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25 Christmas Traditions from the 1960s and 70s that Vanished Completely

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@christineg7888 · 11 months ago
My dad gave my mom, my sister, and me each a Christmas corsage.  I'm 75 now, still have it, and I place it on my tree every year.  I'm tearing up writing this.  Those were the days of simple pleasures that meant so much.  ❤
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@gailbrum · 11 months ago
The stores waited past Halloween to put Christmas things on display.   I miss that.
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@buffymcmullen1104 · 11 months ago
Christmas meant so much more back then. Stores,garages, restaurants etc were all closed. Gifts were few but more appreciated. ( I remember getting excited over new mittens). Families all got together, visiting everyone's houses. So much love and kindness,so much gratitude back then. The greed and commercialization of today is a disgrace 😢
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@stacy5445 · 11 months ago
In 1968 I was stationed at Keesler AFB MS.  I was really homesick at Christmas and decided to get a tree to set up in my barracks room.  Me and three other girls went down to a 5&10( remember those) store in Biloxi and I found a small flocked tree for $8.00 with a stand!  I bought that and some pink Christmas balls.  Since we couldn’t use lights on it we bought one of those rotating wheels!  I set it up in my barracks room and the entire barracks came to my room on Christmas🎄 morning bringing presents they had received from home, cookies, brownies and fudge that had been sent, and we all celebrated Christmas together.  No, it wasn’t home but we were family none the less and this took away some of the loneliness and heartache of being away!  My squadron Commander even stopped by and gave us all a small stocking filled with candy!  That was 57 years ago but I still have that little stocking and put it out each year!😢😢😢. 🎄
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@lindadurkee9192 · 11 months ago
I'm a 67 year old now but this post brought back such wonderful memories!  I remember looking for our Christmas catalogs from Sears & Montgomery
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@fredtremblay5716 · 11 months ago
The change from using the Christmas catalogue to online shopping is great example of how improvements don’t always make things better. We lost so much.
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@stacy5445 · 11 months ago
I’m 75 yrs old and watching this made me cry!  Some traditions I have managed to keep alive but so many have now been forgotten or just seem silly to my kids now! 😢😢😢
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@MaryVogel-q8g · 11 months ago
I remember that Christmas was advertised the day after Thanksgiving not in July like nowadays. There was an innocents in those days that made all holidays special. Nowadays it's all about the dollars that has become important. So sad these younger generations have missed out on what made the holidays so special!
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@Raistlin1963 · 10 months ago
What i miss are all my relatives that are gone now. It's just me and the holiday season just isn't the same.
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@dannyholder4675 · 11 months ago
Sears...K-Mart...Woolworths...Christmas Parades....Caroling....Nativity Displays...all still fresh in my mind. I'm 73 & still start on mailing cards w/e of Thanksgiving.  NO Black Friday or Football Worship.
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@esthergarcia1373 · 11 months ago
I remember our Christmas stockings were filled with candy canes and a variety of hard candy in multicolored wrappers and small toys like jacks or model cars, etc ❤🎄☃❄✨⭐
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@lillybell6024 · 10 months ago
As my 91 year old father was laying in his death bed he woke up just to say "we have lived in the best of times" I had to agree. He was born in 1930 on a small family farm that he spent his entire life working. I think of those words every day.
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