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Antique Christmas tree ornaments (Original Post) Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 OP
Love them. 😻 blm Dec 2023 #1
Glad you enjoyed the blast from the past Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #8
Somehow, between two estate sales and moving 500 miles. I lost a box of my family's sinkingfeeling Dec 2023 #2
Most of my antique bottles and childhood toys were lost under similar circumstances Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #9
I love this so much! maspaha Dec 2023 #3
I'm glad that these brought fond memories! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #10
Nostalgia moment! Blue Dawn Dec 2023 #4
Thanks and you're welcome! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #11
Where is the pickle? randr Dec 2023 #5
I remember, too. Deuxcents Dec 2023 #6
I don't wanna pickle Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #12
Ah, so neat. Reminds of when sometimes, we would have to make our own ornament for a SWBTATTReg Dec 2023 #7
I'm glad these brought pleasant memories Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #14
Thank you. These were pleasant memories, so it's nice to go back, and relive these precious memories. SWBTATTReg Dec 2023 #16
Wow, my dear Mousetoescamper! CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2023 #13
Thanks, Peggy! Merry Christmas to you and yours as well! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #15
Quite nice. Enjoy. twodogsbarking Dec 2023 #17
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #22
Christmas! Bah! Humbug! Ray Bruns Dec 2023 #18
That's the spirit! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #23
Won derful, i got some on ebay in 2000. I love them. Trueblue1968 Dec 2023 #19
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #24
ohm myyyy. AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 #20
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #25
My parents had ornaments like this on their Christmas tree. patphil Dec 2023 #21
Thanks and you're welcome! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #26
My parents had similar ornaments. Delmette2.0 Dec 2023 #35
My Mom has some like the last two. chowder66 Dec 2023 #27
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #30
Oh My, Just Wow. ratchiweenie Dec 2023 #28
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #31
My mother would always lament every Christmas Diamond_Dog Dec 2023 #29
No one else in the family wanted grandma's ornaments, or her knickknacks and china Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #33
Beautiful ornaments Bundbuster Dec 2023 #32
Thanks! Mousetoescamper Dec 2023 #34

sinkingfeeling

(53,129 posts)
2. Somehow, between two estate sales and moving 500 miles. I lost a box of my family's
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 01:47 PM
Dec 2023

glass antique bulbs. They were from my maternal grandmother and my mom. I really think they were stolen at one of the sales after I left them in the attic. Much like yours.

maspaha

(394 posts)
3. I love this so much!
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 01:55 PM
Dec 2023

Reminds me of going to my Grandparents house when I was a little girl. I have a couple of boxes of their ornaments and will be passing one box of them to my daughter for her tree next year. She and “the Boy” (her boyfriend of six years who she’d probably be married to now if not for their crippling student debt) close on their house at the end of January 2024.

Thank you for sharing!

randr

(12,485 posts)
5. Where is the pickle?
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 02:05 PM
Dec 2023

I remember having some of these as a child and my mothers tears whenever one fell to pieces. Thanks for the memories!

Deuxcents

(19,950 posts)
6. I remember, too.
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 02:21 PM
Dec 2023

I also remember the first time my mom put up that aluminum tree. She had a wheel that turned and had different colored slides shining on the tree. We hated it! She loved it. Wish I had it and her ornaments..

SWBTATTReg

(24,255 posts)
7. Ah, so neat. Reminds of when sometimes, we would have to make our own ornament for a
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 02:27 PM
Dec 2023

particular XMAS. The variety was amazing and the different kinds of ornaments we would end up w/ over the years, after they have accumulated, was pretty neat. We did it not because we were poor, but my Mom and Dad wanted to encourage creativity (plus my great grandma and grandma loved making their own ornaments, so kind of a family tradition (Ozarks)).

AllaN01Bear

(23,194 posts)
20. ohm myyyy.
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 03:50 PM
Dec 2023

in my moms collection , i have many of those ornamants and she used them on many a live tree except where we used to live in sonora , we got a fake tree as the house had a wood stove and the tree was too close to the stove , so we got a fake real tree. these are lovly.

patphil

(7,051 posts)
21. My parents had ornaments like this on their Christmas tree.
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 04:04 PM
Dec 2023

My sister lived in my parents house for a while after my mother died, and may still have a few of them on her tree, but most of them either broke, or got so old and tired looking they were discarded.
It's nice to see pictures of them as I remembered them.
Thanks.

Diamond_Dog

(34,992 posts)
29. My mother would always lament every Christmas
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 04:18 PM
Dec 2023

That her mother gave all the pretty glass ornaments away to her sister (my aunt) because she had a family first, and that my boy cousins broke them all.

But I still have some that managed to escape the scourge of the boy cousins, lol

Super photos and they brought back some memories… TY Mousetoescamper.

Mousetoescamper

(5,349 posts)
33. No one else in the family wanted grandma's ornaments, or her knickknacks and china
Wed Dec 20, 2023, 04:49 PM
Dec 2023

Most of it is dime-store stuff. I've also inherited her collection of costume jewelry.

Thanks and you're welcome!

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