We used to have an angel as a tree topper, but a some point I stopped using her. I felt like she kind of detracted from the rest of the tree?? I think for themed/color-coordinated trees a topper is great. I like one less so on a tree (such as ours) that has a huge mix of colors and types of ornaments.
So there’s a good question above…. Is your tree a mish-mash of lights/ornaments, embellishments? Or a themed tree - like all white ornaments and white lights.
Ours is mish-mash. Ornaments collected over the years + 2 kids ornaments because they haven’t taken theirs yet. Colored lights but then I take two strings of “white” round bigger bulbs and weave them in.
Mish mash tree here. Our ornaments are themed - We have travel ornaments, angel ornaments, and hobby ornaments. Family ornaments are woven in too.
We desperately need a new artificial tree. Our “good tree” is too tall for this house and the current tree needs to be a foot taller.
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Our tree is a mish mash. Dh’s mom gave her kids 2-3 ornaments every Christmas, each inconspicuously labeled with their name and year. She sent us boxes of H’s ornaments when we got married. Those alone could almost fill our tree! I’ve followed the same tradition with our four kids, although they only get one ornament each. All of those, combined with various ornaments which purchased ourselves or been given as gifts mean our tree is a total hodgepodge, but it is a very meaningful tree.
We’ve had our tree for a week but it is still outside. I was afraid the dry heat inside the house would cause a lot of dry needles before we even make it to Christmas. Dh will bring it inside today.
Mish-mash all the way. I have ornaments I got from my mom, ornaments from travel, ornaments I gave to my kids, ornaments from travel, and ornaments at least one kid made in pre-school.
Mish-mash for us, too: We have lots of ornaments for the kids from when they were young, to ones that are themed for their respective universities. Plus, themed Christmas trees remind me of what my late father’s third wife used to do every Christmas; so I just have a bad feeling about them.
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@Catcherinthetoast your tree looks very much what mine will eventually look like. We brought it inside today, a week after buying it, and tomorrow I will start stringing the lights. The shape of yours is similar to mine, and I too use red bead garland!
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Mish mash here too. With an Angel on top. Hopefully will get it up tomorrow. It sort of looks the same every year.
I don’t think we used our angel last year…she needs some repairs.
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Mish-mash; it looks pretty from far away, but if you look at it up close we have all of D20s ornaments, so there are a lot of fandoms represented. We got her ornaments based on what she was into that year, so we have daleks and tardis, swimmers, Spiderman, Supernatural mixed with new home ornaments (we moved a lot, it’s a running ornament joke) along with some pretty ones from my hope chest, some homemade ones and wooden ornaments and garland I had as a kid. It’s a memory tree; it tells the story of our lives, and we love it.
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Ours is a “themed mishmash”: the ornaments are mostly flora, fauna, and places we have been (or artifacts from our travel). Predominately white and blue, accented by blue and white lights and the blue bow tree topper (live trees don’t like bulky angels or stars on their top). The survivor tree is still on the deck, waiting… 
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I have a picture.of my main one upthread, but both of ours are definitely mismash. We have ornaments ranging from the ones H’s grandmother cross-stitched to ones the kids made and the ones H and I made. But the photo ornaments, the Hallmark ornaments and the travel ornaments stand out the most. The travel ones are my must buy souvenir on each trip. The Hallmark (or Walmart) we used to always get one per family member each year. And I also make at least one photo ornament of each kid each year. Love Shutterfly! They are much nicer than the cut and stick when they were little in the pre-digital era.
The downstairs tree has our nicer ornaments. There are some nicer ones upstairs too, but that’s where you’ll find the Rudolph head that came on a candy filled candy cane tube. I chewed his nose off when I was 4. He goes on the tree every year.
Edit - here’s Rudolph!
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Our tree goes up Christmas Eve and stays up through Epiphany {sometimes longer}
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At one point we had two trees. One was mish mash and the other (the larger of the two) had only gold and white ornaments. In our last house-to-house move (before we downsized), we went down to just the larger tree because that last house had tall ceilings. When we did the downsizing, we had to get rid of that tree as it was 12 feet tall and our condo ceilings were only 8 feet. Pretty easy to know that was something that needed to be purged for the move.
H is a little kid when it comes to Christmas trees. They have to be real, and they have to be huge. The bigger one goes in the family room, and it’s decorated with ornaments we have collected over the years, including a lot of vintage ornaments. The “small” tree is in the living room, and I swear, it gets bigger every year. That tree is decorated with ornaments the kids made & ornaments we collected as a family through the years (it’s the non-fancy tree). I came home to a tree that takes up way too much room in the living room this year. I hate to burst H’s happy bubble, but I told him I don’t want to shove the chair and side table into the dining room next year, and I don’t want to feel like the coffee table should also be moved. Sigh. But they do look nice.
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