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Christmas Retro

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,184 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Who had those on their tree

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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    kitten_k wrote: »

    OMG yes. My mam had about 4 of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,952 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    kitten_k wrote: »

    I think I still have his head , the body is long gone :o
    Still goes on the tree though !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    I'd say my parents still have theirs! This is such an old lady thing to say but I like that they were so light and didn't weigh down the tree. So many decorations these days are too heavy.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    That's a very good point, especially if you have a real tree.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,139 ✭✭✭✭Caranica


    kitten_k wrote: »

    On the tree but also on a velvet covered house like music box that played Santa Claus is coming to town when you pulled a string


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    I'd say my parents still have theirs! This is such an old lady thing to say but I like that they were so light and didn't weigh down the tree. So many decorations these days are too heavy.

    I wouldn't tell my wife she is an old lady :P


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Did anyone say Christmas tv adverts from the 90’s?

    No? Well you’re getting them anyway :pac:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Loughc wrote: »
    Did anyone say Christmas tv adverts from the 90’s?

    No? Well you’re getting them anyway :pac:


    Class!!
    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Loughc wrote: »
    Did anyone say Christmas tv adverts from the 90’s?

    No? Well you’re getting them anyway :pac:
    The phone ads! :D:D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 607 ✭✭✭rubberdungeon


    This has been up every year for 40 years as part of the Christmas decoration.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭weetiepie


    This has been up every year for 40 years as part of the Christmas decoration.

    6034073


    Love it...so cute, so nice to have something that lasted that length


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    It is a nostalgic time is Christmas! A time when those lost to us are honoured and old customs come to the fore...

    I was born during World War Two. When I was two we moved from a backstreet 2 up 2 down in Wigan to a new build which in England sprang up like summer mushrooms..

    Christmas memories are fragmented as my father left us early on and there was little money. But as my brother and I got older we, especially me, enriched the season!
    Always a Christmas tree with lights.. That was at my insistence and I soon replaced the tatty old artificial one with a real one each year. Lovely old ornaments that have sadly got lost in one of my many moves.

    Always Christmas dinner! In those days chicken was rare, as ti was until battery farms came in . One year we went late to the market, just before they closed , on Christmas Eve, when they needed to clear the stall, and got the scrawniest, little bird you ever saw!
    My mother was a great cook and oh my! Home made sage and onion stuffing and her roast potatoes! My brother was tall and getting taller by the day, hollow as all lads are, and there was not one tiny fragment of met left on that bird and not a potato etc left!

    During the war my father had been saved and sheltered by a Dutch family , and they, with no rationing, sent us parcels.... coloured sugar which we made sandwiches from.... tins of pineapple conserve and joy of joys, Christmas puddings !

    That was the best Christmas dinner ever! Never equalled.

    The best are connected with the relatives we visited often in Wigan. always after my father had gone on Christmas Day. Sometimes the buses into Warrington did not run so we walked the three miles, laden with gifts and I always carried the Christmas cake Mum made each year as our part of the feast
    This was way back of course when there was little money about. But the fleeting moment memories of that back street 2 up 2 down terrace with no toilet indoors and one cold water tap in the scullery ...but such warmth. Always a big coal fire. When we were there anyway.
    And in the unused front room. always a glass bowl of Quality Street . Children remember these things! And we had little chocolate during the war and for years after
    Tea was ham on the bone, celery in a jug.... lots of bread,, Oh and Auntie Annie would always without fail suddenly remember when we were too full to move, that she had put mince pies in the side oven of the range to heat. EVERY year! Sweet old lady.

    Just scattered memories. It was not about big gifts; so little money and so little available... new clothes were wonderful, and rare. But I do not remember what else. "What are you getting for Christmas" is something more modern! Values have changed. There was hardly a family intact after the war,

    Oh we had stockings left at the bed! Then.. pillowcases! An orange in the toe. And we were not allowed up until at least 6 am. Always that huge excitement of children through the ages

    But my memories are strong of family times. And these are the qualities and facets that matter? Now I am alone I see that clearly. I still love Christmas lights and brightness; trying to get hyacinths in flower on time. But not the commercial hype for me . We never felt anything but …. pleasure at what we had and what we did. There was no hardship felt. Christmas was gentle and.. warm!

    I was in Sunday School from five and my faith has always been a focus, Carol singing with the church group around the village, Christmas nativity plays at school..

