If I asked you what your favorite Christmas movies were, what would you say? Would it be old-time classics like Miracle on 34th Street or It’s a Wonderful Life? Comedies like Elf or Christmas Vacation? Cartoon favorites like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or A Charlie Brown Christmas?

Everyone definitely has their favorites. Funny thing is, my favorites don’t ever make the Top 20 Christmas movies. I guess some of them were really TV specials and not bona-fide movies, but they are still worth watching each year. And to make sure we always had them to watch, at some point, we recorded a number of them onto a single VHS tape. (You remember what a VHS tape is, right.)

Here is the best part. When we recorded the TV specials, like Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph, the ads got recorded too. I know, I know, we do everything we can today to fast-forward through ads, but for some reason, these ads made those old tapes special. One was for Doublemint gum (“A double pleasure, waiting for you.”) and the other was for My First Sony (“I like pizza-pie, I like macaroni, but what I love is My First Sony”). I’m not a gum chewer and my first Sony was a chunky silver Walkman, but for some reason those ads whisk my mind back to the days of piling on the couch with my three siblings in footy pajamas to watch Christmas specials, hoping that there was a piece of candy to go along with it in the Advent box.

But I still haven’t actually told you what my favorite Christmas movies are. Yes, I love lots of the classics, but the first three that we watch each year are Muppet’s Family Christmas, A Claymation Christmas, and A Muppet’s Christmas Carol. One of our favorite days of the Christmas season is when we get out the movie box and pull out the old tapes and DVDs. I think it is the same for my siblings, too, because once Thanksgiving rolls around, we’ll text each other with funny quotes from those old Christmas favorites. They may not make most people’s top movies list, but they sure are special to us.

We hope that your Christmas season is filled with funny movies and great memories. And stay warm! Looks like the coldest Christmas in twenty years. If you need any last-minute frost protection supplies or Christmas gifts, we’ll be open until noon today and then closed Christmas Day and Saturday the 26th. From all of us at Kerby’s, we wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas.