The day for presents were great but it's all the other things about Christmas where you spent time with your parents and brothers (or sisters if you had them).

Going into the crawlspace to get the decorations and tree because your parents wanted nothing to do with crawling around.

Going to the tree farm to find a real tree to cut down (maybe skip the chainsaw and use a handsaw)

We eventually switched to a fake tree which allowed our family to decorate the tree pretty extravagantly. The mixture of silly child ornaments and expensive ones my mother enjoyed collecting.

The building of a Christmas village under the tree.

Baking chocolate chip cookies for Santa. Once we grew older it was still fun to bake the cookies for the holidays.

Going to "downtown" Arlington Hts and playing at their park with Christmas decorations. Sitting on a old stranger's lap in a Santa costume.

Receiving those German chocolate calendars where you open one door for each day of December to reveal a chocolate.

Just simple things like above where you spend time with your loved ones. MANY of the above are mundane but I remember them moreso than 90% of the gifts I received as a child.

Son, they’re gonna beat on your white ass like it’s a rented mule

It's a Wonderful Life is on the next 2 Saturdays at 8:00.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

It's a Wonderful Life is on the next 2 Saturdays at 8:00.

More importantly, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs tonight on ABC at 7:00p.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

It's a Wonderful Life is on the next 2 Saturdays at 8:00.

This thread pretty much confirmed what I already knew. Anyone who has the word leash in their username needs to be taken out back and shot. Sincerely.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I won Christmas! I won it!!!!

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

What?

Somebody who has not liked me for the better part of 20 years drunkenly told me I am a great mom and a good part of the family. It was taken a little back but it was said!!!!!! In vino veritas!!!! It was a Christmas miracle!!!!!

Still hate it

Somebody who has not liked me for the better part of 20 years drunkenly told me I am a great mom and a good part of the family. It was taken a little back but it was said!!!!!! In vino veritas!!!! It was a Christmas miracle!!!!!

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I cannot be sure about it but I believe a distant in law was hitting on me. She looks remarkably like the mom in "so I married an axe murderer" and was acting like her as well. She even has an accent kind of like the woman. She hugged me very tightly to her for an uncomfortably long time when we first greeted. Then she told me that I keep getting more handsome every year and started touching the greying hair along my temples.

I did not close the deal

I cannot be sure about it but I believe a distant in law was hitting on me. She looks remarkably like the mom in "so I married an axe murderer" and was acting like her as well. She even has an accent kind of like the woman. She hugged me very tightly to her for an uncomfortably long time when we first greeted. Then she told me that I keep getting more handsome every year and started touching the greying hair along my temples.

I did not close the deal

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Always be closing. We're all related.

grandmas are usually like that.

I won't vouch for this woman's age, looks or mental awareness but she undoubtedly has good taste

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I cannot be sure about it but I believe a distant in law was hitting on me. She looks remarkably like the mom in "so I married an axe murderer" and was acting like her as well. She even has an accent kind of like the woman. She hugged me very tightly to her for an uncomfortably long time when we first greeted. Then she told me that I keep getting more handsome every year and started touching the greying hair along my temples.

I did not close the deal

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Another great Christmastime for all involved! What a magical time of the year. I'm already excited about next November and December!

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)