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Let's talk about Christmas, Thanksgiving be damned
Zebediah:
It used to be family tradition to go out Christmas Eve morning to buy the tree - my dad liked to hit the tree vendors as they were packing up to leave town; he got a better price that way. This came back to bite him in the ass one year when I was about 12, when all of the tree lots were already sold out and closed by Christmas Eve. We wound up cutting down an old pine tree in our back yard for our tree that year. After that he always got the tree by the 22nd, but left it outside sitting in a bucket of water until the 24th. Then we'd bring it in the house, my dad and I would do the lights (he didn't trust my sisters with electrical stuff, sexist pig that he was) and then we all put the ornaments on. Meanwhile my mom would be in the kitchen baking cookies the whole time.
Welu:
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--- Quote from: Welu on 18 Nov 2013, 16:48 ---We always put up the decorations on December 17th because that's my brother's birthday. The decoration come down whenever, usually around January 7th.
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I used to demand that my family do that on that same day(coincidentally, it's my birthday :D), the last few years they prefer to shut the kids up by putting the tree up the Wednesday before Thanksgiving...
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Matching birthdays! Neat! Fortunately there are no younglings any more in our house so Christmas is to the whims of happy drunky adults.
We have two fake trees. Mammy bought a second better one a couple years ago to replace the living room tree to be a pretty elegant tree with blue and silver decorations. Then there's a second tree that goes in the dining area using the old sentimental red, gold and green tacky old-fashioned decorations and I refused to let them and the tree be thrown out. So Mammy agreed to keep both as long as I decorated the tacky tree. That's never happened. She always does the tacky tree, I do the elegant tree.
Lines:
I love putting ornaments on the tree SO much. It lets my OCD about balance run free and I also get to show off our quirky ornaments. Although we really should find a shorter tree, as ours grazes the top of our ceiling, so we can't use a star or whatever on top. :( We don't really do elegant, we do quirky colorful stuff.
Here's last year's tree! (With the cat proof ornaments on the bottom!)
valley_parade:
From the pictures I saw last year, my girlfriend's aunt's place in Syracuse seems like an xmas wonderland.
When I today told my boss I was planning on going up there for a few days, fresh off of "I'm trying to schedule everyone for Thanksgiving, what are your plans? *schedules Shane so he can't be at either family dinner*", he pretty much told me to go fuck myself if I thought I was getting any time off to go away.
As usual, xmas gets me the most down because I feel like I have to keep up with the Lexus buying Joneses in every fucking TV commercial and I can't even afford the big ribbon on the goddamned car. I just, meh. I've never had great xmas memories, and this year seemed like I might get a nice one for once, but no. If I have to work on xmas, I might end up lighting the entire gas station on fire.
However, the Ventures' xmas album is fucking ace and still the best vinyl purchase I've ever made.
The Lady has told me she bought me the worlds' craziest, most awesome gift, but won't hint at what it is. She's also shown my roommate, whose said I better like it, or else he's taking it. On the flipside, since dating me begat her becoming a Red Sox fan, part of my gift for her is a Baseball Fan Starter kit with a bunch of DVDs and other fun stuff. Also a t-shirt of her favorite player (Mike Napoli), if he signs a new contract before xmas.
Grognard:
I hate the commercialized Christmas, too.
give me an old country Christmas with handmade presents with plenty of good food.
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