I was born in 1958, so my most vivid childhood Christmas memories cluster around the late 1960s and early 1970s – basically, the Nixon years.
They involve toys such as vibrating electric football games, bicycles with banana seats and Daisy BB guns.
Although most of us have fond memories of childhood Christmases, not everything “back in the day” was perfect. For fun, I Googled “opposite of nostalgia” and the internet offered the word “regrets.”
So, in the spirit of anti- nostalgia, here are some things I regret from Christmastime circa 1970.
– Chocolate-covered cherries: Christmas at the Kennedy house involved an avalanche of chocolate-covered cherries. They were the go-to gifts from my great-aunts because they were cheap and you could buy them at Woolworth’s.