Chicken bald back

[keyhole kate]

Hi All

Having just read through the Bah Humbug Topic I am just wondering am I the only one who has a Circa 1979 Woolwoorths artificial tree I bought it when it was my 1st Child DD's 1st Xmas I paid the Outragous sum in "79" of £39.99

 

It never loses a thing looks the same year in year out, has toilet brush resembled branches I have bought replacements only to have to give them away defied the family & bought a real one one year I am still living with the guilt Surely I cant be the only one with a groundhog day tree

[Space Chick]

That is recycling at its best

[Chickvic]

I don't think ours will last that long, DH is already looking at new trees to buy in January, this one is falling apart. Every year it gets less and less.

[Charlottechicken]

Mum has a threadbare Woollies Christmas tree still with the original red triangular long box. The tree is green and silver tinsel stuff and is only three feet high and doesn't get used anymore but it is circa 1963

[Reikiranf]

The mention of Woolworths reminded me that I bought some luxury christmas tree lights from there in 1984 they cost £14.99 at the time

 

And every year I got them out of the box dreading them not working, but every year they did until last year How strange is it that they went the same time Woolworths did? I was really upset to the extent that they stayed in their box in my dining room until June before I could bring myself to throw them away

[BarbaraJ]

my mum has a silver 3' one must be at least 35yrs old

[Laura & CTB]

You must lovingly look after that tree Kate - ours always just gets squished into a box after Christmas so next year usually something drops off

 

My Mum and Dad always had the same tree I remember from when I was a kid -over the years its looked more and more sorry for itself. Last year I said she really needed to splash out on a new one or I wasnt going to visit for Christmas (not really but she got the hint )

[chelsea]

Brings back lovely memories of my nan's artificial tree . It was looking a bit past it best but every season it came out and my sister and I decorated it year after year with really old/odd decorations with cheap coloured lights and I thought it looked fantastic!

[Mrs Frugal]

I have my Grandma's old tree. It's only about 2 feet high and we put it up in the conservatory. She died in 1976 so the tree is at least 30 years old and I don't know how long she had it before she died. I love it. It's very artificial but it's very special too. The china angel I chose when I was in my pushchair 40+ years ago sits on top of it.

[Karen & co.]

It's lovely to hear of so many special old trees coming out We have a small silver one that I have had for as long as I can remember with some rather strange elves with pipe cleaner legs that twist round the branhes to hold on it used to be my nanas so must be at least 45 years old, it looses a few more strands each year but having been used by ES for a year or so, ED the same and then YS and now YD I have to say it wears the most bling now YD has it as she smothers it in tinsel

 

Karen x

[freddie]

I've got decorations my mum bought on the black market in 1940, made of wire and glass, they're beautiful, and i love them dearly. I've carefully mended one or two, they remind me of all the Chritmases past, wherever we'vce lived.... Awww

[Valkyrie]

We used to have real ones - until baby boy kept getting the needles stuck in his fingers as he crawled around, so when we moved here and DD was a baby we bought a beautiful DIY one. It was £42 - so quite expensive at the time, but we figured if we used it for 4 years it would pay for itself. It's 17 years old now and it still looks good - not vintage yet though.

[bigmommasally]

I think its lovely to have old treasured christmas decorations. My tree isn't that old (about 10 years) but some of my decs go back to the 50's & 60's, they were my mums. One is the sweetest little china angel, the price on the box is 2s6d

I always buy one new tree decoration every year and every year when I get them out to hang up everyone has to listen to my stories of when and where I got them For some reason my OH runs for the hills when I start decorating the tree

[keyhole kate]

What lovely stories we all have to share of our christmas childhoods with

memories of the special people who made our Christmas's so happy not only then but who continue to do so through the momentos and keepsakes passed down through the family.

 

Our tree made of very strong wire and bristles (think of a loo brush) looks as good

every year as it day we bought it, I am convinced it is indestuctable and I have no doubt it will outlive me.

[Valkyrie]

Just thinking of the decorations - mum has some Chinese lanterns that she bought when I was little - I used to pretend they were concertinas and play with them before hanging on the tree. She has 3 or 4 left now and because dad died last year she decided not to bother. Well my brother was furious - get those heirlooms out at once!

When I was about 4 my folks bought a fairy from Woolies. My goodness that was precious. She was (is still) so pretty and a bit like a ballerina. She came in a box that looked like it had doors and I had to make sure I was careful so that she didn't fly away when I opened the box to look. Hmmmm, I think I might kidnap that fairy.

There was also a silver bauble that looks like a carol singer - simple design, funny big felt eyes, black pipe cleaner arms and a cardboard top hat and red song sheet. The silver is going a bit bleh now though. Mum still has a couple of glass bells from my nan - they dingle prettily, but very fragile.

At home we lived in a bungalow and the tree was always put on mums sewing box in the hallway - I loved looking into the multi-coloured hall with the fairy lights glowing in the doorway. Now it's a bit harder to do that - we don't have room in the hall, but I compensate by having garlands up the bannisters and the fairy lights around them instead. Ooh nostalgia moments.

[chelsea]

when I get them out to hang up everyone has to listen to my stories of when and where I got them For some reason my OH runs for the hills when I start decorating the tree

 

you sound exactly like me! Same old stories year after year and OH just rolls his eyes