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Christmas is now on the way and just for a laugh I thought it would be a cool idea to write down a few of the strangest things I have recieved over the holiday season.
Her mind seems to be drifting further and further away each year as the presents are getting weirder with each passing Christmas. I seem to always receive these from my Aunt who simply loves to buy everyone crazy gifts. These gifts make you feel like a kid again and are welcome over the normal socks and clothes.
Some of these xmas gifts have even been Eco gifts which I cannot say I am a personal fan of but nevertheless some of them have been really quite fun to mess around with, so without further waffling, here is the list of my favourites.
The Fighting Old Gits
The great thing about these is that whenever they are switched on you seem to get a small gathering of people each routing for one granddad over the other. Basically you get two toy granddads and once you set them down on the table or wherever they start hitting each other with canes. It was just like watching Hulk Hogan wrestle it out in twenty years time.
The wack USB chess game
Of course personally I will never play chess, I thought it was still a cool little gift as the set knew exactly when I made a wrong move
Bed Linen
Yes I received fair-trade bed linen from my mad aunt and this is the strangest of all the items received as it isn’t even a crazy gift.
Has she now lost it altogether? I am quite looking forward to seeing what present I recieve from her this holliday season. What will it be?
How about you – let me know in the comments what your weirdest christmas presents have been.
As Christmas is finally on its way I thought I would start to get into the mood by writing about some of the strangest things I have actually been given.
With each passing year the gifts just seem to get madder and madder meaning only one thing, is my aunt losing it. My Aunt is the one who does this as she always hands out crazy gifts. These gifts make you feel like a kid again and are welcome over the normal socks and clothes.
Some of these xmas gifts have even been green gifts which I cannot say I am a personal fan of but nevertheless some of them have been really quite fun to mess around with, so without further baffling, here is the list of my favourites.
Fighting Granddads
These granddads are so simple to use and even better to watch, it is amazing to see a room cheer for a certain old fogey. I looked on in amazement as I had two toy old men who whenever put near eachother started to attempt to kill one another. However I did get a bit of enjoyment out of watching two old men hit eachother with a stick, is that so wrong.
The wack USB chess game
Although personally I cannot stand chess I still thought it was a cool gift simply because the device knew exactly when I was making a mistake which just so happened to be all the time
The poor Bed linen gift
Yes I received eco bed linen from my mad aunt and this is the strangest of all the items received as it isn’t even a crazy gift.
has Aunt lost the last part of her mind? The wait for Christmas is on and I cannot wait to see what I get from her this year. After all, most people have that crazy person who loves to give out wacky gifts every year right?
How about you – let me know in the comments what your weirdest christmas presents have been.
Although it would seem a bit shame for me to talk about Christmas when it is still a few months away yet, many people are out there looking for ethical gifts. The problem is, when is there ever any time at all. Some people may have time off in October to do shopping and some leave it to late November and even a few days before Christmas in an attempt to get some last minute deals.
Is there anyone in your family who takes looking after the environment seriously, if so there are many gifts out there for them.
The comfy Fair Trade Slippers
Alpaca’s are what make up these slippers and no this is not made up at all. Not one of these animals has been slaughtered for this cause, all of them that are used have died of natural causes. The people who make these are paid well as these slippers are fair trade so you get the best of comfort in the slippers and knowing someone is having a decent life.
How about that Organic Bathrobe
In terms of recycled tableware this is going to be of no use to you whatsoever, however this bathrobe is made out of organic cotton and is very comfy indeed.
When it comes to vases to keep the flowers in you wouldn’t expect to find recycled vases but believe it or not you can even be eco friendly when it comes to keeping your flowers looking nice and healthy.
All of these gifts are perfect for anyone with the love of the environment and although your son isn’t going to prefer a fair trade slipper over a brand new Xbox 360, granddad and granny may love to receive these presents. Of course if you are enthusiastic about these kinds of things then why not purchase them for yourself?
So there you have it, you decide when and how you are going to do your Christmas shopping.
Apart from the food and decorations, Christmas greeting cards are a huge part of the holiday season. At some point in our lives, almost every individual has sent out greeting cards to their friends or family. Exchanging Christmas greeting cards have become a tradition not only in the United States, but most countries around the world. However, most people don’t even know how this practice started, why and how come it became as important as it is now. Let’s try tracing back its roots and find out for ourselves just how important and fascinating Christmas greeting cards have become through the years.
When it came to sending out greeting cards, who would have done it better than the Englishman? London is the primary origin of this tradition. Back then, it was a common practice for English folks to send out Christmas greeting cards to friends and family. These were all handwritten or bore some personal greeting from the sender. However, one busy Englishman, by the name of Sir Henry Cole, commissioned the artist, John Callcott Horsley to create and paint greeting cards for him because he simply did not have enough time. He wanted to just be able to add his signature and send out the cards. This went well until after Horsley decided to paint a picture of children enjoying the holiday spirit drinking wine. It saw a sudden end, however, in the 20th century; Kate Greenaway created the first few preprinted cards.
