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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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.
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.
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?
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!"
"Peter Rabbit said what about my mother? His nuts are mine!"
It looks like the 101 dalmatians caught Cruella de 'Vil instead of the other way around.
Nothing says Christmas for the 22 states in the US like an albatross-headed sparrow.
Looks like the sort of monster you see lurking in the margins of medieval manuscripts
I don't know but he kinda looks like my niece's new husband: beard and all.
Load More Replies...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
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 😅
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.
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...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.
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
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...Y'all made me laugh so hard. Truly some super ugly ornaments!!! Loved that TV dinner!
Yeah, it's funny, but can we stop celebrating tacky plastic s**t that is destroying our planet?
These are so repulsive, I love them! This is about the only thing that would get me pumped up about having a Christmas tree. Unfortunately, my mother is a traditionalist and would never agree to having a tree full of completely hideous ornaments. She's 80. She can have it her way.
We didn’t do ornaments. We did a fruitcake you were stuck with, and you had to date the box, wrap it and give it. It came to an end after our mom passed but the same fruitcake for 10 years.
I dunno, these are pretty quality, I've seen some truly hideous ornaments in my time
I adore this ! I think I'll start this with my two daughters who will soon be moving out on their own soon. This would be fun to do with family that's far away too .
Are these home made? I love this idea but not everyone is as crafty as my daughter and I. My mom hangs an ornament I made in grade 1 or 2..every year. Our class cut out paper napkins and glued them to white Styrofoam balls. Horribly ugly lol
What I find scary/sad is that somebody thought to make this stuff up *in the first place*.
Your life must be really sad if you cannot find joys in the simple things. Which is extremely contradictory to your user name of the "Übermensch".
Load More Replies...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 😅
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.
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...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.
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
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...Y'all made me laugh so hard. Truly some super ugly ornaments!!! Loved that TV dinner!
Yeah, it's funny, but can we stop celebrating tacky plastic s**t that is destroying our planet?
These are so repulsive, I love them! This is about the only thing that would get me pumped up about having a Christmas tree. Unfortunately, my mother is a traditionalist and would never agree to having a tree full of completely hideous ornaments. She's 80. She can have it her way.
We didn’t do ornaments. We did a fruitcake you were stuck with, and you had to date the box, wrap it and give it. It came to an end after our mom passed but the same fruitcake for 10 years.
I dunno, these are pretty quality, I've seen some truly hideous ornaments in my time
I adore this ! I think I'll start this with my two daughters who will soon be moving out on their own soon. This would be fun to do with family that's far away too .
Are these home made? I love this idea but not everyone is as crafty as my daughter and I. My mom hangs an ornament I made in grade 1 or 2..every year. Our class cut out paper napkins and glued them to white Styrofoam balls. Horribly ugly lol
What I find scary/sad is that somebody thought to make this stuff up *in the first place*.
Your life must be really sad if you cannot find joys in the simple things. Which is extremely contradictory to your user name of the "Übermensch".
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