…who copied Kathy and Shannon…
…because I felt the need for something light.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper, because I love getting creative while gift wrapping, and they’re prettier under the tree.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Always real, the cats love climbing in it and chewing on the needles.
3. When do you put up the tree? The Saturday after Thanksgiving.
4. When do you take the tree down? The first week of January.
5. Do you like eggnog? Gag!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A doll house my dad built for me.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My youngest step-daughter, she’s a good kid but picky.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Hubby.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Several, I collect them. I hand painted one of them, when we were young and broke, but my favorite is made of olive wood from Jerusalem.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Both. We mail to close family, and email the rest. (Postage is expensive!)
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? A set of pots and pans.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? A Christmas Carol.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Early December.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes. Most bath sets make me itchy, so I save them for the girls as “pick me up” gifts through the year.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Coconut Cream Pie.
16. Lights on the tree? Tons!
17. Favorite Christmas song? Joy To The World.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Three dogs, three cats, and a bird, we stay home.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s? (reindeer?!) Not a chance.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? I found the coolest redneck angel last year…
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on Christmas Eve (Christmas PJs for pretty Christmas morning pictures) and the rest on Christmas Day.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Grouchy people.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? We had a blue, white, and silver tree a few years ago. I’d like to do that again.
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? See 15
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A chance to help someone else.
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? One of my three faithful readers.
27. Who is least likely to respond to this? Anyone else.
28. What was your most memorable magical memory from your adulthood? The day our kids woke to Santa’s foot prints in front of the fire place and a dropped, reindeer chewed carrot.
29. Have you ever been involved in a Christmas gift prank? Sent my mother a tin of pistachios with a Pikachu doll sitting in the center. (It’s a long story.)
30. Favorite Christmas cartoon? The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
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November 29, 2008 at 11:23 am
davidrochester
Oooh, coconut cream pie as a Christmas tradition? What a great idea!
November 29, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Vanity of Vanities!
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen…. Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen… But, do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer……..
All those years in show choir weren’t for naught.
I now have the strange urge to put on red and silver sequins and add some sidesteps and jazz hands…
November 29, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Vanity of Vanities!
AND I love the idea of Christmas PJs!
November 29, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Corina
I love wrapping presents but I’m thinking this year that we should skip the wrapping, or at least in traditional wrapping paper, because of the expense. I think maybe I’ll look around for and recycle appropriate packaging and paper this year. I think if we do this, we can easily save $50. I don’t have a stockpile of wrapping stuff this year because of the move.
November 29, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Shawn W
David, coconut cream pie is a good idea anytime.
Angela, I’m impressed, but please resist the jazz hands.
Corina, one year all we had was plain white paper, markers, and yarn. The packages were beautiful.
November 29, 2008 at 10:48 pm
davidrochester
I’ve been known to wrap gifts in such diverse oddities as worn-out towels, aluminum foil, and/or plain brown paper bags. I used to think I was a cheap loser, but now I’m thinking I’m on the cutting edge of creativity.
November 30, 2008 at 2:13 am
Shawn W
Creativity and being frugal go hand-in-hand, David.
December 3, 2008 at 3:46 pm
thelittlefluffycat
I like to pick up scarves and napkins and doilies for little or nothing, and use them to wrap small gifts with a roll over and tie technique I’m pretty sure is Japanese, and equally pretty sure I learned from Martha a million years ago. I had a giftbag making binge a few years back that the bags are still floating around between family members. My two big hates for paper are being able to see through and having paper tear, can you tell?
December 3, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Shawn W
LOL You’re pretty clear.
I used bandanas one year to go with a redneck tree. I’ll have to see if we still have pictures around.
December 5, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Stevo
My girlfriend in high school had the Christmas PJ tradition. Strange.
I don’t have a tree, although I bought a lovely artificial one yesterday for my school. The students will like it more than the seemingly rat-chewed one we had.
Christmas in China is pretty surreal. I don’t know where some of the ideas come from. That said, there was a giant deer made out of artificial Christmas tree material that I almost bought (and may still).
December 6, 2008 at 12:48 am
Shawn W
LOL Maybe she was a relative, Stevo.
Christmas in Japan was an experience. Of course, it was pretty weird in Florida too.
A giant deer sounds cool.