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16-Bit Christmas
The image above has been circulating around online for years now. It’s probably been at least 10 years since I first saw it. Back then, I was enamored with it, …
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The Christmas Eve Party
It’s early morning on Christmas Eve, and I’m sitting here with coffee in hand, watching the sun rise slowly over the hills. The day ahead is full. I’ll be making …
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Highlights From the 1984 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog
As I’ve said before, nothing reminds me of Christmases gone by more than browsing through old catalogs. As a kid, I could sit for hours looking through the many pages …
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A Few of My Favorite Christmas Gifts Through the Years
With Christmas getting ever so closer, let’s take a break from everyday life to remember some of our favorite old Christmas gifts. I’m listing five of mine here for you …
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Highlights From the 1991 Sears Christmas Wishbook
Now that we’re past Thanksgiving, I’m all in on Christmas, and that means features like this. We’re going to look at a few things that really caught my eye while …
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1992’s Christmas Creatures TBS Movie Marathon
Back in the early 1990s, when cable TV still felt like a treasure chest and not just a scrollable blur of sameness, there was one channel that stood out like …
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Cobra, Construx, and Christmas Chaos
There are Christmases you remember vaguely…bits and pieces, a toy here, a family gathering there. And then there are the ones etched into your memory like carvings in old oak. …
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Those Old Christmas Glasses From Arby’s Hold A Lot of Nostalgia
Every year when the holidays roll around, my mind drifts back—not just to the gifts or the tree, but to the little things that made Christmas feel like Christmas. One …
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A Rollergames Christmas
Christmas morning, 1990. I was still half-asleep, the house quiet except for the soft hum of the heater and the occasional creak of floorboards as my parents stirred. But once …
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Mickey’s Christmas Carol
There are certain holiday traditions that feel stitched into the fabric of your childhood. woven so tightly that even decades later, they tug at your heart with the same gentle …