Well I think back in the 1970s / early 1980s, Christmas stuff appeared on shop / supermarket shelves in November (after Bonfire Night, possibly as late as after Remembrance Sunday), not September / October like now.
You could. Christmas mattered. Nowadays you can hardly wish someone a merry christmas, the cops will come round and arrest you for offending someones foreign religion, won't they? Anyway, it's all about selling stuff now, isnt it. Practically begin marketing the bloody stuff in august.
Christmas Day felt a bit flat after the presents had been unwrapped and dinner was over. Especially when the sun was out and it was a really mild day, no snow like the Christmas cards promised us! Boxing Day just felt a bit depressing and there was the thought that it would be another year, which felt like 5 years does when you get to 50. I've always preferred Christmas Eve when the atmosphere you mention was still thick in the air. The journey's better than the destination.
It does. Actually bought a tear to my eye. Magical times growing up. No family left now. I always feel tearful at Christmas time, remembering how it used to be 😢
@@aubreyheartburn I feel that started to cry the other day when out shopping realised no one left to wrap or buy presents for all gone only my husband and we don't bother for each other its so sad.
My heart longs for the days when life was worth living and Christmas was all about family time and enjoying anything that you received from Santa for Christmas. To all the people who feel the same may l wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year when it arrives. Xx
@@servicekid7453 Well yeah what do you take me for a banana or something? I was in my prime in the 90s early 00s, i had Peggy and Pat on the go at the same time me old mucka, it just can't be beaten can it now?. 😏😂😂
We have the Victorians to thank for all the Christmas crap, buying a pile of shit you don't need and cant afford, then spending January broke. Should have just left it a church holiday instead of turning it into a month long spending spree.
@@joannedixon-jackson7348 I've still got a 2kg Tin ..which I keep my sewing stuff in.. Now they range from 640 grams to 860 grams.. But they expect us to pay a similar high price !!
They really weren't though were they. They were shit, there were barely any shows and virtually none of them are remembered fondly or have aged well. It's an absolute insult to shows like The Bear, Succession, Ted Lasso, Derry Girls, The Boys, Veep, The Last of Us, Line of Duty, Twin Peaks: The Return, The Umbrella Academy, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Cobra Kai, Happy Valley, to name but a few, all this incredible television that's been created in what's been a golden age for it in recent times, shows that will go down as all time greats, for you to be comparing them unfavourably to limited hours TV and badly acted soaps. Ditch the nostalgia bias for christ sake, the only good thing to come out of 70s TV was Fawlty Towers.
Look at the size of those Quality Street and Roses tins - enormous! The ones these days look about a third of the size. We used to get a tin of Quality Street every Christmas and there were plenty of sweets for a family of six to last for a couple of weeks.
@@michelles2299 Particularly the coconut and the coffee creams - my brother had to eat those because nobody else would eat them. I was an adult before I could try a green triangle as mum banned us from eating any of them!
@@catwoman7462 Lol. I hate coffee and my kids used to wrap the coffee ones up in the different wrappers and watch me run to the bin choking and gagging and swearing my head off
@@catwoman7462 Oh I know! My Grandad always bought his 3 daughters a 2lb box of Milktray and if any of us went in and took a turkish delight it would cause WW3 and my mum was the nuclear bomb.
@@RetroSteveUK same here ! My hubby bought in other day , we don’t even watch tv I cancelled my license and sent virgin box back . 😂😂 daft sod spending a fiver to sit next to a derelict tv 😂😂😂😂😂 I suppose Netflix is in mag ! 😂😂😂
I bought my first Christmas tree in Woolworths. It was silver with red tinsel. Also the Hallmark Top of the Pops LP's. And their Pick 'n' Mix was second to none. I wish time travel was possible.
You are so right about greed and wickedness did you know that the Bible speaks of this time we are all living in Timothy second C3v1 says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here for men women will be lovers of money and that there will be no natural affection when ever I read that it makes me think of the news Eileen
@silvergirl2847 no we don’t, we sit in different rooms like brain dead zombies on social media. Or if we do sit in same room we are on our phones ignoring each other.
