MinnieM123
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I used to like getting these for Christmas. Like any perfectly normal little kid.
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MinnieM123
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OMG -- I remember those at my grandparents' house. I was a young kid at the time, and I'd just stand there and stare at thee water bubble action--sort of mesmerizing.
MinnieM123
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I've yet to figure out the significance of an orange in the Christmas stocking--but yes, I got one too!!
Nemo14
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I think it goes back to the Depression when it was a treat to get fresh fruit.I've yet to figure out the significance of an orange in the Christmas stocking--but yes, I got one too!!
Nemo14
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I'm one of seven, and it was similar in our household. My Dad was a mechanic and my mom stayed home and raised kids. Our stockings were actually just a sock that we'd hang up, and we'd get just a few small items and an orange. I remember one year my sister and I each got a Magic Marker, and my brothers were quite jealous. I also remember my parents giving us each a dollar to shop for Christmas gifts for each of our siblings, and we'd open the gifts on Christmas Eve. Santa usually brought one gift for each of us, but it was always something fun, like a new bike or something.
Nemo14
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Lifesaver books!! We had a neighbor who always gave each of us one - we'd make those last for months!
Nemo14
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I used to like getting these for Christmas. Like any perfectly normal little kid.
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Actually I remember reading the Guinness books from cover to cover - couldn't wait for thee library to get the new one every year!
Close! 69 Camero.Hey is that a yellow taxi I see on one of the branches? Very cool ornament!
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Our flights to (and from!) NYC have changed multiple, multiple times since I booked.
I thought we were leaving at 5:55 am, but now I think it’s 5:40.
Good thing I checked, although I’m still not completely sure which flight is correct. Doesn’t help that I logged into my Expedia account incorrectly twice, and now I’m locked out for 15 minutes.
I guess it will be 100% confirmed when I do the online check-in tomorrow.
I thought we were leaving at 5:55 am, but now I think it’s 5:40.
Good thing I checked, although I’m still not completely sure which flight is correct. Doesn’t help that I logged into my Expedia account incorrectly twice, and now I’m locked out for 15 minutes.
I guess it will be 100% confirmed when I do the online check-in tomorrow.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Expedia...lame.
I got to book my flights in CAD at a time when the dollar was particularly low - pre NAFTA renegotiation.
Songbird76
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We didn't have much money growing up, so our Christmas presents were mostly things we needed....socks, underwear, shampoo, soap...but we had something to open. We also got a new pack of batteries every year for stuff like a flashlight, and a roll of scotch tape. I always looked forward to that roll of scotch tape for some reason...and we also always got a box of chocolate covered cherries...I loved those things. We didn't have much, but we always had a great Christmas, and we had some great friends who would give us stuff like....a big tin of popcorn...that one I remember. I remember going to church and there was one girl who always bragged about what she had gotten....a boom box, or a snow board. And she didn't think much of my socks and underwear, but I was just happy to have new ones each year. What I loved about Christmas was that we got all dressed up and went to the Christmas Eve service at church and we lit candles and sang silent night...that was my favorite part. The acolytes would light the first person's candle in each row and they would pass it on to the next person until everyone's candles were lit, and we'd sing Silent night. Then we each got a present from our Sunday school teacher, and a bag with peanuts, an orange, and some hard candy in it. When we got home, the presents would be under the tree....I never knew how mom did that since we were at church. We'd open presents and then go to bed. The next morning we went to the Christmas Day service which was usually the Sunday School kids performing the Christmas story...I was always an Angel...I always wanted to be Mary, but by the time I got old enough, so many people had left the church, we didn't have enough kids to do the nativity anymore. But I liked being an angel, too....we always got a section of the story to recite, and we got to sing songs. I just loved the traditions....of course we were excited about presents, too, but I loved getting dressed in my best dress and singing Joy to the World, Silent Night, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, etc...
Songbird76
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I remember getting one from someone one year, but I don't remember who....I loved it though!!
And I had a funky sock war with a family friend. One year, he gave me some florescent socks...like...orange I think? And I hate the color orange....they were just the most hideous things. They were either yellow or orange, but they were neon and just ugly...it was sort of a joke. I must have been around 7...so every year we got each other the ugliest socks we could find. Fun Christmas tradition.
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
That is a lovely memory.
I hope our kids will remember their childhood Christmases with such fondness.
Lucky
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That could make you unpopular, living in the Netherlands.
Songbird76
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I'm sure they will! I'm sure you have traditions that you did every year and that's what they will remember. I couldn't tell you what I got any year except the year I got the cabbage patch doll I had BEGGED for. Whenever we were in the "mall", I always went to the store where they had toys and they had this big huge stack of cabbage patch dolls...that was THE gift that year. And I wanted one SO bad...I wanted one that had a pacifier, so I had picked out the one I wanted...she had red hair in ponytails and she had a pink and white striped shirt and jeans and her name was Jeannie Gabby....I would just go and stare at her...and then one day I was looking, and the lady at the shop came and picked it up and said it had been sold and I was so so so sad...until I opened my present on Christmas Eve. My mom had bought her right in front of me and I hadn't even noticed. And my dad had a new girlfriend that year, and she was very into crafts and she made me a homemade cabbage patch doll, with brown hair and I named her samantha, and then I also got a "flower patch kid"...it was a cabbage patch kid knock off, because cabbage patch dolls ended up being really hard to get, so there was a huge market for anything that could pass as a cabbage patch doll. That's the only gift I remember from all those years because I had begged so hard for it....the rest I couldn't tell you. It was the traditions...the cookies we always made every year, and my mom's famous poppyseed bread recipe that she made as gifts for all her friends, who would hide it from their kids and husbands so they didn't have to share...and people always asked for the recipe and she said when she moved or she died, she'd give it to them....so she asked us to print it in the memorial card when she died.
The point is, whatever traditions you have, those are the things they will remember. Like....the special ornaments that you hang every year, or that they always got new PJs, etc...
Songbird76
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I know!! I'm the only person who never has anything to wear on Kings Day, because I refuse to wear Orange!! But even when I was a kid, I wouldn't use the orange crayon...I don't know what it is, but I just can't stand that color.
My friend Mojgan is from Iran, and she joked when I had my babies that she was going to give me orange clothing as a gift, because I would feel obligated to put the clothes on them because they were a gift, and then I would hate them and she could steal my beautiful blonde babies, because she said Iranian babies look like monkeys and she wanted blond babies with blue eyes.
My dislike for Orange is well documented.
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Our flights to (and from!) NYC have changed multiple, multiple times since I booked.
I thought we were leaving at 5:55 am, but now I think it’s 5:40.
Good thing I checked, although I’m still not completely sure which flight is correct. Doesn’t help that I logged into my Expedia account incorrectly twice, and now I’m locked out for 15 minutes.
I guess it will be 100% confirmed when I do the online check-in tomorrow.
This is increasingly common (no matter what the carrier, at least here in the U. S.). I remember years ago you'd book a flight and it would always stay at the same departure times. Nowadays, if I have an upcoming flight that I booked a few months prior, I can usually expect anywhere from 1-3 changes. You really have to watch the timing.
