{"id":7584,"date":"2018-11-12T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:23:17","slug":"whatever-happened-to-the-traditional-christmas-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/whatever-happened-to-the-traditional-christmas-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever happened to the traditional Christmas List ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The way it used to be \u2013 whatever happened to the traditional Christmas List ?<\/h1>\n

It seems a little nostalgic but the days of writing your Christmas list and pushing it up the chimney in the days when many homes still had them had a childhood magic that will live with those of us of a certain age \u2013 forever.<\/p>\n

A blank piece of paper (or a fancy sheet like that above) and your imagination were all you needed – realistically you knew that you were unlikely to get everything you wanted so you aimed high \u2013 a bike, was always up there at the top there after it varied between boys and girls. It seems like such a long time ago that kids were writing their Christmas lists in this sort of manner, now the Christmas list is more likely to include a list of web sites and URLs to point you in the correct direction to get them what they really want not what you think they should have or what you think they would like. (it won\u2019t change auntie Ethel she will come up with a pair of socks, hand knitted of course, for everyone)<\/p>\n

Here at Global Door<\/a> we know all about lists just take a look at the options we offer on all of our<\/p>\n

doors, styles, colours, accessories etc they were all produced as lists before they became web site items. We place a great emphasis on making life as easy as possible for our customers and our developers worked exceedingly hard to produce what we consider to be a pretty slick ordering system, when our customers you use our door designer<\/a> to create their dream door \u2013 they can build it, see the price and know exactly what they are getting. We endeavour to make the purchasing process as straightforward as possible by making it a step by step process but we can envisage a time when even our sophisticated systems will not be adequate for the more digitally minded a time in fact when rather than using our door designer, we will receive a mail or some other medium of communication similar to the children\u2019s current Christmas Lists \u2013 i.e.<\/p>\n

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Dear Sir <\/em><\/p>\n

Re <\/em>https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/the-contemporary-range\/<\/em><\/a> – the Circle -Poppy Red \u2013 contemporary long bar \u2013 chrome letter plate \u2013 finger pull lock best price to install Upper Netherwitton \u2013 week Tuesday <\/em><\/p>\n

Regards<\/em><\/p>\n

If and when such a mail is received we shall respond with the required courtesy and suggest the use of our door designer as the quickest and easiest way to get the information required.<\/p>\n

Christmas is the time when the traditional \u201cto do\u201d list \u2013 a piece of paper with a list of scribbled notes \u2013 really comes into its own \u2013 the presents list \u2013 the Christmas s food list, the drinks list, the who is visiting whom and when list – without them we would all be lost. Everything at Christmas for the majority of us is worked on the basis of a \u201cjust in time list\u201d \u2013 the Christmas cake has to be made by \u2013 the turkey has to be bought by \u2013 the sprouts have to be on by, little Johnny\u2019s present has to be picked up \u201cclick and collect \u201c by \u2013<\/p>\n

And your new front door from Global Door has to be ordered within the next couple of weeks if you want it installed for Christmas day<\/u> so you can be the envy of friends and family all cosy warm and secure inside no matter what the weather may be outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The way it used to be \u2013 whatever happened to the traditional Christmas List ? It seems a little nostalgic but the days of writing your Christmas list and pushing it up the chimney in the days when many homes still had them had a childhood magic that will live with those of us of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","loftocean_post_primary_category":0,"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":18,"tinysalt_single_post_intro_label":"","tinysalt_single_post_intro_description":"","tinysalt_hide_post_featured_image":"","tinysalt_post_featured_media_position":"","tinysalt_single_site_header_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header":"0","tinysalt_single_custom_sticky_site_header_style":"sticky-scroll-up","tinysalt_single_site_footer_source":"","tinysalt_single_custom_site_footer":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[192,22,29],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composite-doors","tag-christmas","tag-composite-doors","tag-global-door"],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"ianr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globaldoor.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}