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The Little Lilypad is a lifestyle blog mostly written by a mum to two beautiful, cheeky and entertaining daughters. It is sometimes written by the Man on the Pad or by one of our baby bloggers. Occasionally we accept guest posts too. There is frequently talk of sustainable living, saving money, lifestyle and travel. It is hopefully helpful, sometimes funny and always honest.
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On the fifth day of Christmas ......

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my true love gave to me ..... a post from the lovely Cambridge Mummy.

This Christmas I'm giving something to myself - a new Christmas tree and some *nice* Christmas decorations. OK, so they are not the £99 baubles that Mamasaurus recently reviewed, but they are, in my mind, 'expensive'. They are around £4.00 per bauble. And I'm having a matching theme and everything. But anyway, I want to tell you about why I'm doing this…



Christmas tree lights

 

To me, Christmas is about the shiny, the sparkle, the new - or new again, starting anew and starting over. The only fly in the ointment has been that the Christmas tree is a fake one and we've had it so long that we've officially been "in profit" on for a couple of years now. It's in profit because we bought it several years ago, calculated the average cost of a real tree and then kept using the fake one for so long that we were mentally in profit. 

I think that my fascination with decorations at Christmas comes from when I was little - very small indeed - I made a Mary and Joseph at school - using the old faithful of washing up bottles for the bodies and I don't know what for the head. But there was material on them, and they were such a thing of beauty - to me and my Mum, that they were still the signal of Christmas when I was at University. I'd come home and look for where my Mum had put them. Sadly, my Dad instigated a "clearing out the loft" initiative and binned all of our family decorations a few years ago. He still gets told off for it, every year, by both me and my Mum!

So, now that the boys are past the point of dragging the tree down, I'm in the market for a new Christmas tree and I'm really happy about it. It's got to be pre lit, around 6.5 or 7 metres high and a nice colour of green.

To me, my first day of Christmas, will be when I get my tree, so I've got to get onto it. Pronto. What would you recommend?

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  1. Oh it has to be a real tree. Water it with aspirin in the water to keep it looking fresh and not dropping its needles

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  2. I bought all sorts of new decorations last year too as my two are old enough to not be messing with it - It looked lovely but I missed all the homemade ones so within a day it was a mix of both and I loved it x

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  3. oh i normally wait till the week before but the kids are NAGGING! WE have a fake one normally but.... maybe this year.

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  4. Love putting up the tree and I too have treated myself to some new baubles this year - not crazy expensive ones but nice all the same. We always go for. Real tree, which I love - the smell is gorgeous - but the constant needle dropping /hoovering cycle does start to drive me a bit nuts a few days in!

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  5. Ha ha Liz my fancy baubles ! I threw out ALL our decs in january as they were ones left by the previous homeowners in the loft and we've been too lazy to replace them. I love the idea of collecting decorations that end up meaning something to us, ones the kids remember when they are grown up :)

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  6. Ooh - we put ours up last weekend and it was SO exciting! We've got a brilliant fake one, but 3 years on we regret it. Yes it's beautiful, yes I love the even distribution of branches, but it's huge to store all year. Go real! xx

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  7. It never feels like Christmas until the tree is up. We have a real one every year, no idea when we've got time to get it though!

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  8. Getting our tree tomorrow YIPPEE! Loved this, made me smile :)

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  9. Love new Christmas decs and try and get at least one new thing every year. I made a cardboard nativity scene when I was about five and we had it until I moved out at 19.

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  10. Good luck hunting for the perfect tree! I have a very kitsch white one, not to everyones taste, but I figure if your going fake go FAAAAKKKEE! lol! We have a real one too to keep the OH happy and to give that lovely smell!

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  11. Oh booo to your dad throwing away all the family decorations!! But yes, do LOVE it when we start decorating the home.

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