Old Holiday Traditions That Are Gone FOREVER!

[@christinebadagliacco8972]

I’m 76 now. I sure do miss Christmas during the 50s, 60s and 70s, Glad I grew up during that time. 💕

[@SD-nh5yr]

❤❤❤

[@TheMagnificentRuffian]

Your generation is the one that drop the ball on all of this.

[@fob1xxl]

I'm 79, and I agree with you completely. It was wonderful !

[@carycary5824]

@@TheMagnificentRuffianwhat’s your problem?? Don’t blame others. We, as older folks, tried to keep traditions alive. We still have these precious traditions in my family. If you like these older traditions try them in your own family. It will make your holidays more special.

[@IrishAnnie]

@@christinebadagliacco8972 Same here.

[@justasmalltowngirl_lynne5089]

I SOOOOO miss the Christmas catalog books‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@lindaadelwerth8042]

The Sears Christmas Catalog! Oh my Gosh how I Loved looking through it for Christmas! To me it was Just as Exciting as Waiting for Santa to Come Christmas Eve!

[@aariley2]

OMG yes! The Dreambook!!!

[@ellenelder9941]

​@lindaadelwerth8042 Omg!! I remember the sears catalog!! The good old days. The wish book!!

[@lindaadelwerth8042]

@ellenelder9941 They were such fun to look through! When I was little I was told To circle what I wanted! Of Course you wanted everything you Saw! When I got older then I could actually write it down and make a list. I had a pretty long list!

[@StellaLive-le9hf]

Yes! The Christmas catalogs were a dream come true! Literally! Miss them!!

[@EllieNotSoSmelly]

I still love sending Christmas Cards to friends and family

[@MyownpersonKeta]

Me too. I love sending and receiving them.

[@cynthiasanchez6346]

Yep. Still do it too! 🥰🇺🇸

[@teresahooks3746]

@EllieNotSoSmelly I do to and I love receiving them too.

[@foreverglow5685]

I haven't sent them in a long time. This year I'm mailing them. Do they still sell Christmas stamps ?

[@cynthiasanchez6346]

@@foreverglow5685 Yep! 👍🥰🇺🇸

[@rg1whiteywins598]

I loved sending and receiving Christmas cards. Oh my .... Back in the 1960s there were gorgeous ones.

[@IrishAnnie]

Me too. I have been getting less and less. People are too lazy to send them. I received one from my sister in law Jan 5th. I am cutting my list down. It seems to be a real burden on some to send them.

[@StellaLive-le9hf]

@IrishAnnie I believe the price of a postage stamp, nearly 70 cents each now, prevents a lot of people from mailing Christmas cards. I'm a senior and I still mail cards for various occasions but most of my cards are free. (Luckily I have sources that hand out beautiful all occasion cards, free.) Things aren't like they were in the "good old days", prices are through the roof. Cherish the memories and make new ones, even if on a smaller scale. Merry Christmas! 🌲

[@IrishAnnie]

@@StellaLive-le9hf I get free ones as well from St. Joseph Indian School which I donate money to for the kids. They send me gorgeous cards with matching envelopes. I sent out a bunch last year. And yes. Postage is expensive. Merry Christmas to you too!!!!!Love 🎄

[@ch1ckmom217]

I wasn't even born yet, but I believe you. I'm a 70's baby and we still send out Christmas cards in the 80's and 90's. There was just something about the whole process, not to say that it truly showed people that you were thinking of them and you were being thought off too.

[@A2D4]

⁠@@IrishAnnieThe cost of postage has put a damper on sending them, imo. I worked in a postal substation (back in the dark ages) which was located in the back of a beautiful gift store. I still remember how much postage was for Christmas stamps (all 1st class stamps then) which was 16 for $.96 and 17 for $1.02. Customers used to complain a lot about that cost. I think a first class stamp is over $.70 now…..😬

[@sheilas.6170]

I want a vintage Christmas.

