35 Funny Tweets That Capture The Authenticity Of The ‘Magical’ Christmas Tree Decorating Season
Christmas is one of the most magical times of the year. All the cities and towns light up their Christmas trees, streets shine from different lights and beautiful decorations. People rush to buy presents and bring this wonderful celebration to their homes.
Decorating one's home for Christmas, I think, is one of the favorite activities of many of us. However, it’s not a surprise that everyone has different visions of what we want our Christmas decorations and tree to look like, which, let's say, occasionally leads to arguments with our family members or brings little disasters if we have pets or toddlers.

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What is the box you speak of?? 😅 - PacNW native here, literally never seen trees come in boxes 😝
I learned very quickly to wear old clothes to my friends house when her 4 kids were young
When my son was young, my best friend would wear old T-shirts when he visited because my son loved spaghetti and also loved wiping it on my friend's shirt.
Load More Replies...I have a good memory of literally walking through our woods in the snow with my mom and dad and cutting down our Christmas tree. The snow made everything quiet and magical. Literally a Hallmark movie kind of moment. But 50 years later I'd rather have a modest artificial tree I can reuse. Even though most real xmas trees are farmed, it still bugs me to see all those real trees cut down and tossed each year. I was thinking 'hundreds of thousands' but I just found this - "According to the National Christmas Tree Association, roughly 25 to 30 million real Christmas trees are sold annually in the United States."
I have OCD. I lived on baby wipes during my daughter’s childhood. 😂 My daughter still finds that funny. 😆
we use get a real tree every year but it's a hassle - it DOES get sticky ( but smells nice) , its browns and sheds if you don't sit it in some kind of fresh water bain
A "real" tree is wasteful, unnecessary, overly expensive, messy and dies for what is a temporary decoration that you're just going to throw away. I'd rather put that $75-$100 most decent sized trees cost toward more gifts for someone than throw it away on a tree.
Well, at least the real ones decompose. Plastic ones stay around for a couple of centuries.
Load More Replies...When we were little our mom used to rearrange the tinsel that we threw in globs at the Christmas tree into beautiful orderly tinsel. Years later she told me she wouldn't have been able to sleep at night without fixing that tinsel. Lol.
I got my toddlers their own little trees and their own non-breakable ornaments. They loved decorating, taking the ornaments off and playing with them, then redecorating. They loved that it was their very own tree.
I got to my teens, and decorating the tree felt like such a chore. Then my dad moved out and we had to do two trees and it was worse!
Every year, once Christmas is just around the corner and people start decorating their houses, we can visit the internet and find full social media of everybody’s art. Well, and obviously - memes. People are sharing their decorating failures, struggles that they face with having kids at home and cats hanging on the trees.
In this post, we have collected funny tweets that show a glimpse through parents’ eyes at the struggles with Christmas trees.
We have an all-season tree, and my daughter decorates it for each season. Grandson decorated it for Christmas this year.
because then it will slowly dry out and then one day spontaneously combust and burn the house down. that is why every new years eve we always have a big bonfire of our christmas tree
Every person tends to decorate their Christmas tree on different dates. Well, to be fair, there are no rules when it’s the right time for it. Some folks like to put it up in late November, some in the beginning of December, the day before Christmas or even in October (this one I would say is a little bit too early, but again - there is no right or wrong answer).
But did you know that early Christmas decorations actually have psychological benefits? Good Housekeeping shares that your mental health will benefit from anything you can do to make your house cozier and more festive during winter.
Im Jewish, don't know to take it in as an offense or a compliment, or neither?
From another Jewish person, a compliment! LOL
Load More Replies...I want the life where "my pig" knocks over the Christmas tree. I wouldn't complain.
QUICK! There's still time! Tell her she's welcome to use up all the hot water and start fixing!
But rarely after they are spit roasted. Good pig = good pet. Bad pig = good meal.
Load More Replies...Hope he doesn't have cats, they take that as a personal challenge.
Additionally, bringing in the holiday spirit early in your house with Christmas decorations could foster a more enduring sense of generosity and gently improve your mood by bringing a touch of shine to an otherwise ordinary setting.
Research indicates that decorating for the holidays uplifts the spirit and evokes happy memories. Not to add that the simple act of hanging Christmas decorations releases more dopamine, the joyful hormone. Holiday décor awakens our inner children and evokes happy feelings in every one of us.
