So many of you have ancient and cherished decorations, whether beautiful or not. Lovely to read about them.
I do wish I'd kept the first Christmas tree we had after we were married. We were living in the Middle East and at the time it was often very hard to get even (Western style) basics. (No problem in the souk if you wanted a camel stick, frankincense or dried sardines, though.)
So when I heard that a new, proper shop had opened, I went off with a friend, taking my little car down a maze of dirt roads to try to find it.
Oh, joy - they actually had Christmas trees! Albeit the most artificial-looking ones imaginable, straight, stiff branches made of green and silver tinsel that you bent out - it came in a box with a set of lights and a few baubles.
It was no more than about three feet high but I was so happy with that tree - hardly anyone else on our compound had one, so many of the children would come in to admire it.
I chucked it some years ago and still regret it! Still have one or two of the baubles though.
By the time we left that country many years later you could actually order a real Christmas tree from the supermarket. Huge changes indeed.