Crap Christmas decorations | These are Australias weirdest and most bogan attempts at getting int

‘TIS THE season to be merry.

But for some unlucky Australians, instead of tasteful baubles and the waft of fresh-cut pine, Christmas brings an assault on the senses.

The culprit? Often, it’s the peculiarly misguided entity known as the local council who is responsible — especially for the crime against aesthetics known as tree wrapping.

At other times, it’s the quaintly enthusiastic building manager who opts to wrap a concrete bunker with ribbon tied neatly in a bow.

Aussie comedian Tania Lacy, currently based in Berlin, invited Facebook followers to submit their examples of truly horrendous Christmas decorations for her annual CACD files (the acronym stands for Crap Australian Christmas Decorations).

If she was feeling homesick before she issued the challenge, what ensued has surely brought home the realisation that, despite the joys of swimming on Christmas Day, we really are a second rate nation when it comes to being festive.

Cheap plastic trees, flimsy cardboard signs and flimsy bits of tinsel strung haphazardly into shrubbery are just some of the low-key looks being embraced.

A disturbing trend of wrapping fabric offcuts around tree trunks has taken root in certain hipster suburbs of Melbourne, while shopping trolleys piled into a festive shape can only have been spotted in Frankston.

Feast your eyes on these atrocities, and be sure to keep a spew bucket handy.

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