Traditions Year-Round Holiday Store

Just found this hidden gem in the valley. I’ve been looking for a place that carries vintage Halloween decorations and this place nailed it on the head! So many beautiful items in here. Some things are expensive. Yes, but it’s nothing that you wouldn’t pay at a boutique arts and crafts festival. You’re paying for quality and craftsmanship. There are also more affordable things for people on a budget. I found some great things to add to my different holiday collections. I’ll be a regular here for sure!

Wow, what horrible customer service. I bought a few items and I will never spend another dollar at this establishment. They are rude and condescending.

Traditions is as good as it gets! I work in an upscale retirement community and I am very picky about the decorations that we display for holidays. Last Christmas I wanted to upgrade our Christmas trees and purchased 3 from Traditions. The service and quality was remarkable so now that it has come time to upgrade for the fourth of July I knew I had to come here. I purchased several things and each time I opened a box it just got better and better. I am incredibly happy with the quality of each item and the fast accurate delivery. Thank you, I will be ordering again soon!

Beautiful store! Great and very friendly service. I ordered online and needed to return an item. Made a stop while heading out of town and am so glad! Can’t wait to become a regular customer. Lovely selection of ornaments for all holidays. Also, to the review about shipping costs, I asked for shipping cost confine action when I ordered and they sent the estimate to me before completing the order, which gave me piece of mind. Shipping was fair for the size of my items.

Don’t let you know shipping costs until they ship it to you. Shipping cost somewhat high considering small size and light weight of ornaments shipped. Shipping fee applies regardless of size of order. The received ornaments were not as attractive as the pictured ornaments. 15% restock fee applies. Will not order from them again.

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Alright so I’m giving this place 3 stars because they have by far the best decorations for any holiday. Halloween is when I went in and they have everything from tiny little haunted towns for your living room to giant scary ass ghouls, ghosts, etc. any shape any size. Haunted halo graphic framed portraits, silhouette scary floor mats, etc. Literally EVERYTHING! It’s awesome.
But here’s the kicker and down side… this place is way way way way to over priced. And it SUCKS because they have the coolest shit I have ever seen for decorations.
The prices really do ruin the overall experience. If you don’t believe me, go in and see for yourself. A small plastic 12″ skeleton will be almost $ 30.
A lot of this stuff you can’t and won’t find anywhere else and that’s what’s really disappointing because if you don’t have a heavy wallet or your not in the mood to spend well over $ 100+ on a couple good decorations… your stuck buying only a haunted cool floor mat for $ 25.
People know about this place, but I think the over priced product is what is driving customers out the door (which is what I saw when I was there; people walking out empty handed). Maybe soon in the future the owners will change their custom pricing to more affordable numbers because I can almost guarantee they would be packed every day leading up to the holidays if their prices were a tad lower.
Happy Halloween everyone and I still advise anyone to give this place a look & chance. Family owned so that’s a huuuge plus! You’ll know what I mean by awesome selection :)

This place is really called «Traditions» without the Christmas, and for good reason, they sell decorations for every holiday of the year! Yes, every holiday, imagine having a «holiday» tree where you could change the ornaments on it for each new holiday that comes up, that is a big part of what this store is about.
Here are some of the themes that you will find!
Christmas
New Years
St. Patrick’s Day
Halloween
Valentines Day
Thanksgiving
Fourth of July
Easter
…Even Football themed ornaments!
The bulk of the stuff that you will find are ornaments, collectible figures (like Jim Shore designed items
), and those little miniatures where you can buy things like a Christmas themed house, post office, etc and grow it into a little town (that will take some $$$$ over time though).
What I like the most about this place:
1) Their Halloween items are really awesome. Stuff you won’t find in most Halloween stores, and while a little more expensive, are things you would keep pretty much forever.
2) The broad range of holiday themes they cover.
Personally, the only drawback for me is that the majority of the ornaments are those glass ones (like this
) which I don’t personally care for. For Christmas ornaments I prefer those wooden or handmade style of ornaments that you might find in places like Solvang.
The location of the store is really odd. You have to drive up into an industrial type area of Canoga Park and drive around to what looks like the back of a factory building. Probably cheap rent though, so whatever works I guess.
Tip: If you are heading out to do some shopping for the holidays, stop by the nearby and massive Topanga Mall for your shopping, and then swing by Traditions afterwards to check out some ornaments.