[@meedwards5]

You can largely make that happen! We do every year. It's a lot of work but worth it.

[@zms8092]

My Christmas is always old school, traditional, and vintage. Christmas cards are sent out, my Christmas party always has paper invitations that are mailed out, I do vintage/traditional recipes, etc. Gotta make it happen the way you want it to!

[@meedwards5]

@@zms8092 ❤️

[@brandywine4000]

I’d love to hear some of the things you all do to make Christmas more “vintage.” My mother has expressed the desire to recreate a 1950’s -1960s Christmas. I’d like to help make that for her and my aunts. I know fruit & nut stockings.

[@anonz975]

@@brandywine4000 Tinsel on a decent sized real tree (tinsel is dangerous for cats), Christmas lights outside, a full sit down Christmas dinner with china and silver, Christmas carols playing, homemade cookies, etc... Ask your mom and aunts about the things they liked best and create a list.

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

I still do many of these things every single year. Just like my beloved mom did.

[@dianejennings50]

If mom did it will do it. Too many things are gone try to keep traditions as long as you can merry merry

[@WaiferThyme]

The Sears Wishbook! Seeing that at the start of September always started the anticipation countdown .

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

My oldest son has always adored the HO scale train sets in it as well as those in the JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, and Service Merchandise.

[@dougtaylor2803]

I used to look through it in the morning while having breakfast, before the school bus arrived.

[@suesolomon3290]

I still do a great many of these things today. Christmas china, cards, caroling in our neighborhood, store shopping...and more.

[@constancefaulkner9002]

Homemade Christmas tree ornaments, cookies, candy, and Christmas movies marathons.

[@nbenefiel]

I bake a thousand cookies, mainly old Norwegian recipes, we use my Christmas China on Christmas Eve and my good China for Christmas dinner. We still get a real tree every year, to heck with the mess.

[@Courdorygirl]

the kids in my neighborhood were legit shout-singng Jingle Bells as they walked home from the bus stop earlier. I had to stop the video halfway because of every time I laugh snorted and went "well, we have that at my house..." Needle and thread forsooth.

[@nicholelivesay3828]

I desperately wish we were living in those times.

[@JillSzlapak]

Me too

[@MrMJmusicLover]

Not for black people. We wasn't treated as humans

[@glennso47]

I wish you were living in those times too. But is it okay if I stay here? 😂

[@fob1xxl]

All so true........ CHRISTMAS was always the most beautiful time of the year for us. Miss it .😢

[@danathompson5135]

I miss the silver Christmas trees and the light. So many memories

[@SD-nh5yr]

I want one, but they cost too much for me on a fixed income 😢

[@IrishAnnie]

My grandmother had one with revolving lights. Mom hated it, but I loved it.

[@grwoobie1297]

I like them in 60s architecture homes. But I still love my live cedar tree like I grew up with.

[@lisadesandre2249]

you can still buy them at Vermont Country Store .com

[@karenfieker9234]

Hated silver trees.

[@diane1390]

I went Christmas caroling when I was a child back in the 1960's. I miss those times. It was a lot of fun.

[@glennso47]

It wasn’t much fun for the dogs in the neighborhood. (Yowwwl! )

[@Navygrl58]

Long gone too are the Lay Away plans and Christmas Clubs……unfortunately!

[@justasmalltowngirl_lynne5089]

..I would do a lay away at K mart‼️‼️♥️🎄💚

[@IrishAnnie]

Kmart.

[@lauraann7816]

I have a Lay Away going right now at Boscov's. I have birthday gifts for my brother who is a September baby and Christmas gifts for my sister in law and son because their birthdays passed in April and May. It's easier in so many ways. That being said I MISS K MART DEARLY ❤

[@TexasKim]

Ahhh yes, I forgot all about lay away. ❤

[@bungalowlogic7676]

Worked as a bank teller in early 90s. Many Christmas Club account deposits. Imagine a weekly or monthly trip to a bank branch to throw 10 bucks into a separate account just to exhibit the discipline to store away a little scratch so you had it come December for shopping for the kiddies!

