on!

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/supacell-digital-aa-batteries---4-pack-361818

We need a house full of batteries for all the noisy toys to be tested immediately!!

the things i couldnt live without is the christmas lights! i used to go crazy a few years back but since i married my (scrooge) husband he's put a limit on the amount i can put up
I really love the light up penguin family here www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/light-up-penguin-family-370949 but cant really justify paying that amount just before christmas

Tinsel. I could never give up tinsel. Its cheap and can look tacky but I love it!!

Has to be pigs in blankets - the edible kind!

My Christmas morning essentials -The smell of a real tree www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/cut-needlelast-fraser-fir-christmas-tree-7-8ft-437067, a roaring fire www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/kiln-dried-logs-%2810kg%29-609923 and a glass of chilled champagne www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/pink-lustre-champagne-glass-370799

Hii, thanks for the opportunity!

• Without these plastic storage boxes my house would miss order and organization. Love only the version with secured lid.

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/stackabox-plastic-storage-crate---clear---51l-704453

• I love this lamp, as it is simple, cheap and sophisticated

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/patterned-ceramic-table-lamp---oatmeal-275868

www.homebase.co.uk/en/static/artificial-christmas-trees/7ft-pre-lit-chameleon-artificial-christmas-tree-369806

Has to be a Christmas tree for me.It would not be the same without one.

Music!

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/red-and-white-santa-cookie-jar-372254

Festive cookie jars and bowls/mugs etc

www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/10-paper-star-string-lights-370886

Starry lights - can't have too many stars or lights at Christmas!