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I'm definitely not fussy about my tree. It's very tall so it looks lovely and elegant. I like how my tree is a mixture of old and new - newer purple and silver baubles, and older vintage red ones. I wrap the tree is lovely silver and gold beads (rather than tinsel- I hate the stuff!) and cover it in fairy lights, with a lovely star on top.

After many years of not having a proper Christmas tree I saw a rather nice one being advertised on my local Facebook group. We decided to go for it as we were hosting family for Christmas. It's a good quality artificial one about 6 foot tall. It looks lovely. We 'inherited' from the seller a complete set of decorations to go with it complete with a lovely fairy for the top. I like the simple decoration of silver and blue and we've added a few cherished family ones of little wooden holy land olive wood cutouts of candles and cribs.

I have a super artificial tree and like to hang all the baubles I have on it. I buy at least one new one each year and discard one that's past it best except for special ones like the one with my DGS's picture on it which I will keep for ever. I then put on the tinsel and lights and then stand back and admire. Our village has a tradition whereby most folk put their trees up at the beginning of December in time for the Christmas parade, it's lovely walking the dog last thing at night seeing all the trees lit up in the windows. Hurray for Christmas I say - I love it !!

Are they knocking down Homebase near you Stansgran

I know that Bunnings are taking over but I thought they would be keeping them all open.
There's one near us which is very useful, hope it stays.

Our tree is a travelogue. About 40 years ago I bought a christmas star made by American Indians when DH was giving a lecture in the us. Every holiday since I've bought a decoration. Sometimes in non Christian countries I've resorted to key rings- Thailand or Burma or phone tags- Japan . The last one was a felt fish from COPE in Vientiane a few weeks ago. I have so many favourites. From Homebase ( which they are knocking down in Durham ) I bought the twelve days of Christmas which I really liked

I don't decorate our tree - I wouldn't dare!!

Our daughter is the Tree Queen. Since very young she has decorated our tree to within an inch of its life. It's beautiful when she's finished, green and gold and red and sparkling lights.

And I sit and watch and pass the baubles .

She's training our grandson to be her assistant .

I love Christmas !

We have a real tree with roots which we've been using for the last few years. It's not huge - small enough to sit on a table out of the reach of little hands!
Lights first - simple and delicate, pretty colours. Then beaded garlands which are lengths of gold beading made to be stitched onto dresses but look lovely on the tree. I follow this with glass icicles in different shapes and sizes and glass crystals, so the effect is sparkly and magical, then a collection of silver and gold baubles I've collected over the years. Finally, strands of lametta - usually gold, but this year it's iridescent. The effect is subtle but very pretty (at least the family think so!)

We always buy a real tree, usually two weeks before Christmas, and my husband always complains about the needles dropping, even from a non-drop tree. He would prefer ro put up a tree only a couple of days, or even better, the day before Christmas.

When the children were small, we would go on a long trek to buy a tree from a special nursery in the country. This was followed by lunch out in the nursery cafeteria and other treats. Once, when my husband was away on a long business trip, I took the children on my own but did not tie the chosen tree securely enough on the roof rack. A kind motorist driving behind us on a quiet country road kept hooting and we were so busy singing "jungle Bells" that we did not notice. Our tree had fallen onto the roadside! Eventually, we managed to retrieve it with little damage done.

Once home, the tree is filled with white lights, never lights that blink, however, but beautiful, dainty, sparkingly luminous white ones, hundreds of them. All the decorations are handmade and include robins, angels, doves, hearts, rosy-cheeked felt Father Christmases, Christmas Puddings( felt) and tiny, tiny baby Jesuses nestlled in matchbox beds made by the children when small.

The youngest in the family ( from age 2) is always lifted high enough to place the crowning glory: an angel or a star, depending on which they choose.

Then we wait for darkness, so that the magic can begin. Our son used to claim that the tree danced when the lights were switchied on!

We have a tree which we have had for well over 40years together with many different baubles which have belonged variously to older generations or been made by DC or been bought because they appealed to us. We haven't bought anything new for years on the basis that what we have is special to us. It ain't broke so we ain't fixing it!

It doesn't seem to matter who does what it always looks lovely!

