Those mushrooms are actually a Scandinavian/Nordic tradition from wayyy back! The red ones with the white spots, amanita muscaria, are poisonous to humans but the myth I was told is that they give Santa's reindeers the ability fly, and are also known as fly agaric or fly amanita. Given that IKEA is a Swedish company, it's very suitable and tradition that they offer holiday ornaments in the shape of those mushrooms. Plus they are just very forest-y, cottage-core and cute, provided you don't eat them. :)
Exactly this. The fly agaric is also perhaps why Santa’s outfit is red and white. My favourite fact is that the fly agaric is very hallucinogenic, but not to reindeers who eat them. Their urine contains those hallucinogens but not the stuff that makes you sick. Word is that reindeer herders are partial to a tipple of reindeer wee when they want to trip 😁
It's very popular across board though. Mushrooms have become legal in parts of the country. And in the rest, it's a very real warm loving space in their hearts when they think about them 😊 if you catch my drift. People are not even shy about it anymore!
I was waiting for him to hate on the gnomes, and I was shocked when he said they were cute! My gnomes breath a sigh of relief to receive Nick's approval. 😂
The Christmas Mushroom --- Known in German as glücklicher pilz or gluckspilz (which literally means “lucky mushroom”), the red-and-white speckled fungi grow deep in the forest. Its real name is Amanita muscaria or fly agaric, and finding one is thought to be a sign of good luck. Besides being found at the base of pine trees, there’s another reason this fungus has been dubbed the Christmas mushroom: It’s a favorite food of reindeer! In fact, Santa’s favorite animal loves the mushroom so much that reindeer herders use bags of it to keep them together and avoid losing any strays. While the Germans may have hung the dried mushrooms on their trees more for luck than decoration, we can’t help but notice the similarities between the fly agaric and modern Christmas decor. They’re both bright and cheery and prominently feature reds and whites. Plus, the firetruck-red cap of the fly agaric stands out on brown forest floors just like Rudolph’s red nose sticks out in the night sky! Since this particular red and white mushroom is poisonous to eat, we don’t recommend hanging a real one on your tree.
Greetings from Germany - we‘ve had mushrooms on the Christmas tree for as long as I remember (bit smaller, made from wood and hand-painted though), decades before they‘ve become an interior design trend. 😂 Not sure if it‘s a German or a family thing, but I‘ll for sure put them on the tree this year again, gotta honor the tradition. 😌✨
In Germany, these exact kind of mushroom ornaments exist since the beginning of glas tree ornaments and antique ones are horribly expensive and very coveted. Amanita mushrooms are symbols of luck and while they do make an appearance on Christmas, they really come out in full force for New Year´s - together with (lucky) four-leaf clovers, (lucky) pigs, and (lucky) chimney sweeps. Often in a combination of a happy chimney sweep riding a pig and carrying an amanity mushroom and a four-leaf clover.
I can't drink alcohol for health reasons, the Ikea christmas spice juices and things like that are a fantastic replacement. They go well with meat and are not like "just juice because I can't have wine", they can be paired. People should REALLY consider using them. I'm not against alcohol at the table, but it's so bad for the health that starting considering alternatives is just great.
Not everyone enjoys alcohol, not everyone should have it. Kids and alcoholics, people with different diseases, taking different medication which interfere with alcohol, just as example. And those sparkling refreshments are tasty. But I prefer pear one. It's like sweeter, non alcoholic cider. 11:48
@@wariamiktoria Yes, my fav ones are the sparkling pear and the mulled juice (spiced fruit juice). I drink the spiced one cold or hot, it's very nice with red meat!
Tip from my mother about decorating a really deluxe traditional Christmas tree (from the Bombay Co that went out of business years ago): use those filler ornaments close to the trunk to add extra sparkle and reflect the light from your string lights. It gives a really beautiful layered effect that I prefer over just having ornaments on the ends of the branches
I did this for the first time... I strung the lights the "real" way (stretched the length of each individual branch, then spiraled back to the trunk). I also put a bunch of literally plastic, glittery and shiny ornaments way back towards the trunk, and my tree is absolutely luminous 🤩
Got a new tree last year and the middle is a bit bare and the wires are visible. . I bought red cardinals on Amazon and perched them inside the tree. It’s a fun surprise when people look up close and I can’t see the wires.
I live in Sweden and my impression from this video is that more or less everything that IKEA is selling in their Christmas collection is more affordable versions of traditional (generally hand made or slightly more expensive) "Swedish" ornaments, sometimes they've added a bit of a twist. Many of our "Swedish" Christmas traditions originates in the German speaking countries and are probably common there as well. The paper and straw ornaments (both the balls, the bells, the stars, the angels etc) are all more or less traditional and my parents have similar ones that has been used for many decades. In their tree there's also a red and white mushroom, my dad was givien it in the 1950s, so nothing is really new here. The Christmas goat ("julbock") might be something slightly more specifically Swedish/Scandinavian (I don't really know how widespread it is) and generally made from straw or from pine. If you google "Gävlebocken" you can find pictures of a bigger version of a straw "julbock" that is put up in the town Gävle every year. Every year you are also able to place bets regarding if someone will successfully be able to burn it down this year or not...
In our part of Germany we have the tradition of the „Christmas Pickle“. It is a small glass ornament in the shape of a pickle. You put it on the Christmas tree and „hide“ it there. The person who finds it receives an extra little present. That is a nice tradition. Fröhliche Weihnachten an alle da draußen, 🎄💫
Actually mainly an American thing. Most Germans won't know the pickle. Just out of curiosity: which region in Germany, because you're the first German, I heard, that knows it?
Was just about to stop watching You tube and get on with daily life ... And you posted 5 minutes before.. So here I am, Ikea app open , watching avidly! 🎄🤶🏻
"I don't have room for storage in my kitchen," says the guy with three empty carts under his counter. 😂😂 Just playing, Nick! 🥰 Also, as your friendly IKEA visual merchandiser follower, my store is already out of stock on most of these items for the holiday season. 😩 But wholeheartedly agree with pretty much everything you've said here in this video. Absolutely LOVED the wicker tree skirt ring.