Were they 5 of the 7 words George Carlin told us about? (If you know, you know.)
Ten minutes in, my wife needs me to put ornaments in places she can't reach and I always get it wrong. We tried a laser pointer one year and TheGoodBoi almost tackled the tree...
I've made the tradition that the kids decorate the tree with their uncle the first night we are all together together over the Christmas holiday, usually Dec 23-24ish.
Now, let’s look through when people used to put their Christmas decorations up and what are the popular choices today. So, House Beautiful states that Christmas trees were typically decorated much later in December during the Victorian era, frequently on Christmas Eve afternoon.
Now, some people like to put their decorations up right after Halloween. So November 1st is the beginning of this festive season.
Funny that at my house Santa got beer and a pack of cheese an onion chips
When my sister was, like 6, she insisted on leaving Santa soup because he'd been eating cookies all night.
Load More Replies...Total mistake...I had to get up on the roof for some reason around Xmas eve....yes we opened presents that day.
There was a time when real burning candles were used to decorate the Yuletide trees.
There are two pictures of me with a christmas tree and real candles when I was around 4 or 5 years old. First picture shows me standing awestruck in front of it, the second see me reaching out to the candles and a few grownup hands hurrying to get me away quickly.
Load More Replies...I found tinsel in my one of my cats' hairball vomit, I haven't had tinsel since before I had the cat, she's indoor only and I still haven't worked out where it came from.
Advent, a crucial day in the Christian calendar, is the time leading up to Christmas, when we commemorate the birth of Jesus and begin our preparations. An Advent candle and wreath can be used to commemorate the event. Christmas trees are traditionally put up at the start of Advent, which falls on the fourth Sunday before Christmas.
And obviously, December 1st. I believe it’s still one of the most popular dates when people tend to decorate their home. You know, you start opening your Advent calendar and decorate your Christmas tree!
So guys, have you already put your Christmas tree up? Are you excited for this magical period? Have you had some funny incidents with decorations? Share your thoughts below!
Epiphany is celebrated as the day the Three Wise Men found the baby Jesus and gave him gifts. It’s considered the last day of the Christmas season. It’s more of a Catholic practice than a Protestant one.
What the heck is "Epiphany"? I know the meaning of the word when it isn't capitalized, but is it a specific meaningful day to worshippers of Big Sky Daddy?
I would humbly suggest that calling yourself "Lakotawolf" and being snide about other beliefs is a tad ironic.
Load More Replies...A "humbug" is someone who spreads false Christmas cheer. I guess this qualifies, lol
When my kids were small, I worked retail. Therefore, the tree went up on Thanksgiving day and came down as soon as they finished opening gifts on Christmas day. It's time for the white sale, we need to move on now.
My tree usually comes down on Boxing Day or shortly after. By that point I’m sick of the mess
I purposely leave Halloween decorations up until Thanksgiving in protest and to send the message that it's not F'N Christmas yet.
I like to leave my Halloween decorations up all of November because November is my birthday month. Until one year when I missed a couple of my skulls and bones that I've "corpsed" in the past and they were revealed from under the leaves after the first good windstorm of December and the bones were looking sketchy like we might be cereal killers, leaving our leftovers lying about.
Load More Replies...I like it. Once Halloween is over, I'm game for Christmas. Might as well enjoy as long as possible. We put our tree up on Thanksgiving weekend, but I don't mind earlier ones
Come on. The world is a mess. Let people have their Christmas decorations early. They don't hurt anyone
You're being entirely too hard on yourself. 1st week of mobility and only a couple fistful of Doggos food washing it down with Doggos water. No sweat! By the time he's 2 he'll have eaten at least half a kilo of dirt! 9/10 from this experienced mom. 👍
Plus he's trying different foods! It doesn't matter that it's DOG food! Exposure to different foods during this phase of life helps broaden their palate! XD
Load More Replies...Child is still alive with no hospital visit needed, that's 10/10 parenting.
Eating the dog's food before it goes in is better than picking up a piece of the dog's food after it has come out and trying to put that in your mouth. I forget which grandchild but we were like - OMG NO! Don't eat that! Cries when taken away like we stole a good find from him.
I hear no mention of bugs being eaten. That's A+ parenting, right there.
