What day do you open Christmas gifts?

@djjd62,

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that's it, I've had it with you djjd. you're back on ignore.

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The libertarian approach was Christmas Eve; no delay.

In some years, we had guests over on either or both
Christmas Eve and/or for dinner on Christmas Day, in which case,
presents were also exchanged after thay arrived on Christmas Day

In later years, I got the idea to disburse supplementary unexpected presents
at different hours during Christmas Day,
after guests thought that thay had already GOTTEN all of their presents.

I liked surprize gifts like automatic umbrellas covertly stuffed
with bunches of clandestine $20, $50 and $100 bills.
Thay kinda explode, sorta, when put to the test.

David

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Something else that was fun
was to take the assembled children out in the backyard
in daylight on Christmas Day and throw up handfulls of dimes,
quarters, half dollars, Morgan silver dollars from the 1800s and $10 gold pieces,
from the 1800s or pre-Roosevelt 1900s (while yelling: "FREEEEEEEE MONEY!")
so thay fall in the yard; it was like an Easter egg hunt, kinda.

The parents participate by watching from the side, enjoying it vicariously n empathetically,
subsequently re-discussing it at home, re-living it, tending to perpetuate the endurance of the hedonic moment.
Several mothers 've told me that when at home, over the following year,
the children throw things up in the air n shout: "FREEEEEEE MONEEEEEEY!"

FUN is GOOD

David

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children they don't need a lot of stuff children sure do need a lot of love they need love to give them pride to make them feel real good inside

Greg Brown

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@dyslexia,

Greg Brown? So quoting someone who never got a Playstation 3 for Christmas?! Wink

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

Greg Brown? So quoting someone who never got a Playstation 3 for Christmas?!

if dys didn't have me on ignore, he could quote me

i didn't get a playstation 3 either Crying or Very sad

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

tsarstepan wrote:

Greg Brown? So quoting someone who never got a Playstation 3 for Christmas?!

if dys didn't have me on ignore, he could quote me

i didn't get a playstation 3 either

I will bet u $50 that at the exact moment
that did not get a playstation 3, I did not get one either.
I did not get a playstation 2, for that matter.

What 's a playstation ?

When I was 9, I built a wooden station up in a tree
in my backyard, along with other kids in my neighborhood;
maybe that was a playstation. I hung around up there
and read "The Communist Manifesto" and comic books.

I threw away the manifesto (it was abhorent, in the extreme),
but I still have the comic books. I paid a nickle or a dime each,
but now thay r going for hundreds of dollars each; mostly Superman comics.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

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When I was 9, I built a wooden station up in a tree
in my backyard, along with other kids in my neighborhood;
maybe that was a playstation. I hung around up there
and read "The Communist Manifesto" and comic books.

I threw away the manifesto (it was abhorent, in the extreme),
but I still have the comic books. I paid a nickle or a dime each,
but now thay r going for hundreds of dollars each; mostly Superman comics.

David

That's quite an innocent yet wildly precocious story David... The Communist Manifesto at the age of 9?! Seriously?!

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@tsarstepan,

Yea; it was loathsome.

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