It wasn’t long before Christmas greeting cards became a tradition in the United States. Louis Prang, an American Lithograph printer, created and sold these cards. Most were designed with snowmen pictures, flowers, birds, toys and children enjoying the holiday season. As times have pushed on, the whole tradition of sending out Christmas greeting cards became a huge part of our culture.
Christmas greeting cards are one of the most important things that people send out during the holidays. It not only allows people to send out holiday cheers, but it also makes the receiver feel important, knowing that they are remembered. There are two kinds of greeting cards available today. One is the paper greeting card and the other one is the electronic greeting card.
Paper Christmas cards are still used abundantly, but electronic cards are right behind its trail since it is such a convenient method. If you have computer access, an internet and an email address. Unlike paper cards where you have to wait for weeks for it to be received, you can actually get the e-card in a matter of seconds. This spreads the yuletide spirit much faster.
For people who like to maintain a sense of personal touch, paper Christmas greeting cards are still preferred. Sending out paper cards might have disadvantages like requiring time and effort as well as entailing costs, but it also has several good points. For one thing, paper cards can be kept for a lifetime unlike e-cards that can only be stored electronically. It also allows you to be creative and add your own personality to the card. Maybe you can personalize the message or add pictures to it. Sending out paper cards showcases how much the person means to you. Whatever kind of Christmas greeting cards you choose to send out, at the heart of it should be a celebration of the holiday cheer and laughter.
My family only gets together on special occasions, such as Christmas. My grandparents house will usually fill with all my family members, talking and having fun, opening presents, playing games, eating lots of food, while celebrating Christmas. Even though this might sound like fun, trust me, it most certainly is not, or at least for me.
Since most of the men in my family have political careers, they have a boring habit of talking only about this. Since I know absolutely nothing about this subject, I have nothing to do but stare at the ceiling, or talk to my cousins. They’re much younger than me, so I don’t have lot of things to talk to them about, but any activity that keeps me from having to listen to my relatives speaking, is a good one.
Considering the big age difference between me and my cousins, it’s not a big surprise that I ran out of things to talk to them about, and the Christmas movies that were on TV didn’t interest me. Luckily, I remembered a Christmas present that I hadn’t really used, and was just sitting in my drawer.
It was a iriver h10 player, and it was a real life saver. Their conversations just faded away, and I was hearing nothing but my music. My parents were really upset with me, and kept constantly reminding me how rude I was, listening to music all of the time, but I was fine with it. Christmas became much more fun, after discovering my rarely-used present.
When I grew up and move out of my parents house, I took my player with me. Now, when I know Christmas is approaching quickly, and all my relatives start coming, I get it ready by filling it up with my favorite music. We love listening to all the old holiday songs no matter where we are–in the house, traveling in the car, or even while we’re out choosing our Christmas tree.
There are a lot of wonderful benefits for people when they read Christmas short stories to children and discuss the meanings of these Christmas stories with them. Both the one who reads and the one who is listening will gain in many ways from the shared experience. The children learn the lessons from the stories, and can also gain feedback or ask questions to the people they trust. This type of guidance will help them develop their personal beliefs, and will also help them gain a deep faith and understanding in their own self worth and abilities.
When adults and teens share Christmas short stories with younger children by reading to them, they are bridging any kind of generational barrier and they are opening the eyes and minds of youngsters. Children are eager to learn, and invaluable lessons about humanity are a great way of sharing established ideas. This time spent together provides a great foundation for kids to discover their own thoughts and interpretations of the Christmas stories that you share with them. Interacting in this way also enables a stronger relationship between the readers and the children they read to.
Anyone who is reading these Christmas short stories to smaller children will have an impact on the lives of these younger ones. This impact may be lifelong, meaningful, and positive. One of the benefits that does not get credit many times is the fact that you are helping the children expand their minds and you are helping to introduce them to concepts that will serve them well in discovering who they are.
By taking the time to share and explore the wisdom contained within Christmas stories with younger people, you are opening their eyes to all sorts of ideas and understanding and you will have the chance to answer many of their questions yourself. This will help you also discover and deepen your own understanding.
Apparently, my mom tells me, that everyone the Christmas sadness one time or two in their life.I always thought that it was impossible.Christmas is my favorite. It is the holiday that I look forward to the most. But they’re right. I’ve got the Christmas blues. Christmas stress have officially arrived. I can’t face the idea of pre lit garland.
I cant think of what has gotten into me. I am wiped out recently. I was supposed to get gifts for everyone this week but I just can’t seem to find the right kind of cheer I need.I always try to my best to have a cheerful demeanor because I believe that when you shop happy you buy gifts that make people happy. As if things couldn’t get any worse, mu husband Jim was talking to his boss who mentioned how much fun he had at last years dinner party so essentially invited himself. Jim must have “forgotten” to tell me again last night.
