X-mas tree

[adamcoan]

Co-ordinated matching coloured carefully selected baubles

A right fucking mess of old tat, draped randomly

Just lights

Real or fake ?

[riggers]

None. Xmas can fuck right off.

[loveless]

Real.

A right fucking mess of old tat, draped randomly.

Our kids are still teens/in residence, so...the tradition of decorating as a family is something I treasure.

[tory]

Lovingly memorable decorations tastefully placed on a real tree.

The ritual of decorating the tree is central to Christmas for us - it's the moment the festival begins. However, we do also bring it down on New Year's Day.

[souphound]

I'm not putting anything up for just me and my cat. I'm not big on religion-based holidays anyway. It's just a few days off as far as I'm concerned.

I used to enjoy it a bit as a family celebration, but now that I have n family around, well, fuggetaboutit.

[DarknessFish]

My wife and kid will sort out the Christmas tree (a plastic one, haven't had a real one in a while), and it will look like something from a Country Homes magazine spread, absolutely designed and colour-coordinated to perfection. Then the dog will probably knock it over within a couple of days and it will be a disaster zone.

I don't want to be a stereotypical miserable middle-aged man, but I do get fucked off with Christmas now, I wish it would pretty much go away. When you have young kids, fine, go out and spoil the bastards. But now, it's the stress of trying to find a bunch of tat to buy for people, AND the stress of trying to think of anything I'd want as presents. Generally, if I wanted something I'd have bought it, unless I couldn't afford it, in which case I'm not getting it as a present anyway. And Christmas day is a fucking slow day of food and drink torpor fueled by shit telly. Boxing Day is where the action is at, when everyone has fucked off, and this time it's not even a bank holiday on the 27th, so I feel robbed about that.

[DayoRemix]

[Sneelock]

Ours is a bargain fake tree from at least 15 years ago. I drag the fucker out and set it up. the wimmen-folk fuss and coo and it always looks real nice when they're done.

I've really been enjoying Xmas since that's about all the effort I've been putting into it. I wish I'd started years ago!