Unsurprisingly Issy mine are penguins - best time of year for me 

aww penguins - I have lots of penguins - big soft ones..

Love tinsel but I don't like the smell of it

Aww no

That's the best bit... it is the smell of Xmas

Since you bagsyed tinsel, I shall have to settle for Christmas wreaths specially on doors!

Wreaths are cool

baubles


Each year I buy a couple of baubles (if i see any really nice ones) and hang them. I always forget about some of them and get surprised when i see them. I love my baubles.

You can never have too many baubles..

Actually, that's quite true Isadora - it's a smell like no other


It doesn't prevent me putting it up though - but it has to be silver

to lametta, or not to lametta... this is the question?

I loved tinsel when i was growing up.

I still have to have my tree decorated now

Lights. Loads and loads of lights.

I've even bought some solar lights for outside this year - hubby is mortified

it is a pain in the wotsit to get off the tree after Xmas

The burgler  

And so you should

LOL Rexi - have loads and loads. Xmas lights are the best

The cream and gold chains I have  I really rather love them, cos I like chains, but that's just me

Where do you put them Pam?

ON the celing in a 'corner to corner' shape  I have to place them properly though cos the ceiling isn't square but once they're up they look really rather nice  I also have cream and gold danglies

Errrrm, that wasn't meant to come out like that Miss S  but you know what I mean

Mine are two toilet roll Father Christmas and some egg box bells on a piece of wool, that my kids... now in their late 30s.... made at playschool

I have a little bone china Father Christmas ......he's about four inches high and he opens up (his top half flips up) so you can put trinkets inside. I bought him on a Christmas trip to Harrods four years ago. I lubbs him with all my Christmas heart.

I may go all the way this Christmas  and put all my deccys and the tree up. In the near past years I just have lost the spirit and couldn't be arsed due to one thing and another, but I'm tryna think positive this year

Yer a loose woman

I've got some solar lights for the porch/leaveless wysteria this year. I love white lights or the ones with a hint of blue. I like the beads/chains (in silver) and silver baubles in favour of tinsel. I bought an 8ft black xmas tree a few years back which I lurrrve, but the thought of dragging it out of the loft and putting it together is getting right on my lils already. (Even though someone else will be doing most of the work)

Oh and I absolutely and totally ABHOR multi-coloured Christmas lights

Me too Karma - they must be clear white lights only

I used to live across the road from a family who really, really embraced Christmas The decorations would go up in November and I swear the woman was pissed when she put them up. Mish mash is not even close. Whatever available space there was on the front of the house and in the front garden was taken. She had 3 'Santa stops here' signs (which, if I was Father Christmas, would have had the hump about cos it's like she thinks he cant read or summat), various other poundland xmassy stuff and multi-coloured lights EVERYWHERE. It was truly vile

PMSL Karma! she must've been to Tat R Us eh? 

Karma that would have made my eyes burn out of my head

Each to their own and all that but jeez you wonder sometimes about people's tastes.
And i tell you something else that gets my goat - people that can't hang things up symmetrically in their windows

the big box that I get to pack them all away again in!    

 Hi Scrooge

The tackiest outside xmas decorations I have ever seen was a full size nativity scene done in glorious technicolour and playing Xmas carols.....

In a front garden on a housing estate

Oh, I dunno Baz, I think Ditty has something there .   A chance to get back to some sort of normality

Hi Baz

 

Ours is Mary Fairy who sits on the top of our tree and has done for thirty two years ...............I'd love to say she was a beuatiful antique - a vision of porcelain and lace but ........she's silver shiny paper, plastic and tinsel. I would love to have a lovely angel or fantastic star atop of my tree but I really haven't the heart to replace her. She was bought in Woolworths for about 49p ...................the only true family heirloom we've got.

LOL.... I'm not sure I know what normality is any more Onetoo