How old is your Christmas tree?

mangog

Under a year / Real tree

my parents still have some glass golden pears, which belonged to my great-grandparents and which are over 100 years old

Wow, how lovely! Do they still use them or are they too fragile? They sound wonderful.

Ganga

We finally bought a new one this year ( fibre optic ) we have been in this house about 26 years and we think we brought it with us,went to the tip along with a lot of the old and worn out decorations.

kateweb

I made mine - the nearest place to buy a real one way Ikea and I couldn’t face hauling a 5 foot tree home on the bus, so made this from the contents of my recycling box and done garden twine (has fairy lights from last year).

It’s obviously flat (hung from an existing picture hook), but I can still hang my decorations on there. For free, I think it looks alright.

surfsister

ours is 27 years and going strong looks quite real too!!

miriamac

21-25 years

kateweb wrote: »

I made mine - the nearest place to buy a real one way Ikea and I couldn’t face hauling a 5 foot tree home on the bus, so made this from the contents of my recycling box and done garden twine (has fairy lights from last year).

It’s obviously flat (hung from an existing picture hook), but I can still hang my decorations on there. For free, I think it looks alright.

That is so clever! And pretty . Well done, you!

Kassiopea

Our tree is fairly new but my fairy is older than me, and I'm 62. Her dress not so old but handmade by my ( now deceased) mother from my bridesmaids dress from when my older sister got married about 50 odd years ago. She is now divorced so the fairy and the dress and me are the only ones doing well !

Kassiopea

The nice things is you can add to it each year or adjust to suit your needs and decor. So clever.
The nearest we got was when rebuilding one year our tree was pieces of tinsel taped to the wall, in the traditional shape and bit n bobs taped around it. It still felt great because otherwise it would have no decs at a all... and you can't have that even if you have to eat Christmas dinner off a tray on your lap with turkey 'roasted' in a microwave and a 6 foot round pile of rubble in what will be your dining room eventually.

DigForVictory

I've got an artificial tree from asda about 7 years ago. I did have 3 artificial trees for reasons which now escape me, but I can find & set up & decorate the little silver thing myself.

It has wooden decorations which came from mum, a couple of plastic instruments that came from a pub crawl decades ago and bells (as I adore them) There's a scarf hiding the legs and the strip of green bunting with bells on the points my aunt gave me is still going strong.

Some snowflake decorations I bought for my first every tree are still intact (as is the orange juice carton they live in when not on a tree).
All happy!

Pollycat

26+ years

kateweb wrote: »

I made mine - the nearest place to buy a real one way Ikea and I couldn’t face hauling a 5 foot tree home on the bus, so made this from the contents of my recycling box and done garden twine (has fairy lights from last year).

It’s obviously flat (hung from an existing picture hook), but I can still hang my decorations on there. For free, I think it looks alright.

I think you should apply for a job on Blue Peter. :xmastree:

M-L

16-20 years

my little tree and lights I bought from poundland 25 years ago are still working! We do have a new larger tree in the lounge, that is 16 years old.