Your favorite Christmas present from the past was......?
963779
5,000 dollars from my parents!..........:)
734895
For my boys, 5 and 9, 2 years ago, I gave them the gift of time.\n\nI bought them each a calendar and wrapped it up with several computer printed stickers: a tent, a fish, an airplane, cookies, popcorn etc, a small empty photo album and a note saying to spread the joy of christmas all year long they would need to work together schedule their other gifts throughout the year.  Then they opened a lot of little gifts: \n\na package of colored paper with laminated computer printed coupons that had an airplane and read a paper airplane contest with dad, \n\na cookbook and coupons for cooking lessons with mom, \n\nfishing lure and coupons for family fishing trips\n\n3 bags of microwave popcorn and coupons to get to be the one to pick a family movie rental\n\nsleeping bag and coupons for brother's camp outs in the livingroom\n\nThey were told to keep all the coupons in their photo album until they were ready to redeem them and to work together to put the stickers on their calendars so they could make the fun last longer \n\nThis was an extremely cheap gift, but with everything wrapped individually it really filled out christmas morning, the boys couldn't wait to see what adventure came next.  I don't think people always realize what a little family time means to a kid.\n\nWe really don't remember what else they got that year, lots of overpriced toys most of which broke within 2 weeks I'm sure, but I guarantee you long after the batteries for those things were dead they were still redeeming their coupons and smiling ear to ear!!
19242
Well, I say if this is your first christmas together, you should get him something that only the two of you would understand!!! for ex. when my husband and I first met, my hubby called me Jingle, cause I always would sing Jingles from commercials.  He bought me a bell for christmas, it was engraved, and a very insightful gift, personal and it showed me that he had put some thought into it.
942848
Christmas just seemed so magical when you were a kid.......\nThere seemed to be more decorations in the house - not just a tree and a garland on the fire. Your pile of prezzies was just massive! Everybody was happy and jovial during the get together at your nans house - cousins, aunts, uncles the whole family used to be there. You always thought you look a million dollars in your new clothes, after dinner all the adults would have a few drinks then the music would be higher up and they'd all be dancing and singing!!!! - what a great day it would be!!!!\n\nThese days Christmas is not the same - our family has broken up a bit -mum and dad divorced -  aunts and uncles have divorced, cousins have grown up and have their own families - worst of all my nan has passed away.\n\nThe good thing now is I have a child of my own, we do the whole Christmas thing - go to my mums for dinner have drinks, dance sing, play games - now I make Christmas great for my kid as my parents did for me.......\n\nTimes change.......but the memories all remain......I still love Christmas and I am also counting down the days!!
172581
well other than what you have all ready as a gift, the funest thing I ever did to my wife was I got all these party favors ...all the bells horns and hats...\nI hid them in my truck in a box marked dog food....\n\nwe went to a perkins on mourning and after a couple of cup of coffie she excused her self...\n\nI ran out to the truck got the box and ran around to everybody in the resterant and just said "make allot of nosie on the word "dear"\n\nwell she came back to our table....and I got her gift which was under the table....brought it out  and said honey it been so wounderfully being with you....DEAR\n\nthe employes even help the whole resterant went nuts...\n\nafterwords we went home got our camping tub's and the canue and went up river for a week in the woods. "alone"
909016
For your spouse----or for a couple?\n\nI gave (as a package decor) the cutest tree ornament of a couple in bed, and the sign of the bedspread said, ''Our First Christmas Together''.\n\nEven for your spouse-------something like this would be nice, and then, just a gift of something he/she would like.
156868
I have a box of momentos from years ago.  It's impossible to choose.  My grandma's wedding ring?  My diary from early childhood?  The first rose I was ever given by a boy pressed in a book?  I have been to blessed to say there is only one I could call most.
