Christmas Retro

Loughc · 21-12-2017 12:11am

More memories this time toy ones.

https://www.joe.ie/life-style/16-classic-toys-that-every-irish-kid-growing-up-in-the-90s-wanted-499311

Loughc · 22-12-2017 8:35pm

Remember these?

Toto Wolfcastle · 22-12-2017 9:17pm

I always had a bit of a soft spot for the stockings rather than the selection boxes.

Loughc · 22-12-2017 9:54pm

Toto Wolfcastle wrote: »

I always had a bit of a soft spot for the stockings rather than the selection boxes.

Same the net socks will always be Christmas selection boxes for me. Also look at the size of the bars!! Drool haha.

Toto Wolfcastle · 23-12-2017 9:39am

Loughc wrote: »

Same the net socks will always be Christmas selection boxes for me. Also look at the size of the bars!! Drool haha.

The Milky Way from the net was always the nicest Milky Way of the year. I can almost taste it right now.

funnights74 · 23-12-2017 3:27pm

There's a "colorized" version of Its a wonderful life on UK gold at the moment. Its just not right, leave alone please.

Loughc · 05-09-2018 1:30pm

Some pics from the Argos Autumn/Winter catalog 1983

ciara007 · 07-09-2018 10:46am

I have my eye on these lights we had the same ones on our tree as kids.

https://www.brownthomas.com/brown-thomas-navigation-catalog/40-pickwick-lights /130744657.html?cgid=root#q=christmas&prefn1=refinementSubCategory&prefv1=ChristmasLighting&start=1

chuckles30 · 07-09-2018 4:15pm

Oh it's great to see those old type of lights coming back. I got LEDs for my mothers tree last year and they are lovely, but luckily it's in her porch. I find them a bit too bright for a sitting room where you would be looking at it all night. I have clear lights on my tree, but I would love to do something retro too, but I think I need another tree. I don't think coloured lights would work with my current tree decs.

washiskin · 08-09-2018 5:59pm

ciara007 wrote: »

I have my eye on these lights we had the same ones on our tree as kids.

https://www.brownthomas.com/brown-thomas-navigation-catalog/40-pickwick-lights%C2%A0/130744657.html?cgid=root#q=christmas&prefn1=refinementSubCategory&prefv1=ChristmasLighting&start=1

I bought the Canterbury Belles ones from BT's last week....the boxes are gone so small

but the lights are amazing... I have one tree that's just vintage lights....no leds...it looks lovely.

honeybear · 08-09-2018 6:01pm

Posy wrote: »

These encompass my memories of Christmas in the 80's/90's

and making these in school

Great photos!

freshpopcorn · 08-09-2018 6:22pm

washiskin · 11-09-2018 12:12pm

I remember my first selection box.....it was red with a real picture of Santy on it. For the life of me I can't find a photo. It was between 1975 and 78 when I got it.

carfiosaoorl · 11-09-2018 10:38pm

My mother always put up bunches of balloons on the ceiling, the smell of balloons still reminds me of christmas.
I love vintage Christmas lights leds just don't cut it. I would love to find the old carriage lights but also love the lantern lights.
One of my favourite memories is going to school at night to do the Christmas play. The stage had red velvet curtains and a big gold star in the centre. I moved back to my home town a few years ago and my daughter finished out primary school there. I went to her Christmas play and they still had the same curtains and star. Major feels ♥

Loughc · 11-09-2018 10:46pm

Oh my god balloons on ceiling my mam did that too!

Mam of 4 · 12-09-2018 9:51pm

Loughc wrote: »

Oh my god balloons on ceiling my mam did that too!

My Mam did too !

And I must admit that when the kids were small here , I used to put the decorations on the ceiling with the balloons in each corner

Loughc · 17-09-2018 9:45pm

https://twitter.com/killianm2/status/1041710817358430209?s=21

This is an amazing find. Credit to Killianm2 on Twitter.

#allthefeels

DvB · 18-09-2018 9:19am

That looks slightly different to the other 2 penneys ones I have downloaded & in my christmas advert playlist (yes, I have a christmas advert playist of all my favourite crimbo adverts over the years) Must see if I can get a download of that one too!

Great find that!!

CheerLouth · 18-09-2018 9:58am

I think you need to share that playlist, DvB!

Loughc · 18-09-2018 10:30am

CheerLouth wrote: »

I think you need to share that playlist, DvB!

I second this!

DvB · 18-09-2018 12:59pm

Tell you what, will check in when on the PC at home again & see what I have. Its very much my own personal favourites & may not have what everyone else would expect. Pretty sure most of them (if not all) are readily available on YouTube too BTW.

