When we bought a second tree , it wasofficially a job . I ’ve loved sci - fi and pop culture my full lifetime . So , when I was young , my mom set off fill me to Hallmark each yr to purchase a few of thelatest Keepsake decoration . Even after I propel out , each yr I ’d give her a list andthat class ’s ornamentswere part of my Christmas presents . lamentably , my mom perish away in 2020 but our tradition for daddy culture Christmas ornaments continues . In fact , it may have get worse .
After entirely covering a 7.5 - foot tree for the past several years , this year my married woman and I adjudicate to grease one’s palms a 10 - foot tree to go along with the 7.5 - footnote . And , even though I ’d estimate 100 or so ornaments are still in my childhood plate where I left them , we were still able to fill up the big tree , with the smaller one reserved just for ornaments I grease one’s palms this twelvemonth .
What follows is a slideshow of my favorites from this emotional but plainly expensive obsession . Some of these were released byHallmark this class and are still in stores . Others are long retired . But there ’s a picayune bit of everything in here . Check it out .
This ornament is definitely not a piece of junk.Photo: io9/Germain Lussier
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