Do you have a color theme?

The only problem I've found with choosing a theme is that you can't just change colors on a whim, and later it may be hard to find similar colors. Like the blue I'm currently using is a nice royal type blue. Well Walmart doesn't sell this color ornaments anymore. They have a light, almost aqua type blue now. So if my ornaments break, I can't replace them. Also when the kids bring home handmade ornaments from school, I don't put them on the tree because they don't go with he theme. When I was little we had no theme, it was just jumbles of colors. We had multi color lights, any color garland, and many different kinds of ornaments. So when I made ones at school they went right on the tree, and my mother even held them from year to year and kept using them. (mostly because she couldn't afford to buy new ornaments) It wasn't really pretty, but it was cool, and I had my special ornaments I got to hang myself.

We do ours as a whole family. There's certain ornaments hubby and I have to hang together because they're sentimental, there's certain ones I hang myself because they're special. The rest the kids do with our help and guidance, but my kids are still little.

We used to buy my son his own ornaments the first couple years hubby and I were together. But then I'd get all picky about where on the tree I want it. I didn't want it to mess up the theme, so I'd make them put it in the back or something, lol. That's when we stopped buying him his own.