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Christmas Pudding Charms – Yellow Card of 5 Charms - Vintage - $50 (Toronto Downtown)
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Set of vintage pudding charms on original card
They symbolize:
Horseshoe – brings good luck
Ring - marriage
Bell - A wedding is on the cards/protects the finder from harm
Button - bachelor
Wishbone – the promise of good luck/grants a wish
Bring a bit of British tradition and fun to your Christmas this year.
An original card of Christmas pudding charms. The tradition of these English favours has been around since the 1800's or even earlier. They were put in the Christmas puddings and your fortune was told by the one you ended up with in your serving.
$50.00 Cash
Pick up only Toronto Downtown, Richmond and Sherbourne Streets
No need to write asking if it is still available. Posting will be removed the second it sells
Stir Up Sunday takes place on the Sunday before the first Sunday of advent.
In 2026, Stir Up Sunday is on 22 November.
Stir Up Sunday is the day when tradition suggests that we should make our Christmas pudding. The tradition dates back to Victorian times when the family would gather five weeks before Christmas to stir the Christmas pudding.
There is a myriad of recipes for Christmas pudding, but the traditional version would contain 13 ingredients to represent Jesus and his disciples. Family members would take turns to stir the pudding with a wooden spoon (to represent the manger) from east to west, symbolising the journey of the Three Wise Men, whilst making a wish. Trinkets would often be added to the pudding before it was wrapped, steamed and stored away until Christmas Day.
Stir-up Sunday is an informal term in Catholic and Anglican churches for the last Sunday before the season of Advent. It gets its name from the beginning of the collect for the day in the Book of Common Prayer, which begins with the words, "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people...", but it has become associated with the custom of making the Christmas puddings on that day. The Christmas pudding is one of the essential British Christmas traditions and is said to have been introduced to Britain by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria (the reality is that the meat-less version was introduced from Germany by George I in 1714). Most recipes for Christmas pudding require it to be cooked well in advance of Christmas and then reheated on Christmas Day, so the collect of the day served as a useful reminder.
Traditionally, families gather together in the kitchen of their homes to mix and steam Christmas pudding on Stir-up Sunday. Parents teach their children how to mix ingredients for the pudding. Everyone takes a turn to stir the pudding mix, for each person involved is able to make a special wish for the year ahead. Practically, stirring the mixture is hard work, therefore as many people as possible are involved. By tradition the pudding mixture is stirred from East to West in honor of the three wise men who visited the baby Jesus.
In some households, pudding charms or silver coins are added to the pudding mix. It is believed that finding a coin brings good luck.