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[Carek1230]

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What is your favorite Christmas memory?

 

[kafrun]

Celebrating christmas eve instead of christmas morning at my grandparents'. Big, warm family gathering, huge, beautiful christmas tree, huge feast..

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[Carek1230]

We used to be allowed to open one gift on Xmas Eve. Then one year post believeing in Santa years we begged to open a 2nd then a 3rd gift and before we knew it all the gifts had been opened. It was so much fun and from then on we opened gifts on Xmas Eve!

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[cruzila]

though not the best memory for my parents.... i recall one morning my brother and i sneaking downstairs on christmas morning putting our presents into piles. we were soooo excited we just couldn't wait for our parents to get up. so... bro and i decided to open up all our gifts and start playing with them. we were soooo happy! that is... until our parents walked down the stairs and saw us. my mother said we ruined christmas. yeah, not a good memory for them, but it's the ONE that stands out in my mind the most!

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[Doozer61]

My favorite memory is when I was 5 to about 8, Santa would actually come to my house. He would come over and visit with me and my cousins and nieces and nephews and then we had to go in the other room so he could talk to our parents. Found out years later, he was getting drunk with the family while we were in the room waiting to hear the verdict on the presents.




Have you ever been in a Christmas Pageant?

 

[mandy1973]

Yes, when I was in the brownies, so i guess i would have been 8 or 9 at the time. i don't remember what i dressed up as tho - an angel possibly??

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[Carek1230]

yes I played one of the 3 wise men!!


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[tiny dancer]

No

Do put up at real or fake tree?

 

[cruzila]

Growing up, the family had put up a real tree. Since living on my own, I put up a fake one.

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[waynetravis]

Fake fibre optic tree

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[Carek1230]

real tree when growing up, fake nowadays


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[mandy1973]

Fake, I'd like a real one, but they make such a mess

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[Carek1230]

Someone should invent smelly trees --a fake Xmas tree with the real tree smell!

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[RavenBlue]

Real

Do you snoop around for presents?

 

[Carek1230]

Oh heaven's no besides it's just me and the dog and I don't hide things from myself!! But I used to snoop!


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[Acrobat Angel]

I used to do it alot when i was little, but i don't anymore

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[iloveedge]

I did it once..ruined the whole surprise!

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[cruzila]

Nope, I never snooped. I could know exactly where the gifts are and I wouldn't look.

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[Total U2 Nut]

Yeah, a few times when I was little, we always know what we're getting now

Do you look forward to Christmas less now you know that Santa's not real?

 

[onebloodonelife]

Nope, not at all. I still get up with my siblings at ungodly hours of the morning to wait until we're allowed to open presents. Now that I'm away from home and living at college, Christmas is even better because getting to go home is like a treat, and I can't wait until the month long break Only one more week! Plus, it's just a great time of the year!


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[Carek1230]

I don't get so excited about Christmas much anymore since my son is grown and since my dad and grandmother died. Grandma used to make all our tree ornaments and it's so hard to decorate a tree without her, OR to enjoy Christmas without Dad singing Ave Maria and carving the meat or joking around or finding his little gifts to mom my sister and I hidden in the tree branches. We try, but the holidays are just not the same when you get older and people that made Christmas so much fun in the past are now gone and there's no huge family or little kids to get all excited about it with. It's just different, really. We are making new traditions. I just wish Christmas wasn't so retail and over commercial and was more about family and helping those less fortunate.

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[Doozer61]

i always get excited about Christmas and besides I am an elf so i have to love it.



do you long for a white christmas?

 

[Carek1230]

a white christmas would be kinda fun since we don't get snow in So Calif!


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[MsMofoGone]

OK ... yes. If that was the ONLY time I'd see Snow, then yes, it would be GREAT.

Otherwise, I dread the Snow very badly. It's always so-ooo difficult with travel here, we're better off without it.


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[Carek1230]

Regarding holiday gifts, do you prefer the big packages or the smaller ones?

 

[mandy1973]

Bigger gifts make the christmas tree look more impressive, but from personal experience, the better gifts come in the smaller packages.

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[Carek1230]

I agree with that the better ones come in smaller packages

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[tiny dancer]

Definitely smaller packages.

Do you get stressed out from the Holiday Season?

 

[Carek1230]

I don't let myself get stressed out anymore. I used to but only because I had a LOT to deal with. I've streamlined and it's so much simpler now in the new chapter of my life. I like it this way.


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[cruzila]

I try not to get stressed out during the holiday season. Since my mother moved away there is a lot less traveling only need to go to 2 places instead of 4. less travel = less stress

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