Anyone Else Obsessed With Snowglobes?

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I have always loved snowglobes but never knew until recently just how many there are to choose from online. Even found some of the vintage plastic dome shaped shakers that I had as a child. And don’t get me started on Etsy! There are some absolutely stunning ones. I even found a Tiffany rotating carousel but it looks like blue plastic at the bottom which is disappointing. Especially as it’s just over £130! I’ve more or less decided to buy a musical pink, blue & gold village scene with a miniature train & carol singers. Paying on Klarna. Also a cute rabbit snowglobe.

YABU

Sorry?!

Oh they're lovely, i really like them too, OP. Going to run to Etsy now to take a nose!

There is definitely something lovely about a snow globe. YANBU.

I love a snowglobe so magical

I love snow globes!

I'd really like a large white glass one with something really pretty/dainty inside, but with a splash of colour-like little robins, but have yet to find one I REALLY like!

The Taylor Swift community is obsessed with her snow globes and waiting for this years drop.

There's something so magical about snowglobes. Check out the Christmas Imaginarium website. Beautiful, huge snowglobes that I am tempted by ever year, if I had the budget.

Yes
Love them
We have three, not a lot really but they are quite pricey. It’s the one decoration I want to buy this year

OP you should have a look at Dobbies Christmas displays. Snow gloves galore at our local one. Wish I’d taken pics at the time but heres two after a Google

Each to their own but I’d avoid paying by Klarna to fuel an obsession.

Concept is fabulous.I love the world within the world.
But Klana or other credit is daft. Bet if you asked on any free giving site someone would have an amazing one.
They are the sort of thing you but, love and the realised life has moved on. You need a new globe.

ive a lovely one which you wind up and santa whirls round it plays a Christmas tune too.
I have loads of them

I made my own..used waterproof glue,clean jar, inside is glitter in a water and edible glycerine mix.small Xmas figurines.Had it for 5 years. I adore snowglobes and I'm over 50😆

A snowglobe in the abstract is a beautiful thing - the problem is that many are cheap plastic tat and over time the water evaporates a little bit so the level falls leaving a bigger air gap that is unattractive.

I remember once when I was young seeing a film or tv drama programme - years and years ago, think it involved a murder - where there was a character, a glam beautiful wife, who collected snowglobes and they were all displayed together in front of a window in a swanky american house. There were loads and they were all huge beautiful glass globes - the size of a side plate or bigger - with amazing designs. I think there was some plot about how the husband had given her one when they first met or their first christmas or something and she'd kept buying them.

I thought the whole display was just soooooo beautiful and hankered for a big house with that collection in, in the same way little girls dream of owning a unicorn or something. These were big glass globes though not plastic half domes.

Does anyone remember the same drama or film? It must be 1990s or earlier easily.

@oofOof was the film unfaithful with Richard Gere? I remember that there were snow globes and a lovely house in that film.
I love a snow globe and had a beautiful beauty and the beast one from the Disney shop when I was 18 off my parents for Christmas. I absolutely loved it but my young son smashed it accidentally years later and I was pretty devastated at the time to be honest.

I saw an ad to have a model of your own house in a snowglobe.

DH has bought a Christmas snow globe for me every year of our marriage.

I adore them and display them in my snug for all of December. They sit up on the top of built in shelves by the fire and have warm twinkly fairy lights wrapped around them.

This thread is making me think of the excellent episode of Channel 4 programme travel man when Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade go to the snow globe museum in Vienna. I think it’s where they were invented. If you need a giggle, watch it 😆

I have an old plastic Santa one which must be 50+ years old, the waters almost vanished :(

I have a few nice ones which have mainly come from tk max, they always seem to have a nice selection and they are reasonably priced.

It was "Unfaithful" with Richard Gere (the husband).

I also liked that film because of the house/ decor and also the flat that the boyfriend lives in. I immediately thought of those snow globes when I saw this thread.

Disappointed today as I opened the one I’d ordered which was advertised as pale pink, blue & gold with a little gold train on the outside & it turned out to be mainly red & green. At least I can return it for free.

I LOVE a snowglobe. I have a collection of halloween ones which I just adore!

You can get good ones from TK Maxx.

Mmm, I do quite yearn after them - but only if you call them 'snowstorms' and only if we're talking the kitsch 70's oval ones with a lurid blue background and plastic fawns in. I'd like a few in a corner at Christmas. The globular sort - meh. American rubbish.

I used to have loads on my windowsill, until I discovered they are a fire risk. Had to get rid of most of them as I didn't have anywhere else to house them. I still get them all off whenever I see them in a shop though.