My husband and I tend to rescue vintage Christmas decorations at yard sales and thrift stores. We love them and love to decorate for Christmas with them.
Ive got about 20 candles on my tree. I bought them in the 80s. Found some candles at Yankee Candle store to replace the old ones. Its my favorite things on the tree!
We tried selling the ones my BFFs mom n gramma made at a rummage years back. No one wanted them. Wound up getting donated. Lo and behold, maybe 3 years later, they started showing up in big box stores. SIGH. Fickle people. (I didn't want them at the time because tiny cramped apartment with small children. Didn't want them broken and didn't want to store them. I regret not taking them.)
You can find a lot of You Tube channels on how to make them. One, which takes time, but is worth it, is to poke holes in each end of an egg. Stick a darning needle in the egg to break it up and blow it out. Wash as best you can. Use a button at each end to attach a string for hanging. Hand paint the egg. Or simple collect pine cones and spray paint different colours. Add sparkles while still wet. Bake Christmas cookies with holes at the top to hang. Decorate. String popcorn. Not the type in bags, but pop the old fashion way.
I remember one Christmas my Aunt put so much tinsel on the front of their tree ( It was in a corner) That it fell over on her and it was a big tree! 🤣🤣 Best Christmas Ever! I Absolutely love the vintage glass Ornaments Ecspecially the Indent Ones. Remember having them on our trees when I was a kid. I have quite a few Vintage Indents Now.
I really grew to hate tinsel. My mom made us put them on the tree, one strip at a time. THEN, after Christmas we had to take them off one at a time and put back in the box for the next year.
My mother used to spray pine cones and pine needles with gold and silver paint. Martha Stewart changed all of that by promoting natural things from the forest. Natural is beautiful. Mom and I found HUGE acorns in our neighborhood. I glued the little caps on them and put them around and on packages.
We had a small 4-5 foot tall aluminum tree in the 60's. It was lovely! My mom let us play "Christmas" during the year with this tree, as she liked a flocked big tree once we moved into a larger house. Me and my 3 siblings would wrap each other's favorite toys in our doll blankets as "presents". No wonder we're all Christmas maniacs. BTW, my mom would choose a house (to buy) based on where the Christmas tree would go. One of my cousins said that it looked like Christmas threw up in my mom's houses. I miss Mom SO much!
I still have glass balls for the tree. They belonged to both my parents and my husbands mom. We also have other decorations which belong to them. They keep memories alive. We also still have the full village set up every year. And my youngest daughter has a village set up in her house every year. And you can still buy them and things to go with them.
Aluminum trees were not done in by Charlie Brown, but by the fact people were getting electrocuted by not reading safety warnings and putting lights on the tree…. Hence the color wheel that was used to add color to the tree…
What about those colorful wall decorations made out of slightly melted plastic discs they called "popcorn"? They were shaped like Santa, snowmen, reindeers and other Christmas themed items. They also made these for other holidays also. ❤
Still use some of our ceramic village houses. Still use tinsel and hand blown ornaments that belonged to my grandparents along with beaded ornaments. Have pop-up Christmas cards. I have a few of the Christmas music boxes.
Vermont Country Store has the silver trees and rotating light wheel. I only decorate my three trees with vintage baubles. Some from childhood and ones that my late mother and I collected.
In California it's actually illegal to have the clip ons that are real candles. Years ago a roommate that wanted them had to send away out of state for some and they were only lit for a short time so he could take pictures. Also popular in the 70s was making little paper "Christmas trees" by diagonally folding down pages in a magazine like Reader's Digest into a cone shape and painting them metallic. Those creepy knee hugger elves and pixies were a big deal in the 50s and 60s long before the modern day "elf on a shelf" fad started. The thing I loved about the lead based tinsel was how it hung better on the tree and didn't get blown upwards when a door was open! Also it was fun to step on when the tree came down because it left imprints in it due to the metal!
@jons.6216 Your comment about folding down pages of Reader's Digest reminded me of the computer punch card wreaths Mom brought home from the office in the 70's! A coworker folded them into a pointsettia- looking leaf shape and crafted them into huge wreaths! I hated them then, but wish I had one now, bet American Pickers would love such 'folk art'!😊🎄
No christmas traditions, no anticipation and run down to Christmas. I remember outside a dept. store a huge mechanical Santa with a moving beckoning finger.. every kid knew Christmas was coming .. What joyful excitement! Gone now. How sad!
