What was Christmas like as you were growing up?

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Tell us about it.

[Forever Sunshine]

   Tons of fun with all the Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Grandparents all under one roof!

[fritz the cat]

Dec 9, 2019 17:40:38 GMT -5 @mox said:

Tell us about it.

Yeah come on tell us about it, you started it

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Nine people in my family, so it was pretty wild at the holidays. One big long table with lots of good food. I remember not being fond of mincemeat pie that I believe Dad made. I recall going to midnight Mass when I was able to stay awake, and I loved the singing and comraderie there at church. Material things like presents were not important to us. We were not rich nor poor, and I had a good life. You don’t miss what you don’t know, right? My parents were the BEST! I felt very lucky in that respect.
Your turn, fritz.

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The few presents we got that were under the tree ahead of time:  we opened and then rewrapped them when Mom and Dad were at work. We had to act surprised every year!

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I remember my Mom and Dad sipping on Peppermint Schnapps one year while they were in the kitchen getting all of the food ready. They may have missed dinner that year.

[lartiste]

except for being a few years later than the story, i totally identify with the department store scene in "A Christmas Story". Stotter's (Chester, PA) was magical, just like in that movie.

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Dec 24, 2019 16:25:20 GMT -5 lartiste said:

except for being a few years later than the story, i totally identify with the department store scene in "A Christmas Story". Stotter's (Chester, PA) was magical, just like in that movie.

I think that was filmed using the same store windows I looked at when I was a little kid. 

Indianapolis.

I didn't get a BB gun, lol.

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Dec 26, 2019 13:50:22 GMT -5 @diogenes23 said:

Dec 24, 2019 16:25:20 GMT -5 lartiste said:

except for being a few years later than the story, i totally identify with the department store scene in "A Christmas Story". Stotter's (Chester, PA) was magical, just like in that movie.

I think that was filmed using the same store windows I looked at when I was a little kid. 

Indianapolis.

I didn't get a BB gun, lol.

You probably would have shot your eye out anyways!!  Oooohh FUDGE!!  
*That movie was my dad’s MOST FAVORITE Christmas movie of all!

[Forever Sunshine]

   That movie is my least favorite! UGH!

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We try to watch at least one old Christmas movie every year over the holidays.

Christmas story is on the list, lol.

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We watched ‘A Christmas Story’ with our kids just about every year, but I just can’t watch it anymore. I never got into the Jimmy Stewart one, can’t recall the name. I have tried watching it several times, but just can’t get into it. I never got into the Scrooge movie either, the old one.
I really don’t have a favorite Christmas movie as far as the classics go.

[Forever Sunshine]

   I have two favorite ones . . . "White Christmas" and "Miracle on 34th Street". The Miracle one has to be the original, older one. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it playing on any channel this year but they sure played the newer version enough. I just do not like that one. So, I got to watch White Christmas two or three times. I don't know why but the ending, when the raise the backdrop and it's snowing, always makes me tear up! WTH? lol

[lartiste]

i never once went nosing around for presents. when we were really little, would go to be christmas eve and would wake up to CHRISTMAS!! nothing there when i went to sleep and the tree, decorations, train set, gifts, etc etc etc was all there!!

[jlbear71]

Our Christmas traditions varied. We used to go to a great-aunts who had the traditional Polish Christmas spread. Tables and tables of food.

Then we just went to the grandparents houses. Then they came to ours. I think GAs just got too big with her direct family.

There were not tons of presents but my parents tried to make it fair.