POLL: Do you put your tinsel on first or last?

We don't have tinsel on our tree but when I do my mums, it's lights, beads, tinsel then ornaments. Her tree is huge and you can definitely still see them.

Lights, baubles then beads (instead of tinsel).

Not a great photo (it's a couple of years old) but here it is:

Lights, tinsel, decs. You can still put the tinsel to the front and still see it.
Not a great pic but you can see what I mean.

We do Lights first, then tinsel, then beads, then any baubles, if we have any room left ?

We don't have tinsel but if we did it'd be lights, tinsel, then decorations.

I am not allowed tinsel on our tree. Mr E is a tinselphobe and thinks its tacky. We also only have two different colours of decorations on the tree for the same reason.?

However, in my childhood, when christmas was allowed to be fun and not a fashion statement it was always lights, tinsel then decorations. This is how I would still do it if I were allowed tinsel.

Lights, tinsel and/or beads and then baubles. Surely if you put the tinsel on last it hides all the baubles and doesn't let them hang properly? Also you have to remember not to just twist it around the trunk!

that's the order I do it in too

Not allowed tinsel on our tree but it would be lights tinsel dec if we were

Me too.

You have to do the lights first as you have to fiddle with them a fair bit to make sure the lights are evenly spaced. Then you add the tinsel (making sure to just drape it, not wrap it tightly), then add the baubles. I have some lovely glass hanging pieces and always hang them in front of one of the lights so the light shines through them and sets them off.

Lights on first but arranged so you can see them all. If you squint at your tree you can see there is good coverage. Surely you break the delicate decorations and knock them off if you do it after?

And no tinsel. I hate the stuff. I am very anal about my tree though - possibly the only thing in the world that I am not chilled about!

We had this argument in our house when we put the tree up. Normally I put the tree up and put the lights, then tinsel and then the baubles on it. OH was saying you should put the tinsel on last so I gave up and let him do the tree. 14 smashed baulbles and a trip to B&Q later, he agreed the baubles go on last.

Ah bless you, he and I would get on well! ? I do have lots of colours but have banned red & gold. My fairy is fun though - she is wearing a mini dress and silver FMB's

? Your fairy sounds fab. We have a star. Fairies are banned too.

I keep telling him that we live in a home,not a hotel but to no avail. Whats worse is he is insisting that our table decorations match the tree as well. We are having some people for dinner next week and apparently the whole thing has to be co-ordinated. I'm not sure that anyone else but him will notice. He is bringing 8 full table settings home from work so that they match. You should have seen the hours of contemplation he spent on the table centres for our wedding.........

Lights, tinsel then baubles.

Lights, beads, then baubles. And last of all, little clip on birds. I hate tinsel so none on my tree.

I never realised there were so many tinselphobes in the world. I love it. Big thick pumfy strands of it. The only thing I hate on a Christmas tree are those horrible strands of, what do you call it? Lametta? Vile, vile, vile.

Anyway, lights on first, tinsel next, decorations last. And in the Hoob family, no tree decorating takes place until Christmas Eve. It's lovely and relaxed. The shopping finally completed, we crack open a bottle of something fizzy, warm up some mince pies and all help to decorate the tree (having checked the lights a few days beforehand). ?

Could you come and do my tree lol that looks fab x

Not only is it lovely, but can you see how everything is perfectly aligned? all the decorations fall in a line underneath one another .....now that is attention to detail at its best ?

(ponders) Has LaP finally got the hang of passive aggressiveness? ?

We do lights, then tinsel and then baubles!

The fairy goes on last.

Luv Victoria

xx

Lights, tinsel then baubels

Only a mini tree this year as now way having it at ground level with a toddler running around!!

Now thats passive agressive ?

Lights then decorations.

I despise tinsel. But I have to say Mrs Magic, that tree is beautiful. I'm very surprised I like it, I really do hate tinsel.

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Edited because I forgot to actually add what I do!

Lights, beads, tinsel, baubles then bits of ribbon. Mine is always an attempt to look like Mrs Magic's tree but i don;t think mine has ever looked as good as that!

(also Mrs M, I had the same colour scheme as you but now it is interspersed (sp?) with the kids home-made decorations too, I also habe that 'Noel' decoration too! lol)

Thank you ladies! I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it takes me hours. ? We like it as it is so have it the same every year, (well obviously ornaments go in different places but the lights, tinsel and beads are always the same.) The tree is huge (we need ladders for the top) but my mum's living room is big enough to take it. It puts our 3ft tree to shame. ?

Mogic, that is what I call a Christmas tree. I am horribly traditional and my favourite ones are always red and gold with white lights. I can't be doing with silver/blue or monochrome stuff or whatever else the department stores have decreed is trendy in a given year. I do still sneak the odd childhood gaudy bauble on round the back though. ?

Quite right too! As it should be! My mum and I have had the tradition for many years that we buy a new ornament together each year so we have she has a lovely collection. Since getting married and leaving home, I buy her one too. This year, I've bought her a glass bauble with hand painted red and gold decoration, it's rather lovely.

We still have the old faithful too though, like this:

(This is a very special badge for me, given to me by big red man himself back in 1984 when I saw him at Jenners, aged four. He told me that wherever I left this badge, he would leave my presents so it was pinned to this little patchwork Santa cushion and it still sits under my mum's tree. It's always the first decoration to be put out and always makes me warm and fuzzy, Christmas is definitely on it's way.)

I dont use tinsel these days. I used to when kids were little and also hung their school made paper decorations lol!

I do, lights, baubles then icicles

[weird sense of deja vu]pyschs, don't you ask this question every year?[/weird sense of deja vu]

the reason i thought this, is didn't world war three nearly break out one year because someone said tinsel was common or something? ?

I must admit I find it strange to put on tinsel last. Tinsel/beads/lights are the "base" for my decorating and the baubles are they cherry on top so to speak.