This is going out to all my friends who put their tree up right after Thanksgiving and have thus already started thinking about it. I insist on a live tree — technically we have a little fake one for the bedroom, which is also cute, so I guess I’m an equal opportunity Christmas tree lover! — so I cannot get mine until early December, or else I spend that last week between Christmas and New Year’s worrying that it is a fire hazard. (I get a lot of joy out of my live tree but it is certainly a whole thing.) Even in my grinchiest moments, I love decorating the Christmas tree, and we currently live in a world where you can get basically ANYTHING as an ornament. (I have not one, but TWO Diet Coke cans on my tree. You can literally get a Pizza Bagels ornament! A breakfast sandwich! A bottle of ranch! This bundle for cheese lovers!) As much as I love the idea of a chic, coordinated tree — I used to do one that was just all pink and red vintage balls — mine is more of a whimsical hodgepodge of ornaments my husband and I got on vacation, ones from our childhood, gifts, and just ones we think are pretty and/or festive. (Look at this INSANE Star Wars one from Hallmark. IT IS INSANE.) I LOVE shopping for wacky Christmas ornaments, and ergo it was a pleasure to work on this round-up. (And I’m very close to buying myself this one, a container of cottage cheese.) You might find something here that makes you smile — or, at the very least, you know someone who needs an ornament depicting Cher in her iconic Bob Mackie Oscars outfit, or Sophia from The Golden Girls, or Bjork in her swan dress! Or maybe a felt mouse dressed like Queen Elizabeth, or a patriotic chicken? Or maybe something here:
I always want to hear about your Christmas tree! How do you decorate?
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