After a year long hiatus from blogging, I'm back to muse about the ornaments hanging on our tree. Each day I will select an ornament and tell something about where it came from and the memories that it invokes. December 1 - Currier & Ives This ornament came to me from my parents. They got it as a gift for opening a Christmas Club. These accounts are not so popular now and they sometimes earned a bad rap for having a lot of restrictions and a low or non-existent interest rate, but back in the day they were how we paid for Christmas. Members were often given some sort of token give such as this ornament. When I look at this ornament it takes me back to my youth and young adulthood. We'd put a few dollars into our Christmas Club each week and just after Thanksgiving we'd get our cash. Shopping meant going "downtown". For us, that meant downtown Scranton. Sometimes we'd take the bus. I remember as a child how exciting it was to be downtown gett
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