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Post by marylou01 on Dec 1, 2012 1:58:29 GMT -5
Does anyone have a special Christmas memory you'd like to share? I rem being 15 and the middle sister was 5. Our grandma had ordered my sister a doll from Sears. Our Sears was more of a package store where you'd order from the catalog and pick up there. Dad picked up several packages and grandma had me wrap all her gifts, which I did every year. Since they knew what this package was no one opened it to check it before I wrapped it up. As was our tradition, we opened our gifts on Christmas Eve except for one special gift & our stockings that were for Christmas morning. When my sis opened her gift from grandma she just sat there looking in the box with no excitement at all I rem mom going over to where she was sitting in front of the tree and asking her what Santa brought her. In her doll box was a blue bathroom rug set complete with the toilet rug We all felt so bad for her and my grandma actually cried. My sis had so many toys that it didn't bother her, she just didn't know what that blue fuzzy stuff was! My 13 year old brother and I had a good laugh ;D Needless to say, mom returned the "doll" and my sis finally got her "real doll" after Christmas!
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Post by daniela on Dec 1, 2012 8:58:06 GMT -5
That's a cute story MaryLou! I love how your sister couldn't hide her disappointment. She probably wondered what the heck Santa was thinking!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2012 9:53:59 GMT -5
yes today (1st Dec) is the day we have always in 39 years put up and decorated our Christmas Tree, and very nice it looks too.
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Post by sdw on Dec 1, 2012 10:43:45 GMT -5
One of my Christmas memories is my sister and I getting a tape recorder,it was in the early 1970's.We recorded about everthing.We had the tape recorder for several years.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 1, 2012 14:15:47 GMT -5
You guys should know me by know....I don't know how to share "one" thing....I always have several!!!! When I was 5 years old my Aunt gave me a zagnut candy bar on Christmas Eve at our family get together. I wanted to eat it when we got home but Mom said I had to wait. She had me put it on the kitchen counter. Later we sat out cookies & milk for Santa. My candy bar was about a foot from them. The next morning it was all gone.....cookies, milk & my zagnut candy bar!!!!!!!! Mom & Dad told me that Santa had ate it. Years later I found out that my Dad ate it. I had my heart set on that candy bar. When I was 6 years old after we had opened our presents we went over to my paternal Grandparents house. My Grandfather had alzheimer's & he had not recognized anyone or spoke for over a year at that time. I came into their house singing, "We wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!" As soon as my Grandfather saw me he said, "KIM!" Everyone stopped what they were doing, you could hear a pin drop, because for a brief second he had recognized me & called me by name. ;D When I was 8 years old my Uncle & Aunt came over to play the card game ROOK with my parents (they didn't have any children of their own). My brother fell asleep & I pretended to be. My parents, Uncle & Aunt played Santa. Well, I couldn't go to sleep until I knew what had been left under the tree. I thought I could sneak into the living room & see. They were in the kitchen playing cards. As I was sneaking into the living room, my Mom saw me & asked why was I up? I told her that my stomach didn't feel good. She brought me into the kitchen & gave me some alka seltzer. That really did make me sick! I was sitting on my Uncle's knee when I was drinking it & I threw up all over him. They left shortly after that. I went to bed, my folks went to bed & then I finally got to sneak under the Christmas tree!! My poor Dad could never get my Mom anything she liked or wanted for Christmas. When I was 12 I was with my Mom out shopping. At a local store she raved about a winter coat & some fancy drinking glasses. I went home & told my Dad that I knew exactly what Mom wanted. He & I went back to the store & bought the coat & glasses. She was very HAPPY that Christmas. My husband & I had been married 11 years in 1996. We had underwent infertility treatments, applied to adopt, etc...We decided to become foster parents. We had only had short term foster children so far & by December we did not have any children in our home. Well, our two oldest daughters came to live with us as foster children on 12/18/1996, one week before Christmas. They were 6 & 7 years old at the time. All our married life we had never got to play Santa, we had always woke up on Christmas Day with no children in our house. I had to rush out & buy presents for them & my husband was working 12 hour swing shifts at that time. He had to work from noon on Christmas Eve until midnight. He came home, helped me play Santa & he ended up falling asleep in the rocking chair in the living room, When the girls woke up a couple of hours later, they thought it was so funny that "Daddy" was asleep in the chair. I have a wonderful picture of them standing by him asleep in the rocking chair. That was a memorable Christmas. ;D Christmas Day 2010 we had a true White Christmas! First one I had ever experienced or saw in my lifetime!! I told my children to enjoy it because it had taken me 44 years to see one. We all went out & played in it after we opened presents.
