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22nd October 2009, 05:39 PM
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22nd October 2009, 05:49 PM
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Reps: 1,017,882,919,370,317,952 (power: 0) | | With 7 kids at home, there's a mountain of presents to wrap. So last year I convinced my wife to just put everything out unwrapped and let the kids sort it out. Toys, books, electronics, clothes all in a big pile under the tree. They fought and fought, and cried and cried, and I laughed until my sides hurt.
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22nd October 2009, 06:11 PM
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Reps: 14,293,166,097,171,188 (power: 14,293,166,097,182) | | Blind post. Originally Posted by ChooseTheRight 
When does the Christmas season start for you?
November 1, no exceptions 
It's been this way for me since I was a kid. In Canada we don't have Thanksgiving in November (it's back in October a couple weeks ago) so there's nothing between me and Christmas after Hallowe'en. On Nov. 1 we'd always put up at least ONE decoration on Nov 1 to symbolize that it was FINALLY that time of year and that the stupidity of Hallowe'en (I loathe Hallowe'en) was finally over, hee hee.
Love Christmas. Including the commercialism.
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22nd October 2009, 06:25 PM
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22nd October 2009, 07:29 PM
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Reps: 103,644,116,902,950,112 (power: 103,644,116,902,955) | | | When we had our first born we decided that Santa brings 3 gifts...that's it. And mom and dad give you christmas pj's on Christmas Eve and something simple or homemade(usually a book). We've stuck with it now for 12 years.....the kids get 3 things Christmas morning. We told them 3 was good enough for baby Jesus,lol. The kicker is that you feel compelled to get them what they ask for...so one year my daughter wanted a rat(yuck)...and another year my daughter asked for a "teeny tiny castle"....um,ok. At least now we know that if they ask for something....they really want it because they wouldn't waste a gift.
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22nd October 2009, 07:32 PM
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22nd October 2009, 07:36 PM
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Reps: 14,293,166,097,171,188 (power: 14,293,166,097,182) | | Originally Posted by b.hopeful so one year my daughter wanted a rat(yuck)...
I used to breed rats  They make lovely pets.
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22nd October 2009, 07:47 PM
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Reps: 242,068,944,616,009,632 (power: 242,068,944,616,027) | | Originally Posted by D.W.Washburn For me the Christmas season begins on December 24 and ends at Epiphany.
The season of pre-Christmas preparation is Advent.
I'm a liturgical Grinch.
LOL, same for me!
(Technically it ends on Candlemass, February 2.)
We buy the tree usually well after Saint Nicholas Eve (Dec. 5th, that's when the Dutch give presents, not at Christmas) and decorate it around 18 December, sometimes 20. The nativity scene is Jesus-less until Christmas - at midnight Dec. 24-25. Then he comes down from heaven (the attic in our stable). Last year our cat threw him out.
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23rd October 2009, 12:16 AM
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Reps: 103,644,116,902,950,112 (power: 103,644,116,902,955) | | Originally Posted by BeyondAshes I used to breed rats They make lovely pets.
I have to admit...he was a pretty neat pet. He didn't live very long...but he was a 5$ feeder rat. I wish we would've found a breeder. He only lived about 18 months. My daughter read stuff on the internet about keeping rats happy and she would fill a dishtub with clean potting soil and add trinkets and bits of food and he would root around for a long time. She made rat pinatas out of toilet paper rolls. We have 3 cats and he would crawl all over them...they didn't care. He'd groom their ears. He was neat. His tail took some getting used to though......shudder....rat tails.
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23rd October 2009, 06:24 AM
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Reps: 242,068,944,616,009,632 (power: 242,068,944,616,027) | | | What, you had a rat and cats? And it went well? You had the cats before the rat, right? Did you get the rat as a baby? Didn't the cats try to attack him?
I love rats and would love to have one, but I always assumed that wasn't a good idea since we have cats. (They both love to hunt.)
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