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Mom And Daughter Have Been Exchanging The Ugliest Ornaments For Christmas And Their Tree Is Getting More Hilarious Each Year (23 Pics)
What's great about the Holiday Season is that it's open for interpretation. Every family creates their own Christmas spirit. And in Julia Mordaunt's case, it's quite an entertaining one.
Every year, her mother and sister exchange the ugliest Christmas tree decorations they can find. Both of them take the tradition seriously and constantly try to outdo each other. If one brings a fancy zebra in a skirt and heels, the other presents a deviled egg. If the first responds with a faucet, the second comes back with a perverted gingerbread man. It's a neverending story!
Continue scrolling to check out how the festive competition has been unfolding and upvote your favorite ornaments. Then we'll know who's winning.
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Bettye McKee 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know, I like this one. Does it really qualify as ugly?
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
The tree skirt lifts up and the cat runs under it so you can't put it back down without getting up.
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You could say the Christmas tree was long in the making. Even long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter.
Just as we decorate our homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient folks hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many places, it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
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AP 3 years ago
I have this one! XD to commemorate getting out of California when it was at it's worst drought and on fire
Bettye McKee 3 years ago
Probably they should change "ugly" to "outrageous" because some of these are cute.
Amaree Matthews 3 years ago
We were given this one to commemorate all the water problems we have had at our house.
Germany is credited with starting the modern version of this tradition in the 16th century when devout Christians started bringing decorated trees into their homes.
Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It's also widely believed that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I LOVE deviled eggs, and I love this ornament. I am going to have to challenge my family to such a contest. I give ornaments every year, to try and mark a key event of the year.. which were almost non-existent because of COVID, so ugliest ornament would be right up my alley!
Interestingly, even in the 19th-century, most Americans found Christmas trees an oddity.
The first record of one being on display dates back to the 1830s to the German settlers of Pennsylvania; although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans.
I wonder what people back then would've said about Julia's family tree. Maybe it would have made them come around sooner?
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Gabby M 3 years ago
Manatee with Lips No that doesn't make sense. Something with lips carrying fruit, wearing pearls and eyes on the side of the head! Hmmm
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Julie Roth 3 years ago
Pretty sure that is one of the monsters from the 90s Nickelodeon show Ahhh! Real Monsters
Mshauri Mazuri 3 years ago
This is a very fancy crab, i like it, the eyes are like they have eye shadows 😂
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I can hear the previously excited 6 year old girl who ran down the stairs to see if Santa brought Pinkie Pie to discover this instead. "DON"T WANT A PONY! I DON"T WANT A PONY! HIDE ME FROM THE PONY!"
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
"Peter Rabbit said what about my mother? His nuts are mine!"
Bored Birgit 3 years ago
I see Santa, it said, ... and his eye looked to the right and the other one up to the sky.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
It looks like the 101 dalmatians caught Cruella de 'Vil instead of the other way around.
Jonny Man 3 years ago
In the reboot, it turned out that Cruella was a Dalmatian herself all along.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Nothing says Christmas for the 22 states in the US like an albatross-headed sparrow.
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Julia Atkinson 3 years ago
Looks like the sort of monster you see lurking in the margins of medieval manuscripts
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froggie froggie 3 years ago
uh. . .it just looks like a beluga with warts on its back or maybe barnacles
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Vicky Z 3 years ago
Not so fine! I think it hasn't vaccinated for smallpox
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Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
He looks like he owns both a noodle shop and an international finance conglomerate.
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Auntriarch 3 years ago
True. But if this rhino wants to identify as hippo, I'm cool
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Vicki Cooper 3 years ago
Wow, honestly who actually makes these and when they do make them, why do they think they are a good idea?
Cheryl Ramsay 3 years ago
And WERE do these people find these ornaments to buy?
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Cheryl Ramsay 3 years ago
I don't know but he kinda looks like my niece's new husband: beard and all.
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Julia recommends other people should also try this out
And judging from the way her thread was received, it's only a matter of time before they do
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Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago (edited)
These are hilarious i love weird random Christmas tree decorations 😂 i have ones shaped like squids, lobsters, glittery sprouts, dinosaurs and a pack of crayons on mine with a bat on the top 😅
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
When my mother was in 2nd grade, she made an ornament at school with a roll of fruit flavored life savers, yarn, and googly eyes that was supposed to look like Pogo the 'possum. It really doesn't. Many decades later, that stale roll of life savers is still on her tree every year.
Vic Parry 3 years ago
My sister & I do it too!! We also have to buy the worst presents we can find for each other whenever we go on holiday. I have some pure tatt which I adore
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My sister and a couple of friends and I used to play a similar game I invented... we'd start off at the local flea market, where we'd scout out the ugliest earrings we could find... and we found some really hideous ones. Then we'd put them on and wear them to our favorite restaurant. We each got one vote, and usually the wait staff wanted to vote too. The winner with the ugliest earrings had their lunch paid for. Much hilarity ensued. I think we'll transition to ornaments.
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
Hilarious! I especially love the part where she says smoking pot helps make it fun. It makes everything more fun! ;-) I love buying ornaments with the year on them that are significant. Last year's was a classic (the masks and toilet paper). Christmas-...8b7124.jpg 
Auntriarch 3 years ago (edited)
Brilliant! When the pub reopened last year, I made little masks for the plushie dragon family behind the bar. So if anyone tried to enter without a mask, Sue would just point to them and say, if Dai can wear a mask so can you!
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Oogiebogieaugiedaddy 3 years ago
Y'all made me laugh so hard. Truly some super ugly ornaments!!! Loved that TV dinner!
Goth mouse (they/them) 3 years ago (edited)
These are hilarious i love weird random Christmas tree decorations 😂 i have ones shaped like squids, lobsters, glittery sprouts, dinosaurs and a pack of crayons on mine with a bat on the top 😅
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
When my mother was in 2nd grade, she made an ornament at school with a roll of fruit flavored life savers, yarn, and googly eyes that was supposed to look like Pogo the 'possum. It really doesn't. Many decades later, that stale roll of life savers is still on her tree every year.
Vic Parry 3 years ago
My sister & I do it too!! We also have to buy the worst presents we can find for each other whenever we go on holiday. I have some pure tatt which I adore
Load More Replies... GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My sister and a couple of friends and I used to play a similar game I invented... we'd start off at the local flea market, where we'd scout out the ugliest earrings we could find... and we found some really hideous ones. Then we'd put them on and wear them to our favorite restaurant. We each got one vote, and usually the wait staff wanted to vote too. The winner with the ugliest earrings had their lunch paid for. Much hilarity ensued. I think we'll transition to ornaments.
Tiny Dancer 3 years ago
Hilarious! I especially love the part where she says smoking pot helps make it fun. It makes everything more fun! ;-) I love buying ornaments with the year on them that are significant. Last year's was a classic (the masks and toilet paper). Christmas-...8b7124.jpg
Auntriarch 3 years ago (edited)
Brilliant! When the pub reopened last year, I made little masks for the plushie dragon family behind the bar. So if anyone tried to enter without a mask, Sue would just point to them and say, if Dai can wear a mask so can you!
Load More Replies... Oogiebogieaugiedaddy 3 years ago
Y'all made me laugh so hard. Truly some super ugly ornaments!!! Loved that TV dinner!
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