The more you watch this, the stronger the nostalgia and the stronger the depression looking at all the celebs that have died and the business that no longer exist, mum dive bombing the woolworths post Christmas sales.
I would go back even further, to the 60's, just to be with Grandma & Grandad and my dear old Dad, safe in the knowledge that life then was good and I hadn't a care in the world.
I loved the 80s too. They seem so idyllic because we were kids at that time, without the responsibilities we have now, and to us, our futures were full of possibilities and promise. If we'd been a bit older and struggling to find a job, or if our dad had been a miner, our memories would be much less rosy.
Just shows you the POWER of the vintage advertisements, that we still remember them word for word, 30+ years later. Nowadays, adverts are INSTANTLY FORGETTABLE! 😫😫😫
When yo think about it like that its scary. You couldn't learn a short poem off by heart in school in an entire year, yet after the Christmas holidays you'd know 10 adds of by heart.
@@lindabiggs3905 that’s because the Americans have bought most of our confectionery businesses. Have you have ever tasted the American stuff ? Shockingly similar, and it’s been done a little at a time so we don’t notice the change 😞
You used get value for money then but now they're a bunch of cheapskate's making stuff smaller, that tin shown was seven pound in weight. I still got one had it since the seventies used to use it to hold our artificial xmas tree covered it with decorative paper. Ah those were the days memories
Making me cry watching this, so many memories of stores and by-gone traditions. I remember all of these adverts and having only 4 channels. Yet life was better, Wish I could go back.
The best and happiest days of my life.. I loved Christmas back then.I remember all these adverts… great memories for me especially of my Nan.. She spoiled us rotten!! Bless her
Nearly 40 years ago our family was delighted with our first VCR. Amongst it's many talents was to fast forward through adverts. Skip forward to now and I have just spent 30 minutes watching those adverts. Time is a funny thing!
ha ha So true and i remember my parents first VHS player, it was in 1984 and it was on rental ...i used to be so excited going to choose a video form the video shop to loan for the weekend 👌📼😁
@@susanbrown2909 I worked on record and video section , was fab ! Only down side was mr blobby was number one 😂😂😂 we were only allowed to play top 40 . I remember, give it away now by red hot chilli peppers was in charts so I put it on . The poor manager nearly died lol he said we can’t have this on it’s a family store 😂😂😂😂 I loved it there 😂❤️
As a child I would buy all the ladies a Yardley bath cube and the men a comb from the local chemist. Back in the days whena small gift was all that was expected, and it really was the thought that counted. I loved watching this, I'm in my 60s now, and my children were all young in the 80s, such lovely heartwarming memories. Thank you x
You & I are from the same generation, Anna; indeed, it was the thought that counted (& appreciated by the recipient), not the begrudgery that is so evident now....salad days.....
@@RetroSteveUK yes lol I’m always on you tube ! We were playing guess the old theme tunes at work yesterday 😂😂 call my bluff had us for a while 😂😂 you should do something like that 👍🤣
No annoying man talking about his funeral plan and his hard partying family (switch to a dreary bunch of people). Then he appears on two other adverts one for bullion, the other Verisure alarms.
No they are not , it’s your youth that’s gone , the best days of your life. Our country has moved on and young people have it so good. I would inflict our 1970s on them.
@@taraelizabethdensley9475 Me too. My dad died in 1997, but mum only died 2 years ago. Although that's not 'recent' it's still so painful. I think "oh, I must tell my mum that..." Then it hits home, again, and I feel like a lost Child. Sadly, it's the same for all of us, at some time. Being the oldest Generation in the Family, with nobody to turn to for advice, or a few words of Wisdom when needed, sucks 😢 I treasure so many happy memories, but these Adverts made me feel happy, AND sad, at the same time
Well this took me back...I was a small child in the 80s and I recognised most of the companies and the products being sold. They don't make adverts like these nowadays!
Adverts were much better back in the day. Today's ads for the most part are pretentious and seldom clear as to what they're advertising. Thanks for uploading.
I've felt the same lately, but I've been trying to work out if it's just my perception. Now I'm more cynical as an adult but wasn't so much as a kid, maybe I was just 'taken in' more easily back then. It's very rare these days for an advert to win me over.