They have beautiful items for Christmas, Halloween, thanksgiving etc. The service and treatment from who I believe is an owner is horrible! The employees are pleasant enough, but the owner is just rude and nasty. For that it gets one star and I won’t and would recommend not making the trip out.

I order from them every year to add to my Joe Spencer Halloween collection. I live about a hour away so this year I am making a trek to the store and can’t wait. I have always received great customer service and fast delivery on all my orders. They were out of stock on an item and did everything they could to finally find it for me. They carry all my favorite artists and hard to find items. Love this place!

Terrible, unprofessionsal customer service. I received a coupon on-​line and placed an order attempting to use the coupon. When I received my e-​mail invoice, I saw that they did not credit me with the coupon. I called to try and straighten the matter out, but they were just incredibly rude and unhelpfpul. Their prices are not that fabulous, even with the coupon, to justify such unpleasant behavior. Save yourself the aggravation and avoid having to interact with these folks.

My friend and I made the trek out here from Culver City. We decided it would be a fun outing and for some odd reason, I was in the mood to be festive. Traditions is a really cool place for a huge selection of Christmas ornaments. as well as knick knacky decorations, collectibles and, for the Halloween enthusiast, a big olé Halloween area with a Halloween tree and oodles of decorations (now being that is was JUST Halloween, I am not sure that this stays Halloweeny all year or transforms into other holidays throughout the year.)
Each tree has a bit of a theme to it… there was an Irish tree, a profession tree, pets, animals, Nutcracker, patriotic, avian, Santas, travel, tropical… all sorts of ornament goodness.
Now, these are not your cheap-​ass «20 for $ 5» ornaments, but rather lovely pieces that are well made and more heirloom then «change every year» type things. They have character and beauty that is not found in so many of the mass marketed department store ornaments.
This place is a treat to just explore. The owners are a mother and daughter team (as I found out) and the mother is a sweetheart. She was fun to talk with, knew the products, the collectible artists and made it enjoyable.
The daughter, who is in charge of the internet store, website and marketing, was perhaps having a bad day, but kept interrupting us to ask her mother questions about things. I totally get that you are busy, but do you REALLY have to interrupt a conversation when a customer is asking about items in the store? Without even an apology or acknowledgment that you are being quite rude? Not exactly endearing.
My main recommendation to the store is weed out the old ornaments. I almost picked up a «baby’s first Christmas» for a friend… then noticed it said «Baby’s First Christmas 2002» uhmm. that needs to be gone. I then noticed a few more that were dated like that. If it is not the current year, get ‘em outta there.
The store also gets HUGE points for NOT playing Christmas music. The mother said they start after Thanksgiving, which I am totally cool with. but it is first of November, so we were treated to regular, everyday music that probably encouraged us to stay longer and buy more.
I totally recommend this place if you are looking for beautiful, well-​made, unusual (there were some TRIPPY-​TASTIC ornaments here) decorations… do NOT check this out if you want the same stuff you find in every other store.

Random little place that I found one afternoon after shopping at Costco, I pulled out of the lot & pulled over to eat my Costco dog, and parked in front of this place. I noticed all these great Halloween decorations, so I ventured in. WOW! This story is truly amazing inside. It’s almost hard to take it all in. They have holiday trees for every season and ornaments for each one too… you gotta be into retro decorations or Christopher Radko to get it.
The staff is extremely attentive. The prices are kinda high, but the items are more high end, then your usual holiday decorations, so they are keepers that would probably get passed down to your children, so the prices are worth it!

Watch out for the shipping with these guys. Its ridiculously absurdly high priced!