Its Hideous, But I Had It When I Was A Kid

[Wee67]

Do you own anything that you know is a piece of junk, but you wanted it anyway because you have strong nostalgic ties with it?



For me, it was the cardboard Life-Size Electric Fireplace. It was a poor excuse for a real one, but we broke it out every Christmas when I was a kid. I remember it getting more and more beat up every year, but few things said it was Christmas more than than faux fireplace with its little red bulb-created flames. My wife is not happy about this particular pick-up. I just needed to share it with some other nostaglia-driven folks who might understand.

[ramsey37]

We had a very similar "fireplace" for a couple of years, 1973 and 1974:

That's me, probably showing off naming the various Marx dinosaurs to some bored adults in the room
George

[EMCE Hammer]

My wife hates my Empire Halloween and Santa decorations. The only thing missing in the picture on your box is a nice popcorn Santa.

[AAAAA]

we had that there was alight bulb with a metal fan blade that you spun to make it look like a fire was going.

[Mego Superboy Prime]

HAH!! That thing is ugly as shyat!!

[sauce]

Oh my! That is awesome. I would totally set that up even NOW!

[SpaceCrawler]

Awesome, nice box too!

Sean

[Wee67]

I'm surprised how many people had experience with this. But no one has something they had to "re-buy" as an adult even though they know its pretty crappy?

[AAAAA]

its no fun without the plastic marsh mellows !

[megocrazy]

Had that exact same one when I was a kid. It had a light in the fake wood that you put a shiny silver disc on top of and it spun using the heat of the bulb and caused the light to have the fireglow effect. It was pretty ingenious for the time.

[celsius]

They were happy times werent they?

[Richard J. Fowlks]

Wow! If I found one of those I'd totally put one of those up!! Then my two-year-old would smash through it like Godzilla through Tokyo.

[Karen-bionic-fan]

Well has to be said I love tacky lol and this is the bomb I love it have you still got it hahahaah think of me will ya lol

[wilbs518]

We had one of these. I loved it. I would put one up now.

[Karen-bionic-fan]

We had one of these. I loved it. I would put on up now.

Me to its beyond cool