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Holidays:  Your Favorite Christmas Catalog Memory  |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
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Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
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 Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 10:58:05 AM
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Every year My Hubby and I recall our "Waiting on the Wish Book" memories! I would start watching the mail In October, getting so excited when finally it came and getting in line for my turn! After everyone had their turn and then my Granny would be looking for it, I had it!!LOL!! Hope this makes you smile! It does us! This Catalog was a gift from my Hubby in 1999,the year I was diagnosed with MS. I cannot even say how much joy it brought to us that year!
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 11:15:44 AM
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I rarely got anything I picked out. But this particular year, I got Miss peep, the doll in the Pink Blanket in the 2nd picture. My best friend Cathy Baker, who lived 4 houses down from me got the same doll! We met outside Christmas afternoon to take our dolls for a walk! I remember that like it was yesterday! and I still have Miss Peep!
Connie
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fille de ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
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Madeline
Meadow Lands
Pa.
USA
2344 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 12:08:40 PM
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Oh! My Thank You Connie for posting this :-) I see some familiar things :-) Beaming from ear to ear (*_*)
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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
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Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
3140 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 12:20:59 PM
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Boy, I'm a young pup! If the year reads 1965 like I think my mom was only 4!!
Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
http://nndairy.blogspot.com/
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 12:34:35 PM
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Hey Maddie! Aww I am so glad you enjoyed the pictures! I know what you mean! I can feel my grin going from ear to ear turning the pages!
Heather you are a baby! I was in the 3rd grade in 1965! Now you see what us ole timers toys looked like! They are all for sale on Ebay! LOL!
Hugs!
Connie
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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
3140 Posts
Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
3140 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 1:21:35 PM
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At least they lasted to put on e-bay!! Most toys now are junk :( Or they're no good with out some kind of technology. I asked my mother-in-law one day what on earth my generation is going to have to put in the antique stores. I've yet to come up with anything.
I do remember looking at some catalog near Christmas time that my Grandma always had. I'm just not sure what store they were from. I always circled a bunch of stuff, but the only thing I remember getting is a big yellow winter coat!!
Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
http://nndairy.blogspot.com/
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
6663 Posts
Winnie
Gainesville
Fl
USA
6663 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 1:48:52 PM
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Hey Connie, these photos are a hoot! I don't remember the Sears catalogue or maybe we just did not get one but there was a toy store downtown that was the inspiration for my wish list. One Christmas when I was 14, i learned to ice skate 3 days before Dec. 25. I remember coming home and telling my parents I knew what I wanted for Christmas. Since I had not asked for anything that year, I was thrilled to find a pair of white skates under the tree! Those skates gave me many hours every year on frozen ponds with my friends. And many falls too!!! For those of you who ice skated, remember crack the whip?? Oh yeh, a wild ride usually ending on your butt. In 1965, I was 14 and that was the year of skates!
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wildflower17
True Blue Farmgirl
3043 Posts
Judy
KY
USA
3043 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 2:03:07 PM
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Love the pictures...I remember Montgomery Wards and Aldens catalogs also:-) such wonderful memories...even though we only got a little at Christmas we felt rich as we had family and that was what was really important :-) :-) :-) just being together...Connie do you remember the big Christmas lights we put on a real tree...I am not sure how old I was when we got the first artificial tree...
Hugs!
Judy
THERE IS ALWAYS...ALWAYS...ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR...
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened...
"Country Girl at Heart...Blessed Beyond Measure"!!!
Farm Girl #5440
Farm Girl of The Month September 2013 |
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
5216 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 2:23:26 PM
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Connie, my brothers and I would fight over who gets to look at the Wish book first :) I remember getting a doll (kind of like Crissy with the hair that would grow) her name was Kerry. I loved that doll and would sit under the Silver Maple tree in our yard and just brush her hair.
Judy, we have some of those large lights that I put on our tree :)
Heather, you youngster
Farmgirl Sister #5392
By His Grace, For His Glory
~Sharon
http://amerryheartjournal.blogspot.com/
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kysheeplady
True Blue Farmgirl
1291 Posts
Teri
KY
USA
1291 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 2:40:23 PM
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Oh Connie,
It's like stepping back into my childhood! I would sit for hours dreaming of all the toys and dolls I wanted and making BIG check marks next to the things I wanted for Christmas! Thanks so much for sharing!
Teri
"There are black sheep in every flock"
www.whitesheepfarm.com
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Edited by - kysheeplady on Nov 22 2013 2:56:37 PM |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 2:58:07 PM
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Heather a yellow winter coat sounds awesome!!You are soo right, they don't make things like they use to!
Winnie, what a fun story! I only got to ice skate once when I was in my 20's and I loved it! Living here in the South, we got to skate only after Ice shows and Hockey games were over.
Judy, I remember Aldens!! I love those big lights, we still put them on the outside of our house every year since the 1975. That is what we will do tomorrow if it is not raining! The replacement bulbs are getting harder to find, So I buy them every year as soon as Lowe's puts them out, they don't carry many and they go fast!
Sharon, I have seen Crissy in Antique stores!I know all of us Girls had a Doll that we just loved! WE fought like cats and dogs over who was gonna get it first, so my Granny would take it, then make us draw straws to see who got it next!LOL!!
Terri! WE did the same thing! LOL!!I used a different color ink pen than my Aunt ! LOL!!I am tickled that all of you are enjoying the pics, I love them so much! I will have to scan some more later.
Hugs!
Connie
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fille de ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
2344 Posts
Madeline
Meadow Lands
Pa.
USA
2344 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:06:49 PM
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Hi Sharon :-) I think your Kerry doll was Crissy's friend.
My favorite doll was Giggles :-) My first doll was Thumbelina :-)
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:11:29 PM
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Maddie! I remember Giggles! awwwwwww I loved Thumbelina! Remember the commercial on TV saying she was like a real baby! I need to look and she if she is in the catalog!
Connie
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treelady
True Blue Farmgirl
2325 Posts
Julie
Medina
ND
USA
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Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:17:21 PM
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My sisters and I spent so many hours looking through this catalog and wishing. Rarely did we ever get what we wished for, but living on a farm many miles from stores we never got to go to this was about the only way we ever saw what new toys were out there. Thank You Connie for the memories.
A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
5216 Posts |
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:40:24 PM
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Hey Julie! So glad it made you smile, same with our family as you said!
Winnie, here are Ice skates!
Sharon, Here is Crissy! I am still looking for Giggles! My hubby just told me we have a Aldens catalog form 1968 I think, I will check it out.
Hugs!
Connie
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:44:59 PM
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 Sharon! I just scanned this! LOL! That was a lot of money back then for Dancerina!
Connie
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:50:17 PM
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Connie
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kysheeplady
True Blue Farmgirl
1291 Posts
Teri
KY
USA
1291 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:52:00 PM
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I did get a pair of skates one year and my little brother got hockey skates ... I LOVED skating on the pond after school ...LOVE ice skating, would spend hour after hour, till my toes were frozen. I remember how hard it was to put shoes on frozen feet ... Those were the days ... today you can't even get kids outside ... LOL!!
Teri
"There are black sheep in every flock"
www.whitesheepfarm.com
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 3:55:39 PM
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Teri, I would have loved that! I always watched ice skating on Tv when I was a kid!
Connie
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 4:01:00 PM
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Remember those pet PJ bags, I never had one, but my friend Carla had the pink doggie above, you unzipped the back and put your P's in it! her Dad worked for International Harvester so those kids got a lot of toys at Christmas, which was good for the rest of us, we played at their house all the time! LOL! They were good people!
Connie
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Killarney
True Blue Farmgirl
5368 Posts
Connie
Arlington
TN
USA
5368 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 4:16:56 PM
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Maddie and Sharon, here is Giggles!.jpg)
Connie
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kysheeplady
True Blue Farmgirl
1291 Posts
Teri
KY
USA
1291 Posts |
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wildflower17
True Blue Farmgirl
3043 Posts
Judy
KY
USA
3043 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 6:20:28 PM
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Girls...one year I got a yellow and brown stove and refrigerator with plates and food...and a doll bed...I had to have been the happiest little girl in the world:-) :-) :-)
I had a huge coloring book and song book with all the "classic" songs in it...it was full of the old time Christmas pictures...like carolers and families sitting by the fireplace and making decorations for the tree...oh what memories :-) :-) :-)
Hugs!
Judy
THERE IS ALWAYS...ALWAYS...ALWAYS SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL FOR...
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened...
"Country Girl at Heart...Blessed Beyond Measure"!!!
Farm Girl #5440
Farm Girl of The Month September 2013 |
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
1511 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2013 : 10:01:06 PM
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I was into circling Tonka trucks, Stompers, Lincoln Logs, Legos and Playmobil sets in the 2-inch thick Jafco and JCPenney catalogs that used to come out every year when I was a kid in the 1970's. I remember what a big deal it was when my mom and grandma used to take us along to these stores to pick up the new catalog edition every fall.
I always hoped for a pair of ice skates too, but never got them because lakes don't freeze over during the winter here. But I did get a really racey pair of rollerskates for my birthday one year - white leather boots with sparkly blue stripes and sparkly red wheels. I wore through two sets of wheels before I outgrew them as I proceeded to "speed skate" through the neighborhood.
Connie, I love your story about playing at your friend's house. All the neighborhood kids lived at my house when we were growing up because of our toys. My Dad bought a bunch of new tractors for the business one year and the salesman gave my brother and I toy replicas of each machine. So we had miniature John Deere tractors in our sandbox to play with. But the funny thing was I always enjoyed playing with our friend's toys more than my own. I guess it's all about the novelty of something you don't own yourself. Isn't it funny how that works?
Thanks for starting this post...it's bringing back lots of memories and educating we younger farmgirls about the toys our parents and grandparents used to play with.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
http://blueskyanddaisies.blogspot.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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fille de ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
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Madeline
Meadow Lands
Pa.
USA
2344 Posts |
Posted - Nov 23 2013 : 02:34:33 AM
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Thank You Connie for Giggles :-) Brings back such happy memories. That picture is the exact same one I had. She also came with light hair & a different outfit.
I guess I was kind of lucky in that I got to know my sisters old toys as she grew up in the 50's & my nieces grew up in the 70's, so while baby sitting them we would play for hours ;-)
My brother used to get all bent out of shape when I let Barbie drive his Tonka's & painted his Hot Wheels with nail polish, when the color on them didn't quite look right LOL. I remember when the Dawn doll ruled over Barbie for a few years. I really liked her a lot, she was nice & small & what beautiful clothes she had.
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Holidays: Your Favorite Christmas Catalog Memory |
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