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FF Holiday Confessions
Anyone up for flame free holiday confessions?
Mine is--I hate getting cookies, or other baked goods, for a gift. I don't want to eat them and I usually throw them out. I'd rather get a nice card.
Re: FF Holiday Confessions
I always, and I mean always, have to go out on Christmas Eve and buy more chocolate for the kids' stockings because I eat it all beforehand. I'm finishing up some Dove Swirl Promises (new this year, I think) and then going to bed. I will try to buy the replacements tomorrow and leave them in the car until Saturday night. Each year I get them expensive chocolate to keep myself from stealing it all, but then I get all, "It's Dove. It's in my closet right now. And I can buy more later."
I. Have. No. Self. Control.
Don't bother with the Dove Swirls, by the way (says the lady who hopes no one will buy them so I can get them all half of on 12/26 because word, they are gooooood!)
Please tell me more about these Dove Swirls
People who get all uppity about putting Christ back in Christmas. I get that it's a religious holiday but its so freaking commercialized in the US so its hard not to get into the holiday spirit, even though I'm not Christian.
I'm a Jew who loves the Christmas season. Some people make me feel guilty, like I'm denigrating the holiday. It's not like I'm putting up a tree and lights and throwing presents around like it means nothing...I just really enjoy the spirit, songs, and general cheeriness of the Christmas season. To me its a joyous season from Thanksgiving to New Years--keep the Christ in Christmas, sure, but don't make me feel guilty about looking at pretty lights or enjoying the season.
I know the keeping Christ in Christmas thing probably isn't meant for people like me (or maybe it is?) but I still feel badly sometimes.
1. Not ashamed to admit one of the reasons I went into education was for the long holiday breaks AND I plan on enjoying every minute of it.
2. I love not having to send a ton of cards to DH's side of the family and spending money on presents for his mom, step-mom, dad, brother, sister, brother-in-law, step-sister, 2 nephews, and 2 nieces.
3. I am a little upset that I sent out Christmas cards and a few of them have not reciprocated. Not ashamed to admit that I'm crossing them off the list for next year.
Little one-inch foil-wrapped white and milk chocolate, swirled together. Heaven in my mouth.
Among many, many other things, one of the things I love most about the holidays now (sans XH) is not having my Christmas tree invaded by tacky gift wrapped packages courtesy of XH's redneck family. They would bring them over several days before Christmas (because we did Christmas morning at our house) and I hated it. Imagine if every color of the rainbow crapped all over the bottom of my Christmas tree. I try to coordinate my gift wrap and make it look nice. Not them. They use whatever wrapping paper available, in every color, even if it's not Christmas related.
-B-day party paper-check
-Baby shower paper-check, check
-Floral paper-triple check
They also had a bow aversion for some reason. So every package just had the wrapping with no bow, and they'd usually just write who the package was to and from with a sharpie, right on the paper. Oy.
1. I didn't send Christmas cards this year, and I don't feel guilty about it.
2. When I was at the jewerly store selling my ring yesterday, I started checking out engagement rings.
3. I'm looking forward to Christmas this year more than I think I ever have in my adult life because I get to spoil L and his DD.
Oh, you had me at white chocolate! I'll be heading out to find them tomorrow!! Uh, for the kids of course
I bought a gift for the guy I was dating for Christmas. Since we ended things late last week, I mailed it to his office. I just stuck a post it on it that said "Merry Christmas".
I kind of feel like a psychopath for doing that.
I feel extremely guilty that people at my office got gifts for me and DS. But, my guilt isn't bad enough to make me go to the store to get them something in return.
I still havent mailed my Christmas cards...they are all done and ready to be mailed im just too lazy to make it to the post office b/c I dont have stamps.
I hate feeling obligated to buy gifts for family members I see once or twice a year. If one more person tells me, "well they always buy for you and E"...Im going to scream. They choose to, they dont have to and we certainly dont expect although we are grateful. I do not have the financial resources to buy for everyone...
There are two main reasons I hate giving gift cards:
#1) It is not very personal and I like to hand a person an item that I spent time thinking about and took trouble to pick out.
#2) An actual gift item is most likely going to be cheaper than the amount I would put on a card. I feel more pressure to spend a higher amount when the "price" is written right on the front.
I'm giving out food gifts to almost all of my friends this year.
I
made a beer bread mix, so it's a package of that and a bottle of
seasonal beer in a holiday loaf pan. I guess if they don't want to make the beer bread, they can just drink the beer and throw out the mix.
At least you included booze! My family just got a huge gift basket of cookies and candy but no booze
There is nothing wrong with liking the season & enjoying lights. Anyone that tells you different is looking too deep into things. You arent celebrating the birth of anyone you are just enjoying the fact that people are feeling festive, that people get time off of work, that people decorate pretty. You are enjoying not trying to replace the holiday that you celebrate. Many synagogues have special events around this time of year so if you feel bad maybe you can look into that?
True enough. I did cookie mix in a jar and homemade vanilla extract last year, though...no booze then! I try to give mixes rather than cookies or already baked gifts because I figure that everyone has too many trays of sweets lying around this time of the year, so that way, they can make the mix whenever they need an easy chocolate fix (or a beer bread fix!).
I totally have mixed feelings about the baked goods thing. This is the sort of care package I get from my grandmother every year. And, I usually throw the entire thing out. Mind you, my grandmother was amish until her mid 30s and is still mennonite which equates to her making some really questionable stuff - not really sure what's in it and I'm a super picky eater. However, if I were to get a basket of goodies that I love - like peanut butter balls, spritz cookies (the fun ones you make with a cookie press), or plain sugar cookies - I would be all over that.
I hate getting sweets as gifts. I'm trying to lose the baby weight and sweets are not helping! Regular food stuffs are fine though.
My boss just walked in here with a gift for me. I didn't get one for him. He knows I'm going through a divorce so he should understand, right? I'll get him one next year.....
* This is really stupid and embarassing to admit this, but I will admit it...... I am a little sad that there will be no gifts for me under the tree this yr.
* I don't like the fact that the public school near my house has outlawed any paper products that have a picture of santa or a reindeer on it... c'mon.. these are not religious symbols. Let the kids eat their cupcakes off a reindeer plate.. who cares.
* I hate wrapping gifts and wait til the last dam minute every yr.
I am feeling extremely guilty for leaving the dogs and cat alone for another extended weekend. Mr. K took me out of town two weekends ago and we are leaving for 4 days tomorrow.
I feel like I am letting them down, even though I have an awesome pet sitter that keeps me updated and checks on them 3-4 times a day. I just know it isn't the same for them.
Not to mention, we are going out of town again in 2 weekends for a 25K.
Even though I am looking forward to the travels, I feel like a crappy pet Mom.
They see us rollin'...they be hatin'.
After my divorce, Xmas cards pretty much slowed to a crawl. I have a small family and most of my friends don't mail them out either. This has made the decision for me not to do them sooooo much easier.
The only thing I've eaten today are Christmas cookies. Oh well.
I was waiting in line at a store and the cashier wished the person in front of me a Merry Christmas. She went off on the cashier that not everyone is Christian and she should say Happy Holidays. I was mortified for the cashier, but at the same time secretly pleased that the Team Happy Holidays folks are starting to dish it back to the Team Merry Christmas ones. If there's gonna be a (stupid) War on Christmas, I wanna see some skirmishes.
I'm returning (almost) every gift BF gave me for Christmas. We'll look back on this as a learning exercise.
Ouch