Posted on 12/23/2009 5:38:53 PM PST by ibbetsonusa
If it has been a while since you were a child waiting for Christmas morning, or whatever time of day the parental green light was given for the opening of presents, you may be a little out of touch with the true magnitude of this event. For most kids, Christmas is a magical time of both gift giving and gift receiving. This holiday event has its own magic that supersedes every other day of the year. While children perceive much more than they are given credit for, they have the tendency to have a somewhat flawed reality of their parents’ economic “Santa” capabilities.
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I remember a couple of years when I was really young my mom saved the color comics from the Sunday paper to wrap our presents. Her reasoning was the money saved could be better spent elsewhere. And she was right as she always is. thanks mom.
Be honest.
LOL
Oh, wow! I thought I was the only one who got comic-wrapped gifts. I remember playing with Silly Putty before wrapping gifts, and being really embarrassed if I ran out of color and had to use black-and-white! I think my grandmother learned that trick in the Depression.
We’re having a Redneck Christmas next year. All the presents are going to be wrapped in Walmart and Dollar Store bags.
The tree is going to be decorated with lottery tickets, Pawn Shop receipts, shotgun shells, final notice bill envelopes, little deer crossing signs and beer tabs.
I wanted a pregnant Barbie doll with a black eye as the angel but the girlfriend thought that was going too far.
ROFL!!! Best post for ecomony!!
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