You’ve got a son? Well we’ll, by the time he’s five he will probably have been to the emergency department a few times, let me give you some examples; dancing on the table at a McDonald’s party, slipping and hitting his head. Administering his own medication and then having to get his stomach pumped. Banging faces with another kid at daycare requiring an emergency dentist to put the tooth back in because he’s way too young for his adult teeth yet. Picking up a bug at swimming lessons resulting in vomiting and diarrhoea for a week, another hospital visit and a call from the health department. Welcome to boys. My daughter, not a damn thing.
The dogfood isn't much of an issue, but keep an eye on him around the houseplants. Some of those are toxic and even a little bit could make him sick :-(
THATS NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN WHAT ARE YOU DOING I THINK YOUR HUSBAND WANTS A DIVORCE
Load More Replies...Then where would I put the armchair one of my cats always sleeps on, hmmm??
Load More Replies...I let them do it, then allow my adhd to fix it after they go to bed, so that I can handle looking at it for a month lol.
Load More Replies...F**k it- let em do how they want and fix it later. Sometimes they even it out themselves if you just let it be
This doesn't improve with adult children unless one of them is in an art or design major.
We used to open one Christmas present of my parents' choosing. The rest on C-Day
C-day is what I'm going to start calling it now. Think of it from an outside and badly-explained perspective, people rush to gather as much as they can before said day, everyone is in a panic, they prepare for a man with a huge bag of supplies to invade their house, making sure they don't see him, as he eats their offerings. During the day, you rarely see anyone outside their homes.
Load More Replies...I made the deal that my kid could open one present on Christmas eve of my choosing, it's her new pj's every year so she'll look nice in the Christmas photos
My family is of German decent, we always opened on Christmas Eve. Had a hard time waiting for Christmas morning. Then we started the tradition of my parents Christmas Eve, our house Christmas morning and the in-laws later Christmas day. Now it's only me, just and son left. A little sad sometimes.
LOL I'd buy it, read it, write a review about it and recommend it to every couple going on their fist xmas.
My daughter helps for a little while, gets her favorite ornaments on, then gets bored and finds something else to do. I'll take what I can get.
my grandma gave up on decorating the tree (tho im 13 and love decorating) and she bought these snowflake lights to put on, it looks pretty good ngl. then she puts a. ornament on there with my face on it and called it the butthead tree
I've been stuck with this from being a pre-teen; I'm now almost 40, and have 3-4 trees to decorate, and Christmas lights and decorations... save yourselves!!!
My dad's wife once let me decorate their tree because she didn't want to do it. I found the cutest stuff my brother had done as a kid and so many nice things. But woooow.... dad's wife was not happy. She prefers her home to be white or beige. Incl. The tree, it seems. So I told her that if she was not happy with my tree she was welcome to do it all over. Also, I was thinking why is she having all that stuff she doesn't actually want?
We got a pre-lit tree to end the argument of the best way to put lights on. Even better, the tree goes together in 3 sections, so now we’re only down to proper ornament spacing. The only thing we agree fully on is the bottom 2 feet of the tree are cat toys and soft, unbreakable ornaments. The cats don’t climb the tree, but their first Christmas they managed to break 3 ornaments. Now we just make sure they’re cat friendly.
Oddly enough, our tree was a mishmash of stuff the kids made for many years and different stuff from years past. Our kids moved away, came back and the tree was "too random". Your welcome :(
When I was in preschool (or maybe kindergarten) our class made Christmas ornaments which consisted of drawing on Styrofoam coffee cups, which were then put in someone's oven until they shriveled up into miniature coffee cups (a.k.a. "bells"). I am 35 now, and there will be no holiday unless those silly things are on the tree! Give them a few years to let the nostalgia work its magic.
Load More Replies...My coworker is a legend, and I wish I could have seen this in action. She didn't do any decorating, no tree, nothing until after the toddler went to bed on Christmas Eve. Pulled an all nighter to get the whole house set, kid came downstairs that morning and lost their tiny little mind. Pure wonder.
Tutorial for those who have cats: step 1: open box of ornaments that aren't made of glass. Step 2: dump them on the floor. Step 3: watch cats have the best time ever. Step 4: try not to fall over cats or ornaments.