I'm sure lots of people buy the Lingonberry bubbly drink for their kids to drink while the adults are drinking champagne. When I was a kid we always had "kid's champagne" (mostly a bubbly apple or grape juice) at home for new year's eve so we could have a toast with our parents at midnight
Mushrooms for christmas story: you know the traditionnal european christmas cake is called "bûche", which means log. It was historicaly a real log, then it became a cake decorated as a log. So to make it more "forest like", adding small sugar mushrooms and leaves was a thing, also because they are white and red, and green, the traditional christmas colors that you can find in a forest. There you go :-)
I'm Catalonia, a region of Spain, and some areas of neighbouring Aragon the kids at Christmas beat a log with sticks and incite it to (literally) shit presents! The log is called Tio and the song goes 'caga tio' (cagar is to take a d*mp). The presents are placed under a blanket and the log is placed on top before the game begins. Catalonia has a frontier with France, where bûche de Noel is still eaten, so I bet the traditions are related. No other log-related traditions exist in Spain other than this one as far as I know.
That tradition was replaced by Santa in the 20th century... the goat exists still as a decoration if you are a traditional person. There is also a town called Gävle that places a gigantic straw goat on a city square every year and most years somebody sets it on fire... not as a Xmas tradition but a criminal act sort of... Greetings from Stockholm.
Can I just say that I appreciate all the effort you put into these videos! I love when creators put little shots of the product that they're talking about on the screen! Really adds another level to the content of your vids 💗
Regarding tableware: I use plain, white dishes year round. I have a few serving dishes that are appropriate for each holiday/season. This way I save a ton of space, but my table still looks festive .
My plain white (IKEA) cheap dishes and platters (not IKEA) go very well with green linen napkins (hand hemmed) and seasonal candles. I call it minimalist decor.
I lived in Sweden for two years and saw these goats everywhere. I l learned that traditionally, people believed the "Yule goat" to be an invisible spirit that would appear before Christmas to make sure that the holiday preparations were done correctly. I have actually have them in my home (little ones!) that look over my Swedish Family :) The little man is called a Troll (vs. Gnome) in Sweden. Just an FYI ;p Merry Christmas!!
Just Googled and found this out myself. So, if part of the Goat's job is to make sure the preparation has been done right, that kinda means Nick is a Christmas Goat! LOL
I think you might be misremembering from your time here, because those are not called Troll, those are called Tomtenisse: somewhat similar to the English wight (a specific type connected to the home) or gnome. You can search for Nisse or Vættir/Vätte if you want to read more about it :)
With landscaping and plants the term is "thriller, spiller and filler". I think it works well for Christmas tree decor as well. Not every ornament is a show stopper but they are all fun 😊
Greetings from Poland - weve been hanging mushroom decorations on Christmas trees for decades now. Nothing weird about it. It’s a very European Christmas vibe. Could, I don’t know, a FOREST be a connection?! You know, where the trees come from? 😂😂😂
don’t mind him. Clearly, he has not traveled much, nor does he have an open mind. For example, lots of people don’t drink alcohol and weed appreciate that sparkling wine.
Sometimes you say the most hilarious things and I don't even think you're trying to be funny? "I just feel like there are too many mushrooms in general, and now it's affecting Christmas." LOL Your face @6:22 is priceless and really says everything about your feelings toward mushrooms.
People in recovery also buy the non alcoholic drink. It's delicious and fun and inclusive for those of us with family members who don't drink. This way everyone can toast!
Lots of people cant drink due to taking meds (lots of common drugs should not be mixed with any alcohol. antidepressants, blood pressure meds, etc. )or watching weight or alcoholism. Plus kids LOVE drinking something special in a sparklie glass.
The noise you made right after you introduced the mushroom decorations was just ….perfection. That and “if you like a Christmas goat, then go for it.” Love.
Mushrooms.... because early and late fall is wild mushroom hunting time in Europe and are often included in most Xmas season menus.... so they end up on the trees too. 😎
Love a sparkling Ikea drink! Especially for those that don't drink and lets kids feel fancy/grown up at the Christmas dinner! Also not Mormon or Swedish.
And here comes another know-best explanation for the mushroom decoration from your biggest German fan: the Wild Hunt in the so called Rauhnächte (rough nights) was originally not frightening, but beneficial and brought gifts - just like Santa Claus, who is here actually Wotan and leads the Wild Hunt. The toadstool became a symbol of good luck because it enabled the shaman, i.e. Santa Claus, to make a happy journey to the Otherworld (wink-wink).
Christmas day (years ago). Me and my roommates had Mimosas with fresh squeezed orange juice. Lovely. One roommate took all the orange peels, popped them in a pot with cinnamon, ginger, allspice and water. Boiled it all day. The place smelled amazing. Every year since then I do that. I use a camping pot, add in spruce or cedar. It adds moisture to the air and makes the house smell like Christmas!
@@catherinemcgill3004 That's a great idea! I actually have one of those mini crock pots... I've been putting little glass jarred candles in it so the wax melts and releases its scent, but I like the idea of using natural elements like that!
I think those 'bell' garlands are actually winter hats/beanies. The mushrooms on the tree are considered good luck (google). I've had a fabric one for at least a decade. I didn't know the significance but I just like the nature theme. I used to get sparkling juices for my kids at holidays because I had my champagne. I use a lot of IKEA scented candles. They smell lest strong when they're burning than when you smell them directly.
I use the Strala paper star lanterns as my bedroom pendant lights. I know you're judging me, but I genuinely love them and they lasted for 2 years now.
I bought the set of burgundy paper ornament (bell and other shapes) that you mentioned. They are packaged flat in a box and folded in half. I had to unfold it and put the two sides together and used the Velcro to keep them together. After Christmas I just have to unhook the Velcro and fold them back in half to place in their box. They are really nice decorations for the price.
I love the glass icicles! My mother-in-law had some crystal ones from Germany so I was thrilled to find these at Ikea. Just added a couple of boxes of this year's version.
The sparkling juice is what my family has served the children on holidays/special occasions in my family for ~3 decades. Because alcohol was not an uncommon sight in our household as a child. I insisted on a champagne flute to be fancy boy I was. But my lifestyle was a complete shock to them……
Another idea for Christmas scents is incense. We love the piñon incense from “Incense of the Southwest”. It’s a traditional scent based on that wonderful smell of burning piñon wood in New Mexico in the wintertime. It’s Christmas with the magic and mystery of New Mexico traditions.
Hi Nick, my husband and I are LDS (Mormon) and we love your channel! Any time you have a new video out we watch it and talk about it! We love to hear your takes on style and your humor. ❤
IKEA has a great lighting game. We bought a great lit star there that lasted 20+ years. Nick, we've seen those empty rolling trays in your kitchen. You could fill them with all the IKEA seasonal kitchen ware!
