Re: After 50+ years of collecting...

Every year I buy more even though I have loads ! I have my Mum's decorations too so have childhood memoies from them

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I only have a bout half a dozen decorations and a small 'modern' look tree. Don't tend to put them up though. I did when the children use to visit.

Other than that I am a bit of a hoarder and my loft is usually full. It's was heartbreaking recently when I moved as the house I now live in is literally half the size of my last house.

Re: After 50+ years of collecting...

I've never heard of Christmas decorations being described as mess and disruption before Meg.

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They can be, if you have a few beers and fall over the tree then grab the bunting as a last attempt to prevent falling over.

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I chucked away my tree and decorations when I lost my house. I've no real interest in buying any more. There are some lovely ones in the shops though.

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I don't have tree these days, but there are a few treasured bits and pieces that come out each year. Santas mainly. I always buy one new Santa each year - so now there are dozens of them. They appear the week before Christmas and go back to lurking in the loft on New Years day. Other than that I use cards as decorations as I usually receive about 200 of them each year. By the time I have put them all up there is no room for anything else.

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Will be starting my Christmas decorations anew this year, so looking forward to going out and choosing a new tree and decorations. I still like the traditional green, red and gold, but there are so many pretty ornaments in the shops.

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It has always been my job to put up the decorations and decorate the tree when we had one, my husband and kids always had better things to do!

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I have a 6ft tree and a big box of decorations which once again I will assemble at the beginning of December. As discussed elsewhere I wasn't sure this year what I was going to do for Christmas but it is resolving itself and it looks like at least a couple of my kids (and grandkids) are staying over Christmas so the tree goes up again.

As for the rest I too was a hoarder to the point that I could hardly move in parts of my house and garage when i retired. I have since made a big effort to declutter initially by chucking everything I had not touched for 5 years. All my 'useful' offcuts of wood for example went straight away slowly I have reduced 'stuff' so my house is quite nice now, every room is liveable and there is nothing that I have not touched for about a year. Progress indeed.

Re: After 50+ years of collecting...

I´m a bit of a tree decoration buyer, I´m a sucker for all the glitz and glittery decorations in the shops. Special ones I keep but others I replace, the replaced ones go to Little Pod dog rescue charity.