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.
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