Not Mormon or Swedish, but we love the lingon berry sparkling juice. Great for the kids and nice as an adult cocktail mixer. I have purchased the gift wrap for about 20 years. I love it all. I'm glad that you mentioned using the paper ornaments and make it a gift bauble, I do that and people think I'm genius. Ha! Let them think it! Happy Holidays everyone!
Nick, I just wanted to say thanks for this review. So much fun to listen to your take and humor with the holiday decor. Also: we appreciate that your decor reviews include a variety of price levels, including the very accessible price points of IKEA.
I got the red ornaments and they are SO much prettier than I expected. On my tree they come up looking so velvety and despite costing very little the impact is huge!
Hi Nick! The Christmas tins (kitchenware section) are great for gifting homebaked cookies and homemade sweets … and even making bought cookies and sweets look like handmade gifts! 😅😮😅 Happy holidays from Sweden!
We from German have Christmas tree mushroom decorations made of painted wood and they are more than 50 years old already. The connection is simply trees and forest. We also have pinecones, which are just as old. Nuts and other seasonal natural food items can be found on Christmas trees like nuts or dried fruits, cookies and Lebkuchen. FYI, Germany invented the Christmas tree and the original decorations were edible. Straw and wood came later and glass and metal was for the rich people. Some of the edible decorations came back in new variations, eg. Chocolate or lost their edible, such as colored walnut shells. Christmas trees can be something very personal with decorations handed down by generations. Or they are lifeless because they are just store bought stuff in the current colour trend.
Mushrooms were always there on Christmas tree in Poland. I have no idea why but I love them and it brings nostalgia. As for straw and paper ornaments, they are traditional for Poland culture too. Very rustic. Love them.
Got the first set of artisanal glass icicles at 16 in Georgetown, DC. Have been collecting them for years in all different shapes and sizes. Always glass. Always clear. Now there's probably over 100 of them. So one did a single smaller tree (fake - allergic to pine) with nothing but white fairy lights and the icicles with an AB blown glass spire for the topper and used several pots of poinsettias as a tree "skirt." It was gorgeous and so simple and a clean look. Once bought a set of stunning satin finished hand-blown glass balls in really saturated colors. Very, very expensive (NYC) but they were so beautiful. They're also the ones that seem to get broken first. Had a set of 16 that's now down to about seven. Christmas tree trick. Wrap the interior trunk of the tree tightly with lights. One prefers to use the clear/white ones but use whatever you like. It creates illumination from the inside and really gives the tree depth. That's how the allergy to pine was discovered because one went head first into a beautiful real pine tree to wrap the lights around the trunk. To get really good coverage, you may want to use more than one strand and double or triple wrap the trunk. Love, love your videos and your honest opinions. Merry Christmas! 🎄
My tree is a real mix with ornaments that go back forever in my life, some gorgeous crystal ornaments, some beautiful blown glass, no colour scheme. It's laden with ornaments. I also some nice Christmas dishes that I bring out Dec 1 and use everyday til Jan 1. I love christmas decor.
The gnomes are "nisse" -- Julenisse, or Christmas elves or gnomes. They are nisse in Norwegian, and I think the same in Swedish. They bring the presents, and are often quite malicious with their gifts if you don't please them; the old school images of them make this quite clear. But they're perfectly benign if you've been a decent person, your house is properly clean and you give them milk and sweet porridge.
Thank you! Another fun video. I can't have anything fragile in my house below about 6 feet because I have a one-year-old puppy who belongs in the circus. I have to warn everyone in the house to not lean down even a few inches to look at her with their mouth open or she'll catapult into your mouth and boop your epiglottis at warp speed. Very distressing or hilarious depending on how you feel about inhaling puppy noses. That said, the hanging star lights look perfect for our decorations this year. I just need someone very brave and tall to help me hang them out of her astonishing reach.
years ago, mushrooms were used in dried form as winter food, as a flavoring and as a decoration. Over time they was involved in the Christmas tree, e.g. B. replaced by wooden molds or savory biscuits.
Straw ornaments are popular in Poland too. We used to make them before Christmas. I was born short after WWII when everything was limited. Mushrooms were always on a Christmas tree , there are mushroom dishes on a Christmas Eve supper ,not this kind, but boletus.
We have two puppies so we had to choose pet friendly decor. I bought the deep red paper ornaments as well as the straw/wicker ornaments which are very, very pretty and look beautiful on our tree while being cost effective and puppy proof. A great option!
The mushrooms are everything to do with Santa and flying reindeer!! Fly agaric mushroom is hallucinogenic. Reindeer eat ‘em, get high, then pee em. (Their urine reduces the toxicity of the mushroom) Nordic Shamans drink the Reindeer Urine during winter solstice celebrations. They dressed in red with white spots. Snow-blocked homes had rooftop openings, similar to Santa entering through chimneys. And everyone is flying high! Merry Christmas lol
Love the spices on the stove to create a Christmas smellscape. Although I recommend going the extra little bit and put in apple cider/juice instead of just water and make mulled cider. There are a bunch of easy recipes online and it really is an awesome smell and you also get a great beverage. Thanks Nick for the Ikea ideas.
Instead scenting the house by leaving a saucepan on the stove, with water, orange peel, cinnamon and cloves etc, use a crockpot (slow cooker) instead, and leave the lid off. It's far more economical.
Where glass Christmas ornaments were invented, there's a lot of forest, because wood was needed for the glassworks. So it's not out of the ordinary to have mushroom shaped ornaments because mushrooms grow in the forest. I come from the German forest village where glass ornaments were invented. The weirdest traditional shape is actually a pickle, which has to be spotted on the tree.
Happy birthday and merry Christmas to the guy whose videos I love to keep playing on repeat… my UA-cam BFF. ❤ I so wish I could pop by with a couple of bottles of Prosecco to hang out, chat and celebrate! 🥂Thank you for giving us such great content and design advice all year long, Nick! May 2024 bring you alllll the things your heart wants! 🎉
Hi Nick. Thanks for the vid. I'm trying to put up the tree and I abandoned it after throwing the lights on. Now I can snark with you instead of looking with dissatisfaction at my tree
Mushrooms ARE known in Europe for Chrismas. But they have to sit UNDER the tree, just 3 to 5 sit there on a branch that lies on the floor, just like they grow on the ground....
As a kid in Germany, I remember red mushrooms with white dots were always of Christmas decor. I think they are from the Black Forrest. I still have some that we wire onto the Christmas tree limbs. Magical and nostalgic - just don't eat them. LOL! As for the rest of the mushroom decor throughout the year...it's just fungus to me.
