December 2009

When I was about 8 we went to Lincoln Christmas shopping. We went in the Woolworth dime store on O street. I was familiar with the store, knew where the bathroom was and was pretty self suffieient. Nowdays it would amount to child abuse but then it was safe. Mom gave me $5.00 to buy my Christmas gifts, told me not to leave the store and she would be back in one hour, as she was going to another store. Right off the bat I found these plaster Nativity figures for sale. Each was priced individually, like 39 cents or 29 cents etc. I spent the whole hour googing the figures , trying to figure in my head how I could get them all and have some money left over. When Mom came back I had not bought a thing and was still looking at the nativity figures. So she helped me pick out my figures and she paid for them. She then had to wait for me while I did my other shopping. When we got home my Dad made the stable out of an orange crate. The Star was one piece of an ornament set that Mom had sent $1 to Cappers Weekly for and it glowed in the dark. That nativity set has a few chips but is the original set from my childhood and has been up in my home every year since.