I was watching the television last night and saw the ad for DFS promising the new suite would be delivered by Christmas and groaned
When we were kids my mother would put the tree up the Sunday before Christmas, ordered the chicken from the butcher a month before( chicken was a treat then, we used to have beef quite regularly) the corona ordered from the delivery van and cream and eggs ordered from the milkman. My Gran made the Christmas pudding and small Christmas cake
MY mother would go shopping on Christmas Eve for all the fruit, veg and other groceries I can still see her now with those brown paper carrier bags coming home off the bus,(no money for taxis in those days).
I can smell the ham cooking even now everything was a wonder to us kids in the late 40's early fifties we didn't know what a banana was until after the war
Christmas day we had simple toys such as little cardboard post offices, jig saws, ludo and snakes and ladders, we had large oranges in our stockings and some sweets and we thought it was wonderful.
We listened to the King and later the Queen on the wireless and sang carols all in front of a lovely blazing fire, granny would tell us stories and we would crack nuts and eat meddlers and it was all so simple and innocent.
Previous to Christmas day we would have gone to Sunday school and
had a Christmas party and carol service and a Christmas party at school which we all thought was wonderful all dressed up in our party frocks
When did it all start being so commercial and so much money being lavished on toys and rubbish and Christmas advertised from October on, and what happened to the religious side of Christmas?.
What are your fond memories of Christmas before commercialism and Television
CG

When we were kids my mother would put the tree up the Sunday before Christmas, ordered the chicken from the butcher a month before( chicken was a treat then, we used to have beef quite regularly) the corona ordered from the delivery van and cream and eggs ordered from the milkman. My Gran made the Christmas pudding and small Christmas cake

MY mother would go shopping on Christmas Eve for all the fruit, veg and other groceries I can still see her now with those brown paper carrier bags coming home off the bus,(no money for taxis in those days).

I can smell the ham cooking even now everything was a wonder to us kids in the late 40's early fifties we didn't know what a banana was until after the war

Christmas day we had simple toys such as little cardboard post offices, jig saws, ludo and snakes and ladders, we had large oranges in our stockings and some sweets and we thought it was wonderful.
We listened to the King and later the Queen on the wireless and sang carols all in front of a lovely blazing fire, granny would tell us stories and we would crack nuts and eat meddlers and it was all so simple and innocent.

Previous to Christmas day we would have gone to Sunday school and
had a Christmas party and carol service and a Christmas party at school which we all thought was wonderful all dressed up in our party frocks

When did it all start being so commercial and so much money being lavished on toys and rubbish and Christmas advertised from October on, and what happened to the religious side of Christmas?.

What are your fond memories of Christmas before commercialism and Television

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