    Later Midnight Communion. Teaching Sunday School.. Listening to Carols from Kings. Admitting here it often ends in tears that programme and no shame in that....

    Too long but sending anyways an d looking forward to others.

    My dratted eyes are watering! Old age!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,065 ✭✭✭otnomart


    Amazing video from the archives of British Pathé / Reuters newsreel

    Santa Claus at London City Mission (1928)



  • Registered Users Posts: 20 Jc3112


    Graces I’m not an active user but read boards everyday and without fail every time a read a piece from you I can see it. Be it the weather on the island or your cats! This was a beautiful read and something I wish we could move back towards.
    My Christmas memory’s are the similar, helping to do dinner and listening to Christmas music. Waiting on my aunt, uncle and cousins to arrive and the fun and laughing that we would have. Sometimes I worry my own kids won’t look back as fondly as I do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Jc3112 wrote: »
    Graces I’m not an active user but read boards everyday and without fail every time a read a piece from you I can see it. Be it the weather on the island or your cats! This was a beautiful read and something I wish we could move back towards.
    My Christmas memory’s are the similar, helping to do dinner and listening to Christmas music. Waiting on my aunt, uncle and cousins to arrive and the fun and laughing that we would have. Sometimes I worry my own kids won’t look back as fondly as I do!

    Thank you for kind words. much needed just now.. I do have a weblog; see my signature file here on boards.ie? Enjoy!

    When it gets nearer the time I plan to transfer this there. With piccies!


  • Registered Users Posts: 20 Jc3112


    Oh graces a morning lost reading your wonderful writing. Thank you so much


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Jc3112 wrote: »
    Oh graces a morning lost reading your wonderful writing. Thank you so much

    I would love to put up a whole separate Christmas section but cannot work out how to do it yet. I will!

    This forum has given me so many ideas etc; thank you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,877 ✭✭✭matchthis




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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    I love seeing pics like this. Proper throwback



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Brings me back to my childhood!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Dustin the Turkey one brings me back all the memories!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,557 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    I remember the Derek Davis and Biddy and Miley ones!!! 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Is it just me or does Miley look a bit creepy??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    If I can just knock her off, ha ha, I can claim the life insurance and setup with Fidelma...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Those hay bales have to be good for something 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    I remember all of those covers other than the first one in the top left corner... man, talk about memories.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Memories of settling down with a marker, to circle what I'd be watching. Pure nostalgia. 😁



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Look at the size of that QS tin!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭A cup of te


    Great photo :-) The QS tin caught my eye as well. I miss the old packaging too.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Smell the glove




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Mmmmm walnut whips. 😋



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭Daisy78


    Was just thinking today about the Christmas sale of work we used to have in our local village. My earliest Christmas memories are of heading off with my mum to the local one every year, the excitement! Craft fairs seemed to have taken over but from memory you could buy everything at a sale of work, turkeys, baked goods, holly, decorations. In the days before the European style Christmas markets of today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    My mother use loves these when she was younger. Can any of ye remember them?




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Don't remember any of these, judging by the price they may predate even my vintage!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    That makes sense so. Not something I remember at all growing up.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Speaking of retro @freshpopcorn i love your ceiling decorations. I loved them as a kid nobody does them anymore




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Thanks,

    we never know whether to do them or not. We replaced them on Amazon in 2021 and they were expensive enough for something you'd buy in the pound shop before.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭BK5


    I managed to buy these in Mr.Price about 5 years ago and put them across the ceiling in the canteen in work. Haven't seen them in a shop since mind.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Still see them most years in Mr price or suchlike. I'd love to do them again but the Mrs is having none of it 😆

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    We had a matching red and gold theme. Need four long ones to square the room off and then four ones coming diagally out from the lampshade.

    Then we've 16 individual decorations.

    All are new enough.

    Apart from this fella who dates back to the 1980's.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭Smell the glove


    Our house used be destroyed in those decorations when I was growing up! You'd never really see them anymore. It's mad that a sort of decoration can fall out of "fashion" so much after being the thing to do for so long.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭pigtail33


    We always had those foil decorations on the ceiling during the 80s. I grew to dislike them back then as my Dad insisted on putting them up every year, even when they were long out of fashion. We don't use the foil ones anymore, but instead, have paper ones that are close to 100 years old! They have to be very carefully boxed away in January every year. I think they originally came from my Grandad's house. I have now grown to love them though as they are a big part of our family tradition.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    My brother hates them. I think we partly put them up to annoy him.



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