I'm looking for Christmas decorations for my home, specifically a tree and tree ornaments. No problem finding lights! Does anyone know of a place that sells a better quality tree than the 995 baht 7-foot one at The Mall? Also, is there any source of glass ornaments instead of the tacky plastic ones I see?

I understand a trip to Bangkok might be the answer, but I don't want to go unless I am certain it's not available here and is available there.

Cathy what area do you live in?

Udon try Lotus or Macro

Ill be going to the mall to get my tackey 995 baht christmas tree, I havent seen anything else around of a higher quality

As mentioned Ealier Tesco Lotus Makro and BIg 'C ' stocked already

Ok, got the tree and some of the less tacky decorations. I have seen the stuff at Lotus, and it serves only to make me afraid of what I might find at Big C. Makro I must check out, though. Thanks for the advice!

One more thing to add to the moving back to LOS list for future reference.

I quite like the tacky chrismas decorations from the mall, It reminds me of the decorations we had when I was a child. What more we used to use the same ones every year, nothing better than me old man passing down a box full of stinky tinsil from the loft and decorating the tree. never had a fake tree before but im sure it will be just a nice, im looking forward to giving my son and 2 year old niece there first christmas.

Well Jared, it really can't be Christmas at my house until I drop an ornament so it shatters on the floor. Even being clumsy can become a tradition. It will be hard to pull that off with plastic ornaments.

I have had a fake tree ever since the year I finally realized that I was horribly ill every Christmas, be it in Michigan or California or the Philippines, because I was extremely allergic to the tree. Pine needle scratches = nasty rash, pine pollen = vicious sinus infection. I have had much merrier Christmases since I made the switch. And no pine needles to clog up the vacuum, no danger of a dry tree burning down the house. It's win-win for me.

Well I'm in UK at the moment and yesterday asked the missus if she needed me to bring anything back for Christmas, but she said nope she had got a tree and all the decorations already.. so I guess it's all available at the places (in Korat) mentioned already...

Great! Leaves more space in my suitcase for M&S Christmas Puddings

sr

In Surin Big 'C' Tesco, Makro and at Twikits in Burriram loads of Xmas Decorations, well today will go under the stairs and get me Tree and Decs out

Merry Christmas Cathy,

I settled on the 87bht 3ft Tree from Big C and a 27 bht strip of Tinsel.

If its fake, why spend a grand on it? fake is fake. I love the Juxtaposition of, "I've got a realy good fake".

Have a great Xmas, one and all. I shall be at a Bike meet which is being televised so look out for me on your Christmas viewing!

I got one from Big C - 150 baht and some flashing lights.

Merry Christmas Cathy,

Merry Christmas to you, too, Loz!

I got the big tree because we have the space for it now, and for the last 10 years in the US we didn't. We got 3 strings of flashing lights that I set to steady, no flash.

<deleted> is up with the backwards lights? Apparently their engineers here haven't figured out how to put the female receptacle for the next string of lights at the OPPOSITE end of the lights from the male end. So we have a weird looking outlet with 3 plugs, one into the outlet and the other two piggybacked into each other. It sticks out a very safe 3 or 4 inches from the outlet.

The reference to hauling over M&S Christmas puddings reminds me of Singapore twenty years ago.

Our son and daughter-in-law were coming from England for Christmas and Mother gave them one of her home-made Christmas puddings to bring.

But the airline managed to send their luggage to Bangkok.

When it finally arrived in Singapore, we got the impression that the Bangkok sniffer dogs must be connoisseurs of Christmas puddings, and got so excited at coming within range of such an excellent one as Mother used to make, that Customs became sure that there were drugs in the pudding. It had been probed from every angle!

Incidentally, one of the advantages of a little pension by Western standards going so much further in Isaan that one can afford a big house is that there is enough room not to have to take down the Christmas tree. Fully erect and decorated, it is just put aside for the year.

Thong always decides to re-arrange the lights, though. It must be the same syndrome that causes wives to re-arrange the placing of the furniture as soon as husbands have managed to get used to the previous arrangement. Does the female of the species believe that it is good for the males to bang their toes on the way to the bathroom in the dark?

It must be the same syndrome that causes wives to re-arrange the placing of the furniture as soon as husbands have managed to get used to the previous arrangement. Does the female of the species believe that it is good for the males to bang their toes on the way to the bathroom in the dark?

But so much cheaper than moving house!