[@JudyFulton-w6i]

I too grew up in the 60’s. Christmaseswere great.would like to see some of those traditions come back.

[@janeschreiner5000]

Remember the times when Halloween merchandise didn’t appear until mid-late September followed by Thanksgiving and Christmas? Remember when toys required imagination? Those were indeed the good old days.

[@Reubenhubert]

I just went shopping today. It’s not even the end of August but there have been Halloween decorations in the store for the past three weeks. Today, August 24th, there are Christmas decorations as well.

[@monicaqueenan9985]

​@@ReubenhubertYup. Retail stores would embrace Christmas merchandise displayed 24-7. Again, I blame Hallmark and their Keepsake Ornaments. Those are trotted out in July.

[@kennylong653]

I still stuff Stockings with fruits, candy, nuts, little gifts like batteries, etc. I make Mincemeat Pie for Christmas dessert just to name a couple of my traditions.

[@Catherine-259-s5u]

Awesome! Me too! Merry Christmas in advance! 🎅 🎄

[@SD-nh5yr]

That is so nice...✌️

[@carolinesantos8177]

I bought on Amazon the cardboard fireplace many years ago and still have it & put it out.

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

I have one from probably 60 years ago!

[@dwhitman3092]

😊

[@dwhitman3092]

​@@JohnPotts-kq7kk 👍

[@SD-nh5yr]

I bought one on ebay and put it in my kitchen which I decorate with all vintage christmas, I mean since I am in the kitchen 20 hours a day, I can enjoy it, lol!🙏❤️✌️

[@MrMJmusicLover]

Put it back out. It's the Christmas season again!😊

[@kels8901]

I send Christmas cards every year. I put all of the ones we get in the mail up on our tree. I miss the train sets!!

[@dawnelder9046]

We have a train set. Retired and down sized. So each year half to chose between the tree or the village. The train works with both.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

The Lionel 027 scale is best to have running around on the floor underneath the Christmas tree 🎄. HO scale is strictly for just ordinary display on a layout.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

The 027s by Lionel ate better for under the Christmas tree 🎄 while HO scale is better suited for the little Christmas villages.

[@calvinnapier9977]

I long for the day when boring clear Christmas lights become a thing of the past. Let's put color back in the Christmas lights 👍

[@donnadrane4977]

Clear Christmas lights look beautiful against a brick house.

[@calvinnapier9977]

@@donnadrane4977 We see clear lights everywhere, headlights on cars, light bulbs 💡 in flashlights 🔦 Why would we want to decorate our house and trees with boring clear lights that we see on a daily basis? Red, green, blue, yellow separates the everyday lights from the special time of Christmas 👍

[@SherryHill-k5y]

​@@calvinnapier9977 I love different colored Christmas lights! Like you, I started to find that clear lights are boring but the multi-colored ones bring back childhood memories.❤

[@calvinnapier9977]

@@SherryHill-k5y Absolutely! I'm not a fan of black and white tv neither lol 🤣

[@SherryHill-k5y]

@@calvinnapier9977 Well ditto! Lol😀

[@AlexJCornell]

These are the things that we must retain. That’s why I’m proud of America. 🇺🇸❤️

[@l.5832]

Actually, a lot of other countries do these things too...in fact they originated some of them (like the Christmas pudding and carolling)

[@alanaw27]

I live in Scotland and have lots of traditions that are mentioned here. We have many vintage glass decorations that come out every year. We do feast at Christmas and New Year and we make an effort to dress well and decorate the table. Things are less formal than in the past but when everyone works together to make it special, the magic remains.

[@sarahfoster6765]

A lot of these things happen in more countries than America, Christmas card originated in England 1843, dressing up for Christmas started in Victorian England, Christmas light originated in Germany. Figgy pudding (Christmas pudding) from the UK 🇬🇧, Christmas seals originated in Denmark.

