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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: Lula Date: December 16, 2021, 10:06 am
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OK, now it just sounds like the author is fabricating trite
straw versions of people of certain political leanings. Very
dull.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: Wanaca Date: December 16, 2021, 11:16 am
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[quote author=Lula link=topic=2228.msg72457#msg72457
date=1639670811]
OK, now it just sounds like the author is fabricating trite
straw versions of people of certain political leanings. Very
dull.
[/quote]
I had this feeling too. Although I thought the updates were
interesting, it was less believable.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: Mrs Rat Date: December 16, 2021, 12:07 pm
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My mum had 7 siblings who had between 2 & 3 kids each, we'd
gather at her sister's large property for lunch on xmas day.
They had a swimming pool which was never clean enough to swim
in, a trampoline, a tennis net spread over the lawn and two
spits one a lamb and one pork. My parents would bring one gift
each for my brother & I plus each other & Nana - repeat for each
sibling. They would all go into Santa's sack & when the time
came my uncle would dress up as Santa and hand out the gifts. It
was always a great day & I especially remember the huge lolly
scramble bag. I always felt extra special because we lived
closest to Nana and would pick her up and drop her home.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: holly firestorm Date: December 16, 2021, 12:30 pm
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[quote author=Wanaca link=topic=2228.msg72458#msg72458
date=1639674982]
[quote author=Lula link=topic=2228.msg72457#msg72457
date=1639670811]
OK, now it just sounds like the author is fabricating trite
straw versions of people of certain political leanings. Very
dull.
[/quote]
I had this feeling too. Although I thought the updates were
interesting, it was less believable.
[/quote]
That is quite possible. An awful lot of what we see and read
nowadays is less concerned with being truthful than luring us in
by getting us "riled up." On the other hand, there are a lot of
awful people like Timmy & co. out there...and it's not
necessarily people of a certain political leaning either.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: NewHomeowner Date: December 17, 2021, 6:54 am
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[quote author=pjeans link=topic=2228.msg72255#msg72255
date=1638829900]
Luckily my family and DH family have been quite fair in this
area, but I've seen it all the time with friends!
I might suggest family gifts. My mom did that with large sets of
cousins, where she put together movie night baskets, or bought
board games, or tickets to some event. It helped keep the price
affordable for the large families, and solved the dilemma of
what on earth to get for some of these kids that she didn't
really know and only seem to want $100 shoes and the like.
--and I agree that Christmas is not all about the chilllllldren.
Often the people who say that are really making it about
themselves. ...and they're acting like children, so there's
that...
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That's what I did, when I was younger, considerably poorer, and
it seemed that all of my friends were 'families' - often the
parents and siblings of the friend I saw a lot. So I'd cook up
a whole lot of cookies, then pack them into buckets and give a
bucket to each family.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: NewHomeowner Date: December 17, 2021, 7:12 am
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[quote author=Soop link=topic=2228.msg72421#msg72421
date=1639488242]
There are updates to the original Reddit post! Is it okay for me
to put in a link?
Wow, that escalated.
HTML https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/r29jh3/we_husband_32m_me_26f_have_been_told_by_his/
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:o :o :o :o :o.
I have no words.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: MinMom3 Date: December 22, 2021, 9:56 pm
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It said it was a repost, and when I looked a week ago or so, the
OP of the original story hasn't posted anything in 6 years, as
best I can tell. I do wonder what happened to them all.
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Re: Christmas Gifting Issues
By: Venus193 Date: December 23, 2021, 10:45 am
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I would think that the OP of that tale went NC with most of the
in-laws and probably had to stay that way for her and her
husband's mental health.
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