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
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.
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.
