These nostalgic cards are a reminder that people used to send and receive oodles of cards, not just a few.

Their Christmas villages

These lights sat under the silver Christmas trees and changed the tree colors. It was the biggest fad of the time. That and apparently, my grandma said, a christmas tree that was colored and metallic and you hung ornaments of the same color.

My grandma said if you accidentally broke these you would still find the shards of glass in June, and when they got in your feet it was so awful.

The toys were simple, stimulated imagination and games of pretend

Window displays took creativity, they weren't designed by corporate and created with prefab, boxed sets.

People used to get excited for the unveiling of the Christmas windows

The lawn ornaments were plastic and looked better than the tacky inflatables we have today

My mom has these little tooth pick holders from her mother! Everyone had them

The old Christmas lights looked like ornaments

Christmas morning looked so pure

Probably toxic

A christmas shop in the '60s

Shopping at the new closed in malls was a change from having to go to the huge downtown anchor stores.

The ceramic Christmas trees started then

These actually used to bubble

They definitely did go for natural trees.

Kids didn't receive lots of gifts, just a handful each

Visits with santa were a lot more personable, you could talk to santa without paying for a picture package, and it looks like they really tried to make that picture magical.