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Originally posted by Stormymystic:
sad to say, but we have a hard time with christmas, I try and decorate, but we can not afford the stuff, so we do the best we can each year, and this year, i can not use the glass bulbs like last year, when kids were bearly walking
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I remember when I was little, we'd make these great paper chains with coloured paper and put them on the tree. Looking back I think the tree must have looked awful, but we didn't care when we were kids. LOL my aunt's two children (4 and 6) have such a great time decorating their tree at christmas - it's so gaudy and tacky it really offends my sense of style!
Kids don't care if their tree is the most attractive in the neighbourhood, or uses the most expensive or classy ornaments, just that it's colourful and they got to help [img]smile.gif[/img]
We used to have advent calendars, Bungleau! Actually I think we used to make them ourselves, which was half the fun - I remember one that was Santa's face, and each day we would glue a cotton-wool ball to his beard and by the 25th, his beard was complete! [img]smile.gif[/img]
Well my mum and I are putting our tree up sometime this week, today maybe if we have time. I know some families leave theirs up till January but as festive as it looks before Christmas, it's so tacky and garish on Boxing Day, so we take it down straight after Christmas. We always have Christmas dinner with relatives, this year at an aunt's house. It used to be traditional turkey but now we have a barbecue with turkey breast marinated and barbecued, and salads and ham and so on. Mum and I always wrap the presents together a week or so before Christmas and put them under the tree, except the ones my dad and brother are giving us
. One thing we don't do on Christmas is have carols! They really can get annoying