The demise of the humble streamer

[Snadger]

When I was a nipper streamers were hung around the rooms at Christmas time. We used to sit for hours making them up in loops which you licked the ends of and joined together diagonally across the ceiling. You used to be able to buy them as well and they were like a concertina and made of crepe paper.
People don't seem to bother these days and I am not decrying there lack of use but just pointing out how traditions change over the years.

[lottie dolly]

we used to make them with the crepe paper as well,just cut up several colors,and run a machine line down the centre,1 color after another,giveing the paper a bunch up,to make that concertina,they just rolled up to put away,also chucked a few bit of lamta/silver strips over the top for a shimmer,simple easy and cheap,

[Snadger]

They will be a collectors item in the future if any are left!

Try to explain that to a child now and they would think you were barmy!

[Snadger]

Elf and safety...….probably had a hand in there demise. Fire risk annall!

[lottie dolly]

More like +greed in charging that bit more for new fantagled ideas,after all,if peeps see new idea wow,must have,so they are no longer made,plus the old things lasted a few years,we could start and make them chain ones out of glossy magazines,thats different and new,just look back at Brens different tree ideas.

[Small pumpkin]

I remember them .

[Thelma Sanders]

The loops that you licked and stuck together, we made those every year, we just called them paper chains. You can still buy them

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/santa-a...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Bren In Pots]

I used to make them with our kids it kept them busy for hours but as they got older they lost interest we bought decorations instead, they were still paper but I don't think they looked as pretty.

[veggiechicken]

The loops that you licked and stuck together, we made those every year, we just called them paper chains. You can still buy them

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/santa-a...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

That's it, paper chains.
We had those concertina paper lanterns, bells and balls too. Tinsel, a few fragile glass balls that become less every year, a string of lights that never worked properly and a real tree that dropped needles that stuck in the thin, threadbare rug. We only had one electric socket in the house so everything was plugged into that, with multiple adaptors, adaptors on top of adaptors. The iron was plugged into the ceiling light.
Decorations were brought out again and again, every year becoming more tatty and faded. We didn't care, because we knew every one - "Where's the bell, Mam?"
They were "green" Christmases - none of this "Let's change all our decorations to red this year" and throw away the silver ones. Don't get it, me. Where are the memories in that?

[Snadger]

Rather than start another thread what the heck are you supposed to do with Christmas wreaths that were on the front door?
They still look fresh so mine have been stuck on the shed door until the greenery dies off!

[sparrow100]

Rather than start another thread what the heck are you supposed to do with Christmas wreaths that were on the front door?
They still look fresh so mine have been stuck on the shed door until the greenery dies off!

Mine is a basic shell of a wreath and it gets greenery woven into it each year. Greenery goes on the wassail bonfire, wreath is put away to next year.

[veggiechicken]

I've just taken my free wreath down too. Going to remove the fir cones, then let the fir dry out and drop the needles around the blueberries.
Not sure what will be left - a wire framework and a red bow.? Might wear that in my hair (the bow, not the wire).

[Snadger]

Mine is a basic shell of a wreath and it gets greenery woven into it each year. Greenery goes on the wassail bonfire, wreath is put away to next year.

Do you go wassailing in the orchard with the cider sparrow?

[Runtpuppy]

I guess it is a sign that I belong to the internet age that I read 'demise of the humble streamer' and immediately thought, 'Oh dear, has some youtube or twitch streamer passed away?' :-\