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Do these decorations of Xmas past bring back memories?
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starry_rune
06-12-2016
Sorry about the number of links, (13 in total) but most of them are just items on ebay. Did you have them? Remember them? Tempted to buy them? What other things make you think of Christmasses past?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-Vintage-...0AAOSwB09YMKE0

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960s-70s-...kAAOSwA3dYIfwM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Geniune-Vi...8AAOSwiDFYRDbn

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-70...MAAOSw3YNXZm6i

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-19...QAAOSwImRYLdO6

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-VTG-Kits...kAAOSwnHZYRFmM

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vintage-ch...YAAOSwnHZYRCpJ

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-Vintage-...0AAOSwzaJX8jTE

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-1...gAAOSwpLNX~P25

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Ch...QAAOSwYIxYA9sR

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1970s-VINT...UAAOSwux5YKMCv

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbctv/1963-12-25

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36148788
CappySpectrum
06-12-2016
Seen them. Mothers stash of green and black bags.

I recognise link 2 and 3. Definitely recognise link 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9.
postit
06-12-2016
Whoever is putting these up on Ebay are very optimistic, judging by the prices they're asking for, not to mention the P&P
Terry N
06-12-2016
Yes I remember these types of things in the 80s. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-VTG-Kits...c=1&rmvSB=true
tim59
06-12-2016
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JurassicMark
06-12-2016
Remember buying strips of coloured paper and linking them together so they looked like this. That went all over my bedroom and the more expensive decorations went in the living room.
CappySpectrum
06-12-2016
Did anyone have the giant plastic santa head you put on the wall? Looking towards your left smiling while the eyes faced towards you. Must have been 3 - 4ft. Relatively flat moulded shell.

We also had a rudolf you blew up and hung from the ceiling. 70s and 80s decorations seemed more magical from what I can remember.
Miss XYZ
06-12-2016
We had a few of the decorations in the links. My Mum and Dad might still have them in the loft.

Originally Posted by JurassicMark:
“Remember buying strips of coloured paper and linking them together so they looked like this. That went all over my bedroom and the more expensive decorations went in the living room.”

Paper chains - we used to make them every Christmas at primary school, and they'd be put up in the classrooms and school corridors.
TheEricPollard
06-12-2016
I love paper chains. All that licking.
karapote monkey
06-12-2016
I still have some of those decs from when I was very small. A lot of them were glass but they're all plastic now days.
dee123
07-12-2016
Nope. Not old enough apparently.
CLL Dodge
07-12-2016
Never had any of them so I can't have memories of them.

Had one of these though:

http://www.theswagmansdaughter.com/p...banner-5-9-x-6
sarahj1986
07-12-2016
The foil things that used to hang from the ceiling 😁 Some were stars,snowflakes and the ones that were really long and took over the whole width of the ceiling.

Ahhhh classic decorations
biscuitfactory
07-12-2016
I have my dining room decked out in a retro style every Christmas and I've bought quite a lot of those kind of vintage decorations from Ebay.
I have crepe paper twisted strings across the ceiling, balloons ( that's something people don't tend to use anymore as a Christmas decoration ) a little white and silver tree on the sideboard, and I have vintage Quality Street and Roses tins on the sideboard too.
Leicester_Hunk
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by CLL Dodge:
“Never had any of them so I can't have memories of them.

Had one of these though:

http://www.theswagmansdaughter.com/p...banner-5-9-x-6”

You still see all these in the Hungry Horse and Beefeater pubs.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by CappySpectrum:
“Did anyone have the giant plastic santa head you put on the wall? Looking towards your left smiling while the eyes faced towards you. Must have been 3 - 4ft. Relatively flat moulded shell.

We also had a rudolf you blew up and hung from the ceiling. 70s and 80s decorations seemed more magical from what I can remember.”

Oh god, we had a large Santa head late 80's early 90's.

Decorations now are mostly minimalist, but I do think they look better. Quality over quantity.
Leicester_Hunk
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Ben_Copland:
“Oh god, we had a large Santa head late 80's early 90's.

Decorations now are mostly minimalist, but I do think they look better. Quality over quantity.”

Friend of ours still puts all these up, she's had them for about 20 years. The Santa and other things are sellotaped to the fake wood panelling. Their house - by her own admission - is like Life on Mars!
biscuitfactory
07-12-2016
[quote=Leicester_Hunk;84817039]Friend of ours still puts all these up, she's had them for about 20 years. The Santa and other things are sellotaped to the fake wood panelling. Their house - by her own admission - is like Life on Mars![/QUOTE]

Lol! My kinda place.
Leicester_Hunk
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by biscuitfactory:
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Originally Posted by Leicester_Hunk:
“Friend of ours still puts all these up, she's had them for about 20 years. The Santa and other things are sellotaped to the fake wood panelling. Their house - by her own admission - is like Life on Mars!”

Lol! My kinda place. ”

The fake wood panelling, real wood skirting board and flush doors in dark wood have been up, she says, since 1978 when the previous owners did it and they have never touched them. They also had on the landing wall one of those pictures mounted on velvet made with string and pins - I remember when we were kids, blokes used to come round selling them door to door and my nan had one.

They have those shiny open-out lantern things and shiny streamers - red, green, yellow ones - as well from the 70s or 80s - I remember us having them when I was a kid in the mid 80s. It's great going there at Christmas, you feel like you are in a 70s pub!!
Mark.
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by sarahj1986:
“The foil things that used to hang from the ceiling 😁 Some were stars,snowflakes and the ones that were really long and took over the whole width of the ceiling. ”

We used to put them up in our living room. One from each corner into the centre, pinned in the middle if they were too long. They looked great when we were kids, but on reflection they were quite tacky!
Fizzbin
07-12-2016
Remember them? I still have a lot of them - especially the baubles.
Doctor_Wibble
07-12-2016
I remember all of those! Some only seeing rather than putting up I'll admit.
[ edit: though to call some of those '70s' is a bit like how they are using the word 'vintage' ]

It does seem like 'vintage' in relation to decorations is a sort of shorthand for 'back before we thought it would be OK just to drape a couple of shiny bits of string and some crap LEDs', 'oh but nobody has the time' etc...

And for those that go the other way, it's only a competition if you let it become one!

Sorry, just letting off some steam there, and I can never remember what counts as 'too early' for having one's home display visible especially as I can't see anyone else's from the window like I normally would in previous years (has *everyone* moved away?) and in spite of Mum's being on already (my fault I went and got the stuff out of the loft).
There's a mix of things, some of the 'vintage' is only left in the boxes because it needs repair (better yet, it can be repaired not chucked), but the rest is out there.
sarahj1986
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Mark.:
“We used to put them up in our living room. One from each corner into the centre, pinned in the middle if they were too long. They looked great when we were kids, but on reflection they were quite tacky!”

Same here 😁 And didn't the living room look so bare afterwards!
Mark.
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by sarahj1986:
“Same here 😁 And didn't the living room look so bare afterwards!”

Definitely.

What made the bareness worse was the solution to displaying all our Christmas cards was to use strings on the wall, from one end to the other. So by Christmas Day, not only was the ceiling more or less hidden by the garlands, but the walls were covered in cards.

When everything came down the room felt so empty.
2shy2007
07-12-2016
I still have my childhood decorations from the 60s and use them on my tree every year, including a 60s airfix fairy. lots have broken over the years but I top up every now and then with Ebay , we even have traditional lights on the tree, all multicoloured and frustrating when a bulb goes!

I do it for nostalgic reasons, I loved xmas as a child and like to hold onto that .
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