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Making Our Ornament Tradition Official

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Last holiday season, I stumbled upon a magical warehouse tucked away in a non-descript industrial area of Spokane. The space belonged to Old World Christmas, a national ornament company that produces and ships their products to locations all over the world.

There is a lot of Christmas goodness inside this warehouse.

On the same property as the warehouse is a gift shop that sells the company’s overstocked, outdated, and chipped ornaments for a fraction of the retail price. Entering the shop is like strolling into Santa’s Workshop. The kids and I made a couple trips to Old World Christmas last year and at the time I declared that a new tradition was born: Each holiday season we would visit the shop so Sloan and Beau could choose an ornament to hang on our own tree.

Sloan browses inside Old World Christmas in Spokane in 2024.

And since I made the tradition pledge via this blog, I knew I would have to update my readers each year we honored it. I can report that we made good on our Old World Christmas tradition in 2025.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the kids and I made our pilgrimage to East Central Spokane. The shop hadn’t changed a bit nor had my children’s indecisiveness. However, after a considerable amount of time, Sloan and Beau selected their ornaments…

We kept our Old World Christmas tradition going in 2025. Beau went with a Siberian husky and Sloan chose chicken tenders and fries.

Sloan chose an ornament that fits her dining preferences perfectly: chicken strips and fries. The only thing that would have made the ornament better, she said, would be if the dipping sauce was ranch instead of ketchup.

Sloan decided upon a chicken tenders and fries ornament at Old World Christmas.

Beau was more of a wild card. Instead of choosing something that aligned with his personality, he decided to reach for randomness. My son’s decision? A Siberian husky. Hmmm…okay.

Beau selected a Siberian husky ornament.

Both of these ornaments now proudly hang on our tree. They join the Taylor Swift ornament (Sloan) and mushroom ornament (Beau) from last year. More importantly, they add to a tradition that is now fully established within my family—because like Sidney says, it is officially a tradition once it happens twice. Don’t Blink.

Magic At Old World Christmas

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Our family found a Christmas treasure this year. Tucked away off Sprague in an industrial part of East Central Spokane is a warehouse called Old World Christmas. As you can imagine, there is all kinds of magic inside.

There is a lot of Christmas goodness inside this warehouse.

It’s a pretty cool story. Old World Christmas is actually a company with a worldwide reach that produces glass ornaments and ships them to giddy customers on all corners of the globe. It also so happens that Old World Christmas is headquartered in Spokane. And when the company isn’t shipping ornaments thousands and thousands of miles away, they are offering their overstocked ornaments to locals at a heavily discounted price.

Sloan browses inside Old World Christmas in Spokane.

Twice per year, Old World Christmas opens its warehouse retail store to the general public. The schedule almost reminds me of Willy Wonka occasionally opening his chocolate factory 😂. You can go in the middle of summer for “Christmas in July” or you can go from mid-October through Dec. 23. When you walk through the doors, you enter a Christmas oasis with beautifully decorated trees and bin after bin of reduced-priced ornaments.

Beau browsing the Old World Christmas inventory.

We made our first trip to Old World Christmas during Thanksgiving weekend. In fact, many other families did too. Thanks to an in-depth feature in the Spokesman-Review, the hidden gem was made known to a larger audience of us living in Spokane.

At Old World Christmas, you can search in the bins for ornaments or you can just take them off the trees.

Overstocked, outdated, and chipped ornaments find their way to the Old World Christmas retail store. Many are priced at 70% off their original value. Most of them you can’t tell why they landed in the shop. The variety is insane: fruits, vegetables, beverages, household items, hand sanitizer, automobiles, animals, famous people, candy bars, and so much more are available in ornament-form at a cheap price.

A look at how Old World Christmas ornaments are priced. They are tons of $1 and $2 ornaments too!

My favorite section? The sports teams! Old World Christmas boasts bin after bin of MLB, NFL, NBA, and college ornaments. If you need a unique gift for the sports fan on your list, you know where to go!

They have all kinds of sports team ornaments at Old World Christmas.

During our first trip to Old World Christmas, I let both Sloan and Beau pick something out. Sloan chose a Taylor Swift-themed ornament while Beau opted for a mushroom. When we returned this past weekend, Sloan picked out a “World’s Best Teacher” ornament for Mrs. DeRuyter. I plan to make a Thanksgiving weekend pilgrimage to Old World Christmas an annual tradition for the kids where they can pick out an ornament. I can’t wait to see their collections grow over the years.

Sloan looks at a Snickers ornament found inside Old World Christmas.

If you are looking for a festive activity in the remaining days before we celebrate our Lord’s birth, venture over to Old World Christmas located at 4007 E. Main Ave. Don’t Blink.