Spicy Christmas Take: 'Tinsel is tacky and we should ban it from the Christmas tree'

Welcome to Spicy Christmas Takes, a series where the 9Honey team put their strongest, most divisive festive opinions out into the world.

I love Christmas.

Every year the tree goes up earlier and earlier. In fact, I managed to hold off until November 20 this year.

I love the planning, the decorating, the presents, the movies (Love Actually, of course), the music (Wham, of course) and the food (ham, of course).

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Christmas is, as the Andy Williams song says, the most wonderful time of the year.

But when it comes to Christmas, there's one thing I can't do: Tinsel.

No. Just no.

I banned it in my house a few years ago.

Tinsel on a tree is awful and just so outdated. It's the parasilk tracksuit of the festive season (2000 Olympics, I'm looking at you). It belongs in a cardboard box under the stairs and not on a Christmas tree.

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And forget about how it looks — I certainly have tried to — it makes such a mess everywhere too. And have I mentioned it looks bad?

Give me baubles, a Christmas star and a string of lights any day of the week. (Hmm, I wonder if I can leave it up all year...)

But please, no more tinsel.

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Maybe that's what George Michael was singing about, or should be singing about?

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart (cough, tinsel). And the very next day, you gave it away.

Be like George. Give away the tinsel.