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It’s officially December, which means that most can’t deny that it’s time to start thinking about putting up your Christmas decorations!
To celebrate their Christmas range, Homebase want to know how you decorate your Christmas tree.

So, do you have a family ritual for decorating the tree? Do you put on some festive music and get all the DC to help, or are you quite particular about what goes where? Does each year mean a new theme for your decorations, or do you like to mix old and new? Do you love homemade decorations, or do you prefer a more polished look? And finally, the ultimate question, is it a star or an angel on top?

However you decorate your tree, post a comment below to be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 Homebase voucher.

Thanks and good luck,

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Im really fussy over my tree! All baubles must be colour coordinated and strategically placed. We also have twinkling lights and a star at the top. I let my kids decorate it but I do move the baubles around after it .

We all decorate the tree and there is no set pattern. I have a mix of decorations that the children have made and ones that my friend in Canada has sent so they all go on wherever the boys want them. It can look a biit random but I like it that way!

I have a mix of ornaments, some homemade, some shop bought.

We. It a big real tree, myself and oldest ds decorate it with lights, tinsel and decorations. Then when he goes to bed I reorganise them to look nice a bit OCD! He's 8 this year and noticed so I'll maybe have to leave it next year...maybe

We try and do it the first weekend in December. We get the festive music on, DH builds the tree (artificial) and I decorate it. Ds used to help but now he's a bit older he's not as interested.

I love traditional red and gold and stick with this every year with a star at the top of the tree.

We do it the second weekend in December.
We get from our local village cheap as chips tree farm. An old boy with a chainsaw chops down whichever one you choose.
Lights on first then children throw everything on. I am a magpie but DH is now..... We compromise by putting on some gold angel hair stuff but no tinsel. Rarely buy new stuff but do replace stuff as it gets broken.

I put a Christmas mix on Youtube, DH gets the artificial tree out from under DS's bed. This year the tree is mostly silver/white, which is a bit more coordinated than previous years, it used to be more of a mish mash but I had to get rid of a load of decorations as we had too many. There are some home made ones though - some lovely salt dough bits that the dc's made in nursery and a pom pom snowman which we made together. We have a star on top of our tree.

We do ours mid December.
I let the kids do it and then I rearrange it completely when they've gone to bed. That's what's happened for the past few years.
I have some very precious and old decorations, including a really ancient and retro looking angel. She's older than I am.

Christmas decorations are a really important thing for my family as they evoke so many happy memories. My children are grown up now but every year I buy them each a beautiful glass bauble for the tree. We always buy a real christmas tree and it only goes up on about 18th of December because I am a teacher and then I know I will be on holiday. The tree goes in conservatory as cooler out there. The lights go on first as must be distributed evenly. We put on two sets. Then I have three hand blown glass angels that go near to the top. Then my eldest son goes up ladder to start placing decoration near the top of tree and we all pass the decorations up to him, then my daughter has a turn doing the middle section, then my youngest son puts the bells and things that are less likely to break on bottom third. Even though they are all grown up now they still stick to their childhood roles. I put on the extra special decorations: the ones the children made as small children, an egg box bell covered in tin foil, a lollipop stick reindeer and a fir cone painted in gold with bits of cotton wool on and an antique bauble that my Mum gave me as a child. The tinsel goes on last. Then I make hot chocolate and we all stand back and admire our tree. I now buy a glass bauble for my new baby grandchild and can't wait until he makes me a decoration at nursery for our tree.

we love doing the tree and make sure all the kids are involved, we tend to stick to the basic colours of red, gold and green but this year we have added a few new things like the nutcrackers and a santa, the kids would love to add an item each year so it could get fun! we had to turn down spiderman and batman this year

Our tree has lots of different ornaments on that we have collected over the years, each individually chosen on a day out, or they have been made by one of us. I love that each one means something and is unique. We have lots of lights and tinsel too, so it is really colourful and topped with a silver star. We love it and it is very personal to us. It's really part of the magic of Christmas.

