Merry Gen-Xmas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Nobody did X-mas like Generation X 🎄 #genx #xmas
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My parents were teachers and could NOT afford a cabbage patch doll so my mom made me one, with Pink hair! (She purchased the head at the craft shop) I was SOOOOO happy! The lady at the shop said to “be sure to stuff it really well” so 41 years later this homemade doll is still standing up, arms out like she’s expecting a big hug. My sweet mom signed the bum with her own name and I still have it today. Rip to my mom who made me SO happy as an 8 year old!!
This sounds so bizarre to me because where I live teachers are known to be well-off.
Yeah, I know what you’re saying. I think they can be, but I was the youngest of 5 kids (my parents were old-school Saskatchewan folks who wanted a big family) and we really didn’t have “cabbage patch kid” kind of money….it sounds so dumb to me now, we were not poor or anything, it was just that those dolls were an excessively costly gift for a 9 year old (maybe I was 8 but in any case that was the situation as I understood it!) I DID get a brand-name snugglebum a few years later so things obvs were looking up!
Fyi guess what I bought for my own daughter?? A cabbage patch kid from eBay. She only sort of likes it so I laughed thinking how much culture dictates what is cool or not. So funny!
Post a photo!!
@@salexo9 Back then teachers weren't paid so well.
Heartwarming story time! When I was in 1st grade there was no way my newly divorced, waitress mom could afford a Cabbage Patch Doll. My teacher asked everyone to take turns telling us what we wanted for Christmas and I only wanted that. She even pulled me aside later to ask again, but my answer didn't change. A few days later she came to my house and asked to talk to my mom. I was freaked out, thinking I was in trouble (even though I was a quiet and good kid,) but was sent to my room so they could talk. Turned out she was touched that the other kids had a laundry list of wants, but mine was just one doll. So she got one for me (somehow!) and brought it over already wrapped, and asked my mom not to tell me it was from her. Core memories for sure! Mrs. R, wherever you are, you're an absolute gem of a person. You have no idea how much your gesture meant to me at such a low point in my childhood. 🤗
That’s such a heart warming story. 🥹 thank you for sharing.
How did you find out it was from her? Also, I love this story
Well it seems your mom did tell you it was from your teacher, or maybe you were eavesdropping lol
Crying. I love this story.
SO sweet. What a wonderful teacher and person.
Goodness i wasn't prepared to get emotional watching this. As an 80's kid this was such a great bit of nostalgia. You all outdid yourself on this one.
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Totally.
Same here! Cheers to 80's babies/kids! 🍻
Yes, I have tears in my eyes now, but not from the cigarettes. 😅❤
Gen X here, as I like to say I was born byw Star Trek and Star Wars and I remember all of this. Thanks for my wonderful parents, now gone.
We were broke, latchkey kids raised by our single mom and didn’t expect much more then an orange and some candy in our stockings. BUT…I got the surprise of a lifetime on Christmas morning when my aunt had made me a cabbage patch doll! BEST CHRISTMAS EVER!!!!
My grandma sewed me a pound puppy
I teach college history. This video will be a requirement for my students to watch . Thanks 😊
Remember when we used to make ashtrays in school for gifts 😂
Metal Working Merit Badge! I still have it! 😂
OMG, you just unlocked a memory for me with this comment!
Same! I completely forgot about making ashtrays! My parents didn't even smoke!
Elementary school I made one for my parents😂. Totally forgot that, thanks.
Then they were to put rings and cufflinks in! 😂
My mom fought it out at the Base Exchange to buy me a Cabbage Patch Doll the first year, only to realize I didn’t want one. Sold it to a friend. Then the next year I did want one and she went to war to find one. She did. God bless our moms. And God bless us for having to fight shipping dates and out of stock notices everywhere all the time. Different fights but it’s what moms do.
LOL, Well I guess your mother was military, and she didn't even know it. And she was a General ! I salute her ! She earned her stars and ribbons ! 😂
lol the BX/PX and everything was put on Lay-A-way
My mom also fought for my Christmas cabbage patch kid at the BX. 🤣💕
😂😂😂
My mom claimed she didn’t even know what one was, but saw all the crazy women and bought me one just in case. I didn’t want it, but you can’t risk things like that. I mean, the very next day I might’ve wanted it, or after Xmas I might.
