I think Christmas Trees represent individual things for families, so "ugly" ones just may have a lot of sentimental ornaments which show the family has made various memories they connect with Christmas. I like having a stylized tree (this year my mom and I got a whole bunch of red, white, and silver ornaments. Previous years we've used blue and gold). This is the first year we aren't using many of our old ornaments on the tree, but they would have distracted from the theme we chose.