Brilliant thanks for the memories I loved the adverts when I was a kid through the 70's&80's. Who remembers the excitement of getting the Argos catalogue, we were skint, but I could dream going through the toy section with my pen marking off what I would love
All this nostalgia is giving me the feels. It took me right back to a time when everything was so much simpler and Christmas meant real family time. I’d go back in a heartbeat.
I remember how 'tall' the Quality Street tins where back then (before the food agency advised chocolate makers to 'shrink' the tin sizes....but increase the prices!). Christmas back in the day seemed simpler with more gratitude, unlike the spoilt ones we see today.
Old people have been saying that since the dawn of history. The older generation said it about us kids back in the 70s and 80s. Their parents said it about them. And so on and so on. Some people just get bitter as they get older.
@@zeddeka Your comment (in two parts) are both true and incorrect. 1- food production size shrinkage and price with regards to the food agency - True. 2- 'Old Age Generation & Bitterness' Different generations will always look back on a previous one with comparisons - True. Bitterness?....False. 'Gratitude vs Spoilt' This is reflected in the todays generations dependency on instant access and gratification and lack of value and the ability and skills of 'face-on' interaction skills due to both technology and bad parenting to correct this through their growth. So, your last comment was....False.
Oil of Ulay and the tweed perfume ad remind me of my mum who left us in 2013 hope you are somewhere mum somewhere nice thanks for all the Christmas times we shared 🙏
Love these old ads. Probably a bout of nostalgia creeping in but tv stations don’t seem to make any effort regarding Christmas over the past 10 -15 years. Getting the Radio and TV Times was a big thing in my house and we’d scour through it, circling all the films and shows we were going to watch and tape. Modern tv now consists of a BBC version of A Christmas Carol featuring swearing and nudity. I have no idea why it’s gone this way but these little clips, lovingly put together, are what Christmas is meant to be about.
With what’s going on in the country at the minute I’d gladly go back to the 80’s That size tin of quality street now would cost about £20! Great compilation, throughly enjoyed them.😊
Chocolates now are substantially cheaper in real terms than they were then. In fact, most consumer goods were massively more expensive back then. A tin of Quality Street that size back then would have cost the equivalent of around £40 in 2023 money.
I’ve got LOADS of the sweet tins. Use them to store Christmas decorations in 😂 and my Moulinex electric knife is still going strong after all these years. They really don’t make thinks like they used to.
There’s something really sinister about modern advertising, and that’s before the sense of alienation that they cause to the indigenous people of the country.
@@hughoxford8735 I don't watch my telly now due to the adverts, I get really angry tbh. Last time I watched TV was Easter Sunday 2021 for the church hymns (even though I'm not religious). I cannot bear the adverts anymore because there's hardly any of my own countrymen in them
Christmas Adverts were brilliant back in the 80s they ran for months, only thing was , on Christmas morning they gave way for Adverts for Summer Holidays and I remember it made people mad. . . . .
I love these old adverts as I did when they were 1st aired. What I hated as a kid was on boxing days was the sale adverts and the holiday adverts cos it meant Christmas was over
Ah life was better back then. When you had to buy a magazine to find out what was on Tele, when chocolate tins were a decent size, when lager could be advertised as a cartoon, cassettes were on sale, Oxo adverts, Woolworths, Rudolph drinking booze, Yardley rose talc, televisions made of timber... Easier times and much more real than the shite of today.
This was like a warm hug. I was recently thinking has the world really changed that much, or is it just because I’m not a child anymore. The answer is yes, it has. I don’t even recognise the world anymore and I’m only 42.
Hi I worked in the Woolworths store in Luton where most of their videos were made late 70's & early 80's I met & spoke to many of those entertainers, Tim Brooke Taylor dressed as Elvis spoke to me & biggest shock was a massive Uncle Bulgaria from the wombles giving me high five as we went opposite direction on the escalator. Great day amazing store, I also bought my first record deck from there, sad woolies is no more. Thanks for returning those memories.
Seeing the Yardley ad made me tear up a little. My late mum loved Yardley and was our go to gift every Christmas. Thank you for sharing these memories and wow those tins of sweets were huge!
