Do you have 'family tradition' ornaments on your Christmas tree?

looksee

Not the standard stuff that you buy in Woodies or Lidl, odd things that always go on the tree, year after year because, well, because.

We have the 'dead sparrow'. Its a - by now pretty mangy - feathered bird that, no matter how you fixed it to the tree it ended up hanging upside down. Now it has lost one leg so it is impossible to stand it up and it starts off hanging by one leg. All the rest of the tree is conventional decorations, but if you look, somewhere there is the dead sparrow.

(I have a feeling I posted that somewhere before, so apologies if it has been done)

jamesbere

I decorate my tree with tree's. I call it treeception

maudgonner

'Crappy Plastic Santa', who isn't even a proper ornament, but probably came on the top of a box of something or other Christmassy, and got saved because when we were kids we thought he was great. He's had years when he sat on top of the tree, in lieu of a star/angel, and more recently had thread skewered through the top of his Santa hat so that he can be hung from a branch. He's made of thin plastic that was never meant to last, so every year he gets a bit more fragile, cracked and...well...crappy.

He should probably be hidden away at the back of the tree, but that wouldn't be right - as far as I'm concerned he's more precious than any fancy, shiny new baubles you could buy.

See you soon, Crappy Plastic Santa!

chopperbyrne

We get something for the tree on every holiday, so we've loads of them now.

Just back from Disneyworld where we got some Star Wars ones in the Christmas shop.

Four Phucs Ache

Fookin loaded with them, there's a pic of the kids for every year of their life, Xmas baubels from every bloody country and holiday we and family have ever been on, you can't see the tree anymore.

The nicest we have is a toilet roll Santa I made when I was about 4 and a star she made around the same age.

A few years ago she put a million bloody angels all over the thing but somehow they all broke.
Those nerf guns are deadly.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I have silver paper wrapped chocolate umbrellas that were my parents' . They are over 70 years old and Christmas would not be Christmas without them on the tree.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

We (I) do different colour themes on the tree every year so we don't really have the same decorations to go up.
At home on my brothers Xmas tree there are some special ones we made as kids, that my parents kept. There are also these tiny little presents wrapped in really shiney red paper/foil, there's green and gold ones too, and they were my favourite ever since I can even remember. I loved loved loved looking at them as a kid. If I owned them now I would put them on my tree even if it did mess up my colours

r93kaey5p2izun

Yes. A few of the decorations were my grandmother's and many are ones my parents have had since the late 60s. My favourites are a toilet roll angel, a very delicate pipe cleaner fairy with a dolls head stuck on and dressed in a dress made of bits of pink wool, and a star that actually came off a box of biscuits.

Widdershins

No. I have dogs and cats. New decorations every year

My Dad used to always put a green rubber skeleton on the top of our tree instead of a star/angel. Some like this. I don't know why really.

_Jamie_

Trumpet-playing Santy! A family tradition was to annoy the cat with him every year. The cat would turn his back on him and shun him. Sadly, our kitty cat has just died so we will miss that this year.

Grayson

I have an ironman tow that I stick at the top of my tree. It looks quite nice with red and gold tinsel around the tree.

Grayson

Thought I'd throw this here. Read the reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-America-Great-Collectible-Ornament/dp/B01N67D8HO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

looksee

Grayson wrote: »

Thought I'd throw this here. Read the reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-America-Great-Collectible-Ornament/dp/B01N67D8HO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Snigger, I have seen that, somewhere there is ONE what do they call it, authenticated purchase, and he reckons all the 'negative' ones are a plot by Hillery.

CelticRambler

Funny this should come up today! Our tree has always had some obligatory decorations, getting slightly more naff as the children began to have some input :pac: but I've been having an exchange of messages with (the former) MrsCR this afternoon about delivering some of "our" ornaments to her next week, since she chose a different future for us and is no longer on-site.

Out of all the ornaments in the box (and it's a big box) there's a pair of shiny green plastic pine cones that MrsCR brought to the relationship, that have absolutely-definitely-no-argument-don't-even-make-a-face-about-it always gone on the tree. They were the very first decorations she bought when she got her own place/first tree as a young adult, and even after she moved out I've put them on the tree each year. She said today that she'll take the others - all dating back to the seventies - but she wants those two to stay here so that "something can remain unbroken"

My granny had a little bauble for each grandchild and great-grandchild with their name on it, but because I'm the favourite (as I keep telling her), mine is bigger than everyone else's. Which I like to point out. I love seeing them grow in number nearly every year, as babies arrive in the extended family.

Since my parents have semi-retired, she spends Christmas with them and the decorations come to the parents tree and join the gold-sprayed macaroni chains and the bald toilet-roll angels, while she directs operations from the armchair, usually tipsy on the sherry.

dudara

Most of our decorations have come from our travels - so we have a piranha with a Santa hat from Mexico and a pair of drunk parrots hanging off a margarita glass from Florida, a storm trooper from Star Wars ..amongst others. Plus some more traditional ones that we have been gifted.

It's nice to have a story on the tree rather than a set of "perfect" but generic ornaments

Grayson

Grayson wrote: »

Thought I'd throw this here. Read the reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/Trump-America-Great-Collectible-Ornament/dp/B01N67D8HO/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

If you criticize this ornament it will break into a thousand pieces after whining at 3:30AM that you're not fair and must apologize. If you want it on your Christmas tree, wait, and within 4 years it WILL HANG ITSELF!

We can only hope.

fizzypish

We used to go up the woods in the dead of night and appropriate a tree. That was a fun tradition. Plastic one now. No more pine needles everywhere.

osarusan

fizzypish wrote: »

We used to go up the woods in the dead of night and appropriate a tree. That was a fun tradition. Plastic one now. No more pine needles everywhere.

But then you don't get the lovely sound of dried branches burning in early January.

fizzypish

osarusan wrote: »

But then you don't get the lovely sound of dried branches burning in early January.

Naw. We used to throw it in the ditch. The circle of life.

andekwarhola

Have some ornaments from when we (wife and I) were kids ourselves.

Also some from the kids (a pair of botees from when one of them was a newborn and some decorations they made when they were very small).

mimimcmc

My mom has loads of decorations, mostly from the 80's, sprayed pinecones and the like...

But the oddest one is the gold duck... me and my sister have a great laugh at it every year

MagicIRL

Have a few things on our family tree from when myself and me brother went to Playschool. I'm 24 and he's 20 now and they still go up on the tree every year.

One of them is even made out of baked play-dough or something :pac: