In these frozen and silent nights Sometimes in a dream you appear… Our hearts were singing It felt like Christmastime Two thousand miles Is very far through the snow I’ll think of you Wherever you go –2,000 Miles, The Pretenders Ten years ago, I purchased some vintage Bucilla Christmas decorations at a local estate sale. The felt ornaments […]
What Christmas Morning Looked Like From One Generation To The Next
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Touching Full Moon Christmas Advert Features Aurora
A popular Great Britain department store, John Lewis, has created a beautiful video advert in honor of the coming Christmas Full Moon. It’s the first full moon to appear on Christmas Day since 1977. There won’t be another one until 2034. The advert tells a story of a young girl named Lily. Looking at the […]
50 Years of New Yorker Christmas Covers
Post Updated, 12.2016 New Yorker Christmas covers, 1961 to 2016. Here is the cover of every New Yorker since the start of Generation X in 1961. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! Which cover is your favorite? I like 1967! Click here to subscribe to the New Yorker for just $1 […]
MUST SEE Sainsbury Chocolate Bar Christmas Ad
Grab a Kleenex. If this Christmas ad from Sainsbury doesn’t make you cry or at least put a gulp in your throat, you might not be human. The commercial is a re-enactment of events that took place on Christmas Eve 1914 when British and German soldiers reportedly ceased gunfire and celebrated the holiday with friendship […]
A Very 1970s Christmas exhibit targets Generation X
A Wisconsin museum exhibit will pay homage to Generation X’s Christmas memories this holiday season. “A Very 1970s Christmas,” features many favorite Generation X toys under a fake fir tree decorated with thick, gold tinsel garden. The tree sits in a living room decorated with shag carpet, a herculon couch, a Penncrest television set and […]
Vintage Matching Pajamas
JC Penney Christmas Catalog 1977 | via Wishbook Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. –Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina All the families wearing matching pajamas in the Christmas catalogs were all painstaking-happy. That’s such a Generation X thing to say, isn’t? Painstaking-happy. Scary matching pajamas I’ve ever seen. […]