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Christmas Decorations You Hate
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It's that time of year when we feel we have to fill our houses with tat for fear of being called miserable.
My ex used to refuse to have wreaths because they reminded him of funerals (which had never even occured to me until then). My current husband despises tinsel so we have very little of it. I abhor things hanging from the ceiling and have to go to all sorts of lengths to stop him hanging baubles and anything else he can find.
I also, never, ever know what to do with cards so that they don't look like nothing but a mess.
What decorations do you hate, put up with or refuse to have?
My ex used to refuse to have wreaths because they reminded him of funerals (which had never even occured to me until then). My current husband despises tinsel so we have very little of it. I abhor things hanging from the ceiling and have to go to all sorts of lengths to stop him hanging baubles and anything else he can find.
I also, never, ever know what to do with cards so that they don't look like nothing but a mess.
What decorations do you hate, put up with or refuse to have?
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Erm, ALL of them :cool:
http://www.tonnish.com/Autumn%20Foliage/68028A.jpg
Some are ok, but some look tacky I think
What about those inflatable Christmas decos people have outside and in the window too?
I always say I can't wait until the kids have gone, when I can take a ready decorated tree out of a box and say, "Done".
I used to feel like that but he's the youngest of 5, and once he don't believe anymore, that's the end of a 20-odd year era of our lives! So now I am milking xmas for all it's worth, for his sake, this year! Think I took it for granted that seeing it through their eyes kind of thing, and now I don't think we'll have another year when he still believes!
I see those tacky coloured trees in work all the time, I wish just once I could tell a customer what horrendous taste they have. A pink tree? Yuck!
Those look awful, theres a house down the road that has loads of them.
Oh and I'm not sure they're actually Christmas decorations, but in my house we used to have chains of plastic silver bells and red/silver beads on a wire. They were hideous.
Christmas decorations which are put up outside the house. Just too pretentious.
In the same way I don't like the automated figures like elfs and penguins in town shopping centre displays.
Passed one of them in someone's window last night - right in their living room it was. Would give me a migraine, even being in the same room as it.
There is a house and garden near us (like the aforementioned, a newly built house) which has the side wall and back garden entirely covered in lights.
One of my neighbours is a lovely bloke who is an electrician and he took a perfectly nice weeping willow in his front garden and entombed every branch of it in lights. He killed the tree, not surprisingly and he has to chop it down after last xmas. Now he's somehow put it back up, on a stand or summat, again entombed in white chaser lights. wtf is that about.