@PhillipGiosio My friend and I were lamenting on how Christmas had lost that *_magical feeling_* that it had decades ago. We are both Gen Xers and think, for us, that the magical feeling had disappeared sometime during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Wish the feeling could come back but so much has changed (mostly for the worse) since then. 😞
Most of everything except for the tinsel you could still get today the Vermont country store in fact has a colored wheel and there are still tinsel trees out there and vintage style ornaments being made. In fact you can go to silver Dollar City and by homemade glass ornaments May the way they did in the 1800s.
My Great Aunts had an aluminum tree with a color wheel. I can remember the first time I saw it as a very young child. Magical. At school we made Christmas trees from paper tubes cut in 1 inch pieces, covered with foil or wrapping paper and stapled together. Does anyone remember making angles or choristers from Readers Digest? Bless our Mother. As much as she liked elegant displays she always put them on a table together.
Yes I still have things that are much older than me . I pack them up very carefully each year ,and I love them .im over 70 .i hope one. Of my kids will look after them in the future
I have a pleasantly haunting memory of staring at my family's aluminum Christmas tree while Billy Vaughn's version of "White Christmas" played on the console stereo. I think there was a color wheel with the tree. I must have been about three years old. Anyway, a short piano passage in this song takes me back to that moment every year.
Yep we had the silver tree, and the lead tinsel, and the candle run carousel from christmas vacation! And I still have a couple of music box snow globes
I remember most of these. I still have a couple of those plastic wreaths, one is hanging on my door right now. I also have some of those glass ornaments, some of which are from my parents first Christmas after they got married.
We had an aluminum tree in 1965. I see nothing wrong with them to this day. The clip-on, artifical candles are back. I've seen UA-cam influencers decorating their trees with them. Plastic trees and plastic foliage/wreaths are coming back. They are being sold in stores, again. Miniature vilages never left.
Yes I got clip on candles, had them growing up, unfortunately they're all white, growing up they were different colours and the "candle" was the bulb, lantern lights are also back, got a set of them. Glad more interesting lights are returning, had candle, lantern, and icicle lights growing up along with fairy lights
I just got rid of my hand made glass ornaments. We no longer have a full size tree and don't need those ornaments. They were pretty but impractical for us. Instead, I have my grandfather's table top Christmas tree with ornaments he got glued on. It was so cute that I kept it even though the tree began to break down. As kids, we strung popcorn and looped the large train around the tree. We also braided yarn and slid in cinnamon sticks for that warm welcoming aroma. My mom puts up her ceramic Christmas village every year and her village is over 12' long and 3' wide. Christmas is more about family than it is about gifts.
I believe a lot of people, I, for one, are going back to these decorations 😊 The angels you talked about were from the 80's. The light-weight simple angels from Japan and Hong Kong were used. Same with ceramic houses were 80's and cardboard sparkly Putz houses were used in 60's 😊
I set up my ceramic village every year. Usually each year I would add another house. Kmart was my go to place for most of the pieces. Yes, harder to find now but not impossible.
I had an old friend who was still putting up an aluminum Christmas tree every year into the 1990s. Complete with blue glass bulbs and the rotating color wheel. He bought it in the early 1970s. Unfortunately the aluminum tree didn't make it into the 21st century since he passed away in 1998.
A World War Two Hand grenade with the pin still in was sprayed with multi coloured paint and hung on the tree each year until someone pointed out what it was.
Egg shell halves painted and made into a caterpilla on a string. A jam jar covered with cotton wool made into a snowman. Pretzels sprayed with gold paint and hung on the tree. An unwanted 7" single sprayed with silver paint stuck with beads and sequins...or a coloured vinyl single with the record label covered with glued on glitter,beads,etc.
Fiber glass angel hair. Folding bells made of party paper. Huge Santa head that light up for door. Montgomery wards wrapping paper. Stores wrapped the gifts if you liked so children couldn't see when you got home. And the thick catalogs to order from. Hand painted Christmas Scenery plates.
