50 Photos Of Christmas Home Decor In The 1950s And 1960s Show How Much Things Have Changed

The idea of the Christmas gifts fitting on a small table seems way more sustainable than the mountains of gifts we see nowadays.

Doggo is not amused.

Christmas decorations may change, but cats are always cats. ♥

Seriously loving all those Christmas Cards, I remember my Grandparents always had so many!!

Cats. Destroying Christmas since..ever.

"What'd you get?" "I got lot of good stuff!"

This was obviously taken when people actually sent Christmas cards - a practice that never should have died.

I miss getting Christmas cards. It's ecards or no one send them anymore. :(

I remember we would get those little mesh stockings ready-made with cat toys and some catnip inside. I bet those cats are after the catnip.

There is catnip in there, haha.

doggo in other post is not amused, but theese fluffballs really are :D

I miss Christmas cards in the mail.

The days of Christmas cards.

These cats knew those were their presents😹😹😹

I bought my cats a stocking once and hid it(I thought well). I come home to see all the toys everywhere. Damn cat was is still on the naughty list.

I really miss the days of sending/receiving many Christmas cards.

Even the cats hated these cheapie stockings! 😹

Wow, I haven’t seen that many Christmas cards in years!

Ooooh...that blue dress if so pretty.

This was the tree we had growing up in the 60s. You could not put electric lights on them (you could get a powerful shock), but you had a lighted "color wheel" on the floor projecting colored light onto the silver branches.

The color of all the trees in A Charlie Brown Christmas are starting to make sense.

Tinsel. omg. I remember so much tinsel.

Is that the original "If I Fits I Sit" cat??

I still have some glass balls like those. They were my great-grandmother's.

Yep, long gone are the days when Golliwogs were acceptable dolls.

Mid-mod perfection.

Looks like my Grandma's house

That reindeer is creepy and cute at the same time

Looks like the man of the house received a naugahide recliner & 4 bar stools for the basement rec-room & the lady of the house received a floor scrubber/polisher/buffer!! 🙄🤣

Haha tinsel the absolute bane of any parent's existence especially when trying to vacuum it up....

I keep wondering what Instagram filter they used.

YES! the built-in adapter for the 45's! And that bracket on the lid to hold your singles!

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Wow! I would have KILLED for that kitchen set when I was a kid. What can I say? I was always into cooking.

I love how many cats are in these pictures.

The area where all kids were banned :P

Oh that pedal car is FANTASTIC!!! Mike from the American Pickers would GO CRAZY for this pedal car. ❤️👍🏻❤️👍🏻

TINSEL!!!

Christmas was so simple back then and people actually sent christmas cards too.

That's my dollhouse! All metal with molded plastic furniture.

Look at the clock! Those were very popular.

They've had so much to drink that they are seeing pink bears.

Another scary metal tree.

Radio on top of the TV again.

oh my .... those walls and curtains

We had a white tree with color-coordinated ornaments like that. It was pretty, but not as much fun as a mixture of ornaments collected over the years.

tufted upholstered wall. Work. it. out.

By the look of that tree, this must be Charlie Brown's house.

The tree looks like it has a smiley face

They had a lot of presents back then!

This picture makes me feel so cozy and warm inside.

People really liked to take pictures of their TVs back then.

My Grandma had those singing kids/angels in the red and green. She put them out every year for decades!

Many of our neighbors had those metal trees. I wasn't crazy about them.

The Christmas tree is melting!

Notice how most of these photos feature the television set, prominently displayed.

A real fireplace for a change.