Does anyone really remember Christmas younger than 7yo?

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DH &I were talking about our fave things from Christmas as a child, so we could carry on some traditions for our 2yo...

But I explained I couldn't really remember of any Christmas' before 7yo, he thought I was mad!

The first one I can remember was the last with my Gran, as we tried to make it quite special because of this, so I'm sure of what age I was. I then remember Christmas after that as I have vivid memories of visiting the cemetery every Christmas day etc.

I have no memories of opening presents with my DM before that as a little kid. Can't think of any particular presents from when I was little, but I know I did have some. I also can't really remember any feelings about the magic of Santa etc, although I did have an older brother who told me quite young. Aibu thinking that's fairly normal to not remember your early Christmases?

For reference, I'm 31/ a 90s kid.

I can, but I think because we moved house when I was 4 so there is a distinct old house / new house split. However, my main memories are not the ones you'd expect - one is being excited for my dad to get home from his last day at work, there being a twinkly tree and snow in the ground. The adults were all busy with Christmas Eve food prep and I took the opportunity to lick the pepper mill. I can also remember being petrified if the Santa wagon that came down our street.

I remember clearly driving to my grans on Christmas Eve and looking out of the window, I saw something in the sky and was convinced it was Santa

My mum says I was 2 when we stayed there for Christmas eve...

Can't remember what I got most years tbh, I remember having a bigger amount of presents than usual one year probably around 8/9 but not what I got!

I do remember never getting those springy moon boots or a mister frosty despite asking a few years in a row 😑😂

I can definitely remember christmases younger then 7. The years aren’t distinct though, they are just an assortment of jumbled xmas memories but we moved house when I was 7 so I know that some are from the old house.

I remember being too excited to sleep one Christmas Eve aged about 6.
I remember getting a dress I really wanted age 7. That’s it really. Mad how much effort probably went into it all and how little I remember- feel a bit bad on my parents! 🙈

I can remember going to Victoria house in york to see Santa..was around 3/4 as was before I started school as my nana used to look after my sister and I!

The sleigh ride was AMAZING!

I can remember getting bikes and one was made up but my sisters had a note saying "Santa was too busy to built both bikes so please ask your daddy in the morning if her can help by building one".

We must have been around 6 then!

I remember them around 3 and 4. I've got several brief snap-shot memories of being 3 of things that there aren't photos of. DS1 also remembers being 3.

I can remember aspects of Christmases when younger than 7

I distinctly remember opening my stocking aged 5 and getting the present I wanted.

I also remember snippets of Christmases before then, but nothing very distinctive. Just sitting on the floor watching Christmas TV.

Mostly related to stockings, selection packs and Quality Street!

Yes I can remember about 5 or 6 going to my aunts house one year, and very young of opening the advent calendar for the first time, about 4 or 5. but most concrete memories are from about 7 and upwards

My christmases up to age 10 were all very similar so memories kind of blur into one but i can remember my grandad being around and he died when I was 8 and I can remember being excited about Father Christmas several times and I stopped believing aged 8 so whilst it’s not the clearest I do remember pre 7.
I also remember being taken to watch Santa Claus the movie at the cinema just before Xmas when I must have been 6.

I can remember a lot about the Christmas when I was four.
I've also got fragments of memories from when I must have been two and three.

In fact, a few years ago, I amazed my Dad by singing a song in a foreign language, that my Grandmother must have taught me when I was about three, and that I had never again heard in all the intervening years.

I think my earliest memory is around 6/7 at my grandma's house hearing Santa's sleigh bells on the roof... Younger sister was walking around that Christmas which helps me place the age.

I have memories but I'm not sure
If they're memories of photos. When I was 4 I got a specific bike that I wanted, but there are photos of me on it. I remember going to London to see the lights and hamleys, no photos. I would have been 6. Also remember getting the Allders jingle bear, must have been 5 that year.

I sadly have a dreadful memory.', so no I don't remember much of my life as such, just the very odd snippet. It makes me incredibly sad.

