QOTD: How do you decorate your Christmass Tree?

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,806
edited December 2009 in The Clubhouse
Do you go for a traditional style, golds, reds, silvers? Or are you simplistic with lots of whites and glass? Maybe contemporary with a non-traditional color scheme? Maybe you have a shiny aluminum tree? Is it a hodgepodge of family heirloom ornaments? Do you use fruit, nuts, candy and other food? Do you use an angel or a star? Or maybe you go pre-decorated?

How do you do it?



Me, traditional and contemporary mixed. Traditional colors but matching ornaments, garland and lights. Lights are white, colors are red and gold. There is an angel on top.
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  • packetjones
    packetjones Posts: 1,059
    edited December 2009
    I use a family heirloom ornaments. We get a new ornament every year and put it on the tree. I have an ornament for every year going back to 1978. I am now buying a new ornament for my son every year and adding it to the tree. When he moves out i will give him all his ornaments to put on his tree.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited December 2009
    Colored blinky lights and lots of burgandy balls and ribbon.
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  • coolsax
    coolsax Posts: 1,824
    edited December 2009
    ours is pretty clean with a lot of glass silver white and red with clear lights, and most of our ornaments are my wife's hallmark baseball ornaments or stuff we picked up from Biglots and walmart.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited December 2009
    Lots of colored lights and a hodgepodge of fun ornaments.

    It's supposed to be FESTIVE. :)
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,849
    edited December 2009
    hard to get things to hang onto a plain metal pole
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited December 2009
    With lots and lots of rancid meat...
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited December 2009
    traditional....colored lights ornaments from years past etc....
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2009
    Gasoline and a match.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited December 2009
    LED lights lots of different bulbs lots of ornaments. Fiber optic angel "use to be my grandmothers" I asked for it when she passed away. We use to have parties at her house for Christmas. I always remember them when I see that angel.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited December 2009
    Traditional I guess. The girl had a "theme" a few years ago (predominantly blues and whites), but that dissipated to a hodge podge of ornaments, lights, etc. Reminds me of my childhood tree so I like it.
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  • superjunior
    superjunior Posts: 1,632
    edited December 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I don't, I have my duties when it comes to the damn christmas tree:

    I buy it
    I bring it home
    I cut down the trunk and branches if need be
    I screw it into the stand, I may even water it.

    after the holidays I throw the damn thing away.

    And throughout the year i complain because I keep finding those damn needles all over the place.

    lol, I feel your pain! the first time I got a pine needle stuck in my foot was the last straw! Fake tree -pre lit. Boring I know, but it sure simplifies things. plug that sucker in and wife decorates, no fuss no muss :p
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  • Slinger182
    Slinger182 Posts: 512
    edited December 2009
    Empty PBRs
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,516
    edited December 2009
    Slinger182 wrote: »
    Empty PBRs

    You mean gut rotting pond scum.
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited December 2009
    Ron-P wrote: »
    You mean gut rotting pond scum.

    Thank you for correcting that!
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  • Ran9er
    Ran9er Posts: 4
    edited December 2009
    Colored lights, mix of old and new ornaments, and a picket fence around it to keep the Boxer from eatting the presents : )
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited December 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I don't, I have my duties when it comes to the damn christmas tree:

    I buy it
    I bring it home
    I cut down the trunk and branches if need be
    I screw it into the stand, I may even water it.

    after the holidays I throw the damn thing away.

    And throughout the year i complain because I keep finding those damn needles all over the place.

    Sounds like you need a festivus poll

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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited December 2009
    My part is to take it out of the box and assemble it.




    Actually its a mix of everything.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited December 2009
    I expected to see some actual tree pics in this thread...
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  • McLoki
    McLoki Posts: 5,231
    edited December 2009
    mmadden28 wrote: »
    I expected to see some actual tree pics in this thread...

    Ok then -- Like this.....

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  • dragon1952
    dragon1952 Posts: 4,899
    edited December 2009
    QOTD: How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?

    Whilst inebriated.
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