Wow, £2.47 for a xmas tree!! I miss the time when you could get absolute bargains in the supermarkets.
£2.47!!!
Whaaaaaat a bargain! Bet you could sell that bad boy on antiques roadshow.
Can’t even buy 2 packets of Crisps for that now
I have a white sparkly Christmas tree that is older than I am and increasingly held together with tape and wire. No I will not be replacing it.
I have a Wilko Christmas tree.
I have a foil star/snowflake, not sure exactly what its meant to be, that’s at least 33 years old. My parents had two, one in the front window, one in the back. When they stopped using them i claimed one as did my sister. Not sure she still has hers, but mine still goes up in the window every year.
Im also still running a set of 100 coloured fairy lights from the 90s. Had two sets, one is used for spares, the other still goes up. Proper 5 colour bulbs giving the lovely warm Christmas glow that makes my heart feel festive. Not like the horrible blue/green glow from the 4 colour led lights. How we let that colour change happen i have no idea.
30 year old Woolworths tree (yes, I’m well aware of the meme!). Box held together by a combination of masking tape, parcel tape, duct tape and wishful thinking. It’s been relegated to the back room but still going strong
My parents’ Christmas tree was bought some time in the 80s. The box is now more tape than cardboard, but the tree still looks good!
I’ve got a Christmas bauble with a sticker on the bottom which has a price in pounds and shillings…
I still have some Harlequin paper ceiling garlands that have old 80s price stickers on, I think they were 10p.
My parent’s Christmas tree is 35 years old this year and it’s from the local department store in our town. It’s older than me!
We moved house one Christmas time and didn’t get the keys until about the 22nd, and was the first Christmas spent as a couple. Ended up doing a last minute shop around B&Q to get some bits possibly as late as Christmas eve and there was a 6 foot artificial tree with base, fully lit up, reduced to £15. Still have it now, it is older than the kids. Every year it comes down with baubles and stuff we have gathered over the years, things inherited from parents, lots of memories tied up in it. That is really what Christmas ends up being, pure nostalgia. Same songs, activities, food, right down to actual real tangible items.
When me and my now wife first moved in together, we went shopping in Selfridges to find a nice bauble to mark the occasion.
Couldn’t find anything nice, so we bought the most gaudy, tacky thing we could find – a bewjeled, glittery, multicoloured Chihuahua.
The thing was horrendous to look at, and still is 15 years on, but it’s the first bauble on the tree each year and we made a tradition each year of buying a bauble no sane person would want.
I have a “desk” tree that used to sit on top of my chunky monitor. Also, a tree that is about 18″ (45 cm) tall. They are both over 32 years old.
There are also some ornaments that I do not know their provenance but are likely to be 50 to 60 years old from my husband’s family. Items that were beginning to show their age were passed to my husband when he bought is first house in 1980.
That one got me right in the feels. What a bargain!
My mother still has Woolworths and C&A boxed baububles for her tree man. The boxes are obviously in a sorry state at this point held together by equally aged sellotape.
We’ve inherited my Gran’s Christmas tree and it’s from Wilko’s (RIP) and priced at £5.99!!
I’ve got pine cone baubles I made in kindergarten 41yrs ago
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Wow, £2.47 for a xmas tree!! I miss the time when you could get absolute bargains in the supermarkets.
£2.47!!!
Whaaaaaat a bargain! Bet you could sell that bad boy on antiques roadshow.
Can’t even buy 2 packets of Crisps for that now
I have a white sparkly Christmas tree that is older than I am and increasingly held together with tape and wire. No I will not be replacing it.
I have a Wilko Christmas tree.
I have a foil star/snowflake, not sure exactly what its meant to be, that’s at least 33 years old. My parents had two, one in the front window, one in the back. When they stopped using them i claimed one as did my sister. Not sure she still has hers, but mine still goes up in the window every year.
Im also still running a set of 100 coloured fairy lights from the 90s. Had two sets, one is used for spares, the other still goes up. Proper 5 colour bulbs giving the lovely warm Christmas glow that makes my heart feel festive. Not like the horrible blue/green glow from the 4 colour led lights. How we let that colour change happen i have no idea.
30 year old Woolworths tree (yes, I’m well aware of the meme!). Box held together by a combination of masking tape, parcel tape, duct tape and wishful thinking. It’s been relegated to the back room but still going strong
My parents’ Christmas tree was bought some time in the 80s. The box is now more tape than cardboard, but the tree still looks good!
I’ve got a Christmas bauble with a sticker on the bottom which has a price in pounds and shillings…
I still have some Harlequin paper ceiling garlands that have old 80s price stickers on, I think they were 10p.
My parent’s Christmas tree is 35 years old this year and it’s from the local department store in our town. It’s older than me!
We moved house one Christmas time and didn’t get the keys until about the 22nd, and was the first Christmas spent as a couple. Ended up doing a last minute shop around B&Q to get some bits possibly as late as Christmas eve and there was a 6 foot artificial tree with base, fully lit up, reduced to £15. Still have it now, it is older than the kids. Every year it comes down with baubles and stuff we have gathered over the years, things inherited from parents, lots of memories tied up in it. That is really what Christmas ends up being, pure nostalgia. Same songs, activities, food, right down to actual real tangible items.
When me and my now wife first moved in together, we went shopping in Selfridges to find a nice bauble to mark the occasion.
Couldn’t find anything nice, so we bought the most gaudy, tacky thing we could find – a bewjeled, glittery, multicoloured Chihuahua.
The thing was horrendous to look at, and still is 15 years on, but it’s the first bauble on the tree each year and we made a tradition each year of buying a bauble no sane person would want.
I have a “desk” tree that used to sit on top of my chunky monitor. Also, a tree that is about 18″ (45 cm) tall. They are both over 32 years old.
There are also some ornaments that I do not know their provenance but are likely to be 50 to 60 years old from my husband’s family. Items that were beginning to show their age were passed to my husband when he bought is first house in 1980.
That one got me right in the feels. What a bargain!
I’ll say no more
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My mother still has Woolworths and C&A boxed baububles for her tree man. The boxes are obviously in a sorry state at this point held together by equally aged sellotape.
We’ve inherited my Gran’s Christmas tree and it’s from Wilko’s (RIP) and priced at £5.99!!
I’ve got pine cone baubles I made in kindergarten 41yrs ago
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