No there not i have all of them an still uses them some new ones also we have everything you see here an more way you won't belive it got two be 400 & more .we all love Christmas marry Christmas two all of yous let have peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏🎄🌲🌲👍
This video is full of inaccuracies and exaggeration. You can still buy new aluminum Christmas trees and the color wheels. The lead tinsel was replaced by aluminum in the late 50's. Glass ornaments, both hand-blown and mass-produced, are still being sold. Wreaths such as those shown are being sold nearly everywhere. Music boxes with Christmas themed scenes are commonplace. Angel tree-tops are sold everywhere. Ceramic scenes are found very often.
Does anyone recall the two kinds of decorations for windows. 1st the the “Stik-ees” which were thin flexible plastic opaque sheets that had images like santa on his sleigh or reindeer or snowflake shapes cut into the plastic and you would peel them off and they would stick to the windows using static electricity. And the 2nd kind are the plastic popcorn decorations. They were about 18-28 inches high and 10-15 inches wide. People put them in their windows or hung them on walls. There was a few different Santas, candles, snowmen, candy canes, Christmas trees angels reindeer. They had them for other holidays too. Ooh and i almost forgot the hollow plastic light up santas that people put in their windows or yard.
You forgot stencils that you sprayed with a product called "Make it Snow", for window and mirror decorations. The spray was also used on Christmas trees.
Ornaments with asbestos in the middle. Our family had them on our tree, they were from the fifties and remember them in the sixties and seventies. Definitely before the dangers were known
Does any body remember those bubble Christmas lights?
oh yes, we have some of those.
Vermont Country Store carries them.
My brother has some
Those were my favorite lights 💖
Currently happily bubbling away on my tree right now
My husband and I tend to rescue vintage Christmas decorations at yard sales and thrift stores. We love them and love to decorate for Christmas with them.
Vintage Christmas decorations are worth a fortune now.
We're 78 & 79 and remember ALL of them! I was surprised to NOT see Bubble Lights which was my favorite!
Me too, still have some!
I still have some of The old hand blown ornaments dating back from my grandfather's time.
😂😂 I see these things every year. I collect and use vintage Christmas. People love seeing my place.
I have some of Grama’s old glass ornaments❤❤❤
Me too
I still have many of these things. They are vintage!!
I loved the old decorations I grew up with in the 60's and 70's except for those metal trees.
I love old Christmas decorations ❤
I love bubble lights I have a three light bubble lights in my bathroom
I've got a set of clip on candles that I bought this year from Amazon, they are lovely.
I remember one of mu Aunts used to put real mini lit candles on her tree.
Ive got about 20 candles on my tree. I bought them in the 80s. Found some candles at Yankee Candle store to replace the old ones. Its my favorite things on the tree!
I LOVE my ceramic Christmas Tree 🎄!!!!!!!
We tried selling the ones my BFFs mom n gramma made at a rummage years back. No one wanted them. Wound up getting donated. Lo and behold, maybe 3 years later, they started showing up in big box stores. SIGH. Fickle people.
(I didn't want them at the time because tiny cramped apartment with small children. Didn't want them broken and didn't want to store them. I regret not taking them.)
I have a lot of these ornaments. We enjoy these every year.🎉
I’d like to see the feather angels returned especially as tree toppers. Also, the hand made Christmas tree ornaments. 😊❤
They still sell them in the UK with real feathers...
You can find a lot of You Tube channels on how to make them. One, which takes time, but is worth it, is to poke holes in each end of an egg. Stick a darning needle in the egg to break it up and blow it out. Wash as best you can. Use a button at each end to attach a string for hanging. Hand paint the egg.
Or simple collect pine cones and spray paint different colours. Add sparkles while still wet.
Bake Christmas cookies with holes at the top to hang. Decorate.
String popcorn. Not the type in bags, but pop the old fashion way.
Vintage Christmas is the best ❤🎄🎅Merry Christmas 😊
I remember one Christmas my Aunt put so much tinsel on the front of their tree ( It was in a corner) That it fell over on her and it was a big tree! 🤣🤣 Best Christmas Ever! I Absolutely love the vintage glass Ornaments Ecspecially the Indent Ones. Remember having them on our trees when I was a kid. I have quite a few Vintage Indents Now.
I really grew to hate tinsel. My mom made us put them on the tree, one strip at a time. THEN, after Christmas we had to take them off one at a time and put back in the box for the next year.
Loved this great memories 🎄
My mother used to spray pine cones and pine needles with gold and silver paint. Martha Stewart changed all of that by promoting natural things from the forest. Natural is beautiful. Mom and I found HUGE acorns in our neighborhood. I glued the little caps on them and put them around and on packages.
We had a small 4-5 foot tall aluminum tree in the 60's. It was lovely! My mom let us play "Christmas" during the year with this tree, as she liked a flocked big tree once we moved into a larger house. Me and my 3 siblings would wrap each other's favorite toys in our doll blankets as "presents". No wonder we're all Christmas maniacs.
BTW, my mom would choose a house (to buy) based on where the Christmas tree would go. One of my cousins said that it looked like Christmas threw up in my mom's houses. I miss Mom SO much!
I have a Mr Christmas Carousel, I got in 2000 and it still works
I love silver Christmas trees, white ones too.
I still have glass balls for the tree. They belonged to both my parents and my husbands mom. We also have other decorations which belong to them. They keep memories alive. We also still have the full village set up every year. And my youngest daughter has a village set up in her house every year. And you can still buy them and things to go with them.
Aluminum trees were not done in by Charlie Brown, but by the fact people were getting electrocuted by not reading safety warnings and putting lights on the tree…. Hence the color wheel that was used to add color to the tree…
Last year I made me a 6 foot Charlie Brown tree with a blue blanket and a big red bulb! It was great!
The bubble lights were the best!!!!!
I have a celluloid nativity set, very old. Hallmark ornaments from to '70s were lovely too.
What about those colorful wall decorations made out of slightly melted plastic discs they called "popcorn"? They were shaped like Santa, snowmen, reindeers and other Christmas themed items. They also made these for other holidays also. ❤
Funny, I have a lot of these 😂😂😂
Still use some of our ceramic village houses. Still use tinsel and hand blown ornaments that belonged to my grandparents along with beaded ornaments. Have pop-up Christmas cards. I have a few of the Christmas music boxes.
We would pick the lead tinsel off our tree and save itfor the next year.
Vermont Country Store has the silver trees and rotating light wheel. I only decorate my three trees with vintage baubles. Some from childhood and ones that my late mother and I collected.
In California it's actually illegal to have the clip ons that are real candles. Years ago a roommate that wanted them had to send away out of state for some and they were only lit for a short time so he could take pictures. Also popular in the 70s was making little paper "Christmas trees" by diagonally folding down pages in a magazine like Reader's Digest into a cone shape and painting them metallic. Those creepy knee hugger elves and pixies were a big deal in the 50s and 60s long before the modern day "elf on a shelf" fad started. The thing I loved about the lead based tinsel was how it hung better on the tree and didn't get blown upwards when a door was open! Also it was fun to step on when the tree came down because it left imprints in it due to the metal!
@jons.6216 Your comment about folding down pages of Reader's Digest reminded me of the computer punch card wreaths Mom brought home from the office in the 70's! A coworker folded them into a pointsettia- looking leaf shape and crafted them into huge wreaths! I hated them then, but wish I had one now, bet American Pickers would love such 'folk art'!😊🎄
No christmas traditions, no anticipation and run down to Christmas. I remember outside a dept. store a huge mechanical Santa with a moving beckoning finger.. every kid knew Christmas was coming .. What joyful excitement! Gone now. How sad!
@PhillipGiosio My friend and I were lamenting on how Christmas had lost that *_magical feeling_* that it had decades ago. We are both Gen Xers and think, for us, that the magical feeling had disappeared sometime during the late 1980s/early 1990s. Wish the feeling could come back but so much has changed (mostly for the worse) since then. 😞
We had to put the tinsel on one piece at a time to make it look just right.
0:38 Wow- that is commitment. They liked the old aluminum tree soo much they got a framed print on the wall!
Lots of people are now making pop-up cards, and they're beautiful, but rather expensive.
Most of everything except for the tinsel you could still get today the Vermont country store in fact has a colored wheel and there are still tinsel trees out there and vintage style ornaments being made. In fact you can go to silver Dollar City and by homemade glass ornaments May the way they did in the 1800s.