Heroditas · 19-09-2018 12:43pm

r3nu4l wrote: »

I was a child of the 70s and 80s so this YouTube video has loads of products as I remember them

https://youtu.be/LGpsmoAzlZo

Such happy days.

I also remember these in our house but never see them anywhere these days.

Here's another one for you. The news and some ads on December 22nd 1984. I still remember that Christmas vividly (I was 9 at the time).
I even remember seeing Close Encounters of the Third Kind the following afternoon in a relative's house (one of the first ads in the link)
Christmas was magical back then but I think a lot of it is because I was a kid. Now I have my own children and am experiencing that same joy all over again.

https://youtu.be/Ih1FZTsw2ao

Another link for that same date.

https://youtu.be/u6YIDsOedxw

Still my most favourite Christmas as I shall discuss in detail over the next few months

Loughc · 17-11-2018 10:45pm

When are these coming back into fashion? I used to love them.

Toto Wolfcastle · 18-11-2018 9:37am

I saw someone tweeting about them. They’re definitely available this year. I’ll see if I can find the tweet.

Toto Wolfcastle · 18-11-2018 9:55am

Found it! Not in Ireland unfortunately, but Dealz or any of the pound shops might be worth a try if they're back in production.

https://twitter.com/dresserman/status/1063383475389116417

Couldn't find them on the Asda website but Wilko has an entire section dedicated to 'Christmas Foils and Tinsel'. Only one foil garland though.

freshpopcorn · 18-11-2018 2:12pm

Dealz and Eurogiant generally stock the foil decorations.
I saw them in Dealz a few days ago.

SarahLil · 18-11-2018 2:28pm

Reminisced this morning over a cuppa with my mam about all of these totally forgot about the balloons on the ceiling it made me laugh
I loved cream soda too and all the TK lemonades,
On Christmas Eve I would always have my lemonade out of a grown ups glass I thought I was great and so sophisticated

iguana · 18-11-2018 4:24pm

Loughc wrote: »

When are these coming back into fashion? I used to love them.

I've always had them. They were my favourite as a child so I bought my own for my bedroom as a teen and I've had them ever since. But they are back this year. I've seen them in Homestore and Dealz.

freshpopcorn · 18-11-2018 4:30pm

They've being in Home Store with the last few years.
I saw them in Woodies last year and they were expensive.

CrowdedHouse · 18-11-2018 7:39pm

Probably not PC now but I'm old enough to remember cigarettes came in Christmas wrapping. 50 cigs in a high quality tin or plastic box that was great for holding your crayons/coloured pencils!

DvB · 19-11-2018 9:49am

Definitely saw these over the weekend in Blanchardstown, either woodies or Homestore & More.

Jude13 · 19-11-2018 10:09am

We have them up in our kitchen since the weekend. Need to get a pic up. They have a weird plastic smell that brings me back, plus the sound when putting them up. We have only had them since last year, and we did our kitchen with them spanning in to each corner with a star or tree in each quadrant. When we had people over from different parts of the world their faces were hilarious when the entered the kitchen, saying oh how lovely but clearly thinking we were mental.

rubberdungeon · 19-11-2018 11:37am

I didn’t realise they went out if fashion, I think they add a lovely finishing touch to the room at Christmas. We even have a ceding fan like your picture.

weetiepie · 19-11-2018 10:47pm

Jude13 wrote: »

We have them up in our kitchen since the weekend. Need to get a pic up. They have a weird plastic smell that brings me back, plus the sound when putting them up. We have only had them since last year, and we did our kitchen with them spanning in to each corner with a star or tree in each quadrant. When we had people over from different parts of the world their faces were hilarious when the entered the kitchen, saying oh how lovely but clearly thinking we were mental.

This made me laugh out loud..it must have been hilarious watching their reactions ðŸ€£ðŸ€£

CheerLouth · 20-11-2018 10:44am

I'm thinking about getting some - the kids would love them. I remember having them at Christmas in our house - I used to love them. And they'd fit in with my "Christmas puked on my house" theme :P

DeniG2 · 21-11-2018 12:20pm

Can anyone remember an advert from the 1980s where a man walks into a shop looking for the perfect glass (if memory serves me correctly), and proceeds to drink from a bottle of sherry or cognac and then walks out of the shop without buying anything and just giving a cheery Merry Christmas.
I can't find it on YouTube but I think it was for Harvey's Bristol Cream
Hopefully someone here remembers it, it's driving me mad, would love to see it again

Day Lewin · 21-11-2018 1:20pm

DeniG2 wrote: »

Can anyone remember an advert from the 1980s where a man walks into a shop looking for the perfect glass (if memory serves me correctly), and proceeds to drink from a bottle of sherry or cognac and then walks out of the shop without buying anything and just giving a cheery Merry Christmas.
I can't find it on YouTube but I think it was for Harvey's Bristol Cream
Hopefully someone here remembers it, it's driving me mad, would love to see it again

@DeniG2...You started me off hunting for Harvey's...and look what I found!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdOzesKjjY

Warning - adult language

DeniG2 · 21-11-2018 1:31pm

Day Lewin wrote: »

@DeniG2...You started me off hunting for Harvey's...and look what I found!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdOzesKjjY

Warning - adult language

love that ad!