This song is awesome. It embraces nostalgia, but also acknowledges that not everything in the past was good.
I was born in the last year of the Boomers ('64) and my wife was X ('67). All those pics sparked so many memories. My father's side were all smokers, and my dad fell asleep many times with a cigarette burning in his hands. Can't count the number of burns in the couches and beds. The wood paneling, grainy photos, and hilarious clothes gave me a smile. Thanks for this video.
As someone born in '69, I am so grateful I did not grow up in an electronic bubble! We knew how to have fun because we made it. This video is absolutely incredible, Thank you for making it!
I thought I could handle being without the internet when our telephone exchange in town burnt down several years ago. Ah no. There was no news being distributed as to when it would be fixed on TV (regional town so no one cared as it was only mentioned once on the news at the beginning), no way to get cash out, pay bills, no EFTPOS, or make phone calls. I thought this would be perfect being an introvert. It was so bad that the Aussie government put it at the second worst level of disaster for those two weeks. So glad I kept all my DVDs! 😊
I LOVE your photos!
As a survivor of abusive family, I have no photos from childhood, not from my family. It's so weird to see others having, sharing and being proud of their childhood memories! Inspiring ❤
X-mas like Generation X!! Love it!
Penn, you nailed every bit of it! You are the best!
Merry Christmas Penn and Kim and family!
Seriously getting teary-eyed at that. I'm a Xennial and so my memories of the early christmases are vague. But I always love looking back at the photos. Me and my cousins all in matching Christmas dresses, yes made by my mom, and most likely worn the next year also.
My parents got me a homemade Cabbage Patch doll from a craft fair. I never even got a real one! And I always wanted Teddy Ruxpin, but never got him. But the BEST thing I got was a Speak-N-Spell. I won many spelling bees in school thanks to that wonderful invention! They even have one in the ET ride here at Universal Studios Florida. Gen X DID have the best Christmases!!!
It was EZ bake oven for me. 😊
My first Cabbage Patch doll was from a craft fair too! I got a real one the following year. Oh and I have a picture of me when I was 10 that is like the big girl version of the toddler in the red polka dot dress. And yes, my mom made it! 😂❤
OMG the speak n spell, i totally forgot about that! My brother and I got one and it was incredibly awesome!
Those really were the good old days. I miss the simplicity. Merry Christmas!
Thank you so much for choosing my photo! It means more than you will ever know! 😢 2:42
I'm a 60s and 70s generation fella. When the 80s rolled around, and when they showed on TV, how people were fighting over those Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, I and others of my Generation was shocked in horror. MY WORD ! Those people should have been in the WWF ! In fact, I think the WWF, would shivered in fear of those crazy CPF (Cabbage Patch Fighters) ! It was a whole different experience for my Generation, seeing such things. 😆😅😂🤣
🌈 Rainbow Brite and roller skates 🛼 👏🏻🥳
I had those skates!
FlowerPatch Dolls, too!
That was great! Yes, thanks to all that sent in the pics. You're right, everyone's 80's Christmases looked alike!
I was in jr high or high school when the Cabbage Kids came out, but my dad got me one “because it was bald like him!” Now that he has passed away I’m so glad I kept it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I was 7 or 8; my mom managed to get 2 and my brother and I were poking around under the tree looking for that distinctive shaped box and only found one for me. He was so disappointed until we were finally allowed to open presents (had to wait until my parents got up and we weren’t allowed to wake them before 7am); his was in a regular brown cardboard box because the company ran out of the CPK boxes.
It really is so crazy how much my pictures look just like this!!!
Omg! This song is so true. Miss my childhood. I didn't know this song would put a tear in my eye. Thanks!
Thank you for celebrating our generation!! It's good to look back on this times.😅
My first coding exposure was on the Apple IIe printing multiplication tables in columns on the screen in 5th grade - loved it ever since and now a professional software engineer! Thank you 80's!
