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Your underwhelming photos

Our readers react to the banality of existence with their underwhelming photos. From holiday snaps to crap snow, all aspects of modern life are covered, disappointingly

  • Our office Christmas tree is probably the saddest Christmas tree I’ve ever known but in this world of repair and reuse isn’t it great that a broken tree and bunch of tatty ornaments (and one gigantic unusable bauble) can find a new life?

    'Wastes of spruce': more of your underwhelming Christmas trees

    Our gallery of outdoor displays provoked a flurry more festive submissions from your homes and offices
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    Fir crying out loud: 2018's most underwhelming Christmas trees

    Readers have been sharing pictures of the least impressive Christmas trees so far this festive season
  • M&S sheet. Scissors. Sorted. Happy Halloween!

    'Sheet, scissors, sorted': your underwhelming Halloween photos

    From utterly spookless apparitions to scary satsumas, readers have been sharing their Halloween with us
  • Bartender dressed as a vampire

    Show us your underwhelming Halloween photos

    It’s that spooky time of the year again and we’d like to see your efforts – or lack of – taking part in Halloween
  • London Set For Longest Heatwave In 20 Years<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 20: People enjoy the warm weather in Green Park on one of the hottest days of the year on June 20, 2017 in London, England. PHOTOGRAPH BY Adam Gray / Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftimages.com

    Share your underwhelming photos of Britain's heatwave

    It’s warm out! Show us what you’re up to
  • Parliamentary Pancake Race in Westminster<br>epa06520554 Television journalist Alastair Stewart poses before the annual Parliamentary Pancake Race in Westminster in London, Britain,13 February 2018. The race is held on Shrove Tuesday between members of the Houses of Lords and Commons and members of media to raise money for charity. EPA/NEIL HALL

    Share your disappointing pancake day efforts

    Average at making pancakes? Share photos of your attempts with us at the Guardian’s underwhelming department
  • This optimistic tree in Edinburgh is still festively twinkling it’s lights, just in a more horizontal way...

    Your underwhelming Christmas photos

    From horizontal trees to a staggering Santa and muted office festivities, readers share their disappointment at this most average (for some) time of year
    The best of your 2016 images
  • “A Christmas gift tag: Spotted this as I popped out for a sandwich. As you can imagine, it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside”. Tagged as taken in Shoreditch on 12 December 2016

    Share your underwhelming Christmas photos

    If it’s Christmas related and you feel slightly disappointed by it, then we want to hear from you
  • Hey Bartender<br>Bloody Mary!?

    Your underwhelming Halloween photos

    As is traditional, we share our readers’ (and our readers’ dogs’) half-hearted Halloween costumes on this, the spookiest of nights
  • Becky Armstrong (26), classic monster outfit. <br>WooOOooooo

    Share your underwhelming Halloween photos

    It’s that spooky time of year, so we want to see your average ghosts, disappointing sexy witches and other poor costume choices
  • Readers submitted photos from around the US of their view of Monday’s total solar eclipse.

    Your underwhelming photos of the solar eclipse

    We asked Guardian readers to submit photos of the total solar eclipse that streaked across America on Monday. As you can see, eclipse photography is tricky but we’re grateful for their efforts
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    Your underwhelming pictures of cats

    To celebrate international cat day, our readers share their average pictures of cats, pictures of average cats, and average pictures of average cats
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    Your underwhelming summer holiday photos

    Our readers share their photos of how they are enjoying the Great British summer, to make those of us stuck in the office feel better about our lives
  • Turned out nice again.

    Share your underwhelming summer holiday photos

    Now that the schools have broken up, it’s probably raining, so we would like to see your distinctly average holiday photos
  • Harry keeping a low profile<br>Harry in the garden. He loves hot weather.

    Your underwhelming UK heatwave photos

    From unhappy dogs to mild DIY disasters, our readers share their disappointingly average photos as Britain struggles through an uncommonly hot summer solstice
  • Worst st Patrick’s day ever.<br>gjhy

    Your underwhelming St Patrick's Day photos

    From drizzle in Manchester to awful bar signs in New York City, our readers were kind enough to send us photos of their thoroughly average St Patrick’s Day celebrations
  • St Patrick Day's celebrations 2017<br>A group of men dressed in green suits on St Patrick's Day at Newcastle railway station. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Friday March 17, 2017. Photo credit should read: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

    Share your underwhelming St Patrick's Day photos

    Wherever you are in the world, if you’re engaged in vaguely Irish-themed activities today, we’d like to see your photos
  • ‘There were tears before school.’

    Your underwhelming pancake day photos

    Shrove Tuesday was a day of inept flipping and flabby batters
  • Baroness Bertin, Alastair Stewart OBE and Tracey Crouch MP pictured practicing for the Rehab Parliamentary Pancake Race.

    Share your underwhelming Pancake Day photos

    Shrove Tuesday is a trial for cack-handed pancake flippers - we want to see your pancake-making flops
  • Sewer far so good<br>I wasn’t expecting any valentine’s messages this year, let alone this one from my neighbour’s nephew. Who knows, maybe next year things will be coming up roses thanks to the impromptu fertilisation of my garden.

    Your underwhelming Valentine's Day photos

    Crap cards, strange meat products and disappointing text exchanges dominate on what is, unequivocally, the most romantic day of the year
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