born in '82
Memories include:
Lots of those foil decorations hanging from ceiling
Paper chains
Making snowmen out of loo rolls and cotton wool at nursery school
Cadburys milk choc dispensers ( wish I still had mine)
Parents had the Band Aid single
Quality Street was by Mckintosh with a man and lady in Edwardian clothes on the tin and tasted good. Plenty of green triangles
Lantern style fairy lights (indoor and outdoor) in primary colours
Christmas trees very gaudy and with loads of tinsel, bauble and decorations such as little felt mice sitting on little cloth presents, little wooden angels with Dutch doll painted cheeks and tiny gold wings. Huge baubles in all colours. Pipe cleaner candy canes
Advent calendar s with pictures in them, often nativity pics but sometimes secular Christmas pics
Pigs in blankets were DIY. You got chipolatas and wrapped the bacon round them
Chocolate coins in little string bags in your stocking (which was really a pillowcase)
Stocking Fillas catalogue. Lots of tiny little present ideas for children. My sister and I would get very excited when it arrived and would love poring over it
Choosing gifts from the Argos catalogue and making lists for parents
Christmas post box at school where we sent cards
Christmas carol concerts in local church. learning descents and getting time off lessons to rehearse if you were in the choir. best of all, on the concert day itself you had the morning to rehearse if you were choir or reading one of the 9 lessons, but the whole school had afternoon off for Christmas shopping before the concert in the evening. Good times!
Primary and Sunday school it was nativity plays. I have worked out that over the years I have been the donkey, Gabriel, random angel, Star of Bethlehem, and a shepherd. I was never Mary. My sister was, many times!
foil wrapped chocolates on the Tree (still exist but I remember a much wider range and Cadburys used to taste nicer!
As an older teen in the late 90s I remember Cadburys Snowballs (do they still make those?) and in about 2000 when Terry's started a White Choc Orange. As a child in the 80s I remember Terry's Pyramint. And how each Christmas I would get either a milk or dark chocolate orange and they were bigger and nicer then.
Tinsel blu tacked everywhere
Eating two thirds of my nestle selection box by boxing day!
Longing for snow and rarely getting it
My best Christmas memory ever was about 12 days before Christmas in 1990. We collected our first pair of guinea pigs, a male and a female, from some kids at school whose piggies had babies. This started a lifelong passion for guinea pigs and I been keeping them in and off ever since.