Christmas in 80s

Stockings and suspenders for the wife.Now its a pair of comfy slippers.

Only Fools And Horses Christmas specials on the telly when the telly was worth watching on Christmas day

Proper tasting Satsumas and Macintosh Reds.

Going down the pub with your Dad on Christmas Day and getting Bollocked by your Mum for coming home p1ssed

.. and judging by the other thread taking a sh1t in the christmas stocking!

Siddy

its a ritual i still do to this day (not wiv me dad though sadly) - off to the pub at 11 - refuse to pay ridiculous prices for a dinner - few jars and then back home for 1.30- 1.45 for me dinner - everyone happy cos i aint been under her feet whilst she combusts fretting over the turkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_0ENIw4os

Woolworths Xmas ad 1981 ("Have a cracking christmas") - @ 1m 21s - a tin of quality street cost £6.89! - admittedly a much bigger tin than you get nowadays but still seems expensive.

Much better then, safe to go out as well.

Pubs were full, people were better off.

Less pig-ignorance around then compared with today's working class rabble.

roses,quality street once a once year treat ,now been chucked at us in their millions for a few squid,and available in all sorts of guises tins,tubs,boxes,pkts 12 months a year, I,m 59 reasonably well of as kids  and my mam was a housekeeper for a couple who give her a tin for us,can remember staring at the tin for a week or more before xmas,but not allowed to open it.

what people pay a 100 quid a tkt for these days ,we got free of charge every xmas day at the club, chubby brown for an hour,
little ormesby tute , near/in boro

you can pay £6.99 for an empty tin these daze

always a fight for who got the tin.....scratch your name into it, ...

our golf club had connection to theatre royal in newcastle, often got a lock in during
panto season, with some half decent comedians having to do a turn to justify their
lock in. local polis had ringside seat.

panto trip with club,bag of sweets,orange,tangerine and 5 bob in a brown envelope

Getting a postal order from your nan as a present.

...or a Garfield to stick in your car

oh yeah   postal orders from auntie oh very yes

Go back to the 70's and it was 'The Famous Five' books from my auntie... she was a teacher btw

sexist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subbuteo sets!

(Or Scalextric if you'd been really good / were upper middle-class)

Beano, Dandy, Beazer Annuals.

Oor wullie or the Broon's annuals

xmas 1980 we went to midnite mass with a guy dressed in a plastic santa suit
straight from the pub

he got kicked out for shouting last orders when a bell was rung.

happy days