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[RebeccaEMumsnet]

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,

MNHQ

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We tend to decorate the evening after buying our tree. We start with lights, larger baubles at the bottom & they get smaller as you get to the top of the tree. We have a grey glitter star topper.

Our colour scheme is white, copper & grey but we have some penguin & polar bear additions & this year is our baby's first Christmas so we have a Peter Pan bauble & a footprint salt dough decoration.

Our DS 'helped' put the Peter Pan bauble one as we chose it as the 'special' one for this year. We're planning to get a new special bauble each year 😊

This year we let ds3 (10) decorate it as he wished. We have ornaments that we have had for many years and things the children have made themselves. He has done a great job.

We watch Die Hard while we decorate our tree. We'll have to change that as the baby gets older!

Wine in hand, boxes of sentimental decorations, and just sit back and watch the madness!! Have a main colour theme of gold baubles and clear crystals that tie it all together

We usually get the Xmas tree out first weekend in December. After sorting through the branches the kids argue over who has A, B up to J while I erect the tree.
I get fed up and leave to put dinner on while hubby and DD put on the lights. When I come back I always move them!
Then it's a free for all picking favourite baubles and decs, collected over 15 years from various places including school made and wooden themed.
Someone puts the star on the top - usually after the 'but you did it last year!' Moaning
Chocolates are then added and candy canes for lactose intolerant son.
I always liked my tree symmetrical but it has a more family feel to it these days!

I put our tree together on the first Sunday in December add the lights and tinsel then let the kids loose!

Decorations are a complete mix of craft bought, kid made and supermarket finds

The exception is the Angel at the top, she is not expensive, a little plastic doll that graced my parents tree and whose dress my mum made years ago - I love her and will never replace her

We tend to put ours up at the beginning of December. Mine consists of bare branches and we decorate them with a real mixture, most of the baubles are sentimental, some from my grandparents tree. We also gave newer decorations, I like random things, birds, owls, gingerbread people, hearts, trains, cars even little Brussels sprouts. I love recieving decorations as gifts, I also buy them as gifts. I like homemade decorations especially from children. My tree doesn't have a pointy top but I do have a sentimental angel and she goes somewhere up high.

My tree when I'm at home is normally German-like with decorations bought from when we lived in Germany with the army. Lots of little wooden apples, stars, gingerbread men, gingham hearts etc.

However, for the past four years, we've been going to Center Parcs for Christmas and we order a tree to be delivered to the villa.....and it includes 100 twinkling fairy lights and a big box of red, green and gold baubles. It looks lovely all lit up and sparkly when we arrive back from the swimming dome on Christmas Day.

I usually end up doing it on my own with occasional input from my son's but with Xmas CD on. We have a mixed box of sentimentally significant decorations some if which were hand made or gifts from friend and family. I did buy an angel a couple of years ago for the top despite protestations from all the males in my household!

We let the DC's at it, which results in an overabbundance of very low decorations. I then spend the rest of the time running up to Christmas imperceptibly moving them one by one overnight, until by Christmas day it looks almost as I'd have intended it to look.

i have been collecting my decorations for years, silver and purple colour scheme, do it myself and then admire it all xmas

I have "Christmas Tree OCD" and when the children have decorated the tree and gone to bed....i re-arrange it all (the shame I know...just cant help myself)

I always liked a classic Christmas tree, then my friends realised how classic. They now buy me the most tacky ghastly ornaments ever for it each year. I have a pink disco ball, a neon pink pig with electro blue glitter spots, and lime green one with a reindeer painted on it, the list goes on. It's now an eclectic tree, and I love it even more. I think about them and giggle as I dress the tree each year.

We left the DCs to do it this year, which means there are no decorations above 4ft on a 6ft tree but it still looks nice.

Decided this year to buy a real tree. Children have helped decorate it in our usual reds and golds. Plus all the handmade ones they have done. Love the fact that it's got a bit of everything!

The last coupe of years we have gone and picked a real tree from a Christmas tree nursery , the kids love picking one and driving back with it tied on the roof of the car.
Then it is normally Elf or Nativity on in the background whilst we all decorate it -I do keep to a colour scheme but the decorations are ones collected over the years, including ones the children have made and special ones we have picked up along the way. The tree is definitely one of my favourite parts of Christmas -nice family day together and something everyone enjoys.

our tree is almost a story of the best times of our lives - we buy a new decoration very time we go somewhere so whenever we decorate it and see the decs they bring back all the good memories :) Because we have cats and a dog we dont have any tinsel on our tree so use chains of beads instead and we lways have multicoloured lights too because I like them :)

If we use our fake tree, I pull out all the branches so it's even and dh does the lights.

I only have round baubles as decorations, no colour scheme. I have lots of beautiful individual glass ones but they have been put away for a few years whilst dd is small and until this next baby will not be a threat.

So a set of coloured lights, set of warm white lights and as many plastic baubles my three year old can put on!

It's looking a little lopsided now though as every time one falls off she puts it back toddler height and on one side only so I have a few bare branches that need sorting!

Before kids... It was nicely evenly decorated with silver and gold decorations.

Now... far more of a random selection of decorations (lots made at nursery!) which our 3 year old likes to rearrange regularly!

Oh and a bow on top!

I've got a huge collection of beautiful glass ornaments, and I like to get a real tree, wrap on tons of white fairy lights and then load it up with my glass ornaments.

However, a few years ago we got a kittwn. So I bought loads of unbreakable mini disco balls and a rotating disco light for the top of the tree, and some multicoloured led lights. And that pretty much survives the cat, who STILL won't grow up and leave the tree alone.

And last year we had a baby. Who is now a very active toddler. So this year my "tree" is a large piece of fabric with a picture of a Christmas tree on it!

Our Christmas tree is a big old mess because I let the kids take the reigns on decorating it. But I wouldn't have it any other way. My 7yo is very proud of his handiwork. This year as I have a an inquisitive toddler roaming around, only the top half of the tree is decorated so that she can't pop any of it in her mouth!! (Though she has managed to sneak a few decorations into her toy box).

DH puts the tree up whilst DS jumps around excitedly and I hide all the breakable baubles. We put the Christmas music on and light the fire while DH randomly adds decorations, mainly home made, then he gets bored wanders off and leaves me to finish it! I don't mind as I love doing the tree but I do sadly look at my boxes of beautiful glass baubles every year hoping for the day when I can get them back out without DH smashing them all.

This year was the first time my girls helped decorate the tree. We bought a new 7ft tree last year. I "build" the tree the day before and put the 200 multicolored lights on. Then anything goes on wherever they want them to go.

We don't have a theme or style. Every year my mum brings a new decoration from her holidays aboard and I find nice ones in the sales. We do have some decorations that my mum gave us (older me) and they are hidden under the tree

I let the kids and husband loose on it. Though the bottom of the tree is empty as baby likes standing up and trying to pull things off!

Taste has no place on our tree. It's a mixture of really old ornaments from our parents and grandparents, things that we've bought over the years, weirdly shaped papier mache/flour and water 'ceramics' covered in 3 tons of glitter from our son and a couple of beautiful ornaments made by my lovely creative friend.

Oh, and some red berry lights that we actually got from Homebase last year to replace the ones that cost about 50p years ago and have been threatening to set fire to the house each year