[craddock]

My sister is the queen of tack, a house festooned with 8 million lights and inflatables and an interior featuring atleast 2 dozen plastic fibre optic nativity scenes, animated Santas galore and a Christmas tress so laden with rubbish it is amazing it even stands upright. The tree even has a Santa train riding around it.

Anyone else got any relatives with zero taste when it comes to festive decor?

[Loftusrd1980]

I have the philosophy less is more so I have no xmas decoration up

[jasonf01]

My girlfriend tells people im scrooge for not having decorations, but the real reason is that her 2 cats would climb the tree and tip it over.

Jas.

[Iccz]

It's christmas?

I hadn't noticed.






Parents have a few lights up that's all.
Can't stand the cheap tacky OTT decorating / lighting people do.
Very few look really good.

[razz1979]

When we walk into the house of a certain family friend its like going into a pound shop - bloody bells, whistles, lights & inflatable thingamajigs everywhere!

We just stick to a tastefully decorated tree.

[Newton's Ring]

We've opted for no tree also this year and the Christmas cards go in a pile straight away. I have to say, it's a lot less depressing than usual. It's the way forward.

[Junglist]

We don't have any decorations in our house but it amazes me sometimes at the amount of time/money/effort people put in to their decorations. What we think looks tacky, will have been a lot of hard work for them.

[kopchoir]

Bah Humbug
That relative of yours may like they way they decorate their own house its christmas although my house only has a tree in it my grandmother always used to pull out all the stops at xmas teh house was light up for the kdis singing santas a wash in the house it what made her christmas seeing all her grandchildren see the lighst and all the parafinalia every year she would buy new stuff soemtimes at a couple of hundred quid a pop just to see a smile on the kiddies faces
Bah Humbug

[eric pisch]

Originally Posted by craddock

My sister is the queen of tack, a house festooned with 8 million lights and inflatables and an interior featuring atleast 2 dozen plastic fibre optic nativity scenes, animated Santas galore and a Christmas tress so laden with rubbish it is amazing it even stands upright. The tree even has a Santa train riding around it.

Anyone else got any relatives with zero taste when it comes to festive decor?

no but i got some miserable boring old fart relatives like you who like to sit round a candle on christmas day and polish pennys, on a cold day they even light the candle.

[stealther]

Originally Posted by eric pisch

no but i got some miserable boring old fart relatives like you who like to sit round a candle on christmas day and polish pennys, on a cold day they even light the candle.

Here here, my house is decked in lights every window every room. I love it!
Those who dont like it well tough!

[craddock]

Originally Posted by eric pisch

no but i got some miserable boring old fart relatives like you who like to sit round a candle on christmas day and polish pennys, on a cold day they even light the candle.

I'm hardly a boring old fart, anyway i have a 6ft tree tastefully decorated with matching gold and red trimmings, just no pound shop tat.

I think a tree is far better than a Christmas with the Griswalds.

Besides Xmas day after I have cooked for 10 people I will be spending with the partners sister and no doubt be building loads of kids toys as per usual whilst being totally inebriated.

When home I plan on playing my new Blu-rays, trying out my new PS3 and Xbox games and getting more drunk.

Infact not one member of my family is boring, they all love a laugh, just my sister loves proper tat and I hate it.

Thank god I haven't had the urge to backlight my AV sytem with LED's from IKEA of all places.

We can't all have good taste obviously. LOL

[loz]

If you find your relatives are tasteless, then try cooking a turkey for dinner instead.

[pixelated]

Sure some are tacky but I don't care what anyone says, it'd be a whole lot duller with those ridiculous lights.

[Miyazaki]

Originally Posted by craddock

Tasteless relatives!

Not having turkey like the rest of us this year then?

[Reign-Mack]

If there were kids living here we would out them up but I really dont see the point in.

[Ned Senior]

some houses look great you have to admit but then there are THOSE OTHERS nuff said!!! hic

[eric pisch]

house decoration should be compulsory under law to p*** off all the boring farts and stuck up snobs imo

YouTube - Frisco Christmas Lights - Wizards in Winter

[Reign-Mack]

Originally Posted by Ned Senior

some houses look great you have to admit but then there are THOSE OTHERS nuff said!!! hic

all year round

[la gran siete]

frankly i think christmas IS a time for tack.I love to see people's house festooned up to the hilt with lights etc.Good taste and style is just another tyranny we subject ourselves throughout most of the year,so christmas is good time to go crazy

[eric pisch]

Originally Posted by la gran siete

frankly i think christmas IS a time for tack.I love to see people's house festooned up to the hilt with lights etc.Good taste and style is just another tyranny we subject ourselves throughout most of the year,so christmas is good time to go crazy

well said

[Ned Senior]

YES I am a common snob I admit it
I am also proud of it
havn't been stuck up for a while tho' must sort that later today hohoho

some of those council estate houses with 50 pence shop figures and lights just look a mess IMHO
if they are fitted with an eye for design and balanced (even if there's tons of stuff) it just looks better

Anyway who has a headache this morning?????