I think that we had always the great Christmas when I was a child. We had a plenty of Christmas food and we got many Christmas gifts. I have good memories. How was your childhood Christmas?
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Well this might make me sound really spoilt but I didn’t like Christmas as a kid at all. I found it really upsetting that I would usually not get the things I asked for. I felt like my sisters got what they asked for and I wasn’t really thought about. I think my parents couldn’t justify the latest games (which is usually what I asked for) and my Dad often just picked things for me that he thought were cool but weren’t really what I liked.
One year I ended up telling my mum that I didn’t think I really got very much (she could tell I was upset) and next year she made sure I had more things I asked for. That was probably the best Christmas when I actually opened the gifts and got things I had told them I wanted.
It was also better when I was about 13 or so and my parents had more money to spend on us and there was more luxury food items etc.
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Most of them were not great. I had an unemployed, handicapped mother on assistance who dated abusive men. Xmas was always a stressful occasion between the poverty we lived in and abuse I was on the receiving end of.
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Christmas was sparse unless we went to my grandmother’s or my great grandmother’s. Then it was more formal, less fun and more about being properly behaved. But at home, we didn’t have much. One Christmas, my mother gave each of us a family keepsake for our gift. That, to me, was my best Christmas ever. She spent a dollar or two on each of us at the dollar store. I still have those presents, but I can barely recall others over the years, except socks (which I loved). But the Christmas where we had nothing was the best.
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There was one tradition that survived the divorces in my family. For many years my Mom fixed a Christmas breakfast with Hungry Jack biscuits, grape jelly, sausage and bacon, and plenty of scrambled eggs along with orange juice. They’d be served on special dishes and were looked forward too after opening the stockings and before opening the presents. We don’t do that now but there’s new traditions being established.
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I was raised by a single mom, and my Christmases were great. The only thing was if I wanted something that was too expensive. I wanted an old Super 8 film camera one year. It was like $100, and I didn’t think I would get it. I did though, and I felt bad about the money. This was back in the old days when there were limits in what a woman could do to earn a living.
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Christmas was always fun as a kid. We weren’t rich, but my parents always made us feel like the richest kids on the block. My favorite, when I was about 10, we got our first family computer. It was an Apple II-c, with an “incredible” 128 kilobyte hard drive. We got a dot-matrix printer and Infocom games to play (think Zork), it had boot discs, and a primordial modem (which wasn’t very useful since the internet wasn’t in existence yet). Still, I taught myself DOS programming on that thing and learned how to type. That was an awesome Xmas!
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I was the favored grandson (the first), and received many gifts from Santa when I was young…my favorite Chrismas was when I got a banjo. changed my life.
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Christmas was great as a very young child but eventually seeing my dad passed out on the recliner C-eve in only his underwear killed any joy it could have been.
I quit asking for sh!t after the age of 12. Booze and cigs were the priority expenses for my parents at that point in my sisters and my life.
The worst part was listening to all the spoiled kids in home room at school after Christmas vacation where I was always mouthing F-you and F-you.
Oh well. My parents have reformed themselves and I don’t hold anything against them.
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I loved Christmas as a kid. We would celebrate it with my aunt and cousins and my family.
Always great food, a big decorated Christmas tree and presents. I always had a good time.
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Childhood Christmas was so great … We used to have Christmas vacations in my school… And we used to celebrate … Those memories was so great… Even now I have to decorate my home even if no ones coming home…
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Christmas was always great. We never got much from Santa but Dad loved sales. In the 70s there was this place called Western Auto I believe. I can’t remember. Maybe some other 70s child remembers.
Anyway. For Christmas they would stock up with toys and after Christmas they put everything on clearance. My Dad would take me and my sisters there and get us pretty much whatever we wanted.
It wasn’t a surprise and we didn’t get to open it. We didn’t have a lot of money but Dad loved buying things on sale.
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Good I loved Christmas as a child
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We spent Christmas with extended family. It was great fun. We had presents from my parents and extended family. There was more presents at home after my mom went back to work. She had been a stay at home mom for 8-9 years and they didn’t have a lot of money then. I really missed her when she went back to work.
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Christmases we’re pretty bittersweet for me when I was young. As a small child I loved Christmas. My parents usually went all out with gifts. As I got older the gifts just seemed like a way to buy our love despite the abuse we faced. It felt like a sorry apology for months of being disrespected, violated and hit.
Now that I’m older, I appreciate the hard work my parents went through to buy us things. But I don’t celebrate it myself, aside from getting gifts for my brothers kids. They’re the only kids in my family that celebrate.
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Meh. Christmas was okay. Usually got clothes and something cheap. We had 4 kids in the family and my parents didnt have much money. We would always get a clementine in our stocking. It was nice though seeing all the gifts under the tree
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My Xmases were pretty great, one year my dad got us T-Rex, a 4’ styrofoam dinosaur. Later on Christmas sucked. Dad and the relatives got drunk and fight. Happy Xhristmas
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I was always happiest on Christmas, after all it was my birthday, lol.
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My mom’s budget for each kid on Xmas was 500 dollars, so we got pretty spoiled.
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I had a g.i. joe phase where I got one or two different ones for each Christmas there for a few years…haha
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