The first Christmas "stuff" thread

When I was growing up nothing said Christmas like an album from the Firestone tire store! :)

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I love looking at old Catalogues... some of the stuff I remember some I don't, but it's fun looking at old electronics , record players , kitchen stuff etc...

I just had a quick look at the Sears catalogue ( in the USA do you spell it Catalog ?)...and some of the ladies fashions are right back in vogue again...
 
Aunt Bea, I had totally forgotten about those little angels...they were candles, right? And those records, my parents had several like that
 
Marie5656 said:
Aunt Bea, I had totally forgotten about those little angels...they were candles, right? And those records, my parents had several like that
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Yes, they were candles but I don't think that anyone ever lit one.

We also had a little plastic church with a light bulb inside and an old Coca-Cola Santa, it's funny the little things that stick in your head.

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There was the old tinsel that you found in odd places six months after Christmas.

Remember the old glue-backed Christmas stickers that you used to hold package wrapping down? After you licked enough of them, your mouth tasted of something that didn't bring up Christmas memories..... My mother would never let us kids use the Scotch Tape dispenser; I guess that was only for adults. I could never get the stickers to hold anything, no matter how well I licked them. Yay rah for Scotch Tape!!!

We had a Nativity set that we kids played with incessantly. Baby Jesus' head got broken off, glued back on several times and finally lost, so we had a headless Baby Jesus in the manger. The cows, sheep and camels looked like they had gone through a passel of hard years. The stable appeared that it had barely survived a Category Five hurricane. My grandmother would yell, "Get away from there, you little heatherns and show some respect for the Holy Family!!"

There was a battery-operated Santa Claus that rang a bell and yelled "HO-HO-HO", at least until one of my younger sisters decided to pull down his pants to see if he had a butt. Santa was never the same after that. Heatherns, indeed. It's a wonder we ever got anything for Christmas but coal. The poster children for "nice" we weren't.....
 
I remember the birds with the fiberglass filament tails.

We used our sad looking sometimes broken ornaments too, they always went towards the back of the tree or down towards the bottom of the tree for the cat to play with.

We had a few of these birdcage spinners that you hung over a light on the tree so the warm air would activate them.

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Remember "angel hair"? It was some kind of spun glass (fiberglass, maybe?) stuff like cotton candy and you spread it over the tree. It HAD to be bad for you.

It's a wonder we survived Christmas. Candy with red dye #something that gave you cancer. Highly breakable ornaments just waiting to slice and dice your hands. Christmas lights that got hotter'n Hades and set things on fire. Candles. Dry pine trees just waiting to burst into flames at the drop of a hat.

But, man, what a good time it was!
 
jujube said:
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Remember these? Most of ours had lost their tails and looked pretty pitiful but they went up on the tree every year anyway.
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OOO! I DO remember these. My family always said it was absolutely necessary to have a bird on the Christmas Tree -- I can't remember why, though. I always had a hard time making those birds sit up properly on the tree -- they wanted to sort of dangle over, and of course that wouldn't do!
 

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