I remember alot of these adverts. That's pretty sad. It's good to take a stroll down memory lane. From a Brit that's living in the US. Merry Christmas to everyone. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
I actually remember every single one of these - what a trip down memory lane! Had to explain the joys of shopping at Woolworth's to my 20yr old....and he couldn't get over the size of the tins of QS and roses!x
I used to love going to Woolworths as a teenager in the 90s. I'd usually buy Christmas presents there with my friends and I think it was where my mum bought our Christmas chocolate.
It was just as good in the 70s & 80s too. Such a great all-purpose shop, particularly good at Christmas time. A shop I grew up with. So sad it's gone forever.
The adverts seemed to be so much more organic in those days and represented the feeling of Christmas in a more wholesome kind of way. Nowadays so many seem to be contrived and have another subliminal message they're trying to brainwash us with and over do it to be inclusive. Plus the size of those selection tins 😮 forgotten how much they'd shrunk.
The days when Christmas built up from about two weeks before the 25 December instead of the beginning of September like it is now. Lots of good memories here.
Born in 1973 and remember happy times,watching entertaining adverts between entertaining programmes. I looked forward to getting the TV and radio times and getting exited about what was going to be on. Now I don't even think I've even watched Mstv for over a decade. Its too brainwashing and brain dead these days. TV used to be an escape But its too pc now Even Christmas is becoming offensive. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, great video
I'm thinking maybe with more channels and viewing options now and more competition for viewers, creativity may have taken a back seat to corporate targets and guidelines.
This was compilation was made with love and care. As someone from America who loves retro 'anything' from just about anywhere, the Whiskas Cat commercial feels so warm and cozy - absolutely precious, too. I love how simple and magical commercials used to be and this one made me think of my late kitty Pip, and I teared up a little. This was her favorite time of year. Greetings and warm wishes this holiday season. 🎄❤🌟
I just wanted to THANK YOU Steve for your quality upload! Warm, nostalgic and it just made me feel happy. I was left with a serious longing to step back in time to the 1980's. Woolco, coloured Christmas lights, cards on a string in the living room and all round magic. Cheers! Lesley 😊🎄🎉💝
I worked at kwiksave for almost 20 years some of the best Working years of my life! no other company like them since. Lol the liquor save adverts,I remember watching them smiling, and I did now! Ty 😊
Wow! The shrinkflation is clear as day with those roses and quality street. Also, when animated butter characters singing a medley to thank viewers for their custom through the year is a lot less cynical and greedy and more fun than a 10 million quid John Lewis ad you realise it's not just because you're older now, Christmas was just more christmasy, then than it is now. Also also, not sure why RU-vid thought to show me this vid in October, but it did and I'm happy, it was nice : )
It is strange .. this video did well last year when I relesed it four weeks before Christmas day, but it's been on the rise again for about the last week this year. There'll be a Volume 2 of Christmas ads this year, so watch out for that.
I long for those days when life was magic and you had to get off your backside to change the channels on the TV!by far my biggest childhood memories were of how special Xmas was,the build up of excitement to the big day and not being able to sleep on Xmas eve because of the excitement! My dad worked hard all year to give us the best Xmas ever and to see him on Xmas morning watching us open our presents and smile at all of us is a special memory that's as strong now as it was back then!seeing this video brings back memories of the wonderful and caring dad he was! Rip dad 😢❤
How ironic that when most of these adverts were first aired, many didn't have the technology to fast forward them (although wanted to), yet now we have the technology, we don't want them to end.
If oBly we could go back to the 80s. World was a better place. I was only a child but happy memories of Christmas. Then magic of Christmas then was priceless through a child’s eyes. Good days but the memories will live on. Merry Christmas everyone. 😀
Seeing these again bring back so many wonderful memories. Christmas was so much more special back then. TV channels used to make much more effort,we still got great new Christmas songs and we lived at a time when we didnt have treats and gifts all through the year,so you appreciated everything so much more at Christmas. I remember the buzz of recording the movies and Christmas specials that were on over the festive period onto video. Simpler but better times. I miss those days.
Choosing what you were going to watch and record on VHS was definitely part of the appeal. These days in our household we either set stuff to record on the TV box, or just watch on demand. It isn't quite the same, but we do get more quality time together, ironically.