Christmas Retro

Picked up a few of the ceiling decorations in homestore last year. Wasn’t enough for what I wanted to do. Hopefully get a few more this year.

Anyone remember putting balloons in the tree. We had a real tree and balloons went in I think to fill gaps. When the tree was coming down, we were distracted by playing with the balloons. There was also the odd hear5 attack from random balloon pops while watching tv

Yes, had forgotten this. The long balloons were much easier to fit cos you could just slide them between branches.

Balloons on the ceiling also. Random balloon drops and pops all over Christmas 🎈 🎄

We still do those foil decorations in our kitchen, just for nostalgia. We also have a nostalgia tree, which is basically for me and the kids to decorate in coloured lights and stuff I remember from my childhood. We're not allowed touch the main tree.

The balloons on the ceiling mage me laugh. We had them in the tree one year growing up.

Mondalez, who own cadbury, are a client of ours, and I have to say the smell when you visit the site in Coolock is great (for a while anyway, it starts to get a little overpowering after am hour or so) but even they have said that they produce specific cadbury products only and that roses is not one of them because they use a different type of chocolate so are produced in a different factory. Creme eggs are the same, cheaper chocolate so manufactured elsewhere.

Its such a shame as roses were great back in the day, thet're a sicky sweet mess mowadays though and the last of the tubs that we'd buy (Quality Street first & celebrations our go to tubs)

I remember all those chocolate retro items. Especially the net socks. Actual full bars. A selection box actually had the wow factor.

Ah the Caramel. That’s what has been making the emptiness feeling I’ve been getting from selection boxes

Can anybody remember these?

I'd forgotten all about Double Centres, total blast from the past. I can't remember any of the sweets in them, but we definitely used to get them at Christmas.

Absolutely, my mum loved them. Was fairly fond of them myself.

Was just about to post this

"double, double centre, chocolate assortment, twice, twice the taste of any other chocolates"

The net sock selection box almost brought a tear to my eye.

Just much much simpler times.

I mentioned before here but who remembers when the milkman would leave a 'minerals' form to fill out and before Christmas he would deliver (non brand) cola, orange and lemonade? Might be alone in this one. My dad would always order cream soda. Christmas was the only time we had soft drinks in the the house. Though say it was partially due to $ but mainly due to teeth/healthy diet reasons.

This sums up mes also. I'm a real 'look back' kind of person & love old christmas related stuff but when I do allow myself wallow for a bit despite getting great pleasure from it, it does have a tint of sadness too, a yearning for the simpler times I associated with Christmas growing up really. Still, you cant live in the past all the time and its good to look forward, I think thats why I enjoy this forum & the countdowns so much!!

I think your first line is spot on. Hard to think of Christmas & not look back at years gone by, afterall its how traditions are formed, and what are christmas nuts without their traditions.

Man, cream soda! Taking me back, I don't think you can get it now...or at least I haven't seen it in years. My Dad used to work for a certain soft drinks producer & he got a staff allowance at Christmas. It was always a sign of the Christmas season when he brought home the crates; he always split them up into mixed crates to give to friends & family. We'd be standing over him watching him in dismay lol

I'm sort of addicted to watching all these Nostalgia clips on TikTok from the 90's/00's.

People who dip into the second layer should be publicly flogged. They're every bit as bad as the sort who out empty sweet wrappers back in the box.

Interesting to the advert for B Sky B, who'd have thought back in 1989 what they'd turn in to!