Christmas Decorations..

[Spawn67]

Anyone beside me miss Christmas Decorations from the 60's-80's? It seems in my opinion that the stuff they make nowdays is not nearly as good as decorations from those years.Maybe for me it just reminds me of christmases from my childhood. Where I live (in Florida) I NEVER see any old decorations.

[Cmonster]

Dude, I miss EVERYTHING from the 60's-80's!!!

SC

[HardyGirl]

Yeah, tell me about it. I did manage to find 2 foil Merry Christmas signs a few years back that remind me of the old Coke Santa posters. I use one for the front door and one for my room. I have some of the old tree ornaments, (including the star) from my childhood. I miss those old decorations you'd find in Woolworth's back in the day. The old white boxes they came in w/ red and green writing. Those gigantic tree lights! The pipe cleaner angels. Yeah, those were the days.

[ScottA]

My parents have a 4-foot illuminated Snowman they put out each and ever year. I don't remember ever not having him as a kid. He must be 35-40 years old now. But I love him and have no plans to ever get rid of him.

You don't see too many of those kinds of decorations anymore, at least not here. Seems today it's all blow-ups and leds. You can still find the illuminated Nativity set but that's about it.

[Goblin19]

I inherited my Grandma's Christmas decorations, tree and all, so no, I don't miss them. They go up every year. My wife kind of hates some of them, but she knows they carry sentimental value for me. Plus, we add a new ornament every year.

[Adam West]

I also inherited ornaments. My parents used their parents ornaments so most of them are really old with missing paint, etc. and real fragile. I'm careful to only put a few up per year since there usually is a casualty or two. I remember we had one of those silver colored artificial trees and quite honestly can say I don't really miss that.

[generic]

Dude, I miss EVERYTHING from the 60's-80's!!!

Yep. I think with Christmas, the thing I miss the most is looking through the toy section of the Service Merchandise catalog and circling all of the toys that I wanted. Although I do miss the old decorations, I think I miss the magic of Christmas as a kid much more than anything tangible. My sister-in-law (my brother and his wife are much older than I am) still makes the same awesome cookies that she made when I was a kid, so at least there's that!

[boss]

I still have the 1969 Sears artificial tree my parents bought right before I was born. love it.

[Earth 2 Chris]

K-Mart is carrying a blow-molded Snowman, using Empire's old molds. I was tempted to bite...

We still put out our old Empire Santa. Well, he's from the 90s, but I think the mold is older. We have an inflatable Homer Simpson as Santa too, but that Empire Santa really beams and screams "CHRISTMAS TIME!" to me.

I inherited a light-up Santa face my grandparents used to own. I loved that thing, and after my grandfather passed away, my grandmother didn't decorate as much. When she passed on, we found it, and I had to have it. I love pulling into my driveway every night and seeing it lit up. Lots of great memories tied to that piece of plastic!

Chris

[ScottA]

I'll have to check our K-mart and take a look Chris.

I also got an illuminated Lantern my parents had forever as well. We use to have 2 of them but 1 has gone missing over the years. I can't wait until I can put it out.

The other thing I got was a string of blinking bell lights. There are only 10 in the set. They used to hang across our carport when I was little. I love 'em.

[megojim]

I love vintage Christmas decorations! Our tree has bubble lights and all that stuff! I also refuse to replace my incandesant lights with LED's. Long live C-7 twinkle lights!

[david_b]

The wife and I bought the LEDs, which look nice, but I quickly realized that I could plug in my Trek ornaments, so I've got to pull out the older lights for that...

david_b

[Earth 2 Chris]

LED lights need to get cheaper before I go that route. They are like $10 for 50 of them. It's nuts.

I forgot I have a small, indoor blow-molded Santa that is OLD. It belonged to my Mom. My grandparents had one exactly the same. It's just not Christmas without him.

Chris

[Spawn67]

What I miss is the plastic candle lights that people would put in the widow including my family. I never see those anymore but Im sure some people still have them.

[HardyGirl]

Here are some examples of the stuff I miss from my childhood:

6 VINTAGE PLASTIC LANTERN BELL CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS - eBay (item 180597131883 end time Dec-12-10 17:51:25 PST)

Vintage 9-1/2" Plastic STAR BURST Christmas TREE TOPPER - eBay (item 370463113126 end time Dec-10-10 18:31:46 PST)

(I still have our old tree topper, shaped liked this, but gold glitter w/ a red metallic ball in the middle)

LOT 12 VINTAGE PIPE CLEANER ANGEL CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS - eBay (item 110619656068 end time Dec-09-10 18:52:52 PST)

VINTAGE CHRISTMAS PIXIE ELVES-SET OF 4 ORNAMENTS - eBay (item 190475185186 end time Dec-08-10 17:53:50 PST)

(our elves were sitting in a long sleigh that sat in the branches of the tree)

Vintage Christmas Lights Yule Birds from Glolite 1949 - eBay (item 310276707281 end time Dec-08-10 15:53:19 PST)

(in addition to the standard lights we also had birds like these, but blue and white, and also Santa lights)

Man, I miss this stuff!