Kmart shoppers frustrated by 'useless' $8 Christmas item: 'All went in the bin'

I have a confession to make. As a mum of a 2.5-year-old, I have been secretly dreading Christmas this year for one big reason.

You see, I am quite, erm, particular about my Christmas tree set-up. Each year, I carefully take out our ornaments and arrange them on the table before painstakingly adding them to the tree in a way that is aesthetically pleasing, colour-coordinated and minimalistic.

Of course, toddlers care not for ensuring symmetry and style, which is why now that my son is old enough, I've been lamenting the fact that he'll want to get involved with the decorating and my chic, simple decorations will be as carelessly tossed aside as the ornaments he'd haphazardly throw at the tree.

This is where a little $8 item from Kmart was supposed to come in handy! The 'Decorate Your Own Felt Wall Christmas Tree' is designed for kiddos my son's age and up so that they can decorate to their heart's content over and over again.

Kmart shoppers frustrated with 'useless' $8 Christmas tree

The little pack comes with an 80cm felt tree, assorted felt decoration pieces and removable wall stickers so your little one can have hours of fun being creative with their festive efforts (while your actual tree remains intact).

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There's just one problem - I'll be damned if I could get the tree to stay stuck on the wall! The wall stickers definitely do not work, and even two attempts with tough double-sided tape were not enough to keep the tree attached to the wall of my son's room.

It turns out I was not the only one struggling as several Kmart shoppers took to a Facebook group to make the same complaint.

"Anyone else having trouble getting their felt Christmas tree to stick to the wall? What did you use to fix it?" one customer asked.

"I’m keen to know also!! The decorations are really hard to stick as well!" some (who I swear was not me) replied.

"These are USELESS," one shopper said.

"They're useless, unfortunately," another wrote. "I bought little velcro dots from Spotlight and put them on the tree and also dots on the shapes and just on the dots I already placed on the tree!"

"Yep, that’s why ours went to the op shop," was another reply.

How to keep the felt Kmart tree on the wall

Feeling like less of a failure, I read on to see that other people had given suggestions for how to get this thing - that was surely designed by Ebeneezer Scrooge himself - to finally stick to the wall.

"Sticky Velcro! I got some from the Reject Shop," one shopper said.

"Gave up and glued a ribbon to the top and used a command hook to hang it for easy removal," another added.

"Yep! We ended up using it in a pinboard," a third suggested.

Other issue with Kmart tree

Another thing to be aware of, as pointed out by NZ mum of 3, Christine, is that you have to craft all of the patterns onto the presents, decorations and gingerbread men yourself.

"This is such a stitch up!," someone wrote on her video. "They need to declare this on the box."

"😂I agree I bought this one year. Never again. Also kept falling off. It all went in the bin before Xmas," another person said.

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"I got one last year thinking this would get him not touch the main tree and I’m still finding felt things in my house haha they did not stay haha 😂," a third added.

And with that, I look forward to randomly finding a felt candy cane between the couch cushions a year from now!

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