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My parents owned a pet/toy store.
I don't remember ever really believing in Santa because they talked shop at dinner every night.
They'd work practically round the clock the last few days leading up to the holidays because that was back in the days when small businesses delivered packages to their customers themselves.
Except -kind of like Santa-my dad made deliveries at night after the store closed and after the customers kids had gone to bed.
On Christmas morning my mom would be furiously wrapping our presents at the dining room table and we couldn't come down til she was done.

The fun part was we usually had a few puppies in the house the last week or so leading up to Christmas morning, holding them (or I should say HIDING THEM) for customers who'd come collect them late late on Christmas Eve.

My kids got to believe in Santa.
 
I can wrap gifts. I have a knack for it... but I cannot condone all the friggen WASTE! It drives me nuts!

List of Smuvs Holiday Pet Peeves:

1. Cards on gifts and gift wrapping
2. People who take their BABIES out trick or treating (please people, we KNOW it's YOU who eats the candy)
3. Unbuckled belts after T-giving meals. Dude, you KNOW your pants were too tight... wear sweats for everything holy!
4. Valentines Day (just why.... yeesh)
5. Wedding Anniversary Gifts from your kids... (it's YOUR marriage, not your kids)
6. BLACK FRIDAY!!!

Ok, I'll sit back and take my whuppin now... g'head.
 
This is only for number 4....i get candy don't be dissin candy holidays no matter how stupid they are.:):smack
Smuvers Farm said:
I can wrap gifts. I have a knack for it... but I cannot condone all the friggen WASTE! It drives me nuts!

List of Smuvs Holiday Pet Peeves:

1. Cards on gifts and gift wrapping
2. People who take their BABIES out trick or treating (please people, we KNOW it's YOU who eats the candy)
3. Unbuckled belts after T-giving meals. Dude, you KNOW your pants were too tight... wear sweats for everything holy!
4. Valentines Day (just why.... yeesh)
5. Wedding Anniversary Gifts from your kids... (it's YOUR marriage, not your kids)
6. BLACK FRIDAY!!!

Ok, I'll sit back and take my whuppin now... g'head.
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Smuvers Farm said:
I hate gift wrapping and I hate cards on gifts. To me, it just seems frivolous and a waste of money.
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Well it looks so nice! I make bags of Christmas prints and reuse them . The draw string pulls them shut . Hubby loves it. Stick the present in, slap on a tag, done. Wash and reuse the next year. Fabric is cheap after the holidays.
 
staceyj said:
My parents owned a pet/toy store.
I don't remember ever really believing in Santa because they talked shop at dinner every night.
They'd work practically round the clock the last few days leading up to the holidays because that was back in the days when small businesses delivered packages to their customers themselves.
Except -kind of like Santa-my dad made deliveries at night after the store closed and after the customers kids had gone to bed.
On Christmas morning my mom would be furiously wrapping our presents at the dining room table and we couldn't come down til she was done.

The fun part was we usually had a few puppies in the house the last week or so leading up to Christmas morning, holding them (or I should say HIDING THEM) for customers who'd come collect them late late on Christmas Eve.

My kids got to believe in Santa.
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I am mad my grandkids don't because DIL says it is lying to the kids:rant
 
Smuvers Farm said:
I can wrap gifts. I have a knack for it... but I cannot condone all the friggen WASTE! It drives me nuts!

List of Smuvs Holiday Pet Peeves:

1. Cards on gifts and gift wrapping
2. People who take their BABIES out trick or treating (please people, we KNOW it's YOU who eats the candy)
3. Unbuckled belts after T-giving meals. Dude, you KNOW your pants were too tight... wear sweats for everything holy!
4. Valentines Day (just why.... yeesh)
5. Wedding Anniversary Gifts from your kids... (it's YOUR marriage, not your kids)
6. BLACK FRIDAY!!!

Ok, I'll sit back and take my whuppin now... g'head.
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:smack
 
CapricornFarm said:
Well it looks so nice! I make bags of Christmas prints and reuse them . The draw string pulls them shut . Hubby loves it. Stick the present in, slap on a tag, done. Wash and reuse the next year. Fabric is cheap after the holidays.
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That is an AWESOME idea. I think I shall steal it.
 
I never believed in Santa, my grandmother wouldn’t “lie.” We never put up a Christmas Tree because “we don’t worship trees.” We also didn’t eat “scavengers.” It was a 7th Day type of church, something or another. I never pushed Santa on my child and didn’t make a big deal about it, hubby did more than me. I always wrapped Santa’s gifts in the same paper as I wrapped everything else, just to see if he would ever notice.
 

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