?Keep sending your pics! We’ll run them from now until New Year’s Eve. ?
Who knew all the BJ peeps were so adorable when we were kids?
? All holidays matter. ?
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John Smallberries: “that’s me at 9 months old,
plus the old man and my mom.”
Christmas 1957.
“That copy of The Night Before Christmas lasted and was read on Christmas Eve for at least another 30 years before it fell apart. But my mom still has the remains stashed somewhere.”
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Cathie from Canada
“So it may be a little odd to see two sweet little twin girls with toy cars,
but that was our best Christmas gift that year!”
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JanieM
“That’s me on the left, in the Davy Crockett suit I wanted so desperately for Christmas in 1955.
I’m sure my mother got it for me
while hoping it would be just an anomaly on my path to true femininity.
Um…no.”
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Elma, Carol, and Betty
Kenosha, circa ?
(Maybe we can guess from the tinsel? ~WG)
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Elma
“Got a doll and stiches for Christmas.”
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Santa and Stacy
“I’m a lurker but faithful longtime reader.
I just like this picture so much, especially the woman with the cigarette.
This was about 1983.”
Just Barely Christmas Eve Open Thread
WereBear
It’s so delightful the see the range of styles and time periods. Until I dissuaded her, all our childhood Christmas pics (heaven knows where) had me wearing those sponge curlers because my mother wanted me to have Shirley Temple ringlets for the gathering of the relatives.
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Wait a minute.
That was supposed to be, Bah! Humbug!
It just came out wrong.
Spanky
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Blech! Humbug!” works just fine.
Spanky
I suppose I should drag my ass outta bed. Finally got the tree decorated late (for us) last night. Already broke one 60+ year old ornament. Blech.
AlaskaReader
Weird, my dictionary says Blech an expression of disgust, also is from Yiddish BLEKH? – the sheet tin covers used for stoves on the Jewish Sabbath
Dictionary also says, humbug is false talk or deception, alternate British meaning – a hard candy.
After all of all that, I’m sticking with Merry Christmas.
And a better New Year for all.
Rusty
The tree got put up yesterday, but no lights or decorations yet. The house isn’t decorated and daughter number 1 doesn’t arrive until 6 p.m. (after I drive a two hour round trip to get her). My parents arrive today too. New Christmas tradition, Covid tests for all! We do have mountains of food, so we are all set. Merry Christmas everyone!!
Sab
@Spanky: We have two trees. One is a three foot tall fiber optic with pine cones and fake snow. The other is 15 inches tall with the lights and ornaments already on it. We stuff it in a plastic bag every twelfth night and store it until next year.
It has a gay cardinal couple nesting in it because we could only find red cardinals. Some year we might paint one of them brown and have a straight cardinal couple. Or maybe not, since it is already a fifteen year old tradition in our house.
Geminid
@Sab: I had fun Wednesday, putting up a Christmas tree for some customers. Then I strung the lights, which saved them some trouble. (She’s not tall enough and he has Parkinsons). Their son and daughter-in-law came in from Charlotte last night, and the daughter and her husband and their grandson travel from Virginia Beach today, so now there will be plenty of decorating help.
My Christmas tree is a cedar that I’m dressing up with some ribbons. It’s too close to the little house where I live, so my plan is to cut it and put it on a bonfire New Year’s Eve. That might be delayed, though, until we get some rain. Virginia is very dry right now.
Wishing all traveling jackals a safe and happy journey!
debbie
The hair on that smoker! I’d forgotten how big hair had to be.
@WereBear:
My mother’s mother insisted she get a Shirley Temple permanent (back when Shirley Temple was everything). My mother always said how much she hated it. I came across a photo after she died, and she was right. It was just horrible.
raven
We’re going to drive to Virginia tomorrow. It’s an easier drive than it will be today. I gotta get on that gumbo!
WaterGirl
@debbie: My mom had that big hair. And the cigarette.
zhena gogolia
Love the davy crockett suit
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Mine too! She had a shower cap that covered her entire head and had a plastic thing that would protect the cigarette from getting wet. I’d like to think it was a gag gift.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Wow! My mom did not smoke in the shower, at least!
Did your mom have the little plastic thingie folded like an accordion that you open up to be a hair covering for the big hair if it rained or misted?
My mom would wear that and it embarrassed me terribly.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Yep, and they’d also appear in my Christmas stocking. I can’t remember if I ever used them.
WaterGirl
@debbie: We got them, too! But we never wore them.
WaterGirl
I can’t believe no one asked for the story behind the stitches. So I’ll ask. Elma, what happened on Christmas that you needed stitches?