Elwood P Dowd
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:15 PM
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I didn't buy any Christmas presents this year. |
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Gave what little money I normally spend on Christmas to the Food Bank. All my relatives were cool and understood - even the republicans.
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napi21
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:18 PM
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1. That's a wonderful thing for you to do. It would be nice if many |
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more people had done the same.
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:22 PM
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DebbieCDC
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:23 PM
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3. I gave charitable donations in a family member's name |
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No other "presents" this year. The charities need money terribly. People don't need more "things". Buying too many "things" got a lot of folks into financial doo-doo -- myself included. I've learned my lesson.
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Crazy Dave
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:23 PM
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4. We did something like that last year |
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Edited on Thu Dec-24-09 11:24 PM by Crazy Dave
A neice of my wife's aunt, a seven or eight year old needed a big growth taken off her neck but the wonderful insurance company wouldn't pay for it so we gave everything we had at the time to the family and then more family members pitched in afterwards and then she had the surgery.
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:24 PM
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Our family identified the most needy among us and chipped in and gave money to four families. The rest of the kids from the our family received two gifts each, mostly from the dollar store and four toys from Toys R Us.
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:26 PM
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6. I will buy later and donate a little to the charity.. |
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I will buy a Christmas present for me and for my family... Also I am planning to give some to the charity..^_^ Watch 90210 Episode
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:27 PM
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7. You beat me by one decent cook pot I bought my daughter |
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Everyone else can be cool with it or they can fume, makes no dif ;)
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:40 PM
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but I'm Jewish so that's normal ;)
Seriously though, Christmas, if it's worth observing, ought to be about something other than retail sales.
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:45 PM
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9. What, your honestly telling me you didn't |
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buy me something even though I was good all year? :D
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Thu Dec-24-09 11:51 PM
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10. i bought cards instead of gifts |
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granted, I have no money, but I thought I should get something.
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Fri Dec-25-09 01:30 AM
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I made all my gifts, as I've done for years (I'm an artist, but anyone can do it, and I get frames at yard sales or trash piles). No money this year, but I always figured it means more if you spend the time to think about what they might like than just going to Mal-Wart and buying some communist slave-labor-made crap (which makes up most of what I get, but who cares-I often recycle it into other things).
My asshole brother in law (publican, of course, but I'm being redundant) complained about my messy gift wrap yet again this year, so I told him next year I'll spend the HOURS spent making his gift instead on making him a pretty, beautifully wrapped empty box.
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Fri Dec-25-09 03:10 AM
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13. I think that is a very meaningful gift. . . |
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I have a friend who, as a photographer, gave me a beautiful print that she made a frame for - and it still hangs in my living room. Every time I look at it I think about her and the years I knew her when I lived in Atlanta. It is the kind of treasure that fuels memories - and memories are part of what celebrating this holiday is supposed to be about - at least to me.
Your art is a gift of yourself. I wish I was so talented.
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Fri Dec-25-09 02:33 AM
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12. k and r--a wonderful act that reflects the true spirit of christmas |
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