I'm not even sure if the advert I'm thinking of is even a Harvey's ad, it might be Blacktower, Henneseys Cognac etc

21-11-2018 1:35pm

Day Lewin wrote: »

@DeniG2...You started me off hunting for Harvey's...and look what I found!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdOzesKjjY

Warning - adult language

I have never seen that before! Or if I did I've forgotten. But thank you, got a great laugh out of it.

leeside11 · 21-11-2018 2:17pm

DeniG2 wrote: »

Can anyone remember an advert from the 1980s where a man walks into a shop looking for the perfect glass (if memory serves me correctly), and proceeds to drink from a bottle of sherry or cognac and then walks out of the shop without buying anything and just giving a cheery Merry Christmas.
I can't find it on YouTube but I think it was for Harvey's Bristol Cream
Hopefully someone here remembers it, it's driving me mad, would love to see it again

Looked up UK TV Adverts 1955-1990 website. Have a memory of that ad alright. Was it "Class In A Glass". Nothing on YouTube though.

DeniG2 · 21-11-2018 2:22pm

leeside11 wrote: »

Looked up UK TV Adverts 1955-1990 website. Have a memory of that ad alright. Was it "Class In A Glass". Nothing on YouTube though.

Hmmm, might have been.

I have searched Google every christmas for the last few years but have never found it. I can visualise almost everything about it, even how the shopper looks and sounds but the advert name escapes me. It might be time to take down the old VCR and tapes from the attic and hope there's some evidence in them

DvB · 21-11-2018 2:47pm

DeniG2 wrote: »

Can anyone remember an advert from the 1980s where a man walks into a shop looking for the perfect glass (if memory serves me correctly), and proceeds to drink from a bottle of sherry or cognac and then walks out of the shop without buying anything and just giving a cheery Merry Christmas.
I can't find it on YouTube but I think it was for Harvey's Bristol Cream
Hopefully someone here remembers it, it's driving me mad, would love to see it again

I remember that advert, pretty sure it was Harvey Bristol Cream sherry as you suggest. Not sure if it was specifically a christmas advert though.

DeniG2 · 21-11-2018 3:25pm

DvB wrote: »

I remember that advert, pretty sure it was Harvey Bristol Cream sherry as you suggest. Not sure if it was specifically a christmas advert though.

It was a christmas advert alright, he says Merry Christmas when he leaves the shop (afair)

miamee · 22-11-2018 12:02pm

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Probably not PC now but I'm old enough to remember cigarettes came in Christmas wrapping. 50 cigs in a high quality tin or plastic box that was great for holding your crayons/coloured pencils!

Lol, this post reminded me of something I had forgotten! One Christmas I remember my nanny had saved up a load of her empty cigarette boxes and we wrapped them all in wrapping paper, put some thread around them like ribbon on a gift plus a loop and hey presto, we had made loads of our own Christmas tree decorations. That was back when money was scarce and you had to be thrifty!

Sundew · 22-11-2018 1:59pm

miamee wrote: »

Lol, this post reminded me of something I had forgotten! One Christmas I remember my nanny had saved up a load of her empty cigarette boxes and we wrapped them all in wrapping paper, put some thread around them like ribbon on a gift plus a loop and hey presto, we had made loads of our own Christmas tree decorations. That was back when money was scarce and you had to be thrifty!

Miamee.... I remember doing this with matchboxes.....believe it or not I had one up until recently but I think I might have binned it. If I find it in my Mums box of decorations I’ll post a link...
I made it way back in the 80,s! Pretty sure I remember the cigarettes tins as well, my Aunts used to buy them for my Nana in dutyfree on the carferry!

miamee · 22-11-2018 2:52pm

Sundew, I think we might have had matchboxes as well, lol! I must ask my parents if there are any of them left btu like that, it was in the 80s so goodness knows where they are now if there are any left at all.

CheerLouth · 22-11-2018 3:55pm

We had matchbox decorations too and we had them well into the late 90s as far as I can remember. I loved them

Posy · 23-11-2018 12:42am

I'd completely forgotten about matchbox decorations until literally just now!! :eek:

Caranica · 23-11-2018 7:37am

Anyone else remember table tennis ball decorations? Think we made them in school. Put a pattern on them with double sided tape and dipped them in glitter?

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