I've always wanted a real tree with tasteful traditional colours, baubles and swags of thick tinsel but it's always artificial totally swamped with whatever is still fit to be put out/up! Over the years some handmade decorations from the little ones have become beyond fit to add so they stay in the box to be admired annually for their memories. I always want to devote more time to putting up the tree but again it's always a casof just getting on with it before we run out of time. A favourite childrens christmas cd has to be played too, not one of my oldies.

ruby, it sounds gorgeous.

I have a tiny tree, about 18" tall. I have decorated it this year with tiny battery operated fairy lights, miniature glitter pom poms, tiny fir cones, glitter snowdrop embellishments and gold and pink tiny baubles with each member of the family on them. On the top is a tiny pink fairy. It is beautiful when the big light is off.

Well we've just bought a smaller tree this year as the big ones got a bit too much. We keep it quite simple, just lights really a few baubles from when the kids were young and chocolates for visiting little ones. Husband puts the tree together and I hang the things off it, done and dusted in half an hour which suits us

Times change. Customs too.
As a student in the 60s, I spent a year in Germany and fell in love with how Christmas was celebrated there. I shared a flat with friends and we had a real tree with real candles. Elf’nsafety would have a fit these days
Newly married, my husband and I always had a real tree. Money was tight so we used to buy our tree on Christmas Eve, when sellers were almost giving them away. I have fond memories of decorating our tree with wooden ornaments bought in Germany, going to the Midnight Service in our local Church, then warming up with hot mulled wine before bed
When the children came along, we kept up our tradition of having a real tree. We had one living tree, bought in a pot, which lasted for 6 years. We brought it in from the garden on Christmas Eve and decorated it as a family, with lots of decorations made by the children along with ornaments inherited from friends and relatives.
Now I’m a Gran. I live on my own and spend Christmas with my son, daughter and grandchildren. They have large artificial trees with fibre optic lights that flash on and off. They put them up on the first weekend in December and decorate them with some ornaments they’ve inherited from me, some from the other grandparents, some they’ve made themselves. They look amazing....even if the impact of the fibre optic displays does tend to jar on ancient eyes. The main thing is, they love them.
Different times. Different customs

I like to have one colour on the tree each year, either white, silver or red, depending on my mood and the tinsel and baubles are all the same colour. Occasionally, I just let the children decorate it as they wish. They usually do a very good job. I'll probably leave it to them in future.

I'd secretly love a designed coordinated scheme but I always let the kids do it because it's much more fun (admittedly I might tweak it a bit after they have gone to bed!)

At least now they are all taller it doesn't all end up on the same branch....!

We have a mismatched tree and thats how we like it. Every bauble is different and no two are the same, each one holds a special memory for one of us or all of us and we would have it no other way.

We love a real tree every time we go on holiday we buy something to hang on the tree so decorating the tree brings lots of happy memories. Not a styled tree but mismatched and full of love with kids handmade ornaments too

Actually the lights were from Homebase!

I got a new fake tree this year, slimline and frosted, and some warm white LED lights, it looks so pretty. colors are mainly gold silver and Burgundy red, but I also got some hand knitted baubles, Christmas pudding, tree etc, from charity stall, they are at bottom for cats to biff!

Over the years we have had a variety of trees but our decorations remain the same .....a collection of baubles and trinkets from my childhood with,over the years, the addition of decorations made by our children and grandchildren. They may not match,nor be colour co-ordinated, but each one brings back memories and stirs up emotion.

I bought a smallish growing real tree this morning, complete with red pot (from Homebase of course) and am hoping that the DGD will decorate it for me - but it is quite prickly!

I hate dressing the Christmas tree - if I leave it long enough one of the kids will get stuck in - different "themes" but always some old and treasured (and homemade) decorations

We've had an artificial tree for the last few years. I've got two sets of red lights which I put on it and they make a lovely cheery glow in the room. I like my tree to be warm looking - not keen on cold blue and white lights. I put on quite a few baubles, icicles and snowflakes from a big pack I bought in Wilkinson a couple of years ago - again a lot of red ones, with some gold and some green - and a few strings of beads. Lovely and Christmassy!

We have a small artificial tree but usually only bother putting it up if we are hosting Christmas or New Year. We put the lights and tinsel on first then a co-ordinated range of baubles - we have a couple of different sets. We have been looking out for a fibre optic tree thinking that might be simpler to dress as it would avoid the need for fiddling with lights but haven't seen anything we like at an affordable price. We are also tempted just to get some silver or gold lights rather than multi-coloured and hang them on furnitre or a fireplace instead of a tree.