Last line was the best. Gnome . Look at him. He's just so cute with his little presents! Adorbs!!! And thanks for the goat info in comments. I love learning about things like that
Great Video!! I love glass ornaments, they are my favorite. The only time I had the plastic ornaments was when my kids were younger and would pull on the toys and we didn't want shattered glass.
I heard an explanation regarding the strawdecorations the other day. People used straw on the floor. When you had more expensive flooring with carpets you made strawfigured to put in the tree instead. There is 1 hour from me a strawmuseum. Its fantastic, bags clogs etc
Nick, this year I totally took the time to put away my everyday dishes in storage and replaced them in the cabinet with my holiday dishes to use throughout the season. I can't believe I never thought to do it before. It's making me happy when I pull out my seasonal plates for each meal.
I love these kind of videos. While I do not shop at retail stores for decor ( thrift for me) I get the experience with no cost and lots of great ideas.
Sorry...a German here, and yes we always had little mushrooms tied to the ends of the branches. Parents had them from the 50s, but it goes back much further than that.
Ok, so about the mushrooms and christmas… Here in middle/eastern Europe is very strong tradition involving mushrooms around the christmas time: we eat them, we decorate trees with mushroom ornaments. I own some glass christmas mushroom ornaments that was my grand grandfathers!
We have vintage muhroom tree decoration, over a 100 years old. Ive been seeing mushroom tree decorations in stores every year even as a child, i dont think mushroom xmas decorations are a "new" trend, theyve been always around. Dont think theres a specific reason for it, they just have. Maybe on our side of the big pond at least. Same with the straw ones.
In Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, there’s a popular goat-like figure made of straw and red ribbon usually found under the tree or nestled among the branches. This yule goat is the Julbock, which translates into English as “Yule buck” or “Christmas buck,” a symbol of good tidings and cheer. And it’s a symbol of Tor ”Thor” and his power goats Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr. Tor is the protector of all women and children ,homes and farmland.. And a reminder of the wonderful time to come, spring..
Nick you are adorable! Mushrooms are Scandinavian. You know, gnomes in the forest!? I love your videos! You are such a good designer and you are super smart and entertaining to listen to in the morning with my coffee!
Excited to see your picks. This year the only things that I bought from them are two of the green vases that can be used for hyacinth bulbs. They are great. I filled them with water and I put floating candles in them. I have been collecting glass icicles for my tree for the last 20 years and even though what I like comes and goes they are still my go to. I love the way they catch the light 🌲
I just bought one this year. (And I hate fake greenery!) It looks very close to a real tree, and it was very affordable. I hope it lasts the next 20 years.
IKEA really does the best wrapping paper. Also I’m weirdly in love with that dala horse door mat 😂 and I could not be more lazy about changing decor for holidays
I think of white dinnerware like a neutral sofa. You can change the decor/seasons with accessories: placemats, napkins, candles, maybe your wine glass etc. Dinnerware is awfully expensive and requires a lot of storage space.
I love IKEA’s pillow covers. I have a terra cotta Italian leather sofa, so traditional colored pillows don’t work in my living room. They have a lot of festive patterns in not so traditional colors that really make my house festive.
Great reviews! Ikea's string lights are surprisingly pretty and I love them too. I'm also with you about not having time for whole sets of dishes to store for 11 months. I would LOVE to see you review candles and home scents. It's an area that is harder to get across via video but I have confidence in you!
Those mushrooms are actually a Scandinavian/Nordic tradition from wayyy back! The red ones with the white spots, amanita muscaria, are poisonous to humans but the myth I was told is that they give Santa's reindeers the ability fly, and are also known as fly agaric or fly amanita. Given that IKEA is a Swedish company, it's very suitable and tradition that they offer holiday ornaments in the shape of those mushrooms. Plus they are just very forest-y, cottage-core and cute, provided you don't eat them. :)
Exactly this. The fly agaric is also perhaps why Santa’s outfit is red and white. My favourite fact is that the fly agaric is very hallucinogenic, but not to reindeers who eat them. Their urine contains those hallucinogens but not the stuff that makes you sick. Word is that reindeer herders are partial to a tipple of reindeer wee when they want to trip 😁
I agree with you on IKEA’s fake plastic plants. They are so obviously plastic.
Some cultures traditionally feed them to reindeer and collect the urine because the hallucinogens filter into it.
It's very popular across board though. Mushrooms have become legal in parts of the country. And in the rest, it's a very real warm loving space in their hearts when they think about them 😊 if you catch my drift. People are not even shy about it anymore!
Huh, I had no idea. Very cool.
"I wish they would give me money, but they never do, not even a hot dog."
That got me lol, IKEA please sponsor him!!! 🙏
They give me NOTHING. It's all good though, I still love them.
I know, that made me giggle too!! Love Nick! 😂
Nick you crack me up! 😂😂😂😂 The mushrooms 🍄!!
@@Nick_Lewisif you get the IKEA family card, they will give you a coffee! 😂
...and give him a meatball, for heaven's sake!
Am I the only one who is surprised that Nick likes the little Gnomes? I did not see that coming!
I was waiting for him to hate on the gnomes, and I was shocked when he said they were cute! My gnomes breath a sigh of relief to receive Nick's approval. 😂
It kind of frees us all up to be ourselves, knowing that Nick digs those freaky bearded craftsy things. Levels the playing field.
Yeah my opinions don't always make sense. They're just so darn cute!
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They're not really gnomes, they're more related to the German kobolds. (Not D&D kobolds, which is something else entirely.)
cant believe I am watching this - I am Jewish don't have a tree - but I think I would watch Nick read a phone book. (old reference)
The Christmas Mushroom --- Known in German as glücklicher pilz or gluckspilz (which literally means “lucky mushroom”), the red-and-white speckled fungi grow deep in the forest. Its real name is Amanita muscaria or fly agaric, and finding one is thought to be a sign of good luck.
Besides being found at the base of pine trees, there’s another reason this fungus has been dubbed the Christmas mushroom: It’s a favorite food of reindeer! In fact, Santa’s favorite animal loves the mushroom so much that reindeer herders use bags of it to keep them together and avoid losing any strays.
While the Germans may have hung the dried mushrooms on their trees more for luck than decoration, we can’t help but notice the similarities between the fly agaric and modern Christmas decor. They’re both bright and cheery and prominently feature reds and whites. Plus, the firetruck-red cap of the fly agaric stands out on brown forest floors just like Rudolph’s red nose sticks out in the night sky!