BUT I remember the feelings. I always felt loved, safe & secure. When I was 7&under we spent Christmases as an extended family staying at my Auntys or ours. About 16 of us in a regular 3 bed tce, bodies sleeping everywhere, my grandparents arriving early in the morning. My Aunty waking us all at an indecent hour getting us all excited, squeals about Santa having been then buggering off to bed as she didn't have kids!!

one thing I remember us the ENORMOUS Quality Street tin that got handed around and everyone just had one then it was out away until later. Oh howtimes have changed!

TLDR: your toddler won't remember 'things', if they went to visit Santa, toys they got etc but they will have embedded in them the excitement, the LOVE ❤️

I remember Christmas from being about 4- we were army brats and they held a massive xmas party for the kids and Santa was there giving out gifts. The netting was sprayed white. I remember Seeing my mum naked on the bathroom floor after throwing up all night ahaha she was pregnant with my brother and didn’t know it!
i remember moving when I was 5- next door to my nans but the house wasn’t ready and my mum changing ny brothers nappy and he weed everywhere.
the best part was my grandad- he adored xmas and their house was a traditional santas grotto- he would sit there with his xmas cracker hat on and eat nuts and Brazil nuts.
i remember the large pink and green doll house I got and the toys.
my mum and dad always decorated their tree blue and silver and I would hate it - wanted a traditional colourful tree like my nans.
we became jehovahs witnesses when I turned 6- my fondest Christmas memories where of my nan and grandad. We lived next door to them for 15 years so I would sneak round and still get a Christmas 🎄🎄🎄I now have my own daughter and I want it to be just as magical for her

@SkylightSkylight I love how you've put that 🥰 my DH said similar, it wasn't so much the specific gifts he got but the fact that his grandparents made a special journey to get something for him and although he didn't know the price, knew they'd saved to get it and they were excited to give it to him!

I have several very clear memories from around the time of my second birthday. I remember a holiday we took in Spain 2 months before my 2nd birthday. I remember getting ready to go to the hospital to pick my brother up after his birth. That was the month after my 2 nd birthday. I remember my mum getting things ready for the new baby, so about the time I was 2.
lots of memories of being 7.

Maybe you just need to find the trigger to you remembering your early years, or maybe you’re one of those people that doesn’t remember being really young.

I do have memories of opening certain toys etc BUT not sure how many of them are genuine memories or how many are aided by home videos, as Dad videoed us opening our presents every year and when we were kids we loved rewatching those videos over and over

I can remember being in my pushchair under the rain hood, in town in the dark, looking up at the Xmas lights. So I was probably about 2?

Also remember queuing up to see santa in a department store and the feeling of my woolly tights, pretty sure I was preschool age.

I remember it from about 3 or 4.

I remember from age of 3 onwards

I have a memory age 4 of just before Christmas.
I had an angel costume with wings and tinsel and was going to be in the nursery school play but I got ill with the flu.
I remember lying on the sofa and drifting off to sleep feeling really ill and sad.
Then I remember the whole living room was filled with presents and the tree and 6 blow up reindeer.
My dad had blown them up and mum wrapped presents while I had been sleeping.
I remember feeling so safe and loved even if I felt ill and had missed my play.

Yes I remember very well from when I was really tiny. Getting up at the crack of dawn or thereabouts and going into my parents room to open some presents in bed. Christmas always smelled so nice too!

I also remember parents trying to convince me about Father Christmas; I never did believe that one.

I can remember my Mum getting a new car for Christmas when I was very little - we all looked out the window and it was there. Not a fancy one but new to her, I mean.

That sounds horribly old fashioned that my Dad would get my mum a car for Christmas because she was a sahm rather than it just being family money though. In general they both just used a JA.

I remember excitement at my grandparents coming to visit. I remember making my family take part in a nativity play just so I could have the chance to be Mary 😂 - I must have been infants aged but not that little as my youngest brother was old enough to take part.

My first really clear memory is of my third birthday, and I have a couple of hazy memories that could be earlier

I can definitely remember Christmases from when I was in infants school, particularly the one when I had just turned five and I had measles, and missed the end of term (so DMum went in to pick up artwork, including an articulated Father Christmas).