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Post by Brenda on Dec 1, 2012 14:36:08 GMT -5
Awww...I love reading everyone's memories. I guess one of my favorite childhood memories of Christmas was when I was about 10 years old. My younger sister would have been about 8, and my older brother and sister were teenagers. My dad's plant where he worked had been on strike for about 6 months, and my parents had very little money that year, as you can imagine. So they told us that we weren't getting anything for Christmas. On Christmas morning, we woke up expecting nothing, but when we went into the living room, there were presents for each of us under the tree. We had a little shopping center, sometimes called a strip mall, near our home, that had a W.T Grant store. Some of you older members might remember those 10 cent stores that nearly every town had. Well, on Christmas eve, they drastically reduced the price of all their toys, and my parents went there and shopped for us. I can remember that my older sister also got a watch and my brother got a new jacket. I'm not sure what else they got. But my younger sister and I each got a beautiful doll, and my mother, who could sew beautifully, stayed up most of the night making clothes for our dolls and matching clothes for us! Somewhere I have a picture of my sister and me on that Christmas morning, holding our dolls and wearing our matching pajamas. That was the best Christmas ever! Brenda
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 1, 2012 14:36:57 GMT -5
One of my Christmas memories is my sister and I getting a tape recorder,it was in the early 1970's.We recorded about everthing.We had the tape recorder for several years. I also got a tape recorder one year too. I recorded all of the theme songs off TV at the beginning of the shows. I still have the recorder over 35 years later but it doesn't work anymore. Wish it did, I still have blank cassette tapes! ;D
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Post by marylou01 on Dec 1, 2012 20:18:05 GMT -5
I love reading everyone's Christmas memories
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Post by River on Dec 1, 2012 22:12:44 GMT -5
One of my Christmas memories is my sister and I getting a tape recorder,it was in the early 1970's.We recorded about everthing.We had the tape recorder for several years. I also got a tape recorder one year too. I recorded all of the theme songs off TV at the beginning of the shows. I still have the recorder over 35 years later but it doesn't work anymore. Wish it did, I still have blank cassette tapes! ;D Me too! Did you record MASH and Dallas? Those were 2 of my favorites!
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 2, 2012 0:20:23 GMT -5
I also got a tape recorder one year too. I recorded all of the theme songs off TV at the beginning of the shows. I still have the recorder over 35 years later but it doesn't work anymore. Wish it did, I still have blank cassette tapes! ;D Me too! Did you record MASH and Dallas? Those were 2 of my favorites! Yes I did....along with the Waltons theme, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, etc...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2012 7:45:47 GMT -5
One of my Christmas memories is my sister and I getting a tape recorder,it was in the early 1970's.We recorded about everthing.We had the tape recorder for several years. I also got a tape recorder one year too. I recorded all of the theme songs off TV at the beginning of the shows. I still have the recorder over 35 years later but it doesn't work anymore. Wish it did, I still have blank cassette tapes! ;D Like some others here, I did the same thing as you. Recorded TV show themes on the tape recorder
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Post by goodnight on Dec 2, 2012 10:12:59 GMT -5
Me too! Did you record MASH and Dallas? Those were 2 of my favorites! Yes I did....along with the Waltons theme, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, etc... I got a tape recorder for Christmas one year too, Once I taped my best friend and I talking when we were playing a game of monopoly. It was rather funny as we were competitive. And we were deliberately trying to be funny as well. One time when I was four my mom took me to a Sears or a Kmart store to see Santa. I ran up and said "Here I am Santa!" There was a picture taken and I had on bib overalls and a striped shirt and a winter hat. I was cute I wonder what happened. I never taped the TV theme songs, I wish I had. The ones you mentioned are all good ones. The best one I recall is the one for Greatest American Hero if anyone remembers that. And the one for St. Elsewhere. Some shows don't even have theme songs anymore, they just throw up the title and put the actor credits after the program starts. More time for commercials I guess.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 2, 2012 10:44:02 GMT -5
One of my Uncles is just 3 years older than me, so we grew up like brother & sister. He also had a tape recorder. When Star Wars came out in 1977, my Mom took my Uncle & me to see it. He brought along his tape recorder (remember those things were pretty big, no hiding them) & recorded the movie theme. After the movie was over & we were leaving, a theatre employee saw it & asked if we had recorded anything. My Uncle said yes. They told him that he would have to erase it & he did so in front of them. We apologized because at 11 & 14 years old we did not know that wasn't allowed. Can you imagine if that happened today? They would probably call the cops on you! Copyright infringement, piracy!
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Post by clyde on Dec 2, 2012 13:01:23 GMT -5
Forever Waltons - I remember that 2010 white Christmas in Alabama as well. It was great. It was also the sane year that our golden retriever knocked over our 8 foot tall fully decorated Christmas tree. Luckily it landed on the couch, not the dog. The water in the stand, however, landed EVERYWHERE! We decided NOT to start a tradition of Christmas tree throw downs!
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Post by Tonyray on Dec 2, 2012 14:39:55 GMT -5
About 5 years ago our granddaughter was with us for Christmas she was 6 years old at the time on Christmas eve morning she came running into our bed room saying that their was Rain Deer in the yard I got up and looked and sure enough their was well just deer. Another time this wasn't at Christmas But I did catch my tomato thief.
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