Since this particular red and white mushroom is poisonous to eat, we don’t recommend hanging a real one on your tree.
Greetings from Germany - we‘ve had mushrooms on the Christmas tree for as long as I remember (bit smaller, made from wood and hand-painted though), decades before they‘ve become an interior design trend. 😂 Not sure if it‘s a German or a family thing, but I‘ll for sure put them on the tree this year again, gotta honor the tradition. 😌✨
Oh I actually made that up! Well I guessed right then. 😁
Same thing here in Norway, the paint on ours is starting to wear off😅
Same in Slovakia and Czechia 🙂 It must have been trend back in the 70s/80s cause we have had them since i can remember.
The straw tree ornaments and mushroom decor have always been "on" for Christmas in Europe, as far as I know...
from central Europe
Someone will have to fill us in on the gnomes though. That's a new one on me, since last year.
Plastic ornaments can be great when you have cats that like to play with the Christmas tree.
In Germany, these exact kind of mushroom ornaments exist since the beginning of glas tree ornaments and antique ones are horribly expensive and very coveted. Amanita mushrooms are symbols of luck and while they do make an appearance on Christmas, they really come out in full force for New Year´s - together with (lucky) four-leaf clovers, (lucky) pigs, and (lucky) chimney sweeps. Often in a combination of a happy chimney sweep riding a pig and carrying an amanity mushroom and a four-leaf clover.
I can't drink alcohol for health reasons, the Ikea christmas spice juices and things like that are a fantastic replacement. They go well with meat and are not like "just juice because I can't have wine", they can be paired. People should REALLY consider using them. I'm not against alcohol at the table, but it's so bad for the health that starting considering alternatives is just great.
Not everyone enjoys alcohol, not everyone should have it. Kids and alcoholics, people with different diseases, taking different medication which interfere with alcohol, just as example.
And those sparkling refreshments are tasty. But I prefer pear one. It's like sweeter, non alcoholic cider. 11:48
@@wariamiktoria Yes, my fav ones are the sparkling pear and the mulled juice (spiced fruit juice). I drink the spiced one cold or hot, it's very nice with red meat!
We drink very seldomly, so beverages like that are very welcome! It’s also nice not to worry about keeping the kid away from our glasses.
Nick, non alcoholic sparkling wine is my go to for the children. They deserve a special drink with the meal as well. 😁🎄🎅🏻
My parents always gave us sparkling pear juice at the holidays and it made us feel very special
Agreed! I’ve been into sparkling cider since I discovered it existed in my teens. The lingonberry version sounds delicious!
Tip from my mother about decorating a really deluxe traditional Christmas tree (from the Bombay Co that went out of business years ago): use those filler ornaments close to the trunk to add extra sparkle and reflect the light from your string lights. It gives a really beautiful layered effect that I prefer over just having ornaments on the ends of the branches
I have some beautiful hand blown Christmas ornaments from Bombay Co., they are amongst my favourite ornaments. I miss the Bombay Co.!
OMG I forgot about the Bombay Co!
I did this for the first time...
I strung the lights the "real" way (stretched the length of each individual branch, then spiraled back to the trunk). I also put a bunch of literally plastic, glittery and shiny ornaments way back towards the trunk, and my tree is absolutely luminous 🤩
My mother also taught me that 🥰
Got a new tree last year and the middle is a bit bare and the wires are visible. . I bought red cardinals on Amazon and perched them inside the tree. It’s a fun surprise when people look up close and I can’t see the wires.
I live in Sweden and my impression from this video is that more or less everything that IKEA is selling in their Christmas collection is more affordable versions of traditional (generally hand made or slightly more expensive) "Swedish" ornaments, sometimes they've added a bit of a twist. Many of our "Swedish" Christmas traditions originates in the German speaking countries and are probably common there as well. The paper and straw ornaments (both the balls, the bells, the stars, the angels etc) are all more or less traditional and my parents have similar ones that has been used for many decades. In their tree there's also a red and white mushroom, my dad was givien it in the 1950s, so nothing is really new here. The Christmas goat ("julbock") might be something slightly more specifically Swedish/Scandinavian (I don't really know how widespread it is) and generally made from straw or from pine. If you google "Gävlebocken" you can find pictures of a bigger version of a straw "julbock" that is put up in the town Gävle every year. Every year you are also able to place bets regarding if someone will successfully be able to burn it down this year or not...
In our part of Germany we have the tradition of the „Christmas Pickle“. It is a small glass ornament in the shape of a pickle. You put it on the Christmas tree and „hide“ it there. The person who finds it receives an extra little present. That is a nice tradition. Fröhliche Weihnachten an alle da draußen, 🎄💫
Polish tradition too
Hungarian too.
Actually mainly an American thing. Most Germans won't know the pickle. Just out of curiosity: which region in Germany, because you're the first German, I heard, that knows it?
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Do you mean a German American thing? I think most Americans would know "hide the pickle" as an entirely different tradition 😅
Love that!
Can I be honest and say I am here for your quirky humor. I just love listening to you ❤
Was just about to stop watching You tube and get on with daily life ... And you posted 5 minutes before.. So here I am, Ikea app open , watching avidly! 🎄🤶🏻
Haha I pulled you back in!
"I don't have room for storage in my kitchen," says the guy with three empty carts under his counter.
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Just playing, Nick! 🥰
Also, as your friendly IKEA visual merchandiser follower, my store is already out of stock on most of these items for the holiday season. 😩 But wholeheartedly agree with pretty much everything you've said here in this video. Absolutely LOVED the wicker tree skirt ring.
I'm sure lots of people buy the Lingonberry bubbly drink for their kids to drink while the adults are drinking champagne. When I was a kid we always had "kid's champagne" (mostly a bubbly apple or grape juice) at home for new year's eve so we could have a toast with our parents at midnight
Mushrooms for christmas story: you know the traditionnal european christmas cake is called "bûche", which means log. It was historicaly a real log, then it became a cake decorated as a log. So to make it more "forest like", adding small sugar mushrooms and leaves was a thing, also because they are white and red, and green, the traditional christmas colors that you can find in a forest. There you go :-)
I'm Catalonia, a region of Spain, and some areas of neighbouring Aragon the kids at Christmas beat a log with sticks and incite it to (literally) shit presents! The log is called Tio and the song goes 'caga tio' (cagar is to take a d*mp). The presents are placed under a blanket and the log is placed on top before the game begins. Catalonia has a frontier with France, where bûche de Noel is still eaten, so I bet the traditions are related. No other log-related traditions exist in Spain other than this one as far as I know.
