Granny_Weatherwax Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Thank you for the replies and for sharing the pics. I enjoy seeing the various choices and personalities reflected therein. DH feels vindicated and I patted him on the back for his extensive and awe inspiring Christmas trivia knowledge. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I remember one year my mom replaced our star with a bow and my brother HATED it. Of course he was 15 and hated EVERY THING. So she just continued on. We have a pathetic looking star. I keep wanting to replace it but havent so far found something I like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 10 minutes ago, fairfarmhand said: I remember one year my mom replaced our star with a bow and my brother HATED it. Of course he was 15 and hated EVERY THING. So she just continued on. We have a pathetic looking star. I keep wanting to replace it but havent so far found something I like. I remember hating it when someone in our family tried to change the tree topper. Growing up, in my mind it had to be a star. The angels were all to gaudy looking and bows don't belong on top of a tree. That was my thought process. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Just now, hjffkj said: I remember hating it when someone in our family tried to change the tree topper. Growing up, in my mind it had to be a star. The angels were all to gaudy looking and bows don't belong on top of a tree. That was my thought process. That was exactly my brother. Exactly. but he was going through a particularly critical grumpy phase so we all learned to ignore him. To this day he is a creature of habit and routine. Anything different makes him squirm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 3 minutes ago, fairfarmhand said: That was exactly my brother. Exactly. but he was going through a particularly critical grumpy phase so we all learned to ignore him. To this day he is a creature of habit and routine. Anything different makes him squirm. Yeah, I'm not that rigid anymore but I still wouldn't put a bow on top of a tree 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Some years we use a star and some years an angel. As a kid we had one of those spires pictured above. That was my favorite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) Our tree has a star. I used to like angels as a topper but when our last one broke I couldn't find another I liked. Edited December 12, 2019 by Joker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 On 12/11/2019 at 12:15 PM, Lori D. said: Other. It was my parent's first tree-topper -- a 1960 space-age design of blown glass: That’s what we had growing up, and I have the original but it’s lost almost all the color. We bought a new on at the Christkindlmarket in Chicago and it’s just right- it reminds me of the one I grew up with but the kids have memories of all the years we had that holiday tradition in Chicago. I was so relieved when we unpacked our ornaments this year- nothing broke when we moved 1000 miles away this year! All our Christkindlmarket ornaments, mugs, and tree topper made it! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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