Oh wow! I remember doing something to make a picture on the screen in 5th grade. Something like an outlined hot air balloon. I don’t remember how we did it but I remember liking it. I became a graphic designer 😂
At home, I remember pong, the TRS80, and programming in basic. At college, I remember the excitement of getting ethernet in the dorms, and playing Hack on the computers in the physics lab on Friday nights. I became the head of testing at a computer game design firm between my master's and Ph.D. What times we've experienced!
Honestly, I needed to see this today. Those Christmases were some of the best ever and I needed some good memories to drown out the brain gremlins. Merry Christmas!
Gen-x here. We had the best Christmases! I still remember the super deluxe art kit I got from Santa. Crayons, markers, water colours, acrylics, pastels. No idea where my parents found it but I was over . The. Moon!
As a crafty girl, I still remember the art kit I got from my aunt as being my favorite gift ever. So many different items and so many possibilities of what to do with them. It was awesome!
@denisekaub1014 right?! Even though, I had poor vision as a kid, I adored art and my parents were very encouraging. Every Christmas, I got some sort of art item.
Very accurate, Gen-Xer here. I can recall when I was 10 or 11 at the height of the Cabbage Patch Doll craze, I never wanted one, I was too old for dolls then, but we were at a store shopping when a shipment of them was revealed. I will never forget it, this crowd of women attacked that large pyramid of dolls like animals. Running, screaming, fighting. It was a spectacle I'll never forget. It was really disgraceful. It was weeks before Christmas.
The laundry basket was quite a memory, it wasn’t a holiday thing, but I have a picture of my younger daughter sitting in the laundry basket watching Lonesome Dove when she was about about three years old and eating a tomato like she was munching on an apple😂 and her favorite part of the whole miniseries was when the journey just started and the one young man got eaten by all the snakes - she watched it over and over and over😬
Why am I crying? This is funny but making me cry too
yeah it hurts a lil bit
People of a certain time and place. Dusty in here.
Me too!! My sister and I literally had most of the toys in these photos. My mom and dad really made Christmases the best and so did my grandma. Times were a lot kinder in some ways back then.
I cried and laughed though the whole thing too, I wish life was still like that
Yes me too😮
Almost brought tears to my eyes. The old memories of being a kid. Getting the one thing you most wanted, the homemade clothes, yeah i dressed like my older sister, and The cigarettes!!!!
You're so right!! It was just like that!! Absolutely wonderful!
Amazing. The actual Apple IIe in the background is the best touch.
Mine may not have been as good but I had a TRS-80 that came from RadioShack back in the good old days.
The box for our Apple II-c is still in the attic at my parents’ house. Sadly, our cat vomited on the keyboard/computer combo part in around ‘91 and it never worked right after that, or else we’d probably still have it. My Teddy Ruxpin and Mother Goose are up there to this day 😹
@@LamentButterfly amazing!
What a great trip down memory lane. Love diving into nostalgia, and dwelling in the 80s for a little while.
Thank you!
Even after all these years, you guys produce the most funny and thoughtful songs. You really helped me get through COVID.
My mom would not do the Cabbage Patch riot. She bought the plasic head and the same material used for the bodies of the dolls and sewed it by hand. I remember being sad I did not have the box the doll came in with the name and date of birth of the doll! Geez...total jerk move by me!
That doll is one of my most prized possessions now!
When I was maybe 12 my mom gave me a Barbie she'd had as a child back in the 50s or 60s. At the time, it seemed like just another plain ol' Barbie, but now I recognize the love behind that gift. (Edited to add that it must be part of growing up to recognize our own childhood ungratefulness!)
Love this! Brought tears to my eyes bringing back so many memories! You are such a creative song writer!! 💜
The good old days! We had the same wood panelling - didn’t realize it was a thing.
Looked great painted though 😂
Xennial here. It really was the best time to grow up! We did get real Cabbage Patch dolls but one yr mom sewed them for us and yes did the PJS quite a bit. Everyone knocks our boomer parents but they did a great job. I mean I got a She-Ra tent one yr and that was everything lol.