In* and Noël*
Buche Noel is French
According to my Grandma, who was from Sweden, In Sweden, the goat brings gifts instead of Santa. Also, in Sweden, they make art out of straw.
That tradition was replaced by Santa in the 20th century... the goat exists still as a decoration if you are a traditional person. There is also a town called Gävle that places a gigantic straw goat on a city square every year and most years somebody sets it on fire... not as a Xmas tradition but a criminal act sort of... Greetings from Stockholm.
Can I just say that I appreciate all the effort you put into these videos! I love when creators put little shots of the product that they're talking about on the screen! Really adds another level to the content of your vids 💗
Regarding tableware: I use plain, white dishes year round. I have a few serving dishes that are appropriate for each holiday/season. This way I save a ton of space, but my table still looks festive .
That was always my mom’s approach, too. :)
My plain white (IKEA) cheap dishes and platters (not IKEA) go very well with green linen napkins (hand hemmed) and seasonal candles. I call it minimalist decor.
I lived in Sweden for two years and saw these goats everywhere. I l learned that traditionally, people believed the "Yule goat" to be an invisible spirit that would appear before Christmas to make sure that the holiday preparations were done correctly. I have actually have them in my home (little ones!) that look over my Swedish Family :) The little man is called a Troll (vs. Gnome) in Sweden. Just an FYI ;p Merry Christmas!!
Just Googled and found this out myself. So, if part of the Goat's job is to make sure the preparation has been done right, that kinda means Nick is a Christmas Goat! LOL
@@suzannecb162Wouldn't it be funny if he was a Capricorn?! 😅
I think you might be misremembering from your time here, because those are not called Troll, those are called Tomtenisse: somewhat similar to the English wight (a specific type connected to the home) or gnome. You can search for Nisse or Vættir/Vätte if you want to read more about it :)
The goat is known as "julbock".
The troll/gnome is called a "tomte".
With landscaping and plants the term is "thriller, spiller and filler". I think it works well for Christmas tree decor as well. Not every ornament is a show stopper but they are all fun 😊
Yeah same idea for sure!
Greetings from Poland - weve been hanging mushroom decorations on Christmas trees for decades now. Nothing weird about it. It’s a very European Christmas vibe. Could, I don’t know, a FOREST be a connection?! You know, where the trees come from? 😂😂😂
don’t mind him. Clearly, he has not traveled much, nor does he have an open mind. For example, lots of people don’t drink alcohol and weed appreciate that sparkling wine.
Sometimes you say the most hilarious things and I don't even think you're trying to be funny? "I just feel like there are too many mushrooms in general, and now it's affecting Christmas." LOL
Your face @6:22 is priceless and really says everything about your feelings toward mushrooms.
Whoa. Never saw the gnome love coming.
They're cute. I will give 'em that.
People in recovery also buy the non alcoholic drink. It's delicious and fun and inclusive for those of us with family members who don't drink. This way everyone can toast!
Lots of people cant drink due to taking meds (lots of common drugs should not be mixed with any alcohol. antidepressants, blood pressure meds, etc. )or watching weight or alcoholism. Plus kids LOVE drinking something special in a sparklie glass.
Some of the canisters and tins are probably used for packaging food gifts to keep them fresh and not necessarily for decorating your own kitchen.
The noise you made right after you introduced the mushroom decorations was just ….perfection. That and “if you like a Christmas goat, then go for it.” Love.
Mushrooms.... because early and late fall is wild mushroom hunting time in Europe and are often included in most Xmas season menus.... so they end up on the trees too. 😎
Love a sparkling Ikea drink! Especially for those that don't drink and lets kids feel fancy/grown up at the Christmas dinner! Also not Mormon or Swedish.
And here comes another know-best explanation for the mushroom decoration from your biggest German fan: the Wild Hunt in the so called Rauhnächte (rough nights) was originally not frightening, but beneficial and brought gifts - just like Santa Claus, who is here actually Wotan and leads the Wild Hunt. The toadstool became a symbol of good luck because it enabled the shaman, i.e. Santa Claus, to make a happy journey to the Otherworld (wink-wink).
Christmas day (years ago). Me and my roommates had Mimosas with fresh squeezed orange juice. Lovely. One roommate took all the orange peels, popped them in a pot with cinnamon, ginger, allspice and water. Boiled it all day. The place smelled amazing. Every year since then I do that. I use a camping pot, add in spruce or cedar. It adds moisture to the air and makes the house smell like Christmas!
I’ll follow this tip. Especially the mimosa bit. 😂
Mmm! That sounds amazing! 😊
I use a mini crock pot so a) it’s not taking up space on the stove and b) it’s safer. I use citrus, essential oil and star anise or cloves
@@catherinemcgill3004 That's a great idea! I actually have one of those mini crock pots... I've been putting little glass jarred candles in it so the wax melts and releases its scent, but I like the idea of using natural elements like that!
I think those 'bell' garlands are actually winter hats/beanies.
The mushrooms on the tree are considered good luck (google). I've had a fabric one for at least a decade. I didn't know the significance but I just like the nature theme.
I used to get sparkling juices for my kids at holidays because I had my champagne.
I use a lot of IKEA scented candles. They smell lest strong when they're burning than when you smell them directly.
I use the Strala paper star lanterns as my bedroom pendant lights. I know you're judging me, but I genuinely love them and they lasted for 2 years now.
I bought the set of burgundy paper ornament (bell and other shapes) that you mentioned. They are packaged flat in a box and folded in half. I had to unfold it and put the two sides together and used the Velcro to keep them together. After Christmas I just have to unhook the Velcro and fold them back in half to place in their box. They are really nice decorations for the price.
I love the “don’t buy” recs just as much as the “do”. Loved the spice in this video you had me cracking up!
I love the glass icicles! My mother-in-law had some crystal ones from Germany so I was thrilled to find these at Ikea. Just added a couple of boxes of this year's version.
The sparkling juice is what my family has served the children on holidays/special occasions in my family for ~3 decades.
Because alcohol was not an uncommon sight in our household as a child. I insisted on a champagne flute to be fancy boy I was.
But my lifestyle was a complete shock to them……
Another idea for Christmas scents is incense. We love the piñon incense from “Incense of the Southwest”. It’s a traditional scent based on that wonderful smell of burning piñon wood in New Mexico in the wintertime. It’s Christmas with the magic and mystery of New Mexico traditions.