My job is to get the tree set up, lights and ornaments out of the attic. I do nothing more because apparently there's only one way to decorate a tree and I guess I don't know it lol
I don't know why itssucha big deal. Your kids are going to remember being yelled at and not having fun and no one but you cares how straight the ornaments are.
Sounds like my childhood. I was not allowed to decorate a Christmas tree until I was in my tweens, and even then it wasn’t the one at my house. I think my mom finally allowed me to help when I was 16.
Mine are now 35 33 28 and 24 still not allowed anywhere near the tree 😆
Load More Replies...We did it with life-size ones outside the diner once :-) took a couple of days before they were done...
Load More Replies...Absolutely not. Although, I'd follow that up with 'Break on Through' after watching 'Bad Santa'.
Load More Replies...My mom's response when we tried that as kids; "oh honey, not now" in her Georgia accent.
Load More Replies...Or.... put it up, cats whaps it off, put it higher, cat does amazing vertical leap to knock it off.
I live in a 5th wheeler. The cabinets above the sofa are partially open and my fake Franklin electric heater is just a couple of feet away from sofa. My cat will get on top of the heater and leap across the space to land perfectly in a cabinet, coming in UNDER the partially opened door. I see her start to crouch on the heater and I get total anxiety, but the best part is when she's done exploring the cabinet. She meows for me to get her down.
Load More Replies...Or store the breakables until your kids are old enough to be careful with them. Basically, keep them stored until they’ve all moved out. Keep them well, hidden too, or they’ll move out with your kids and you won’t know it until you’re decorating your first “empty nest” tree.
And then, all of a sudden, there are the grandchildren... I need to find another display option for the beloved ornaments that have spent too many years in the closet.
Load More Replies...We keep those higher up on the tree. Any below, serve as things to throw or things to chew. Depending on your species of course..
We used to have a cat that would hide in the tree and hit ornaments out at the dog. So I am assuming that you are talking about kids eating them.
Load More Replies...There are christmas tree farms that operate on a rental model, now. You collect your potted christmas tree in December, drop it back off in January, and if you want you can reserve the same one from year to year. It's not any cheaper than a cut tree, but it doesn't drop as many needles.
Artificial trees were more interesting and full 50+ years ago. I have two big beautiful bushy ones.
You could get a tree with a rootball and plant it in front of your neighbors' window.
Convenience doesn't build character, eh? NEITHER DOES MARTYRDOM
I put up my tree earlier this week and we will be decorating it this weekend. Then I will spend the next month picking ornaments off the floor because my cat thinks I hang them up for him to play with. Nothing fragile on my tree.
I'll put up my tree the week before Christmas. My life hack for living with cats and having a nice tree is an artificial PU tree with swen on decorations. Yes you've read that right. I have sewn my felted Christmas decorations directly onto the tree. With thin, gold thread. Looks pretty, frustrates kitties.
Why do something year after year and complain about it year after year? I've never put up a christmas tree or a single christmas decoration in my entire 16 years of adult life.
I put up decorations every year, but that's because I love doing it. I definitely don't understand why someone would so it if they hate it.
Load More Replies...When I was little I would get SO FRUSTRATED that I couldn’t reach the top branches to evenly distribute the ornaments haha
My new cat is showing no interest in the Christmas tree, thank goodness. In other news, he had to be pried off the fake holly on the dining room table centerpiece. It was apparently the most delicious thing ever. The centerpiece is back in storage.
I put up my tree earlier this week and we will be decorating it this weekend. Then I will spend the next month picking ornaments off the floor because my cat thinks I hang them up for him to play with. Nothing fragile on my tree.
I'll put up my tree the week before Christmas. My life hack for living with cats and having a nice tree is an artificial PU tree with swen on decorations. Yes you've read that right. I have sewn my felted Christmas decorations directly onto the tree. With thin, gold thread. Looks pretty, frustrates kitties.
Why do something year after year and complain about it year after year? I've never put up a christmas tree or a single christmas decoration in my entire 16 years of adult life.
I put up decorations every year, but that's because I love doing it. I definitely don't understand why someone would so it if they hate it.
Load More Replies...When I was little I would get SO FRUSTRATED that I couldn’t reach the top branches to evenly distribute the ornaments haha
My new cat is showing no interest in the Christmas tree, thank goodness. In other news, he had to be pried off the fake holly on the dining room table centerpiece. It was apparently the most delicious thing ever. The centerpiece is back in storage.