[@glennso47]

I hope I can be proud of America again after January 20, 2025. I haven’t been too proud of it for the past 4 years. (FJB)

[@lormor460]

Kids back then didn’t get new toys every other day so Christmas was more exciting. We would get up early, choose one gift before early Mass and come home and open the rest of the presents. My dad had to go to an orphanage when he was a little boy after his mom died, so he always went all out for us kids at Christmas. Both my mom and dad. I have wonderful memories. ❤❤❤

[@lindaadelwerth8042]

I Still Love to Send Christmas cards to family and friends too!

[@Cat-eyesunglasses]

I have 3 silver trees in original boxes, both grandmothers and my mothers. I love them and use every Christmas. ❤

[@sharoncarson6676]

I know times have changed, but I miss the more personalized things of Holidays & the christmas catalogs.. I still send Christmas cards to friends & family, baking cookies and treats, decorating the way we did when I was a kid( 50's- 60's) making paper chains out of construction paper 5:09 w/ the kids. Alot more fun & excitement!!🎉🎉❤🎉🎊

[@johnerwin9024]

Hell yeah-much prefer brick/mortar shopping at end of year with all the sights at malls. Glad was able to have the experiences ✔️

[@ReginasRetroReviews]

I still send cards to my family and friends.

[@reanehooper3085]

I'm 63 and I remember going to the old folks homes and do carols and through out the year my mom would knit lap throws and we would give them out. Good times

[@sandraatkins2539]

Some schools and churches still go caroling.

[@reanehooper3085]

@sandraatkins2539 not where I live as far as I know . They lock the churches and elderly homes down by 8:00 pm unless emergency since covid. Even the big box stores are all closed by 10 pm. They won't even let carolers sing in the hospitals anymore . It's sad

[@jennifermurphy899]

I remember having a silver Christmas tree.I would love to find an old one.I remember the big Christmas lights. What happened to winter? We live in Indiana and we get very little snow anymore not like it used to.I remember in 1979 when we had so much snow here we had a snowstorm where we couldn't get out for days. I miss it so much.I love Christmas time.I'm still old fashioned

[@stanleycostello9610]

I remember the aluminum tree in the living room. The real tree was in the family room.

[@dolcevitausa6448]

Still do Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Birthday cards...also shop brick and mortar stores for clothes and shoes. Do not want to be bothered having to get a return slip, box everything up and haul it to the UPS store to return.

[@dwhitman3092]

Thank You! 👍

[@barbarasevick8834]

Agreed...what was supposed to be a convenience is actually more trouble than it's worth...and not nearly as much FUN as the brick and morter shopping.😊

[@rayfridley6649]

I would add to that Easter Cards

[@kathypariso6102]

I miss the beautiful decorations in the brick and mortar stores. Lots of animation in the display windows and cases. Now why go? There is nothing to see but the same stuff everywhere.

[@IrishAnnie]

FT. Wayne In. The Montgomery Wards store down town.

[@johnerwin9024]

A few places still go all out, but thats right, not the abundance it was-

[@semigoth299]

I love the trees with snow on them

[@IrishAnnie]

Dad used to take our tree outside and “Flock” it with snow spray. It was beautiful!!! Mom had gorgeous ornaments to put on them. Velvet. Beaded. Just beautiful.

[@w.a.a.]

I love decorating for Christmas, visiting decked-out neighborhoods, and sending out vintage cards from 120 years ago which I scan then email to everyone. The designs are fantastic and everyone loves them. It's a unique offering.

[@KathyKlamm-fm8pj]

I still send Christmas cards to my family and friends. I love getting Christmas cards. I miss the sears catalog

[@kurt5782]

I 100% prefer to shop instore. It annoys me that stores are pushing for online just to up profits, the overhead is where they save. I like to see what I am getting, or smelling the candle and the cologne.