Totally enjoyed this. It sure brought back some memories from the past! Thanks for all you do and Merry Christmas to your family.🎄
This straight up warmed my heart. ❤ it was the hug I needed after a rough day today. Thanks so much!!!
I love your gen x and 80s songs, and I like to do little 80s summers where I try to conform to an 80s style of living each summer as best as I can. Except for phones. Too much money. I happen to be gen z, but I love the 80s. This and onward are edited in from the original. I got a boombox for Christmas, so I decided to use the aux chord to record your songs onto a cassette tape. I wish I could record a vinyl, but no thank you.
God Bless our Moms! I related way too much to this song!!! Merry Christmas!
I am an 80s kid and 90s teen and the printing of banners is the only thing it did really got me....laughed out loud at that one!! Love it! ❤
When I was a senior in College, my Mom printed a HUGE Printshop banner the day College acceptances came out asking which of my top 2 schools would I choose. That's how I knew I had been accepted.
That so brought back so many memories! Most of the toys and things I remember having as a kid!
This was THE BEST! I love it. I had no idea how difficult it was on the parent side. They rocked xmas. GEN X
I am a boomer (born 1960) and you're describing my childhood too (except for cabbage patch - that was you X-ers). LOVE your videos! and yes, so many cigarettes!!!!
Merry Christmas guys! Thanks for the memories...and yes, everybody smoked. :D
Thank you, Holderness family!!!! This was awesome.
That brings back some great Christmas memories. Merry Christmas to your family.
I got kid snow shovels for Christmas! Was so excited! And we also got huge towels for showering that had hoodies and wrapped all around us. I couldn't wait to take a bath that day!
Wow! Someone else's mom got the green and yellow light-toned Herculon upholstery??? (face palm) I've honestly never seen it anywhere else but our house and the display at the flooring shop. Thanks to everyone who shared and to Team Holderness for putting it all together. Happy Holidays! 💖☮🙏🎄
Very cool video and a Merry Christmas to all, this video makes me remember so much of growing up in the 70's in Australia.
Those tinsel decorated trees remind me fondly of my Auckland New Zealand Gen x Christmases
Im not really into these but this one was incredible! So spot on with our generation! Thank you!
I've watched this video several times already and laugh-cry every time. My mom, looking shifty as hell, told me she got my Cabbage Patch doll "fair and square." My dad denied smoking in the house (I have photographic evidence to the contrary). My brother's favorite present was a car wax kit (he was 5). Thanks for making this! It brings back crazy - but amazing - menories.
This made me smile! Great job as always. Happy Holidays!!
My dad only got away without a scratch when getting my Cabbage Patch doll because he's a stocky, decently tall guy. I only found out about this later, but he just grabbed one and held it above his head, wading through the brawling moms.
This is terrific! I was just showing my daughter the patterns in Joann Fabrics -- how my mom and my Oma would make us outfits based on Butterick patterns, and how the fabrics were just infinite possibilities!
Move over McCartney and Wham! THIS is the new Christmas anthem! ROFL
"Well done!" from a mid-60s baby. : )
Still not sure why, but so many Moms smoked cigs and drank Diet Pepsi! AHAHAHHAA And alllll that paneling!
-->> I love the burn marks on the chairs!
Cannot take in what has happened from the simpler times to these times. This is one amazing video compilation and words to match
Thank you for this! This also applies to us Boomers born in the 60s. ❤
I freaking wish we could all go back in time! That would be incredible
Great song! I miss those times. I love you guys videos, they always make me smile. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
This almost made me tear up, seeing all these pictures with wood paneling. Nice work, I loved everyone’s pictures.
This made me cry. I miss those old days.
I'm cyring watching this. Those pictures brought back so many memories. My sister and I got Cabbage Patch Dolls and I remember years later my mom had recruited family in California (we lived in NY) to try and get 2. They shipped them and barely arrived before Christmas. I really feel like we grew up during the best time. Thank you for this trip down memory lane. So many memories flooding back.
