What's on top of yours?

The year the last home made star fell to pieces, I was given a gift by a family I had helped. It was a chubby, smiley angel, with the message ' to watch over you, as you have watched over us'. 20 years on, she still does.

My grandson had his Action Man at the top of the tree for years.

I would like a fairy, but have never found one I liked

Gave our Angel to my d had it for forty years from woolies have a star now. My d has put away to keep as a antique I think.

We have a star we made ourselves as it was difficult to find one big enough for a big tree. Both of us grew up with a star at the top of the Christmas tree, so no arguments there. I still have the one from my childhood's Christmas trees, sometimes I hang it up in a window, just to have it out again.

Completely off subject but when I saw this post's title I immediately assumed it was going to be about things people put on top of fridge freezers and wardrobes. Sorry, DH has been irritating me recently by cluttering storing things on same - must be affecting me more that I realised. As you were. (A fairy or star for our family).

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Ooooo JackyB we had one too! A hard plastic doll whose legs didn’t move, but her arms did and she had a blonde doll wig. She was dressed in a tulle (although I am sure it was called Tarlatan in those days!) with tulle and glitter wings with a piece of skinny tinsel wrapped round as her halo (?) and a beautiful hair grip with a diamanté star as a wand. The wand was held in place with a rubber band and so was she - definitely no pants though! My mother redid her outfit when she deemed it too dowdy (dusty?). Until last year I had been very proud of my Gisela Graham angel but she took a nosedive off our new tree and lost her wings last year and at that point I found I was the only person who liked her - everyone else felt she was quite malevolent!

I put a star on top of mine. I'm also very lazy, I bung the tree into a large fabric bag and chuck it in the cupboard under the stairs, fully decorated until next year. How bad is that?

A very cute, life like robin

Direne - I thought that too when I read it
I hate things on the tops of cupboards and wardrobe but DH doesn't seem to mind [grrr]

Hate is too strong a word methinks.

I dislike seeing things on tops of cupboards and wardrobes gathering dust!.

My tree isn't decorated yet but how about some pictures of toppers??

Always a star!

Bathsheba and JackyB we did too at home - I’d forgotten all about it! Thankyou both for that lovely memory!
We have a quite tatty angel made by DD (now 35) at playgroup, fixed many times and I wouldn’t part with her for a pension!

Garden gnome

I have a 69 year old fairy with a paper dress, sometimes bought an angel or star but she still sits in the tree instead of on top

We always have Barbie, with one of her beautiful dresses!

A strange fairy/ elfie person. DD gave it to us years ago so we can never replace it

I have an 'angel' that was made (not by me) from a nylon stocking. Apart from its wings it is naked with a scrumptious bottom. My daughter calls it my bum fairy!

33 years ago my daughter made The Bog Roll Fairy- it hasn't missed a Christmas at the top of our tree.

Dirine - I thought the same!

I havent anything on my little tree as its an optic one,its the 2nd year i have had it,but never thought of putting anything on it until reading here.

At the top of my Christmas tree, is ... about 6 inches of new growth . I bought it from Lidl last year (it's a biggish table top one, about 1M tall), stuck it behind a tree fern on the patio after Christmas 2016 and hadn't been anywhere near it for 11 months. When I remembered about it yesterday and brought it out, it had not only survived, but had lots of new growth.

So I'm very pleased with it and shall decorate it with all new baubles this year. It's a real tree in every sense of the word.

Ive got a big star too heavy for my little tree so its listing a bit. My fairy is tied on by her neck with string legs straddling the branch under the big star. Never mind i like it