So aside from the gifts I still have to buy and the Christmas stress I have to get out of, I have to prepare a dinner party that will top the one I gave before. I’d like to switch the toggle to turn myself into Superwoman. There’s nothing going on. I’m just too tired. With my luck I’m going to come down with a cold. It’ll be a blow for the kids. They’re really expecting my usual upbeat self during Christmas season. I wouldn’t want to hamper their festive mood.
Ugh. I really, really don’t feel so good.Pardon me…. WHAT!? I’m officially out of my Christmas stress.
I just got the news that me and my husband are having a baby! Bring on the party! I guess the holiday garland might get hung this year.
I’ve never been one to ask for a normal gift under my LED christmas treeFor the past forty-three years of my life, I would always wish for something unique. {Believe it or not|You may not think what I say is true}, I would always get my wish granted by Santa Clause, whom until now I believe exists.
As an example, there was a time that I wished for two gentlemen to court me on Valentine’s Day, and it happened. A goofy smile came over my face later that month, because I was thinking Santa made it happened. And for the following year, I again wished for something extraordinary, which is I would meet a man on a train when I go to Berlin. And then three days before the next Christmas day, when I went to Germany on the train, I was sitting beside a man who I talked to for the entire ride. That man became my husband, Ralph. Now that is a great gift no one gets under their LED fiber optic christmas tree.
I figure after so many years of great presents that Santa has delivered to me I would ask for something for someone else. this year I’d like to use my Christmas wish for one of my patients who has a bad case of diabetes. She is supposed to have her foot cut off that she is losing to the disease on the 1st of January, after she acquired a diabetic foot . She is the mother of three children and a Russian immigrant; the eldest is only twelve and the youngest is two and a half. She lives alone since her mother died of a heart attack six months ago. Her life will be a lot different if she has the operation, knowing that her income only comes from a simple family business of pottery and blown glass.
If I can decide what I really wanted this Christmas season, I would ask that I do a good job on the operating table, and let me give her the bet advice I can, and let her follow it. A less realistic wish is that people in powerful positions like government would care more about disadvantaged groups.
The holidays can bring a lot of fun and happiness, but along comes stress as well. Annually, I get myself all stressed out over the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season. Sometimes for me, I see Christmas just like the usual depressing and happiest holiday of the year. Why? Because it makes me think about something that I haven’t achieve for this whole year, and another year is about to come and make me struggle to get into that goal. It’s the fact of having a baby, is the thing that is so depressing for me. My man Labron, he just helps me relax and makes sure I don’t worry myself to death at this holiday that comes once a year and always ends up ok. Everything down to picking up my new upside down christmas tree stresses me out!
I always believe though that maybe it’s the only time of this year that I get to notice some of the things I don’t possibly have, that’s why I go to this some sort of Christmas stress. But things actually turn better when eve comes. There are people who I see that I rarely get to, my parents for one, since they live in Maine and we are all the way in Florida, also I like to see my 3 nieces. That being said, on occasion we don’t push them to come to our house over the holidays for the reason that I know they have a lot of stuff to do as well.
Due to everything, I try to do a few things I’ve learned over the years to distract myself. Often I try to look into the future and write down everything I need to get done for Christmas day. My husband manages to help me out by giving me second ideas on our next planned expenses during Christmas too. Next year my hope is that we will be able to spend Christmas away from home, the hope being the stress levels would be lower. I like to think of the things I’m looking forward to purely for my enjoyment like my chandelier christmas tree.
Lots of people think that the stress of the Holidays comes from the Christmas rush, or that people stress out from the pressure of the season, like decoration, the Christmas turkey or ham, or picking out the perfect present to make family members happy. For some of us we aren’t so lucky as for our main source of stress to be what goes under the lighted christmas tree, but a lot of other considerations. But for us doctors, Christmas stress never ends when the clock strikes twelve, and the 26th of December was marked on the calendar. For doctors the holidays last 365 days a year, or really the holiday stress follows us everywhere.
The holidays are about hope and giving life. Physicians like myself make life changing decisions every day, not just for ourselves, but for our patents as well. We make them happy, especially if we can detect hope for their illness. Doctors do everything in their power to make clients feel better, when when recovery is near impossible, we just do our best to help them accept their situation and make them make the best out of the time they have left.
That’s why all the days of the year are like Christmas, and it really does make for a lot of stress on ones person, it’s a major thing when you’re being part of someone’s last breath. There are times, you can’t hold long by being strong in front of a dying patient, and what you can do is just to empathize, or better yet, get out of the room and keep the sorrow for yourself. This is the reason why being a doctor can overload one with stress. Indeed, Christmas stress is different when you are in a medical profession, because you cannot get away from it, instead you need to learn to accept it as a normal part of your life. So this year when you’re sitting around the lighted christmas wreath just relax and think it could be worse.