Xmas trees...traditional, stylish or trendy

Has to be a real tree (dug up from the garden), decorated with things I've collected on every holiday or made by the grandchildren

Traditional I suppose. Some old , very tatty decorations, some over 60 years old
. But new ones also that the GDs made. Love putting it all up. Also like it gone .

We've had the same decorations for years, including some shiny red apples which look jolly.
Usually we buy a real Nordmann Fir which shouldn't shed needles too badly. I do miss the scent of a Norway Spruce and wonder if I could find something like aromatherapy oil to simulate it?

Chocolatelovinggran

Quite right, too , Cabbie!
I enjoy the tasteful coordinated trees in hotels, but like the happy chaos of collected- over- years stuff on my tree.
A friend is planning to buy all new baubles this year to match her newly decorated sitting room. This astonishes me.

Why? That's exactly what I did a couple of years ago when we re-decorated in blue and silver. Bought blue and silver baubles. Previously I'd had gold or gold and pink, but they would have bothered me big time not matching. Nothing wrong with that.

We can’t have a real tree DH allergic to pine needles. We have a new pre-lit tree for this year. My baubles are a collection built up over 45 years. I have several Swarovski snowflakes, baubles and bells given to me by my eldest DS and DH, but won’t be using them this year as our DGD, will be 21 months come Christmas and gets into everything, which is what I expect and love about her she’s so curious.

Our fake tree must be well over 40 years old. Bought from Woolworths for £30, a fortune then.
It still looks good but there have been times these last few years when I thought I just can’t be bothered with the fuss, but so far we have done it, even if it’s just Mr S and me at home to see it.

I decorate my big potted weeping fig with decorations collected over the years. I think the tree enjoys its moment in the limelight!
I have a red velvet cloth underneath with a gold charger on it. That is where the chocolates go. We used to tie Quality Street chics to the branches but can’t do that with the new wrappings so have to make do with Lindor ones around the base, such a shame. 😂

2 years ago I decided to get an artificial tree that actually looked artificial, lol! It is gold and silver and I only put red decorations on it. I love it!

I have a 'twig' tree which I decorate with teardrop shape crystals and a string of led fairylights which I can change the colour of etc. I really like it.

We have two artificial green trees these days, one in the bay window in the front room, one in the sitting room. Much regretted giving up real trees about five years ago. I got round the problem of the children’s and grandchildren’s wonky Chinese lanterns and felt donkeys by giving them back to put on their own trees 😂. Now gradually collecting new ones that I like.
The sitting room tree has some ancient rainbow fairy lights beloved by DH, the other one has led white lights and nothing else.

We have real trees and one fake tree (our eldest granddaughter brought us a fake tree for the children's playroom). Outside we have real trees.

LOUISA1523

We have baubles collected over 38 years .....one when each of AC were born and GC born....baubles from loads of countries we've visited....certainly not colour co ordinated.....but a lovely trip down memory lane every time we dress the tree ....we have coloured lights ... no tinsel on tree

I could have written this myself! We do exactly the same but I add to the collection every year so that it looks current. This means that some of the decs get ‘retired’ but I still keep them as a reminder. We have a 7’ tree - which looked smaller in John Lewis!🫤

When my children lived at home, I had a tree in the living room which had proper decorations and one upstairs which they could decorate with their homemade stuff, pasta santas etc. After my marriage broke down, I had an artificial tree and each year, me and my children bought three decorations for it to symbolise our wee unit.
Now I have an artificial tree in the living room, a fibre optic tree in the kitchen and I'm going to buy a small pot grown tree for besides the front door.

Green with lots of.twinkly little.led lights and some meaningful s creations.
For anyone who does different it's their choice to have what colour and what decorations they want.

I also have baubles from all over the world along with handmade ones by the children and grandchildren when they were little.

These are still displayed on shelves around the house, just not on the trees. After forty plus years of children and then grandchildren decorating our trees I have reclaimed the job and like them my way

We have a tall fairly thin artificial one in the lounge with decorations collected over many years and lots of memories . I put a small real one in the conservatory as well and we have a real one in a pot at the front door that is decorated up. Last year I hung extra large baubles from a tree in the front garden.

Have a fake, pre lit, 'twig' tree in the hallway and then have a 7' artificial, green tree for the sitting room but haven't put that up for the last couple of years, too many memories with all the decorations we bought in different places we visited and ones we bought together , even still a couple that DS made at school donkeys years ago and ones given to us when we were first married over 50 yrs ago. Seriously considering putting this one up this year but not sure if it will upset me even more.

Fake fir tree here, green with snow capped branches.
I have lots of baubles that I've collected over 47 years .
No colour scheme, though I do like red and gold.

I live in a very small bungalow with no room anywhere for a tree so I can't have a normal sized one. I also have a cat who can't resist anything that doesn't belong to him, consequently my tree is one my mum gave me, it's 3 inches tall, made of gold metal and studded with coloured glass. It's sits on top of the door frame well out of the way of the cat.

We have had a black tree for the last twenty years. I loved it, because the colours of the decorations and lights really stood out against the blackness.

Because we're in the process of moving, I gave it to our daughter. I'm still looking for a smaller black tree but haven't yet found one.

A fake tree that has been in use for nearly thirty years and still going strong. It does tend to be a bit colour co-ordinated, purely depending on what I fancy when I'm dressing it.

We have loads of baubles that we have collected or been given over the years, some from holidays, that we get out every year and reminisce over as we're decorating.

We once put a small real tree next to the front door under the porch. Things kept going missing and from it and we once saw a squirrel sitting in it trying to eat a (fake) fir cone. Then a cat playing with one of the baubles. We took it down after that.

I've done pastel pink for the last couple of years I was given a white tree after Xmas so I am looking forward to using that I have been collecting quirky glass decks where I can x

A 'proper' tree with a hotchpotch of decorations. Many old and tatty but made by the children over the years, some souvenir decs of happy days and holidays in a kaleidoscope of colour. We don't follow the trend here.

I can't manage putting a fake tree together nor carry home a real one, getting it straight, etc. Four years ago I bought a tiny real tree from the supermarket which has been repotted twice but is still manageable. I am hoping that if I don't repot it again it won't grow too much and will see me out.

My tree is getting too big now. When we first had it about 6 years ago, I bought special little ornaments, but it needs normal-sized ones now. I have reported it once but maybe it needs it again.
By the way, a living tree doesn't shed needles.