[@nancysoukup6545]

I miss the good old days and how we used to celebrate

[@alekadelacruz8592]

I did enjoy shopping for my family and friends from the mall, it might be simple gifts but it's from the heart 🤗

[@SD-nh5yr]

Thank you for making this video..a blast from the past and i love it!🙏✌️❤️

[@ZXX984]

Very little Christmas card mailings today at .73 a stamp. Gift wrapping has gone by the wayside now being replaced by gift bags. Online shopping like Amazon has replaced the trips to the stores. Can’t remember the last time I saw carolers. I still do a train set under the tree. The cats love it! I miss the Lifesaver candy book.

[@robertmixon3167]

I also remember the stockings filled with candy, an apple, and maybe an orange or a tangerine or two. Those were the days.

[@ravenmccall5486]

I still do that! With a candy cane and mixed nuts in their shells.

[@glennso47]

Except that there was no room in the stockings for my feet 🦶

[@shibolinemress8913]

I never had a cardboard fireplace but I do remember tuning the television to our PBS station WPIX from New York when we lived in northern New Jersey (1960's & 70's). On Christmas Day, they set aside normal programs for an all-day broadcast of a fireplace scene filmed at the governor's mansion, with holiday music. It was great for everyone without a fireplace or stereo system. In a way, it was streaming decades before the Internet.

[@glennso47]

I recently saw the way the White House has been decorated by the Biden’s. It was sickening to see. 🤮

[@mirroredworld]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's and remember the first step in getting ready for Christmas was going through the Sears Christmas catalog and circling all the toys you wanted most. Then the day after Thanksgiving, Dad putting the outside lights around the house and we all would help weave them in the hedges. Mom would start going through the boxes of Christmas ornaments and setting out new Bayberry scented candles that would be lit Christmas Eve. When we were older, we would go with Mom to shop for gifts for the family. The house would be decorated inside with garland made of plastic holly, the manger scene, reindeer covered in felt and Christmas cards on display from family and friends and the special cards that came from relatives overseas. We would get a live tree about the second week of December. After sitting in a large bucket of water overnight, we would bring the tree inside, set it in the red and green metal tree stand, and begin to decorate. The smell of bayberry and pine filled the house for weeks. Then Christmas morning would come, presents would be opened and breakfast made. We ran through the neighborhood to meet friends to see who got what and play with our toys for hours. Toys were simple and times were magical. What a Wonderful Time it was!

[@tking747]

Back in the day, we didn't call it "holiday", we called it Christmas. He is the reason for the season. Merry Christmas!

[@johnp139]

"Happy Holiday" (sometimes performed as "Happy Holidays") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin in 1942 and published the following year. Try again.

[@carollewis3912]

​@@johnp139 I saw a sign in a window on the Dick Van Dyke show in the sixties. It said Merry Xmas. My mom wrote this for awhile as a shortcut but then changed back. I think it's more prevalent now to say other things than Merry Christmas but for me it's Christmas. So, Merry Christmas!

[@Starsofneon]

Not if you look up the history of it all.. the reason is actually to celebrate the season of Yule . The tree, presents, wreaths on the door, etc all started with Paganism not Christianity/Jesus Christ.

[@carollewis3912]

@Starsofneon Jesus is my reason to celebrate the season and every other day of the year.

[@johnp139]

@@carollewis3912 Santa Claus 🎅 is my reason to celebrate.

[@ellenbradley1880]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's they were good times.People forget that. They make it out to be a chore now. I like Halloween, but not like Christmas. Good feelings come upon a person when Christmas holidays came around. Never did want to rush it. Now people think they have to get drunk to have a good time.

[@darlenegattus8190]

I loved Christmas clubs!

[@glennso47]

Now I have a “Club” for my car as a steering wheel lock 🔏

[@debbiefletcher4781]

We still celebrate this way.

[@michaelballlenger7614]

I still send Christmas cards, and have a big family dinner with all the good china, silver and Waterford on freshly ironed Irish linen tablecloth and napkins.

[@honeym210]

Me too! Merry Christmas!

