Christmas Meme from kazzy_cee
Dec. 12th, 2007 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
willow_25This one is fun - 24 questions about what you do at Christmas (if you celebrate). I'd love to hear what other people do!!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
A little of both. I'm most likely to use gift bags if I wait until the last minute.
2. Real tree or artificial?
I've always had artificial trees because Mom was allergic to pine. I had my very own real tree one year; I killed it because I wasn't used to watering, it was very expensive, and I lost a few ornaments in the depths of it. Never again.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Thanksgiving weekend and/or the weekend after.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Three Kings Day, January 6th.
5. Do you like Eggnog?
Meh.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
My Dollhouse when I was 8, or my very first stereo when I was 10.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
I have a little plastic dime store creche ornament, circa 1940's, that belonged to my grandmother that I always put on the tree. I also have a teddy bear nativity music box my dad bought me for my first Christmas away from home in college.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My Mom. She's one of those people who gets joy from practical gifts. *blinks at her in confusion*
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My best friends.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Oh, God. I was living in Illinois one year, and flew home to Connecticut for just three days at Christmas. It was right after 9/11, so I couldn't carry very much at all on the plane, and my place in IL was an attic apartment with no kitchen that I was only scheduled to be in for another few weeks. Among other things my parents gave me two sets of more makeup than I could have used in a lifetime and a marble cheese server.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Snail-mail cards!
12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
Miracle on 34th Street. The original, thanks.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. Basically, if I find you a birthday present after your birthday, I'm likely to buy it anyway and save it for Christmas.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Oh, yes.
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?
Cookies. Between us my Mom, aunts, and I make 12 varieties of traditional Italian, German, and more generic USA cookies. We don't make them the whole rest of the year.
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?
I like the colored fairy lights, or the big white ones that flicker like candles.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
I have to pick one?
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Travel. I go to my parents, and from there we go to other family members who live near them.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, Olive.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Usually an Angel, but as a kid we had a huge gaudy old white star that lit up, and I loved it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
First thing in the morning. I still get up incredibly early.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Not having any down time - Every minute is cooking, cleaning, planning, shopping, etc.
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Gifts, giving and recieving.
24. What I love least about Christmas?
The stress.
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
A little of both. I'm most likely to use gift bags if I wait until the last minute.
2. Real tree or artificial?
I've always had artificial trees because Mom was allergic to pine. I had my very own real tree one year; I killed it because I wasn't used to watering, it was very expensive, and I lost a few ornaments in the depths of it. Never again.
3. When do you put up the tree?
Thanksgiving weekend and/or the weekend after.
4. When do you take the tree down?
Three Kings Day, January 6th.
5. Do you like Eggnog?
Meh.
6. Favourite gift received as a child?
My Dollhouse when I was 8, or my very first stereo when I was 10.
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
I have a little plastic dime store creche ornament, circa 1940's, that belonged to my grandmother that I always put on the tree. I also have a teddy bear nativity music box my dad bought me for my first Christmas away from home in college.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
My Mom. She's one of those people who gets joy from practical gifts. *blinks at her in confusion*
9. Easiest person to buy for?
My best friends.
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Oh, God. I was living in Illinois one year, and flew home to Connecticut for just three days at Christmas. It was right after 9/11, so I couldn't carry very much at all on the plane, and my place in IL was an attic apartment with no kitchen that I was only scheduled to be in for another few weeks. Among other things my parents gave me two sets of more makeup than I could have used in a lifetime and a marble cheese server.
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Snail-mail cards!
12. Favourite Christmas Movie?
Miracle on 34th Street. The original, thanks.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. Basically, if I find you a birthday present after your birthday, I'm likely to buy it anyway and save it for Christmas.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Oh, yes.
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas?
Cookies. Between us my Mom, aunts, and I make 12 varieties of traditional Italian, German, and more generic USA cookies. We don't make them the whole rest of the year.
16. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?
I like the colored fairy lights, or the big white ones that flicker like candles.
17. Favourite Christmas song?
I have to pick one?
18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home?
Travel. I go to my parents, and from there we go to other family members who live near them.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph, Olive.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Usually an Angel, but as a kid we had a huge gaudy old white star that lit up, and I loved it.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?
First thing in the morning. I still get up incredibly early.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Not having any down time - Every minute is cooking, cleaning, planning, shopping, etc.
23. What I love most about Christmas?
Gifts, giving and recieving.
24. What I love least about Christmas?
The stress.
