DECORATE WITH ME FOR A VINTAGE CHRISTMAS

[@LorraineWeston-t9j]

OH MY....you have my Blue Fawn that i had in the 60's♥ So nice to see him again. I remember the paper streamers from the 60's & 70's my mum used to put them up. Your vintage Christmas looks lovely & so cosy♥

[@Poppins-ut3bs]

Beautiful vintage decorations, love looking around charity shops for bargains too. X ❤

[@Poliss95]

Thank you for sharing your decorating*. That fawn looks great. Maybe you should paint the nose red on the pink one? You have a special post box for Santa? We wrote our letters, put them on the coal fire and the message went up the chimney to Santa. (Oi Santa!. I'm still waiting for the bike I asked for in 1959!) 🤬 Love the fashion drawings. Looking forward to your next Christmassy video. As I remember, our 1950s Xmas tree had sockets in the tree trunk that you slotted the branches into. Ours had big bulbs like yours has. When one went out they all did. They didn't flash either, which is fine as I hate flashing lights on the tree. We couldn't afford glass baubles (Well we could but my dad was mean). 😁We had things such as plastic stars, angels and cherubs. Tinsel wrapped round the tree of course. Oh, and we had chocolate Xmas tree decorations. I managed to find some in Tesco this year. It's wonderful when you find one hidden at the back of the tree when you think you've eaten the last of the chocolates. The final touch was the fairy on top of the tree. We had some paper decorations EXACTLY like the ones in your tin that we brought out every year. They were quite robust, but definitely not flameproof! To be authentic they should look like a giant spider on the ceiling when you put them up, with the ceiling lamp in the centre. My ceiling is concrete, so the decorations have to be stuck on with tape pads. We also made our own by sticking the ends of strips of coloured paper together. I always wanted a real Xmas tree, as seen in the movies, but years later when I got to buy one for myself I was so disappointed. Needles falling everywhere and it looked really naff. I'm back to artificial trees now. If you want a really authentic 1950s Xmas dinner you'll need to find a tinned chicken and mix sage and onion stuffing with sausagemeat. The stuffing doesn't go inside the chicken. (Tinned chickens are too small). You bake it in a roasting dish or tin and serve it separately. (It's the best thing about the dinner). For afters there would be the chocolate log with a plastic robin stuck in it. You'll be pulling crackers, wearing the paper hats and reading the silly jokes of course? e.g 'One night my dad went out with his shotgun. We heard two loud bangs, Dad came back in and told us Santa had been shot!' For after dinner you will need mixed nuts in their shells. (It's always great fun not being able to break into the shell). 😂😂 Lots of salted peanuts, Maltesers and a tin of chocolates. Not Quality Street these days. Their 'quality' is terrible now. I get Celebrations. Then you have to have a fight over Monopoly. (Does anyone know the actual rules to the game??) I bought an advent calendar with chocolates in it this year. It will be the last time I do! The box is the same size as before but the chocolates are tiny. It doesn't even have the big one for Xmas Day. The selection boxes are just as bad. Half the size, twice the price. * Can you come and put my tree up as I've put my back out and can hardly move!! (Only kidding. I'm sure I'll manage somehow). 😁

[@WOLFIE-96B-UK]

Seeing the paper streamers took me back to my '60s childhood!

[@Michelle-gj7bt]

it looks so lovely and very Christmas 😊

[@JamesHuntingdon]

took me back to my childhood good old days 60s and 70 s we used to have union lights one out all out it was always the last bulb

[@paulinehall2533]

We called them paper trimming’s back in the day.Ive got quite a lot of those vintage wessle cups ,something else we now call baubles. Love your tree it looks beautiful ❤️

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

Oh I've never heard that term for streamers, how interesting! I think vintage baubles looks so much nicer than modern varieties ☺️

[@claw1770]

As there's only me i don't put up a tree or decorations, so it was lovely to watch you put yours up. Have a brilliant Christmas

[@northeastnostalgic5071]

I'm pleased you enjoyed it! 😊

[@leahmorris343]

The calendar that says 25p on would be from the 1970s not 60s as decimilasation was in 1971 my nana used to have a aluminium Christmas tree that had very delicate glass decorations on. We used to make paper chains for decorations when I was a child in the late 60s

[@timelordvictorious]

Guess it was a nicer cheaper way to do Xmas decorations was this paper hangings.much better then the expensive rubbish people use these days