[@EmilySilva-ny2en]

Bring back the good old days. I would give anything to have my mom back and my family back again. My heart breaks when I see how far apart we’ve become, since my mom passed away in 2017. It’s gut wrenching for me. 💔😢

[@Reubenhubert]

You forgot fruitcake. I’m the only person I know who still makes them every year. I love them.

[@rachaelbean1439]

Good on you. homemade fruit cake is delicious

[@nancyhatcher3320]

Of them all I miss caroling the most. I remember a group of us from either school or church would bundle up and head out. We would receive a cookie or piece of candy & sometimes even a hot cup of cocoa. Another favorite activity you didn't mention was the making of ornaments or a special gift for a loved one. I still have some of them but time has worn on them...I'm 74 now...as it has on me.

[@LelaHolliday]

Except for the silver tree, none of these traditions ever left my household.

[@alittlebitofthisandthatwit3143]

I live in Puerto Rico but born and raised in the states I love a Christmas tree by the fireplace so much so that I actually have a fireplace in my tropical home because of that

[@cynthiasmith4130]

I love sending them!! Its a happy beautiful time of year to spread Holiday Cheer!!! The ❄️ ❄️❄️snow the decorations and baking, my favorite!!! ☃️☃️☃️.....

[@bostonredsox2004]

I love sending cards!

[@truthrules463]

I remember, as a kid, purchasing gifts for my parents and siblings, at Sprouse-Ritz, as well as using S & H Trading stamps. Awh...the good old days!

[@gemmaromanelli4223]

I'm 70 now and we. did all these things. I've passedcdown these traditions to my kids but the best. One was when my parent's took us downtown in Chicago to see the windows at Marshall fields and Carson Pierie Scott. These stores are gone now but windows had the moving figure's and always a theme such as the nutcraker or the night before Christmas To me that wss the best tradition.

[@miriamring1082]

SAME IN DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS OHIO AT F&R LAZARUS WITH THEIR ANIMATED ............MANY, MANY YEARS WENT TO SEE IR AND THEN SPENT THE ENTIRE DAY SHOPPING!!!

[@SocietyRed-sg8ft]

I don't know what rock you live under, but people still mail out Christmas cards .People still go Christmas shopping at stores. There are still a lot of neighborhoods that have Christmas light competitions.

[@PinkTacoAG]

I inherited my grandmas silver tree and I still put it up every year! It is so beautiful!!

[@margaretsmith8999]

I am from Texas, 62 years old and never have heard of hot Dr Pepper!

[@teresahooks3746]

Me to❤o❤.❤ ❤I'm 60 and from Georgia. It sounds gross.

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

@@teresahooks3746 It is gross, no fizz, flat tasting

[@SherryHill-k5y]

@@margaretsmith8999 Me either and not going to try it.🙂

[@lorraineniess116]

Hi Margaret!.... I am 65 I too have never heard of Hot Dr. Pepper!....guess I will have to try some.

[@maybebaby1112]

I haven’t either but now I have to try it 😊

[@CatCmdr]

I do need to say that now I am bedridden, I appreciate being able to shop online. Also can find lots of Christmas ideas, songs, and snow online. 😊 🎅🏼 🎄 ⛄️ 🎁

[@RachelCotton-kj8dd]

This was a beautiful video and informative 😊

[@rogertemple7193]

Some of these holiday traditions are still around in some places especially here in Oklahoma but a lot other places might have stopped doing them because of being old fashioned in 2024 but thanks for the memories Thank You.🇺🇲🎊🎃🎄🎊🇺🇲

[@barbarasevick8834]

On a brighter note, NOBODY can tell you what to do in your own house. I still shop brick and mortar (all year, not just at Christmas) and follow the old traditions that I want to follow.😊

[@justasmalltowngirl_lynne5089]

We had Christmas Carolers last year 💚♥️🎄 I will be ready for them this year and make sure they all get some Christmas goodies‼️‼️‼️

[@patriciafeehan7732]

A Yule log was meant to burn throughout Christmas Day. It was one large piece put aside months earlier for drying especially for Yule burning.

