Really off topic

[TryToKeepUp]

So.. I came across an old photo of me from when i was a kid during Christmas time and all the old memories started rushing back of my sister and i decorating the tree together and playing in the snow.. what are some of your favorite Christmas memories?

[beccaB]

my brother and I fighting over who got to put the one ornament on the tree that has a little whirligig inside and spins around when heat rises from one of the old big lights from the 60's.

[bmccasland]

When I was really little, we lived in France - Dad was a USAF pilot.

Anyway, we went to Germany for Christmas, and I was totally fascinated by Bavaria - the snowy Black Forest, a music box shop, a candle shop (those beautifully carved candles (that just aren't the same coming out of Asia), the painted buildings, and the hand carved wood statues. It all seemed so magical. I have three Thorens music boxes that play little German folk songs.

I want to go back to Bavaria one year for Christmas. Hopefully the magic is still there.

[emily_in_nc]

Waiting until my parents let us run down the stairs and see what Santa Claus brought. The anticipation was SO exciting!

[tulip]

One year my little brother and I got up really early and wrapped ribbons around our waists and tucked ourselves under the tree. We waited there for a long time before our parents came in. They loved it, and still talk about it 35 years later!

[AlwayzOnDaMove]

Well, I wasn't really celebrating Christmas when I was a kid. I remember we used to had family gathering and praying all night ugh.. It was such a boring moments! lol but the food was great I think that is the only thing I'm excited about Christmas hahaha! and It's coming soon!

[Aggie_Ama]

Oh my I love Christmas, I have so many memories. It seems like every year something strikes me as magical. I love family, I love shopping, I love giving, I love getting, I love the cookies, the stockings. I miss my Pawpaw's old record player (a huge chest style one) playing carols, my Nanny got rid of it and my brother and I both cried when we realized that.

We used to go out weekly to this little pizza place, one with red checked table cloths and little candles in glass, the type of place you rarely see anymore. Anyway after leaving we would always walk by this toy shop, it was a pricey one not a Toys R Us but more of a boutique style. All fall there were these two really cool bears in the window, an astronaut and a hospital patient with a bandage. My brother and I wanted them so bad and every week we would stop to look. Early in December the bears were gone, we were absolutely crushed that someone had our bears. Little did we know my parents had bought them, best gift ever to open. I was probably 4 but I remember being so excited. My mom told me later she worked extra hours at her part time job to afford those bears because they were way more than any normal bear. I think they were $50 this must have been 1985. We of course cherished them and still have Cub Canaveral and I named mine Michelle.

Funny thing is this also the year Cabage Patch Kids were so popular, my Pawpaw wouldn't settle on not getting me one. He finally found one "on the black market" and paid $100 for it. I was so excited I could hardly contain it that Christmas.

Now that I think about it I cannot believe they wasted their money so silly but that day I thought I was just the luckiest little girl. I am sure my 4-year old squeels were some sort of payment.

My mom's favorite thing is to still have us decorate her tree. There are two beautiful little ceramic ornaments her sister bought us in 1982. A pink angel with Amanda Jean on it and a blue one that says Jason Wayne. We always hang them together near one another. Mom and Dad still use the same red plastic topper from 1975, the year they were married. It is inexpensive, a bell fell off, it is dated but it is the topper, has to be forever and ever!

[wnyrider]

We didn't celebrate Christmas in my house, but our next door neighbors did and made it a special time for us too. After their kids went to sleep on Christmas Eve, they would call and have us go over to their house. Their children were several years younger than me and my siblings. We then got to help the parents decorate the Tree. It was a terrific time! It was sweet to hear the little ones gushing over the tree the next day.

[TryToKeepUp]

Aww.. those all sound like such fun.. I really wish i was a kid again during that time..

[KeepingUp]

I don't have a favorite memory on Christmas. I was mostly excited the days before when my parents would get my stuff. I gave them a list with 200 toys on it. They almost fell out when the read the list lol. I got a good amount of toys that year. Some things were better than the stuff I originally asked for.

[letsride89]

You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!!!!!!!!!

[Tweet]

I love christmas!!! My two brothers and I use to wake up so excited and run to the tree and rip open the presents to see what santa bought us. My brothers and I use to hop up and down and jump around out of excitement. those were the days. We were so excited in the afternoon when my parents use to take us to see the christmas show at radio city ...we were so silly...we wanted to see santa so we could thank him for the gifts. haha...those were the days

my family and I try to keep the tradition and when we're all together we go to new york and we see the tree and then we go see the christmas spectacular. This year we're going to see the show after not being able to go for about 5 years now. We bought our tixs with a 25% off promo code that i was given at work. Actually let me give u the code...it's "54orchweb" and you use it at checkout when indicated. Here's the link we used to buy our tixs: http://www.radiocity.com/tickets/pro...p_id=54ORCHWEB

I hope this helps since i know that saving nowadays is really important. enjoy