Thank you for this. And my Christmas photos look just like this. We really had it all... And OMG *The* Print Shop - saved our family so much money in cards and decorations.
Merry Christmas Generation X! Let's make it a good one.
All I wanted was lego & fishing gear. Merry Gen-X Christmas from Australia (where we do Christmas in the summer!!)
@@RonLucock Keep cool today and tomorrow! I have the fans going on high.
@@HappyHarryX5 Yeah mate, we got fans & the air con going! What electricity bill?
@ I call big Bills “Williams”!
Omg... Kim is SO RIGHT .... ALL and I mean all those pictures made me feel like they raided my mom's photo albums I swear!! Wow. How did we all look the same. Thx guys bc this made me smile big-time. The panelling and the cigarettes were so on point!! 🤣🤣(My parents didn't even smoke yet my mom had quite a few crystal ashtrays always set out.) 🙄??
Because we all bought our clothes at Kmart and Sears Roebuck.
❤memoriesI recall cabage patch flury, but was more into Strawberry Shortcake dolls .... & super excited I knew mom got me one....that smaller box under the tree smelled good; how those little dolls had 'stawberry scent' 😂! I love the tree in a playpen!! We didn't put ornaments on the bottom of the tree when my bro was a toddler~ 🎄Merry Christmas, thnx for the vid!!
Funny thing about the punching someone in a riot line. My dad in 1983-84 was 6’8, 325. He was a big Lithuanian dude. He managed to get two dolls at a local Kiddie City. Out of nowhere, a 4’11” or so lady comes out of nowhere and punches my dad in the stomach and tries to take the dolls. My dad just looked at her and put the dolls in the trunk and picked her up and moved her out of the way to come home. It was wild, or so I hear.
😂
My mom heard on the radio that Cabbage Patch Kids would be available at Toys R Us later that day. She called my dad up at work and made him leave to go get them since she was home with me. My older sister wanted one too. So he gets to the store and there is a 1 doll per customer policy. But he has 2 little girls that want them. So he somehow got hold of a boy one and a girl one and is walking around the store trying to find a customer who DOESN'T want one. He finally finds an old lady willing to take one through the cashier for him. He gave her cash and said he'd meet her in the parking lot after they both checked out. He said he felt like he was doing a drug deal or something! He wondered if he'd ever see the doll or lady again who now had his cash too. But thankfully she really was a nice old lady and handed him the Cabbage Patch in the parking lot! I remember being so excited to have a boy doll because all my other dolls were girls and it just seemed really neat! I now have 2 sons. Guess that's why I wanted a boy doll so much!
@ I got a boy preemie in 1985, I think it was. I didn’t get a regular boy until I was 8-10. I can’t remember the year. I do remember his name though - Gardner Sebastian. I had Marcy, Barbara Jean, Lily, Michael, a Koosa, the horse, and Gardner.
Man, this took me straight back to my childhood! Merry Christmas, y'all 🫂
Merry Christmas you all! ❤️
Are and forever will be... the best generation!!
Legit had 50% or more of those gifts, plus the stuff in the backgrounds. Wasn't expecting to feel nostalgic today - thanks!
Yes! Gen X totally rules! Sweet Christmas pics and yes mine look like those too. Spot on Holderness-es-es!
I got such a kick out of this!😆 I also just recently asked my mom how on earth she got us cabbage patch dolls - specifically asking if she was part of the rioting. She said absolutely not bc she went to buy them with a neighbor of ours who was over 6 ft tall. (Female btw) She figured nobody would dare try to fight Barbara.😂
Hey Penn & Kim, this was awesome!! Great story thread and lyrics for the song, mixing comedy and childhood memories but darn if I didn’t know or hear that you guys wanted fans to send in old Christmas pics because I had at least a few I would’ve sent; either way, wishing the entire Holderness family a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and blessed New Year 🎼🎤🎹🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Yes our Gen X Christmases were the absolute best. Great song and photos.