[@mariandefeo4334]

Christmas has not changed that much in my area. The only thing that can be different is ordering gifts on line. Decorating, making special Christmas cookies and pies, relatives visiting, many things are the same. Sending beautiful cards, and of course the reason for the season. Birth of Jesus.

[@jodysnyder1774]

i love to see family open gifts and spend time with family and decorating the tree.

[@jodysnyder1774]

What do you like to do for Christmas? 🤔

[@PamB81]

I’m in my 70’s and I still love Christmas and I haven’t changed how I celebrate or decorate. Still all the traditional red and green and items I’ve been using for over 40 years! However, I hated the shopping in malls! I have and use Christmas china every year. If you want a vintage or traditional Christmas, then create one! 🎄😉

[@greeneyes6206]

I remember opening up a Christmas savings account, aluminum trees. Good old days.

[@wandamontgomery6030]

I still have a Christmas club account 😊

[@kimmatthewslong4814]

I still have aChristmas club

[@joeyrivaldo5239]

I miss the Department Stores Christmas Window Displays! They were a thing of Beauty!! Not many people talk or remember them anymore. But as long as I have my memories in my head, it'll remain there!

[@kennethreed2186]

A blast from my Past⛄🎄😊👍

[@jrnfw4060]

Wouldn't it be special if the internet would go down worldwide, and folks would have to revert back to these lovely traditions? And rediscover the spirit of love they embodied? And just maybe they would find them so rewarding and fulfilling that even if the internet came back up worldwide, these low-tech traditions would continue to delight folks. There's a whole generation who doesn't even know these traditions once existed, because everything for them is done via smart phone, e-mail, texting and so often in such an impersonal and non-intimate way. The selfless and heartfelt efforts that went into these traditions, to make the holidays special for loved ones and even for perfect strangers, was a large part of the spiritual satisfaction as well as the fun. We need to rediscover this, and I think we would be a better society, over all, if we did.❤🎀🎄

[@rachaelbean1439]

I agree.

[@fanaticat1]

What a great video! I remember all of these...thanks for the wonderful trip down memory lane!

[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fanaticat1]

@@VintageLifestyleUSA I sure did

[@TheRetromantic81]

We still set up trains here! I have my Dad's 1955 American Flyer set that he received for Christmas as a child. A tradition that I now carry out in his honor. I set it up at Christmas for my daughter--as he set it up for me years ago. ❤️🚂

[@thejourney1369]

We didn’t dress up at my house. Clean jeans and your favorite sweater.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

I wasn't a fan of dressing up either. It was like being in a straitjacket. And, inevitably, you got food on your clothes so it wasn't practical there either.

[@sometimes988]

1973 to 1978 i worked for a dr. pepper distributor they served hot dr pepper at our holiday meetings it tasted a little bit like tea .

[@robertmixon3167]

I remember the 3d cards with the glitter in them. Just take and open them up and there was a scene in there and we would put them up on the fireplace mantel. So pretty.

[@bobwitkowski6410]

Brick and motor shopping was quite fancy often that was a time where friends and family got together.

[@AndrewPriester]

I still give Christmas Cards every Christmas I still go out Christmas Shopping (only do online when I can’t find it in stores)

[@martina21953]

I miss Christmas Clubs and Layaway! My son had memorable Christmases thanks to both of these old time ideas.

[@JohnWilliams-ij4gj]

I have a couple of vintage aluminum trees and use at least one of them every year. Along with the color wheel.

[@nancyomalley6286]

I knew figgy pudding came from the UK. It's also called Christmas pudding and was featured in "A Christmas Carol"

[@YolandaMorton-q2s]

I desperately miss the days of yore. I'm 60 and I miss the spirit of the holiday. It was holy, exciting and peaceful. Where I live, we never get snow anymore. The earth is too warm. I miss the cold freeze of the old Christmas's. Nothing is sacred anymore.

