Nope, not an ornament in sight!  There's enough crap in my house with 2 wee boys and their abundance of toys so there's no room for anything else!  The only things on the mantle/dressers/tables are framed pics.....and toys and football cards 

I have to admit that I do have some ornaments.... mostly stuff friends and family have bought...... but I do have a collection of plates on one wall in the dining room......

My son started collecting owl ornaments when he was about 7. He has about 30. Most of them from me. Where are they, you might ask. In my house. He joined the army and I'm the keeper of wicker, cristal, wooden, etc, etc. owls.

Candles mostly, this house looks like Lourdes!  

I have my much loved collections of Poole pottery and Art Deco glass...I will not tolerate naff ornaments though!! If it's not Poole or Art Deco glas, it ain't coming in!!

I also have  about half a dozen or so vintage tea sets which are awaiting the completion of a new display unit in the kitchen....they are sooooo pretty...and I do use them when it's girls only tea time....useful and decorative!!

Ells, your post is exactly why I didn't start with ornaments.  The kids, enough crap to clean up without cleaning extra.

Just stuff that have been given to me as presents by family - mostly the MIL

I don't really like ornaments

Baz.. I think you are my mother, she collects plates too.  Why?  Do you take them off the wall and clean them?  

(I hope that doesn't come across as having a go, it's not)

ahhh candles are different...mainly because you can burn them in to ....well ..... nothing 

I do love candles.  But I only put them out when I want to burn them.

Tea sets, my mother has some amazing ones, but as gorgeous as they are, all I see is 'extra dusting'.

I'm not keen and have very few, I'm not keen on photographs either  

I like photographs, but not loads of frames.  I bought a fab multi frame last year, holds 24 pics all in one frame.

I'd rather dust them than do my ironing  

And often do

Me mate loves Ladro - costs her a bomb

I hate it - pointless rubbbish

I've got a few but not that many really.  Mostly they have been gifts .

My sister, on the other hand, makes up for my lack.  She collects Lladros (sp?) and has a housefull which she can get really snooty about.  I almost died laughing the other night when I was told that the items responsible for the nose in the air snootiness are made by 'apprentices' and are not held in high regard by those who are 'in the know'.

Shall I tell her?

No, I dont have a single ornament to my name. I some tea light holders and candles, but thats about the start and end to it and even then we are talking 6 in the whole house.

Ironing.  My Mother goes mental at me about not having an 'ironing night'. I'm with you, I'd rather dust than iron, and that is why I keep away from collecting ornaments.

maybe I should do that...instead of the loft 

YES   I bet the laughs were about the Lladro figurines.  I have had loads of laughs over people collecting that crap thinking it's 'oooh soo'

I'm going to send you one. So there 

I shall disguise it with a host of odd box shapes and send it back to you

I'm not one for ornaments. And anyway this flat is too small to clutter the place up!

I should have added almost every pic in that frame was 'old' pics.  Parents as kids etc.

 as long as it's not clothes pegs that are not the same colour. 

Heehee, I'll keep that little snippet up my sleeve and drop it into the conversation next time she gets on her high horse.

Eevill.

i forgot about your clothes peg obsession, a clothes peg ornament.. ..I will be keeping my eye out for one of them!

I may try one in the hall 

I've got loads of those *i love you mum* ornaments  i leave a few on a window sill *out of sight* and hide the rest  

I have a few pieces that have been given to me by friends but I don't even want to tell you how many penguin ornaments of pottery, crystal, glass etc., that I have 

I used to go to the pound shop every saturday and buy my mum an ornament  She HATED them but did the whole 'ahhh that's lovely, thanks love' bit and put them all up round the house  She told me years later she hated them, I was gutted coz my mate and I (she bought her mum one every week) would walk to town with just £2, £1 for the ornament, 25p for the taxi home and the other 75p for a battered sausage and a drink

hahah.. in my last house I had a shelf in the hall about the radiator... I felt obliged to put tacky things people brought me from holiday on display somewhere.  My nieces would ptsl laughing at birthdays and christmas if I unwrapped any ornaments (i hate them with a passion) and would mouth 'Is that going on 'THE SHELF')   I have about half a dozen photos about the place, 2 candles, and the only 'ornament' is a Tinkerbell snowglobe on the fireplace because my greatniece chose it and bought it for me herself.

I have a fairly large collection of 'Landrovers' as we called them, inherited from my mum and other deceased relatives. Apart from two small 'bathroom' ones, which I keep out for sentimental reasons, the rest are stored away and I can't see a time when they'll ever see the light of day, other than when I die and my dependants clear my loft out! 

I have a bigger 'ironing' collection than I have an ornament collection!

Ah, if we are counting pretty/vintage china, art deco jugs etc. etc. have loads of that, but there to be 'used' not 'displayed' and in a closed cupboard, not 'on display' gathering bloody dust!

Mine are definitely real, signed etc. none of that Nao stuff LOL.....Mmmm, wonders if there's a potential market on here to sell it! Having said that, I'd never get rid of the one which was my mum's 'first' a geisha girl with umbrella, a Christmas present from my dad circa 1970, she was so thrilled with it!

Awwww Ellis

I have a few, (v few!) 'sentimental' things out Kaffs which make me smile and bring back lovely memories...same with pictures, unless they have sentimental value there's nothing much that I would particularly want to look at every day. My pet hate is 'matchy' ornaments and pics that have no interest other than they 'go' with the 'colour scheme' Just me, I know, lots of other people like that, no imagination, all show each to their own

No, it's not just you, that drives me nuts! A woman I work with paints a bit, and has potential to be really good, but she insists on asking people's colour schemes when she's doing a painting for them and does it to match