Does anyone else love vintage Christmas stuff?

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I have a big collection of vintage and antique Christmas decorations and have this year bought some unused vintage Christmas wrapping paper too!

I just LOVE the stuff! I just mentioned it on another thread and thought I'd see if there were any other MNrs who are like me!

My childhood was a 70s one and I love the things from then but any era prior to that will do just fine aswell! look at this

I have this weird feeling that it came free with washing powder? Of course back then life was less consumer, there was less choice and it was all so much less commercial so it is quite possible the candle design could have been recycled year on year.

Ahhh memories sigh I think it was better when it was less commercial.

OMG the candle wrapping paper on your link took me back instantly! I grew up in the 80s. Amazing! I had forgotten such things existed!

I have a lovely lot upstairs....candles, lanterns....coach and horses, little cats and some with children and father Christmas in his sleigh! My fave is the lanterns!

We used to buy the retro wrapping paper in Portobello Road market, before it went all posh.

I bet there's a little forgotten market stall, or newspaper stand (remember those!?) still selling ancient stock somewhere!

I think this too Isildur! In fact I DREAM of those shops...and warehouses! I do have a little shop where I can buy original 60s and 70s stuff...the couple who run it are ancient and I don't think they ever buy new stock...they just come in daily with their packed lunches and sit there...it's like a hobby! They don't sell much but probably don't need to...the shop is full of bits and bobs....old buttons, kids books, shower caps and last year I got some amazing 60s paper angels! I am defo due a visit! I might ask about Christmas paper!

Right, I'm making it my mission to visit the forgotten newsagents and corners of this town.

I will probably end up buying loads if 15p ping pong balls, or quarter pounds of cola pips, or odd Bic biros, but if I find wrapping paper stocks it'll be worth it!

Make sure you come back if you're succesful in your mission Isildur!!! I will go too...but not today...too busy. I will report back when news is in the offing!

Absolutely

Need to get a pinterest board going I think!

Me, me, me! I love vintage stuff in general though.

Our Christmas decs are a mixture between traditional and vintage and random crap like Nightmare Before Christmas stuff. I like to buy some modern because one day that too will be seen as vintage .

What eras do you like people? I love anything from the 20s onwards...that's antique now I suppose...or almost! I especially like 50s and 60s stuff...but I get torn between the atomic style and the pretty-pretty stuff that's pre-1950.

Me, me, me.
I love everything to do with Christmas but especially vintage decorations and lights.
I have actually shed tears when I remember all the beautiful Christmas decorations my Granny had. She died when I was 7 and no-one can tell me who got the decorations/lights so that I could beg for even a couple of them. :(

I would say she had a collection of things from the 50's - 70's.

I did find a couple of feathered robins on clips last year, which are very similar to ones she had, that made me happy.

I miss proper soft glowing fairy lights, none of this LED rubbish. I wanted some lovely glowing multicoloured lights for the tree last year but could only find cold, blindingly bright things and no pretty shades!

We have MIL's tree decorations, which must be from the 1960s - a fairy with crepe paper skirt, baubles wrapped in a glossy fibre, tiny glass balls. And I have a stash of parcel labels that a friend gave me from her mum's house, which would go perfectly with the vintage wrapping paper.

My tree is a riot - the DC choose a new decoration each every year, and I mix it all in with brightly coloured baubles, stuff we've collected on holidays, and the old favourites. I can't stand matchy, themed trees.

Clean I know...and vintage lights are so expensive! Terra me too....I remember my Nan's decorations and to be honest, they are part of what attracted me in the first place.

IKEA are also doing fold out crepe paper balls in white, grey and green if you can't find originals.

I am a 70's girl and love the lights and decs from this era. I remember my parents shelling out for a set of Cinderella coach fairy lights - alternative coach and lantern pattern. I thought they were so fab. We also had those multicolor pub lanterns around our porch each year....

My favourite baubles were the ones that looked whole on one side and were puckered on the other.

I also remember we had a silver plug in tree. The lights were attached to the branches in little ping pong balls with holes in, in pinks and blues. The tree stand was the adaptor hidden in a silver parcel with a red bow round it. We had to turn it off regularly because it overheated easily.

It used to sit on the sideboard next to the horse and carriage decanter set (which played music when you lifted out the decanter) , and the "Hunting Scenes" sherry glasses.

You've all inspired me to hunt down some things on eBay and I can't believe what I've found....

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Pifco-Fairy-Coach-Xmas-Tree-Lights-decorations/261318370995?rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m1851&_trkparms=aid=222002&algo=SIC.FIT&ao=1&asc=74&meid=2496138960023230783&pid=100005&prg=1048&rk=3&rkt=4&sd=231084319587&

I'm off to hunt down the Hunting Scene shot glasses now!!

Cracking lights Wally but jeepers they're expensive! I covet things like this every year and never splash out. Might do this year though!

Wally, I've got some of those baubles. I've got boxes of 1950s and 60s decorations. No idea they were worth so much.

Oh my word Wally they are gorgeous

I remember the pingpong lights with holes in!
And fairy lights shaped like cones.
And angel hair
And weird kind of spiky ball decorations with beads on.
And a concertina snowman who opened out and then clipped back to back to show a round paper tummy

I have those weird spiky balls with beads on them among my 60s lots...they're red and white plastic and I think I have some green too. Someone told me they came free on packets of Daz or Omo or whatever the washing powder was back then!

Re. baubles that were puckered on one side. My parents had these when we were growing up Think DB has them now.

Yes, Jitney, I think they did! They have been listed on ebay as "very rare" with a whole spiel about how plastic was a new product and considered very chic.

I love this thread...I was on another one discussing vintage lights, lovely coloured carriages, that I can see on my gran's mantelpiece....

And that paper, beautiful.

I bought some angel chimes the other year, and we all sat round the table on Christmas day, with the red swirly candles......

My Mum has the decs she bought with her Christmas Club money in 1965, the year I was born and she got married....they are my most favourite decs in the world, because they remind me of being 6 and it being Christmas....There can be no better thing in the world, surely, than being 6 and it's Christmas Eve.