Hi Nick, my husband and I are LDS (Mormon) and we love your channel! Any time you have a new video out we watch it and talk about it! We love to hear your takes on style and your humor. ❤
IKEA has a great lighting game. We bought a great lit star there that lasted 20+ years. Nick, we've seen those empty rolling trays in your kitchen. You could fill them with all the IKEA seasonal kitchen ware!
I was about to post the same comment!
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Hahahah my thoughts exactly!! And since he said they were a hassle to use, it’s perfect because he only needs to reach for them once a year 😂😂
“ not even a hotdog 🌭 “ 😂😂
Not Mormon or Swedish, but we love the lingon berry sparkling juice. Great for the kids and nice as an adult cocktail mixer. I have purchased the gift wrap for about 20 years. I love it all. I'm glad that you mentioned using the paper ornaments and make it a gift bauble, I do that and people think I'm genius. Ha! Let them think it! Happy Holidays everyone!
Yep. Can mix that Prosecco, a little gin and the Lingon Dryk.
Nick, I just wanted to say thanks for this review. So much fun to listen to your take and humor with the holiday decor. Also: we appreciate that your decor reviews include a variety of price levels, including the very accessible price points of IKEA.
I got the red ornaments and they are SO much prettier than I expected. On my tree they come up looking so velvety and despite costing very little the impact is huge!
The round balls?
The paper ones I think, I have a few sets next to my fancy glass ornaments and the effect is lovely
Hi Nick!
The Christmas tins (kitchenware section) are great for gifting homebaked cookies and homemade sweets … and even making bought cookies and sweets look like handmade gifts! 😅😮😅
Happy holidays from Sweden!
the image of the candles towards the end are actually flameless led candle, and they are great :)
We from German have Christmas tree mushroom decorations made of painted wood and they are more than 50 years old already. The connection is simply trees and forest.
We also have pinecones, which are just as old.
Nuts and other seasonal natural food items can be found on Christmas trees like nuts or dried fruits, cookies and Lebkuchen.
FYI, Germany invented the Christmas tree and the original decorations were edible. Straw and wood came later and glass and metal was for the rich people.
Some of the edible decorations came back in new variations, eg. Chocolate or lost their edible, such as colored walnut shells.
Christmas trees can be something very personal with decorations handed down by generations. Or they are lifeless because they are just store bought stuff in the current colour trend.
Mushrooms were always there on Christmas tree in Poland. I have no idea why but I love them and it brings nostalgia. As for straw and paper ornaments, they are traditional for Poland culture too. Very rustic. Love them.
Got the first set of artisanal glass icicles at 16 in Georgetown, DC. Have been collecting them for years in all different shapes and sizes. Always glass. Always clear. Now there's probably over 100 of them.
So one did a single smaller tree (fake - allergic to pine) with nothing but white fairy lights and the icicles with an AB blown glass spire for the topper and used several pots of poinsettias as a tree "skirt." It was gorgeous and so simple and a clean look.
Once bought a set of stunning satin finished hand-blown glass balls in really saturated colors. Very, very expensive (NYC) but they were so beautiful.
They're also the ones that seem to get broken first. Had a set of 16 that's now down to about seven.
Christmas tree trick. Wrap the interior trunk of the tree tightly with lights. One prefers to use the clear/white ones but use whatever you like. It creates illumination from the inside and really gives the tree depth. That's how the allergy to pine was discovered because one went head first into a beautiful real pine tree to wrap the lights around the trunk.
To get really good coverage, you may want to use more than one strand and double or triple wrap the trunk.
Love, love your videos and your honest opinions.
Merry Christmas! 🎄
My tree is a real mix with ornaments that go back forever in my life, some gorgeous crystal ornaments, some beautiful blown glass, no colour scheme. It's laden with ornaments. I also some nice Christmas dishes that I bring out Dec 1 and use everyday til Jan 1. I love christmas decor.
I’ve had my paper stars (lights) for at least ten years. As long as you fold them and put them in a box, they last for a long long time.
Glass icicles are my favourite. Tks for your sacrifice in going to IKEA for us! Be Merry. Regards J
The gnomes are "nisse" -- Julenisse, or Christmas elves or gnomes. They are nisse in Norwegian, and I think the same in Swedish. They bring the presents, and are often quite malicious with their gifts if you don't please them; the old school images of them make this quite clear. But they're perfectly benign if you've been a decent person, your house is properly clean and you give them milk and sweet porridge.
0:22 they should give you complimentary Swedish meatballs with that Lingonberry jam and mashed potatoes 😂
Thank you! Another fun video. I can't have anything fragile in my house below about 6 feet because I have a one-year-old puppy who belongs in the circus. I have to warn everyone in the house to not lean down even a few inches to look at her with their mouth open or she'll catapult into your mouth and boop your epiglottis at warp speed. Very distressing or hilarious depending on how you feel about inhaling puppy noses. That said, the hanging star lights look perfect for our decorations this year. I just need someone very brave and tall to help me hang them out of her astonishing reach.
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Nick I ordered your gorgeous coffee table. I am so excited.😊 🍄
Plastic is awesome for pets and kids friendly decor
That rolling pin cover is for German springerle cookies. They are cut into squares and then set out to dry overnight before baking.
years ago, mushrooms were used in dried form as winter food, as a flavoring and as a decoration.
Over time they was involved in the Christmas tree, e.g. B. replaced by wooden molds or savory biscuits.
Ikea's mulled fruity drink is delicious. We're in Australia, so mixing it with chilled ginger ale for Christmas. Sooo good.
Oooh, that's a great idea!! Thank you! 😊
Straw ornaments are popular in Poland too. We used to make them before Christmas. I was born short after WWII when everything was limited. Mushrooms were always on a Christmas tree , there are mushroom dishes on a Christmas Eve supper ,not this kind, but boletus.
We have two puppies so we had to choose pet friendly decor. I bought the deep red paper ornaments as well as the straw/wicker ornaments which are very, very pretty and look beautiful on our tree while being cost effective and puppy proof.
A great option!
The mushrooms are everything to do with Santa and flying reindeer!! Fly agaric mushroom is hallucinogenic. Reindeer eat ‘em, get high, then pee em. (Their urine reduces the toxicity of the mushroom) Nordic Shamans drink the Reindeer Urine during winter solstice celebrations. They dressed in red with white spots. Snow-blocked homes had rooftop openings, similar to Santa entering through chimneys. And everyone is flying high! Merry Christmas lol
Love the spices on the stove to create a Christmas smellscape. Although I recommend going the extra little bit and put in apple cider/juice instead of just water and make mulled cider. There are a bunch of easy recipes online and it really is an awesome smell and you also get a great beverage. Thanks Nick for the Ikea ideas.
