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does this bring back memories?

silver Goldie — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:55:00 GMT

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OKPrincess — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:01:40 GMT

Yes it does. Looks like my living room in the 50s 🥰

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lynnie61 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:02:16 GMT

@silver Goldie Yes! Some great childhood memories. We hated stringing the tinsel. My mother wanted ONE strand on the tree at a time! We didn't get tons of gifts like kids today, but we always got our most wanted toy. I LOVED my childhood Christmas Eve's. It was a special time in the late 60's. Today, our family has cut way back on gifts, and it's great now also. We really enjoy the holiday, a meal and a day together.

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Neetgal2 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:58:07 GMT

Sure does, love the tree and TV.! My happy and carefree days of my youth before all of life's surprises, both good and bad came my way!

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LIndaMJ — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:27:09 GMT

Yes it does! I can still remember my father putting the tinsel on the tree, one strand at a time.

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LindaSal — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:40:31 GMT

Yes I do! Those were the days for sure. I always hated the tinsel, always made such a mess and you would still find pieces of it long after the tree was down. That's why once I had my own place I never, ever used tinsel for my tree, LOL!

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catter70 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:04:07 GMT

Yes, I do. Not sure when we got a TV, but everything else looks like my childhood memories.

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Effie54 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:13:35 GMT

Oh boy, this is fantastic! This does indeed bring back memories.....good ones! Those were the days!

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RespectLife — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:34:30 GMT

@lynnie61 wrote:
@silver Goldie Yes! Some great childhood memories. We hated stringing the tinsel. My mother wanted ONE strand on the tree at a time! We didn't get tons of gifts like kids today, but we always got our most wanted toy. I LOVED my childhood Christmas Eve's. It was a special time in the late 60's. Today, our family has cut way back on gifts, and it's great now also. We really enjoy the holiday, a meal and a day together.

HA HA @lynnie61

I'm with you on that tinsel! What was even worse was that Mom made us pull each strand off when taking the tree down and lay it flat to use next year!!

What was tinsel back then? 19c a package? But she was frugal!

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faeriemoon — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:36:11 GMT

Ah; the sixties. The tinsel era.

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lynnie61 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 16:27:29 GMT

@RespectLife wrote:
@lynnie61 wrote:
@silver Goldie Yes! Some great childhood memories. We hated stringing the tinsel. My mother wanted ONE strand on the tree at a time! We didn't get tons of gifts like kids today, but we always got our most wanted toy. I LOVED my childhood Christmas Eve's. It was a special time in the late 60's. Today, our family has cut way back on gifts, and it's great now also. We really enjoy the holiday, a meal and a day together.

HA HA @lynnie61

I'm with you on that tinsel! What was even worse was that Mom made us pull each strand off when taking the tree down and lay it flat to use next year!!

What was tinsel back then? 19c a package? But she was frugal!

@RespectLife Yes, and my mom didn't do the tinsel, she had us do it! Yep, then save it for the next year. I have never used tinsel in my adult life because of it! 🤨🤣🤨🤣

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Kachina624 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:50:45 GMT

We didn't have so many unwrapped gifts. Somebody in that family is lazy.

It was dad's job to meticulously apply the tinsel, one strand at a time, and to take charge of torn wrapping paper and bows with a huge lawn and leaf bag.

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RespectLife — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 20:09:30 GMT

Me either @lynnie61 !!!

Not one tree has had it!

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AngelPuppy1 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:15:56 GMT

Oh - wow! It certainly does! It takes me right back again. Such wonderful, happy memories! I wanted to climb right in that picture!

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RedTop — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:25:51 GMT

I love the look of that Christmas tree compared to trees today. Reminds me of the white pines my Dad would cut from Grandpa's farm every year.

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branny — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:09:56 GMT

oh yes the 60s. The tinsel. I remember running out to the corner store in the evening , in the snow because we needed more tinsel. Memories.

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Nonametoday — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:29:37 GMT

One of my children wanted to replicate the picture of my childhood tree, similar to this. We did. It was so time-consuming to put each icicle on piece by piece. I think before it was over, I just wanted a couple glasses of wine and throw the whole box on top of the tree, but it turned out beautifully. I am so glad I did that because he is no longer with us. Christmas was always his favorite time.

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Lucky Charm — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:43:46 GMT

We had that tinsel on our trees growing up.

We had those big bulbs on the strands of lights, they were hot if you touched them!

We didn't do the tinsel one strand at a time,that's for sure!

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Nonametoday — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:07:38 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
We didn't have so many unwrapped gifts. Somebody in that family is lazy.

It was dad's job to meticulously apply the tinsel, one strand at a time, and to take charge of torn wrapping paper and bows with a huge lawn and leaf bag.

@Kachina624

We never wrapped Santa Claus. Other gifts were wrapped but never Santa Claus. It was too exciting for the kids to just see it on full display. I like wrapped presents from me to you and you to me kind of thing but Santa doesn't wrap gifts.