If you remember these at Christmas you were a child in the 70s

[BreakfastAtMilliways]

Testing the lights on December 23rd, then having to try out every one on the string to find out which one had blown…

Frantically trying to find a shop that sold spare Christmas tree lightbulbs at 3.25pm on Christmas Eve…

Lugging the tree out to the garden on January 6th, and spending the next 2 weeks hoping it wouldn’t die…

Driving (or rather being driven) into London to see the lights on Oxford Street…

Walking home from school after the carol concert and peeking through the front windows of each house on your road to see if you could spot their Christmas tree…

Arranging all the cards from your schoolmates around your bedroom…

Any more?

Grown ups drinking asti spumante with great excitement- about the only time all year they ever had wine, outside of holding a dinner party.

Sugar mice

Spending ages making paper chains and crepe paper two-colour streamers then standing on chairs on top of sideboards to stick them to the ceiling.

@JoanChitty really? When? It’s a fab film!

@ohdamnitjanet; Ch4 at 3.30pm on Boxing Day.

@BreakfastAtMilliways
I was 10 in 1970 so the 70s was MY decade! We didn't do any of the things in your OP

Thank you!

Does anyone remember yards of stuff like almost see through cotton wool that you wrapped around the tree and it made it look misty like in a fog. Loved it but due to health and safety (that killjoy) you can no longer use it. My Avon lady managed to get some in the 80's or still had some over cos I saw some at her house!!

Already answered-it was Angel Hair. I think it was made of fibre-glass.

That is so sweet!

I remember the year I got three Spirograph sets from different people. It would have been the late 80s.

My parents caved…on my 18th. After many years of it being a serious contender for Xmas or birthday top wish, and then a running joke.

They were right. It was disappointingly shit.

Angel hair! My grandparents used to cover their tree in it until one year, when I was around 5 or 6, I had a nasty allergic reaction to it after playing with it 😬

Those baubles covered in silky thread in pastel shades

Crepe paper crackers

Glittery plastic Merry Christmas wall art

Nominating my dm to make sausage rolls for the Christmas party at school, the only issue being that my two siblings would do the same and she'd end up baking 90 sausage rolls

Trifle made with tinned mandarin segments and a packet kit

The arrival of the hamper which contained some really random food in tins and the aforementioned York Fruits which none of us liked and dm would gift to her aunt and uncle

I’ve cheated slightly and looked online but Dairy Diary which DM bought every year from the milkman.

Random relations or “uncle” Podge, who dressed up as Father Christmas for us! He was the DH of one of nana’s friends.

Party poppers and kazoos, yes we use these!

Argos catalogue?! Marking what you wanted. Or Freemans/Grattan.

My mum used to order "pop" from the milkman for Christmas and also, gold top milk.

We also had the silky baubles on the tree and my brother put his finger through a glass one with a dimple when he was about 2.

I also wanted a Mr Frosty! It was advertised loads. I did get a Potter's Wheel and a Girl's World (not the same Christmas) which were both rubbish.

Rushing out to the newsagents when the double editions of the Radio Times (BBC programmes only in it) and the TV Times (ITV only) came out. They didn't print many in those days so you had to be quick before they sold out.

The Salvation Army silver band on the last two Sunday afternoons before Christmas going round the area, standing under street lamps so that they could see their music, and playing carols.

The Sunday School Christmas party where Dad had to listen carefully for the sleigh bells and then go down into the basement because he was the only one Father Christmas trusted to look after the reindeer. He did a very good job because I never twigged that it was my own father.

Not Christmas but...I just bought some indoor fireworks. Going to get them out on Christmas day and bring back memories of 70s bonfire nights and growing big grey turds.

remember the Carol singers knocking at the door and the big parties at my grandparents house same old songs every year music hall ones often by Max Bygraves knees up mother brown I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts my old man's a dustman etc wtc always ending up with a conga all down the lane with all the neighbours
snowballs and babycham
Those sets in a plastic bag with handles with a colouring book puzzle book dot to dot book and pens
paint by numbers every year
An annual every year remember getting the Rupert Annual
Games compendium
selection box
box of smarties
bath cubes
we had so much less then but we're so grateful what we got
in the 80s had presents
such as a children's knitting set
a sewing kit
a jigsaw puzzle
game of life
Pay day
Stay Alive
Etch a sketch
Girls
World
fashion designer
ballerina windy
the sindy house made of 2 bits of cardboard in a cross shape
and loafs of Enid Blyton books
sweet shop with rock hard sweets in
post office set

When the Christmas hamper arrived us kids would dive into it to see what delights we had and there were random items , usually in a jar and us kids would look at it like it was an alien . It would have been more at home in a manor house .

Soap on a rope!!!!

What a brilliant thread to go bed on! Wonderful!

bring back memories of 70s bonfire nights and growing big grey turds.

Makes a change from mustard & cress, I suppose, but what materials do you need for this?

Satsumas only ever had at Christmas ! Can remember loving the smell and feeling Christmassy.

My dad going out for the Christmas drinks and coming back with a cardboard box of gin for mum, whisky for him, beers and coke for me, a massive treat as we only had coke at Christmas (my 11 yr old dd can't believe this!)

Bowls of nuts and nutcrackers with shell flying everywhere.

My grandpas house all decorated, we would then go to the next road to visit my great aunt and uncle and see their lovely decorations lots of lametta and angel hair.

Last minute Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve with mum then getting the bus home.

The utter magical feeling on Christmas eve, nothing like it.

Waking up on Christmas morning and feeling the heavy stocking at my feet and knowing 'he'd been'.

Oh and coloured Christmas tree lights so much prettier than the coloured lights now.

The Timex advert

(More 80s) Going through the tv times and circling everything you wanted to watch so you didnt miss them- no guide on the tv to plan/remind you in those days! Mum having a cupboard full of food I wasn’t allowed to eat cos “it’s for Christmas” desperately wanting a mr frosty but never getting it cos “you’ll use it once then get bored, it’s a waste of money” the rotary club coming around with Santa on a sleigh and everyone coming out of their houses to watch - and the school caretaker dressed up as Santa at the school fair, no fancy Santa visits in those days!

That was my stepdad’s default present! Or socks!