…do you decorate that side?
I don’t. Why bother? No one’s gonna see it, and you can better decorate the visible side.
Dopers?
Nope, the only way to get to that side is to pull it out and then push it back in, why go to all that trouble? I decorate as far around back as I can reach though, so it does look like I went to all that trouble.
Heck, my tree is in front of a window (the window that overlooks our backyard), and I don’t decorate the side that faces the window. It’s hard to reach, and nobody sees the tree through the window except one of us when we pull into the garage.
Of course we do! Because the little flodnaks are going to hang ornaments on anything that resembles a branch anyway, so let 'em go for it 
(Our tree isn’t totally against the wall, but you really can’t see the back unless you specifically try to.)
You have to at least stretch the lights and tinsel around, though, right? I can see leaving off the ornaments, but you can’t properly wrap the lights if you don’t go all the way around.
Similar response here. Our tree is against the back windows, which look out on our yard and an extremely large field. From any of the neighbor’s properties, or from the field, you’d see the lights twinkling on the tree, but you’d have to actually step well into our yard to see that the ornaments only reach enough around the tree to create the illusion of a fully decorated tree for those back in the house. So, to anyone who might actually notice this I would only say, get the hell out of my yard.
Same here. My little 24" Charlie Brown pre-lit-tree-in-a-pot sits in the window. My seven ornaments are on the “inside” for me to enjoy and the neighbors can see the lit shape of a Christmas tree from the road.
This year I have a tiny tabletop tree, so it’s decorated all the way around, but usually we have a nine feet high and five feet across monstrosity that goes in the corner. In that case, I pull it into the middle of the room to string the lights, then push it into the corner and decorate what’s visible.
I can’t see decorating the side that’s going to be pressed up against the wall (and my living room isn’t that big, so it really does wind up *pressed up against * the wall, as opposed to just *facing * the wall). It also seems like a bad idea to hang a bunch of glass ornaments on the tree and *then * move it.
We decorate our wall-side, but it isn’t specifically against the wall, just facing it. If you look at the tree, you can lean a little and see all of it.
My parent’s tree faces a window and they probably wouldn’t decorate that side if the kids didn’t want them to.
Brendon
We cut the wall-side branches off and put the trunk right up against the wall. We have a small living room.
I used to do you one better back when I bothered to put up a tree. My place is small and the only appropriate place for a tree is in the corner. I’d fire up my sawzall and cut TWO sides out of the tree to make it fit.
As kids we always did. But our parents were the type to buy new ornaments every year, more than they broke, so there were always plenty to go around.
We always envied my grandfather’s tree because it rotated, but it was just a tinfoil decorative one with all identical red ornaments. So the effect was wasted.