tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442254671730490997.post7095286437394401548..comments2023-10-05T13:28:44.932+02:00Comments on The Island of the Voices: Christmas Gifts and MemoriesDawnTreaderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13956409908791716009noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442254671730490997.post-85697926835753904742010-12-06T13:46:31.956+01:002010-12-06T13:46:31.956+01:00I never really saw the point in buying meaningless...I never really saw the point in buying meaningless last-minute gifts either. Our family traditions in this respect were really rather modest, and we usually tried to give things wanted or needed or at least useful. And I think that already in my teens I stopped exchanging gifts with relatives I rarely saw. <br /><br />But I still like making parcels! So I sometimes tried to come up with some little extras just to make a bigger pile of Christmas parcels (which otherwise would have been very small indeed in later years).DawnTreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13956409908791716009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442254671730490997.post-29203136480808613572010-12-06T10:25:31.106+01:002010-12-06T10:25:31.106+01:00I have a degree of déja vu in this. I have never ...I have a degree of déja vu in this. I have never been a great fan of Christmas since I ceased to be a small boy when I used to love the fact that Uncle Eric came up from several hundred miles away to see the family. I really am rather a Bah Humbug sort of person when it comes to the festivities. If I wished to celebrate the birth of Christ then that would be a religious festival for me. Commercialisation of Christmas brings out the very worst in me. Sorry.<br /><br />If I want to buy a present for someone I want to do it when I see the right thing or when I feel it is the right moment. Christmas when one feels under pressure to buy regardless is not a pleasurable experience for me nor, I suspect, for many people.<br /><br />I think that I might try and find the time to blog on this!GBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10289400344300258872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442254671730490997.post-71145584052001279852010-12-04T20:33:52.934+01:002010-12-04T20:33:52.934+01:00What an adorable picture of you as a toddler! Grow...What an adorable picture of you as a toddler! Growing up, my family were Jehovah's Witnesses, no celebrating Christmas!! The other little kids in school did not understand this. Why not, unless we were Jewish? I spent my grade school years wanting to be Baptist or Catholic like most of the other kids. I never had a Christmas tree till I chose my own religion and was married. I will post about this some time this month.Ginny Hartzlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09329131153403895625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442254671730490997.post-30202347141187560382010-12-04T15:19:14.228+01:002010-12-04T15:19:14.228+01:00fond memmories of Christmas, we were very, very po...fond memmories of Christmas, we were very, very poor, but mother always had lots of presents, she struggle all year long buying presents all year long and hiding them. I loved Christmas and all things presents until my children moved out and there were no children. now we do not do gifts at all for anything, hubby and i feel the same way. I dont like just any gift, it has to be something i like, so i prefer to buy my own.<br />gifts as a chid were dolls and books and paper dolls and clothes. when i was 8 I got a bride doll that was almost as tall as i was. books were my favorite gifts.MadSnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163140037276496519noreply@blogger.com