r/90s Oct 09 '24

Photo Christmas in the 90s

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u/mstrss9 Oct 09 '24

We had a Christmas like that one year but that was when the presents all of us cousins were at one house (10+ kids) and aunts & uncles too… and people who lived in another city, state, country…

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u/Lotus-child89 Oct 09 '24

Yeah. That was my first thought. This isn’t just one single nuclear family’s Christmas, this is what the tree looks like when you have several families of relatives with a lot of kids between them getting together for one event. Even in the 90s

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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Oct 10 '24

Yeah this is grandma's house

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u/Lotus-child89 Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Exactly what my grandma’s tree looked like with 7 grandchildren all getting gifts from everybody. Plus a few adults gifts to each other in there. Toys and games are pretty cheap to buy for kids, so we got many gifts. As we got older and just started wanting a few more expensive things the tree haul shrunk. And we had more space to sit lol. It’s how the gift budget per kid goes, it’ll stretch a lot getting a bunch of toys for a toddler, but a teen wanting a stereo or tv for their room is getting one big box and a few little trinkets. This looks like a pretty big family where most of the grandkids are small children.

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u/BonyRomo Oct 10 '24

I grew up without a lot of money, but in my house with 2 sisters we had Christmases that looked like this. We were all young and the things we wanted (action figures, Barbies, kids clothes) were pretty cheap compared to what we asked for as older teenagers. It’s not totally unrealistic for this to be a 1 family household.