General Chat

We had them Colin, the best tree lights ever.
I very stupidly got rid of them for the new fairy lights..... idiot that I am.

The fairy lights go out, and you end up buying a new set.

With the old ones ... we only needed to buy a bulb.

And I forgot to say... my oldest is 50 next year. So her decoration is quite an oldie really.
Deanna X

I have some minature baubles & some minature crackers that have gone on my tree for the last 35 years
Dee x

Hi ,
I have 2 paper and cardboard father christmas's
which you pin or stick on the walls you open them out so he has a fat tummy.
they were my mums they must be about 50/60 yrs old .
dont use them any more as their to delicate.
Hazelx

I have a big glass bauble which I bought for my first daughters first Christmas, the one which i bought for my second daughters first Christmas.... she tried to eat one year!! SO LUCKY...... she was not even scratched!
have a glass bird which was bought for the tree when my first son was born and a tiny glass bird which was bought for my youngest son....

But the oldest decoration is a SCRAP (remember them girls?) of ST Nickolaus which was mine as a child. It comes out and is stuck to the corner of the mirror each year.
My daughter (second) said one year... "I know when Christmas is here... that Santa goes up on the mirror....."

looking a bit 'shook' as my husband would say. but he is still here.
Deanna X

I like a green tree can't stand the modern coloured ones and the thought of a black tree Ugh. We have decorations going back 50 years sadly a lot of the old glass ones are broken. I have one with my name on (my first Christmas) 70 years this year but has a tiny bit broken out. Don't care the memories are there.
Pat

Ah yes the colour co-ordinated trees look nice but lack the memories don't they, remember the old fairy lights with different coloured shades. If one bulb went out, they all did. From my memory ours always went out Christmas morning resulting in much cursing from Dad who was crawling around trying to get them working again. Lovely memories. I used to love the smell of tinsel and can still be found sniffing the tinsel in Debenhams and Woolworths much to OH's embarrassment

I can't be sure on this Colin......but my Mum gave me two candles......one is Father Christmas, and the other is a Christmas Tree......I seem to remember them when I was at home years ago, but it could have been two that were similar....

Anyway....I have never lit them......especially after Mum passed, i could not bring myself to light them.....so again this year, they will sit on the mantelpiece......

how soppy we all are, I have to laugh, one year decided to go all trendy, and have a complete set of matching trendy pastel coloured deccies. Hubby went balistic, and made me take them off, and put the old multicoloured ones back on. He said it look too contrived, trying too hard. And I have to say I agree with him.

Its my family tree, and if we like it, so what if it is a load of old tat.

a load of old tat, each piece holding memories for us.

I have a red rocking horse which a teacher gave my son 20 years ago, a bauble with my daughters first Christmas on it so it's 24 years old, but the oldest is a glass bauble from when I was a kid it's about 45 years old. All of them treasures
Carole

I'm not sure how old it is but i have a glass strawberry bauble which I remeber always being on my tree and my sister say she also remeberd it so it has to be min of 45yrs old

I have some baubles from my childhood, but they are a little tatty now, so stay in the box each time.

I have a pair of plastic boxing gloves, which were in a christmas cracker the year of my sons first christmas, they have been on the tree (at the back, they are ugly) every year. He is 26 this year. But I cannot bring myself to leave them off, in case bad luck for the year, silly billy me.

So many people seem to buy new decorations each year but I was wondering if anyone has a favourite decoration that has been handed down....my treasured decoration is a 55 year old 'Bacolite' Father Christmas that has stood beneath whatever tree has been put up ever since my older brother was little. The FC has passed on to me when I left home and has travelled all over the country as I've moved around. Once again this year he is under our tree and woe betide anyone who damages him!