Instead scenting the house by leaving a saucepan on the stove, with water, orange peel, cinnamon and cloves etc, use a crockpot (slow cooker) instead, and leave the lid off. It's far more economical.
In Minnesota, where lots of Scandinavian people settled, Ikea's Xmas stuff is well picked over by the end of October.
Where glass Christmas ornaments were invented, there's a lot of forest, because wood was needed for the glassworks. So it's not out of the ordinary to have mushroom shaped ornaments because mushrooms grow in the forest. I come from the German forest village where glass ornaments were invented. The weirdest traditional shape is actually a pickle, which has to be spotted on the tree.
Happy birthday and merry Christmas to the guy whose videos I love to keep playing on repeat… my UA-cam BFF. ❤ I so wish I could pop by with a couple of bottles of Prosecco to hang out, chat and celebrate! 🥂Thank you for giving us such great content and design advice all year long, Nick! May 2024 bring you alllll the things your heart wants! 🎉
I love your commentaries. Your wit is so much fun to hear..Have a great 🎄🎄
Hi Nick. Thanks for the vid. I'm trying to put up the tree and I abandoned it after throwing the lights on. Now I can snark with you instead of looking with dissatisfaction at my tree
I use an ornament tree to display a special collection of ornaments. It allows me to show off the collection
You need to merch a t-shirt with:
"I totally get that could be cute for you."
Mushrooms ARE known in Europe for Chrismas. But they have to sit UNDER the tree, just 3 to 5 sit there on a branch that lies on the floor, just like they grow on the ground....
🙋🏻♀️. Mormon here. Love you and your opinions. Haven’t tried the IKEA plonk yet but thanks for the ‘recommendation’
Mormon here! Thank you for welcoming us. I love your content. ❤❤❤
As a kid in Germany, I remember red mushrooms with white dots were always of Christmas decor. I think they are from the Black Forrest. I still have some that we wire onto the Christmas tree limbs. Magical and nostalgic - just don't eat them. LOL! As for the rest of the mushroom decor throughout the year...it's just fungus to me.
Last line was the best. Gnome . Look at him. He's just so cute with his little presents! Adorbs!!! And thanks for the goat info in comments. I love learning about things like that
I love ❤️ these! I laugh so much! RUN we need all of this stuff we don’t need!
Get the car, get the car!!!
Really enjoyed seeing what is out there. IKEA never disappoints and neither do you!! I like he basket deal instead of a tree skirt.
Great Video!! I love glass ornaments, they are my favorite. The only time I had the plastic ornaments was when my kids were younger and would pull on the toys and we didn't want shattered glass.
I heard an explanation regarding the strawdecorations the other day. People used straw on the floor. When you had more expensive flooring with carpets you made strawfigured to put in the tree instead. There is 1 hour from me a strawmuseum. Its fantastic, bags clogs etc
Nick, this year I totally took the time to put away my everyday dishes in storage and replaced them in the cabinet with my holiday dishes to use throughout the season. I can't believe I never thought to do it before. It's making me happy when I pull out my seasonal plates for each meal.
We didn’t have full tableware, but we did have holiday mugs that we did that with every year. It was nice to have those throughout the season. :)
I was so sure that you were going to totally mock that gnome. Must be the Christmas spirit. hahah
I love these kind of videos. While I do not shop at retail stores for decor ( thrift for me) I get the experience with no cost and lots of great ideas.
The light strings of bells, are actually winter hats 😅
Sorry...a German here, and yes we always had little mushrooms tied to the ends of the branches. Parents had them from the 50s, but it goes back much further than that.
Ok, so about the mushrooms and christmas… Here in middle/eastern Europe is very strong tradition involving mushrooms around the christmas time: we eat them, we decorate trees with mushroom ornaments. I own some glass christmas mushroom ornaments that was my grand grandfathers!
We have vintage muhroom tree decoration, over a 100 years old. Ive been seeing mushroom tree decorations in stores every year even as a child, i dont think mushroom xmas decorations are a "new" trend, theyve been always around. Dont think theres a specific reason for it, they just have. Maybe on our side of the big pond at least. Same with the straw ones.
In Sweden and other Scandinavian countries, there’s a popular goat-like figure made of straw and red ribbon usually found under the tree or nestled among the branches. This yule goat is the Julbock, which translates into English as “Yule buck” or “Christmas buck,” a symbol of good tidings and cheer.
And it’s a symbol of Tor ”Thor” and his power goats Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr. Tor is the protector of all women and children ,homes and farmland..
And a reminder of the wonderful time to come, spring..
Nick you are adorable! Mushrooms are Scandinavian. You know, gnomes in the forest!? I love your videos! You are such a good designer and you are super smart and entertaining to listen to in the morning with my coffee!
My sister had 2 sets of Christmas dishes as well as seasonal sets (summer, fall, winter, spring). Lots of dishes
Excited to see your picks. This year the only things that I bought from them are two of the green vases that can be used for hyacinth bulbs. They are great. I filled them with water and I put floating candles in them. I have been collecting glass icicles for my tree for the last 20 years and even though what I like comes and goes they are still my go to. I love the way they catch the light 🌲
♥️🩵💜this content. Happy holidays Nick🎄🍥🪅
I love the IKEA's Christmas trees because they are the only ones I've found not made of PVC.
I just bought one this year. (And I hate fake greenery!) It looks very close to a real tree, and it was very affordable. I hope it lasts the next 20 years.
@@MsElizabethweber yes, the price is right too
IKEA really does the best wrapping paper. Also I’m weirdly in love with that dala horse door mat 😂 and I could not be more lazy about changing decor for holidays
I think of white dinnerware like a neutral sofa. You can change the decor/seasons with accessories: placemats, napkins, candles, maybe your wine glass etc. Dinnerware is awfully expensive and requires a lot of storage space.
I love IKEA’s pillow covers. I have a terra cotta Italian leather sofa, so traditional colored pillows don’t work in my living room. They have a lot of festive patterns in not so traditional colors that really make my house festive.
Great reviews! Ikea's string lights are surprisingly pretty and I love them too. I'm also with you about not having time for whole sets of dishes to store for 11 months. I would LOVE to see you review candles and home scents. It's an area that is harder to get across via video but I have confidence in you!