Whenever we are on a Christmassy trip or similar we tend to pick out a decoration, others are gifts or home made... There are four children and they just pile in and decorate the tree as they wish...there is a little zone at the bottom that the toddler did (mainly all on one branch); a lopsided zone in the middle that the two boys did (all the garish decorations) and a very neat and prettily decorated section at the top (9 year old girl who likes order)

I like that the whole tree tells so many stories

tends to be first free weekend in december is tree decorating time. And the first time the mulled wine and christmas music comes out. I let the kids actually decorate the tree and i do manage to resist all temptation to rearrange what they have done when i find 5 baubles bunched together on one branch. We have a mix of colour coordinated red and gold decorations PLUS years of pre-school / school decorations which we are never going to throw away it seems. One rule - NO TINSEL ON THE TREE - other than that, anything goes really.

Our Christmas tree is a random mixture of non-matching ornaments, a lot of which have a story behind them. My mum still hangs up the decorations I made when I was 6!

Smallish tree =thin tinsel works much better.
Lots of origami and paper decorations, as well as random vintage baubles from 2nd hand shop etc. Buy a few baubles in the January sales for next year.... In face we also bought a new Xmas tree from a well known DIY shope mentioned in the thread title in the January sale last year, so looking forward to getting it out and putting it up.... Hoping 1 yr old won't pull it down.

We like a real tree and tend to buy one or two new ornaments to decorate it but it's usually a mix of old sentimental stuff that's been passed down and our new bits. I don't have any tinsel on the tree, just covering the bucket it sits in. I love a Christmas tree, it's one of my favourite things about Christmas.

We have 2. One for me and the kids which is roughly red and gold, plus snowmen, santas, penguins and handmade stuff added year on year. Then one for me and dh- purple, bronze and gold. No one seems to have noticed I get to decorate both....

My DS is almost 3 so this is the first year he helped dress the tree. We put Xmas music on, got all in a Christmassy mood. Didn't really go to plan though. I think I'm just too anal even though I thought I was being super relaxed! He put the wrong decs in the wrong places, getting them out in the wrong order, dropping decorations, bending the big star for the top. I've learnt my lesson. Next year I just need to chill out a little! Ha ha!

Sometimes we decorate the tree together, and sometimes it's mainly me.

We usually have a real tree, and we use white fairy lights (the warm ones, not the harsh modern ones), silver tinsel, and a collection of baubles that we have bought over the years. I love seeing old favourites come out each year.

We have a raffia angel from my mum (it's from Oxfam) that always goes on the top of the tree.

We just go for it! No special theme or colour scheme and it looks marvellous in its twinkling, tinselly gaudiness! An artificial tree and battered old baubles that we've had for years - love it.

It's just us two adults living here, so the rule is DP does the lights, I do the baubles. Then once it's finished, the dog and cat make it their mission to knock all the baubles off. I think I drew the short straw this year as he brought home the largest tree I've ever seen! It took two days to finish decorating.

We also don't have anything on the top, as it's too tall! But I would normally pick a star.

It's a family job - dh and I work to get it standing upright (it's a real tree) then I put the lights on. We then get it standing up right again before dd puts the ornaments on - a right mishmash of baubles and homemade things and ornaments from different places we've been. Then dh and I set it upright again.
This morning I'll water it and straighten it upright again.

We go to the local garden centre and have a hot chicolate while my DH lugs the Christmas tree to the car. We then go home and all do the tree together with Christmas songs blasting. We have a eclectic mix of ornaments with lots of memories. The dc pull what seems like all the crackers and then we sit down and watch a Christmas movie together. Perfect.

We don't! We have a little (2 foot?) fibre optic tree that stands on the table. We've had it for years, and wouldn't change it - will be gutted when it eventually wears out. We put it up on the last weekend before Xmas, and add a few more presents every day.

This year the 3 yo will take charge so all decorations will be her height. It will be a haphazard tree- no sense of co-ordination or sophistication!