My Great Aunts had an aluminum tree with a color wheel. I can remember the first time I saw it as a very young child. Magical.
At school we made Christmas trees from paper tubes cut in 1 inch pieces, covered with foil or wrapping paper and stapled together. Does anyone remember making angles or choristers from Readers Digest? Bless our Mother. As much as she liked elegant displays she always put them on a table together.
All of these are still around
Yes I still have things that are much older than me . I pack them up very carefully each year ,and I love them .im over 70 .i hope one. Of my kids will look after them in the future
I have a pleasantly haunting memory of staring at my family's aluminum Christmas tree while Billy Vaughn's version of "White Christmas" played on the console stereo. I think there was a color wheel with the tree. I must have been about three years old. Anyway, a short piano passage in this song takes me back to that moment every year.
Still using the 2 foot tall fake tree I bought for my first apartment in 1973 and the mini glass ornaments bought for it.
I have everything you have shown. I hope my family values them how much as I do.
Yep we had the silver tree, and the lead tinsel, and the candle run carousel from christmas vacation! And I still have a couple of music box snow globes
I remember most of these. I still have a couple of those plastic wreaths, one is hanging on my door right now. I also have some of those glass ornaments, some of which are from my parents first Christmas after they got married.
We had an aluminum tree in 1965. I see nothing wrong with them to this day. The clip-on, artifical candles are back. I've seen UA-cam influencers decorating their trees with them. Plastic trees and plastic foliage/wreaths are coming back. They are being sold in stores, again. Miniature vilages never left.
Yes I got clip on candles, had them growing up, unfortunately they're all white, growing up they were different colours and the "candle" was the bulb, lantern lights are also back, got a set of them. Glad more interesting lights are returning, had candle, lantern, and icicle lights growing up along with fairy lights
@@djlads Awesome :)
Yes, I saw a ceramic village in Crate & Barrel yesterday.
Pop-up Christmas cards are still available at TJ Maxx and Marshalls. My mother-in-law loves them.
We had an aluminum tree with red glass ornaments and the color wheel.
I still have 3
We used to make popcorn 🍿and string it togeather to place on the tree! Flock the windows! Homade fudge with walnuts!
Nearly all that stuff is still very common and sold in most stores...
The tinsel we have today isnt as pretty as the old stuff
You can still get glass ornaments!
50’s & 60’s for silver trees….. NOT 70’s
He said they were born in 1956 and dies in 1965 after Charlie Brown killed them with his real little tree.
I just got rid of my hand made glass ornaments. We no longer have a full size tree and don't need those ornaments. They were pretty but impractical for us. Instead, I have my grandfather's table top Christmas tree with ornaments he got glued on. It was so cute that I kept it even though the tree began to break down.
As kids, we strung popcorn and looped the large train around the tree. We also braided yarn and slid in cinnamon sticks for that warm welcoming aroma.
My mom puts up her ceramic Christmas village every year and her village is over 12' long and 3' wide.
Christmas is more about family than it is about gifts.
Many of these still exist or are coming back.
I believe a lot of people, I, for one, are going back to these decorations 😊
The angels you talked about were from the 80's. The light-weight simple angels from Japan and Hong Kong were used. Same with ceramic houses were 80's and cardboard sparkly Putz houses were used in 60's 😊
I set up my ceramic village every year. Usually each year I would add another house. Kmart was my go to place for most of the pieces. Yes, harder to find now but not impossible.
I still have my grandparents decorations from then!
I inherited my mums beautiful glass baubles, clip on candles, fibre optic tapestry and feather angels.
I had an old friend who was still putting up an aluminum Christmas tree every year into the 1990s. Complete with blue glass bulbs and the rotating color wheel. He bought it in the early 1970s. Unfortunately the aluminum tree didn't make it into the 21st century since he passed away in 1998.
They are out there to buy, but $$$$$$.
A World War Two Hand grenade with the pin still in was sprayed with multi coloured paint and hung on the tree each year until someone pointed out what it was.
Thank you for that.
Almost everything mentioned is still available.
I remember those ornaments!
