Remember them? I hung these up not but 3 weeks ago at my parents house 😆
Yeah, that’s 1988 but otherwise I’m agreeing.
You’re right, but we certainly still had these foil-type decorations up in 1998 :) I remember them through every Christmas of my childhood, and once I grew big enough to help I’d climb on the back of the sofa on my tippy-toes and push a garland onto the ceiling with a blob of blu-tack.
After Christmas they’d go back in the attic in a sturdy but battered red-and-white printed cardboard box claiming to contain Finest Russian Vodka - which itself felt as much part of the Christmas traditions as those garlands did.
The garlands are gone now, I believe, but that box still exists.
You just made me remember the smell of the Christmas decoration boxes we had growing up and now I’m tearing up. It was very slightly musty, newspapery, piney, and they always smelled (and were) cold.
Yes! You can talk about mulled wine and fruit cake all you like, but the smell of those boxes coming out was actually Christmas <3
Found some at the second hand store. Currently hanging proud around the house.
It’s like a foil coated rainbow bonanza mixed in with homemade paper chains from all the recycled packing paper.
It looks like the opposite of a stylish insta home but makes my happy.
Yep! Definitely had those in the house back in the day. I’m pretty sure there were a few even cheaper versions mixed in that were made from coloured paper as well.
Easy to have 90% less anxiety in the air when the air is mostly replaced with vehicle emissions and cigarette smoke.
I was talking about the multi-coloured Christmas decorations of our childhood yesterday. In addition to these foil things, we also had multi-coloured tinsel hung around the edges of the ceiling and wrapped around anything hung on the wall (just like the clock in the image). Good times.
These things! Hadn’t thought about them or remembered they existed for a long time, but as a child it really felt like Christmas when these came out
For a moment I genuinely thought that this was a photo from my parents living room from back in the day. I loved having these up in our living room at Christmas!
In addition to overpriced cocktails, apparently these things are a major part of the attraction at Miracle bar in London weirdly enough
Christmas was already dead and buried by '98. Ma was dead and buried by '99.
