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#130938 - 11/02/07 01:09 AM
Xmas trees already?
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Registered: 11/18/05
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I picked up a prescription this morning and a 10-foot plastic Xmas trees with very large gold balls greeted me inside the store. Isn't this pushing it?
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#130940 - 11/02/07 11:25 AM
Re: Xmas trees already?
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Registered: 08/22/07
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Loc: Southern Maine, USA
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I've seen Christmas things in stores as early as late September. And in the past week I've seen so many TV commercials that are holiday centered. It always surprises me every year and I don't know why. This is commercialism....get those registers ringing!! It also lays the stress on you to get out there and spend money. I LOVE Christmas....and I try harder and harder every year to be less pressured and just enjoy.
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#130947 - 11/04/07 11:56 PM
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Chatty, I can't believe Santas are already out. Or should I say $antas. I love that, Anne, and I'm going to use it. Very clever.
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#130948 - 11/05/07 12:40 PM
Re: Xmas trees already?
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Registered: 08/22/07
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I have always loved Christmas better than any other time of the year....but....don't you all think that each year can be a bit different? For years, I loved it and started early preparations (to the amazement of most)mostly up until my divorce. Nothing has ever been the same since. Each year I do my best and try so hard to make the best of it but it's nothing for me to be driving along in my car and hear a Christmas song and melt into tears. I guess the best way to describe it is bittersweet. My love for it is still very much there but as life changes and more loss comes and goes, it is more bittersweet than ever and I suspect many feel this way. On a lighter note, when I lived in a parsonage (hubby was the senior pastor) we lived across our cul de sac from the young associate pastor and his wife. She and I had "races" each year to see who would decorate first. The "competition" got really intense as the years went by and she ALWAYS won! One year, and sadly it was to be our last holiday there (though I didn't know it then), I was determined! I waited until they left early one morning and knew they'd be gone until evening....I decked that place out like a gingerbread house....tree, lights blinking, trees blinking and waited for them to arrived home and s-l-o-w-l-y round the driveway by our house. I was waving in the picture window! Needless to say, I got a congratulatory call immediately. It was October 13th!!! We were the talk of the church (and I really don't ever want to know ALL of their comments)!
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#130949 - 11/05/07 03:26 PM
Re: Xmas trees already?
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I don't mind seeing Christmas decor and other items but so many have forgotten the real meaning of Christmas and see just the commercial part of it. At times it seems they're making a birthday party without inviting the birthday person itself. For so many it's all about spending and indulging, and getting into debts. I prefer a more relaxed season, surrounded by family and loved ones. I do love giving presents, but stay within my budget.
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#130951 - 11/05/07 07:01 PM
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Our Doctor is a member of Rotary International.He gives us a box (shoebox size) to fill for Eastern Europe.When filled we stick a £1 coin to help with transport.You choose a catagory I choose teenage girl and will fill with gifts .It means shopping with restriction of size but looking for really nice items.Last year I did a little boys box and managed to fit in even pyjamas. We can also choose to send househo;d goods.I enjoy the fact Doctor has to order more each year such is local response. Mountain ash
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