I live in a 1970s split level so I’ve decided my tree is retro 70s. A jumble of ornaments from various locations, received as gifts, purchased at after Christmas sales, handmade by now grown kids and colored lights. Just like I remember from my childhood in the 70s but without the tinsel.
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So just curious - it’s quite easy to put a menorah or two on the dining room table. We would have a lovely spot for a tree but it’s taken up with a heavy end table. Do you all have to move furniture every year, or do you keep an open space?
We did the felt menorah when son was little - adding a candle every night.
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I will post a picture when I decorate mine. Ours started as a hodgepodge, but then little kid requested “a white and blue” tree - no idea why. 
So we picked all white and blue ornaments and used them for a while. Then I hit a mother lode of Radko ornaments discounted 80%… and the white and blue traditional slowly faded away. Most of our ornaments are glass and follow a travel and nature theme.
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In our previous house we would just move one library table to another location and have plenty of room for a big fat tree. In our new house, there is a long wall that I haven’t decided what to do with yet - for December it holds a tree!!!
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Our tree is not huge (a live one in a pot), and I move the large potted plant out of the “tree spot” and put the tree in there.
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Our main tree is in the foyer next to the piano, so no moving necessary. And while it’s 9’ tall, by the stairs I don’t have to get up and down a ladder too much to decorate it. We do Xmas in 3 stages. We also have 2 fireplaces downstairs. So we start with the stockings in the den. Then by the living room fireplace are the Santa gifts. Each kid’s presents are wrapped in the same paper - always with Santa on it. And each pile has a big sign with their name (can’t have mom’s handwriting!) then we finish in the foyer with the family presents. I miss those days.
The upstairs tree in our bedroom also didn’t need any furniture moving. It’s a 24’x24’ room. The kids used it as an upstairs play room. Lots of open space. Same with our old house. The basement where the tree was was essentially one giant finished room in the 2/3 of the ranch basement.
My parents still have their tree from the 1960s! It’s pretty funny looking, but well loved.
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I tried to send all the homemade, preschool project-type ornaments home with their creators a few Christmases ago. I was accused of “trying to erase their childhoods”.
Wow!
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We have a large solid silver Radko Santa ornament that I love, but it needs a very sturdy branch.
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We collect travel ornaments as well, and while we have had some challenges finding ones we like in certain places, we actually found one I love in Puerto Rico this year! Got it at the El Yunque National Forest gift shop. Bonus points for supporting conservation efforts! It made me smile when I pulled it out for the first time last week.
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Darn it! Yours is cute. We should have looked at the gift shop when we went there.
Here’s our Puerto Rican gem:
It’s sea glass glued together in a blob.
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Our monstrously oversized tree (see the other thread). Nobody mention the leaning star! It’s an absolute miracle that we placed it at all!!!
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My husband really would love a tree that size every year, but we don’t have any cathedral ceilings…except in our front hall. One year, we had a HUGE tree in the front hall…
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That’s a nice tree, and the variety of lights sounds like fun.
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We have a big gold-themed tree - but the second, little memory tree with the kids’ ornaments through the years is my favorite.
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Wow, there are some gorgeous (and LARGE) trees on this thread. I love seeing all the photos.
We are in a condo so we have a pretty small and skinny tree, but it’s pretty covered. Definitely a hodge-podge of ornaments. Many from my parents’ travels, some from our own travels, gifted ornaments, and a few ds made when he was quite little at either school or Sunday school. We also have several from our annual adult Sunday School class Christmas party we attended when we lived in another state. It could get pretty vicious with the stealing! And there were always some hideous ones that no one ever stole. Those people would gather together and stand on the metaphorical, “Island of Misfit Ornaments.”
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