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Does anyone else (besides my family) break the dawn sneaking up on someone just to "get them" with this greeting?
Ever since I was little (and that's been a while!), my family has taken this tradition to the outer limits. Tradition has it that should you greet someone/anyone with this greeting before they say it to you, that person owes you a gift. Naturally, the gifts have long since fallen to the wayside, but every year the challenge requires more forethought. In the "old days" one was clever by answering the phone, "Christmas Eve Gift!" But in the days of modern ease of communication, one must outsmart potential "victims." Though my younger brother comes up with additional "rules" every year I "get" him (this morning via text message!), no matter how it is relayed, the FIRST person who says it deserves the "gift." Today he wrote back and said that it had to be via voice. Now how the heck would he know....I was doing it 5 years before he was even born!!! LOL Personally, I think only the "losers," come up with all of these rules in a (failed) effort to disqualify those of us who outwitted them. giggle........ Having said all of that. For any/all of you who do participate in this silly, yet heartwarming game....... CHRISTMAS EVE GIFT!! gotcha!!       |
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Loved it SIS.....Merry Christmas and hope to see you this week sometime...Take care and love ya!!!
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christmas Eve Gift, Bo!
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Hahahaha,
My EX-outlaws do that. Not me anymore though!! 
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The game sounds like fun! Have a safe and very Merry Christmas everyone!
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Its always nice to keep traditions going. Ours is baking lots of Xmas cookies and making candy, no matter what!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone!! |
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Edited by
Nervesgone
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Mon 12/24/07 06:00 AM
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Does anyone else (besides my family) break the dawn sneaking up on someone just to "get them" with this greeting? Ever since I was little (and that's been a while!), my family has taken this tradition to the outer limits. Tradition has it that should you greet someone/anyone with this greeting before they say it to you, that person owes you a gift. Naturally, the gifts have long since fallen to the wayside, but every year the challenge requires more forethought. In the "old days" one was clever by answering the phone, "Christmas Eve Gift!" But in the days of modern ease of communication, one must outsmart potential "victims." Though my younger brother comes up with additional "rules" every year I "get" him (this morning via text message!), no matter how it is relayed, the FIRST person who says it deserves the "gift." Today he wrote back and said that it had to be via voice. Now how the heck would he know....I was doing it 5 years before he was even born!!! LOL Personally, I think only the "losers," come up with all of these rules in a (failed) effort to disqualify those of us who outwitted them. giggle........ Having said all of that. For any/all of you who do participate in this silly, yet heartwarming game....... CHRISTMAS EVE GIFT!! gotcha!! Oh yea whispers, you win!!! Come get your present!!!  |
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WoooooooooHooooooooooo!
Presents! Presents! Presents! |
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My family has a tradition of being really silly at Christmas. If people don't put gifts in really strange boxes (which is hilarious, and I'm guilty of having done it myself), they pull jokes like this one my son chose to do on Saturday, when the family was together in MI. (My daughter and I live in Ohio.) My son had pulled my brother in law's name (John) for the Secret Santa exchange. He decided to pass on an old trick my father did. (My father passed away in 2004 and if he'd seen what my son had done he would have bust out laughing, too!) The box had a false top inside. But my son went a couple of steps further. He created the impression that the bottom was false, plus he rigged it with wiring, so well, that it required my sister (Kelly) to help him get it all undone. The family laughed big time. My son called me and told me how well it went and so did my mom. This will be remembered in the family history of silly traditions forever. The best tricks only work if the person, of course, is fooled and apparently John was.
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