Egg shell halves painted and made into a caterpilla on a string.
A jam jar covered with cotton wool made into a snowman.
Pretzels sprayed with gold paint and hung on the tree.
An unwanted 7" single sprayed with silver paint stuck with beads and sequins...or a coloured vinyl single with the record label covered with glued on glitter,beads,etc.
I recently saw clip on candle lights on Amazon. Still available.
This should be titled ‘From the 40’s through the 70’s’. I remember several of those decorations from my childhood in the 1950’s. I’m 74.
My favorite was the tinsel that you placed strand by strand on the tree. That was a must have. I miss that the most on trees today
Yes I do!
Fiber glass angel hair.
Folding bells made of party paper.
Huge Santa head that light up for door.
Montgomery wards wrapping paper. Stores wrapped the gifts if you liked so children couldn't see when you got home. And the thick catalogs to order from.
Hand painted Christmas Scenery plates.
We still use a set of ceramic buildings to create the village under out tree.
I have clip on electric candles, music boxes and the feather fabric angel.
We had the bubble lights for many years,,and many of the ornaments they're as well.
No there not i have all of them an still uses them some new ones also we have everything you see here an more way you won't belive it got two be 400 & more .we all love Christmas marry Christmas two all of yous let have peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏🎄🌲🌲👍
I’ve seen a bunch of these the last few years 🤣🤪
The little Red Truck is worn slap out.
we had a 5 foot aluminium tree when i was a little girl. we also had foil icycles but they were called lametta
here in the UK.😊
Tree angels are not at all hard to find. Several of these are still a thing
My parents had one of those trees. I wish I had it
always had a real tree.
I made many decorations on my sewing machine.
They still make those glass baubles in europe, we have many of them and have visited a factory in Poland! (Vitbis)
What about big plastic snowmen you couldnt break em down they just took up alot of space in your shed or garage!!
50s, 60's and 70's is more accurate, still these bring back memories, especially the aluminum tree with the color wheel like grandma's.
I love Christmas!
Crochet, carrusel, etc. Today selling
Such a wonderful holiday vibe here! My channel is all about Christmas nostalgia-I'd love for you to drop by and relive some timeless moments! 🎄❤
I still have a lot of them that I used today
Ive seen some of these things in second hand stores
Have a bubble light night light..Didn't have bubble lights as a kid. Too pricey for our large family.
lol. The mess that was the satin balls.
You forgot the toothpick Christmas trees people made
This video is full of inaccuracies and exaggeration. You can still buy new aluminum Christmas trees and the color wheels. The lead tinsel was replaced by aluminum in the late 50's. Glass ornaments, both hand-blown and mass-produced, are still being sold. Wreaths such as those shown are being sold nearly everywhere. Music boxes with Christmas themed scenes are commonplace. Angel tree-tops are sold everywhere. Ceramic scenes are found very often.
The glass ornament I remember from the 60's had a elf holding a candy cane in it. I've looked for years but have never found one.
I still have our Pom-Pom aluminum tabletop Christmas tree!
What did you leave out? Hand made wreathes made from IBM punch cards
Many of these items are still available even though you may have to search for them on line and other sources and pay more for them.
The color wheel is now a color changing LED light.
Does anyone recall the two kinds of decorations for windows. 1st the the “Stik-ees” which were thin flexible plastic opaque sheets that had images like santa on his sleigh or reindeer or snowflake shapes cut into the plastic and you would peel them off and they would stick to the windows using static electricity. And the 2nd kind are the plastic popcorn decorations. They were about 18-28 inches high and 10-15 inches wide. People put them in their windows or hung them on walls. There was a few different Santas, candles, snowmen, candy canes, Christmas trees angels reindeer. They had them for other holidays too. Ooh and i almost forgot the hollow plastic light up santas that people put in their windows or yard.
You forgot stencils that you sprayed with a product called "Make it Snow", for window and mirror decorations. The spray was also used on Christmas trees.
I still have glass baubles belonging to my Grandmother and Mother. God help anyone who breaks one!
Ornaments with asbestos in the middle. Our family had them on our tree, they were from the fifties and remember them in the sixties and seventies. Definitely before the dangers were known
A miniature railroad that would run on a track around the Christmas Tree