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What's great about the Holiday Season is that it's open for interpretation. Every family creates their own Christmas spirit. And in Julia Mordaunt's case, it's quite an entertaining one.

Every year, her mother and sister exchange the ugliest Christmas tree decorations they can find. Both of them take the tradition seriously and constantly try to outdo each other. If one brings a fancy zebra in a skirt and heels, the other presents a deviled egg. If the first responds with a faucet, the second comes back with a perverted gingerbread man. It's a neverending story!

Continue scrolling to check out how the festive competition has been unfolding and upvote your favorite ornaments. Then we'll know who's winning.

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You could say the Christmas tree was long in the making. Even long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter.

Just as we decorate our homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient folks hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. In many places, it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.

Germany is credited with starting the modern version of this tradition in the 16th century when devout Christians started bringing decorated trees into their homes.

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Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles if wood was scarce. It's also widely believed that Martin Luther, the 16th-century Protestant reformer, first added lighted candles to a tree. Walking toward his home one winter evening, composing a sermon, he was awed by the brilliance of stars twinkling amidst evergreens. To recapture the scene for his family, he erected a tree in the main room and wired its branches with lighted candles.

Interestingly, even in the 19th-century, most Americans found Christmas trees an oddity.

The first record of one being on display dates back to the 1830s to the German settlers of Pennsylvania; although trees had been a tradition in many German homes much earlier. The Pennsylvania German settlements had community trees as early as 1747. But, as late as the 1840s Christmas trees were seen as pagan symbols and not accepted by most Americans.

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I wonder what people back then would've said about Julia's family tree. Maybe it would have made them come around sooner?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can hear the previously excited 6 year old girl who ran down the stairs to see if Santa brought Pinkie Pie to discover this instead. "DON"T WANT A PONY! I DON"T WANT A PONY! HIDE ME FROM THE PONY!"

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Julia Atkinson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like the sort of monster you see lurking in the margins of medieval manuscripts

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great! Now they just need a poop ornament and their tree is complete

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this guy supposed to be wise, ‘cause he sure doesn’t look it?

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And judging from the way her thread was received, it's only a matter of time before they do