Oh my goodness! This transported me back to my childhood Christmas. So perfect!! 👌💕
My dad was the shopper and he was a REALLY GOOD shopper! Not only did he get a Cabbage Patch doll for my little sister, he got them for me and the other three sisters who had almost outgrown (but not quite and never did) dolls. And got them at list price, not expensively. And no violence involved! And then got another round within a year so we had both regular and preemie dolls! At least one of those passes was sheer, dumb luck of being in the right place at the right time - or so he said, anyway.
And, yeah, there’s a photo of me now out on the Internet for all eternity, wearing my Wonder Woman Underoos. I was SO PROUD. *That* was my must-have.
That was spot-on! I'm so glad I stumbled upon it! Merry Xmas, fellow Xers!
Love you guys❤❤❤❤❤thank you for your wonderful videos❤
Holderness family,
Thank you for making my family and I have better relationships through your humorous videos. You guys rock!
God Bless and Merry Christmas,
Rhett and family in Tampa.
Merry Christmas! Even though I’m a Millennial, Christmas did seem simpler back then, and I honestly never asked my parents for the latest popular toys, I was legit happy with whatever I got for Christmas presents.
And my parents have never smoked a day in their lives, which is one of the big reasons they’re still alive today.
Merry Christmas !🎁🎄 ❤ love you guys
I legit cried…made me miss my mama and her homemade Cabbage Patch Doll.
You are giving me all the feels. Generation Xmas!
This made me teary eyed from the flood of great memories listening to the lyrics and the picures.
Thank you.
This is one of your best, guys! I love it so much! ( I'm '81, so I think this is still me, but maybe right before.... Depending on the chart I look at lol, but still relate to most of it! ) MERRY CHRISTMAS! Sending prayers and love to you and yours! 🥰🥰💖🙏🏻🎄🎄🎄❄️
As fun as this is it makes me sad 😔 too. I didn’t have kids and lost our folks 😢 Christmas isn’t the same anymore
I'm truly sorry 😞. Then there's families like mine that could get together, but won't everyone is too busy, or can't get along. So sad 😞.
Life still has the potential for you to have many great Christmases for you with people you love. Hugs.
Big hug.
I know people who don’t have family, or don’t have family near enough, and they organize Orphans Christmas dinners.
I bet if you look around over the next year, you can find a few other people who won’t be with anyone. If you don’t want to risk strangers in a home, go out to eat. There are always restos serving traditional dinners.
This year, consider helping at a community dinner for people who can’t afford to have a meal or feed their families something festive. It feels great to help others so you’ll get a big happiness boost, and realize you’re not alone in being alone.
Many hugs and wishes for you to find your people ♥️
Nailed it! Down to the wood paneling in our family room!
This is great! My dad was the one that dealt with the Cabbage Patch Kids madness!
The wood paneling is spot on too 🔥
Dear Penn and Kim,
This is currently my favorite thing!
Merry Gen X Christmas!!!
Parasocial love,
Mike, NJ, 47
That was AWESOME!!! I almost cried. Those were the days!! I miss them
I was born in 91 so pretty much the end of Gen-X and beginning of the millennium age. Even so I have a lot memories and see old pictures exactly like these ones in albums. Also reminds me of how I wanted a Buzz Lightyear and Woody doll as kid and I got both. Thank you to all the parents out there who have worked so hard to make Christmas special for all us dumb kids. 😂
😂😂😂 Just ad extreme heat and no air conditioning and it was the same in Australia too. Sooo much wood panelling - or in my family home thick embossed 70's colouring wall paper EVERY ROOM. 😂🤪🤢
I was a lucky girl who got a Cabbage Patch Kid, a Care Bear, and hair crimping tool -but missed out on Teddy Rumpskin, and skates.
I’m not Generation X but my nieces are and they loved this video! They always cracked up at seeing the Christmas photos from my own generation; the baby boomers. This reminds me of that in so many ways; especially the smoking (and for us, the ever present alcohol 😂 ) I still remember shopping for some of these gifts and helping my sister do the same. We didn’t fight for cabbage patch dolls though. The girls wanted Breyer horses and anything else animal related.
This brought back so many memories.
I didn’t expect to tear up during this! Love it ❤💚
I love this! Brings back so many fun memories!