[@nbenefiel]

I still make my own cards and shop at the local butcher and farmer’s market. I did all those things with my kids, five popcorns and one cranberry, caroling, Midnight Mass.

[@constancefaulkner9002]

I love doing homemade Christmas tree ornaments. One of the things I recently did was a zip tie garland (similar to the construction paper garlands young children usually make at school or in Sunday school at church).

[@Jusea-2003]

These will come back im sure 💚❤️💚❤️😊

[@catherineanhari7573]

I send Christmas cards

[@terryruiz7417]

As a family, we still do much of this. I think many actually do. Traditions haven't all died. Hot Dr Pepper? Never heard of it! Yule log and figgy pudding...now you're going way back in time!

[@TeachingTinyDisciples]

We still send Christmas cards every year. My kids and I design custom birthday cards for every party we go to. Everyone loves them. Definitely is a lost art.

[@karenfieker9234]

I still send and love to receive Christmas Cards.

[@sloth6247]

I miss snow!!!!

[@Asti.sayAhstee]

You can have mine this year!

[@sloth6247]

@AstiJay thank you. Where do I pick it up? Lol

[@dwhitman3092]

​@@sloth6247 Right?

[@jrnfw4060]

Really? You can have OUR snow -- all you want of it! I'm a SoCal gal, and since we've moved to the inland northwest, we get several feet of snow nearly every winter, with sub-zero temps and very hazardous driving. Some years, the snow remains heavily piled well into April. Other years, it warms up enough early enough that we can actually have a blooming Spring. It's unpredictable up here.

[@sloth6247]

@@jrnfw4060 I’m from the East Coast. What you are describing was our regular winter season. Snow on the ground and arctic temperatures from Thanksgiving sometimes Halloween, all the way to April Showers that bring May flowers. This is turning into the south over here!

[@MissMolly3377]

Yeah, the slowness of the world is gone too, forever, too. Everyone is angry and in a rush now, too concerned with getting the next big thing, and hating their neighbors, because the neighbor got the next big thing, but they missed out on it. 😢 I pray we can go back to helping one another and we stop worrying about keeping up with the Joneses.

[@Eliel7230]

Years ago there were Christmas stockings which were actually red netted plastic Bags full of candy, nuts, and small toys. We would get one every Christmas. It was always a treat to open it after dinner that evening.

[@crnaray]

I'm 84 and I miss catalogs, carolers, department stores with decorated store windows, multi-colored Christmas lights, metallic "icicles", most people very friendly and wishing you a Merry Christmas...I have vintage ornaments and I use them. SIGH

[@ladyhawthorne1]

Hot Dr. Pepper is excellent to drink if you have a sore throat too. I miss the Christmases from when I was child. Thanks for the memories.

[@chelebox1986]

I love getting Christmas cards, so I send them.

[@michaelballlenger7614]

I still do most of these. Especially the Christmas dinner with the fine China, silver and Waterford.

[@grwoobie1297]

I mail my Christmas cards on December first in case my friends use for decoration like I do. Ours were always taped around kitchen door and along the mantle. I usually only receive about 20 now compared to the 50 or 60 I mail😢

[@annhowcroft9493]

I loved a train going around the tree.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Especially if it’s a Lionel 027.

[@kmo3811]

Holiday decor shows up so early in stores nowadays so when it gets time to put up the tree in December the cute decorations are sold out. Pretty soon Christmas decor will be in stores in June! Used to be back in the day, it showed up in stores close to Thanksgiving. Times sure have changed.

[@mycustomvoyage]

Funny, I just sent out 50 Christmas greeting cards out yesterday. It's an economical way to spread cheer. For the price of one mid-range gift, I can spread cheer to so many more people.

[@suralos]

These days model trains are pretty much an adults only hobby. As for Holiday light decorating, my town has a drive thru park with about a quarter of mile with light displays that allows drivers to see decorations nightly from Thanksgiving thru New Years Eve, in exchange for a charitable donation.