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Bonus questions

How did you buy your gifts or are buying your gifts this year?

 

Are you more an online or mail order shopper than a shopping mall or High Street shopper?

 

Do you buy gifts and cards or donate to charity instead? (Fully understand if you do not want to answer this one as this can be a very personal issue)

 

Any ideas for last minute emergency gifts?

 

Is there anything you simply have to buy or make for Christmas because it would not be Christmas without it?

[A knight without armor]

I will get a tin of Royal Dansk cookies.

Wow that chocolate orange looks delicious. The store also has that. I may try it.

Plus I will make a mincemeat pie. When you make pies do you have special design you put in the top crust for steam holes? I do. I always do like my mother always did. It is a single curve cut with four hole pricks on both sides. Very leaf looking. Then I brush the crust and edges which I have crimped between by fingers with milk and sprinkle lavishly with granulated white sugar. I put that same design on meat pies, too.

[toothfairy86]

I haven’t done much for Christmas yet. I bought my nieces some presents, but that’s about it. I haven’t written a single Christmas card yet. I bought 2 frozen ducks for Christmas dinner a few weeks ago.
I love the chocolate oranges! My sister-in-law also brings back Quality Street chocolates and Flake bars when she comes back from visiting her relatives in England:-)

[Ramius]

Evening folks... Singles thread newbie here. :-)

I’m actually almost done with my shopping. First time in ages that I’ll be done and still have shopping days left over that I didn’t use.

So far all of my shopping has been online. May well finish up that way.

Ho ho ho... :-)

[Kate of Spice Island]

Not even close to beign prepared!

The tree is only half decorated. (We did have a few "technical difficulties" over the past few weeks.)

[DollyCali]

Hello to all my Single Friends here at FR! Season's greetings to all & MERRY CHRISTMAS to my Christian friends who celebrate the joy of the manger!

Eleanor I thank you for your delightful threads. All the thread posters here do so well & are providing a good place for singles to hang when they are home.

Now, regarding your theme.. Due to my financial situation (can you spell poverty ???).. my gifts for the most part are home spun.. a cutsie term for home made. Will be a step or two above snowflakes cut out of paper but for now that is the situation.



Dave and all.. journaling is NOT, I SAY NOT, a trite junior high thing.. it is a recognized tool of archiving your events, a diary of sorts - and an excellent physiological tool of healing and of growth. It is much like letter writing and blogging in that some of one's soul is exposed (if one is honest). Men have a harder time of recognizing the value as the linear mind will often work with the intellectual approach & not the soulful response

I hope all here will be loving AND TOLERANT of those of different faith walks and observations of the meaning of Christianity.. Jesus did NOT convert by hitting on the head verbally or physically (yes I recall the temple cleansing.. that wasn't for conversion.. it was for sanctifying HIS HOUSE). He did NOT put down or insult.....He LOVED people into the kingdom and recognized legalism as the tool of the devil that it was. He gently pointed out errors as he healed, embraced & LOVED

TUBA CHRISTMAS.. do you all know abut it? It is a nation wide (maybe world wide now) annual musical presentation. The Tuba player pay to participate & the audience gets in free. Here in Akron we have about 500 tuba (or the family which I have learned is large) participants & audiences in the thousands with many turned away with first come first serve. Here is the link for you to check if you have an event in your area

TUBA CHRISTMAS

[Froufrou]

I recognize everything there except the ‘Stone’s’ - what is it?

[NeoCaveman]

Not at all. I’m not prepared in terms of gift purchasing nor am I prepared in a mental/spiritual sense.

I think all this December politics has something to do with it.