When we purchased a second tree, it was formally an issue. I’ve liked sci-fi and popular culture my whole life. So, after I was younger, my mother began taking me to Hallmark every year to purchase a couple of of the newest Keepsake ornaments. Even after I moved out, every year I’d give her a listing and that 12 months’s ornaments have been a part of my Christmas presents. Sadly, my mother handed away in 2020 however our custom for popular culture Christmas ornaments continues. In truth, it might have gotten worse.

After utterly masking a 7.5-foot tree for the previous a number of years, this 12 months my spouse and I made a decision to purchase a 10-foot tree to associate with the 7.5-footer. And, though I’d estimate 100 or so ornaments are nonetheless in my childhood residence the place I left them, we have been nonetheless in a position to fill the massive tree, with the smaller one reserved only for ornaments I purchased this 12 months.

What follows is a slideshow of my favorites from this emotional however clearly costly obsession. Some of those have been launched by Hallmark this year and are still in stores. Others are lengthy retired. But there’s a bit little bit of every little thing in right here. Check it out.