933942
Every Christmas Eve we have dinner as a family and b/c were mostly Italian we have the tradition of having seafood that night. Then about 6 or7 years ago we started the tradition of watching the Santa clause movie and drinking hot chocolate before bed. We wake up at 6 every Christmas  morning and open our presents from each other. We just spend the day together and have some small food all day long on the table so we can just pick at it. It's fun something i will always treasure and hope to one day pass it on and keep it alive with my own family!!!!! To everyone out there enjoy the holiday's and have the best one ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
832274
There are so many !! One of my fondest memories was when i was 8 years old. mama and daddy recorded me and my 2 little sisters as we opened our gifts. Boy were we loud !!! screaming and yelling  "thank you mama thank you daddy". that year i got a Chrissy doll. i'm showing my age LOL. she was like a giant red haired barbie and you could make her hair long or short by turning a button in the middle of her back. my cousin and i are the same age , so we both got one. But what i love most is hearing we little girls and hearing mama and daddy's voices. sadly , i lost them both in 1991. six months apart. the other favorite holiday was last year. my sisters didn't give me anything of my dad's when he left us. i don't blame them because i went off the deep end after losing my parents. when i finally got my life together i asked them for something of my dad's. one of my sisters had my dad's wedding ring. it's beautiful, wide gold band with 3 1/4 carat diamonds. i always wanted that ring. when daddy didn't have it on i would get it and wear it while i was at their house. it was funny, mama and daddy joked about having to frisk me before i went home to make sure i didn't leave with one of their rings.LOL. anyway, i asked my sister if i could have daddy's ring. she adamently said "NO". it just broke my heart. my sisters were not fair when it came to splitting what my parents had 3 ways. i asked her for that ring for 5 years. last year my birthday fell on thanksgiving day. we were all at my sisters house having our family dinner when out came a beautiful cake with far too many candles on it LOL. i was surprised. i read all of the b-day cards and opened the gifts everyone had given me. i noticed everyone moving to one side of the room and my nieces all had cameras and video camears pointed at me when i opened the last gift. IT WAS MY DADDY'S RING !!!!!!!! I started bawlin' and ran to my lil sister to hug and thank her. my sis is an itty bitty thing and i'm NOT...she told everyone to protect her so i wouldn't sqeeze her to death !!LOL i have that ring on my finger right now and that is where it will stay until one of my nephews is old enough and getting married. that is when i will pass it down. so, that's just 2 of many wonderful holidays. as a matter of fact my b-day is on sat. and we are having thanksgiving then. everyone has to work on fri. so we decided to do it on sat. so everyone can be there. we're having it at my sisters house and she lives an hour 1/2 away. well , there's my answer.  OH !!! and you are soo right about time screaming by. That is sad.  Have a great Thanksgiving. God Bless.\n                                                                   Deanne
1052247
Yes I have.........lol\nMy daughter wanted one for xmas\n☺
682241
my fav Christmas present is the LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF his come and he is save me he clean my soul from my sin with hes blood what he gave us in the cross of Golgotha he changed my life he cut me the cigar i was a smoker i was a lier i really was a monster and yes he is come and gave me freedom he is so kind he is love pure love now i am 29 old and i thank him and praise him the holy father the son and the holy spirit and you if you call him to come in to your life and repent from your sin he will come and give you internal life for ever
743006
I hope you light it up and make it as bright and wonderful as you can! My most favorite Christmas memory was when I lived in a trailer with my mom and my younger brother. We had very little money, but we were very crafty and we turned that place into a winter wonderland. We even ended up sheltering some friends when a winter storm broke their windows. It was close quarters, and we all sat around, snowed in and drank coffee and played board games. It was wonderful !!!!!\nIt was a very blessed Christmas, and I hope you have the same!\n\nA Blessed Christmas to all !!!!
865734
I have a very pretty angel that my mom in law bought at Canadian Tire. She actually matches the decor in both my living room and my family room. She's like a porcelain doll and I'm still warming up to her .That's about as matchy matchy to the decor as I get because everything else on my tree has a story.  I have ornaments from both my grandmothers trees, my parents and things that I've made or collected. I even do still have the angel from my childhood tree and am thinking of incorporating her into a wreath. She's very early 1970's with a "homespun" dress and yarn hair.
853793
Your question brought a smile to my face. It's been more years than I care to remember. That was one of my favorite past times growing up.
745305
LOL .... yup, my grandpa gave me this toy car I had givem him like 2 years before .... poor grandpa ... he's kinda old (88 y/o)\n\nI just smiled it off and acted surprised
923952
Oh yeah.  I got a mail-order catalog in the mail the other week that really triggered some old memories and yearnings in me.  The Uncle Wiggly game...clackers (remember those glass balls on the string you would bang together?)...Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys.  Then my friend and I started remembering other things together...like rock candy...remember around Christmas when they would come out with the colored candy shapes on lollipop sticks?  Then we got to talking how it's a miracle we survived...we had no carseats, no bicycle helmet or kneepads.  No soft wood chips under our swing sets or jungle gyms...we had concrete!  Which reminds me...I wonder when is the last time kids played Spud or Mother May I?  Oh yeah...I miss those good ol' days!
906621
For Christmas...back in the 80's...\n\nA Cabbage Patch Kid!!!!!!!!!!!