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The first four of my christmas cards will go out tomorrow. If you still want in , there's plenty of time to act! The cards are religious/holiday generic, but the only stamps I could find are Mary and Jesus stamps. So far I don't think I'm mailing to anyone who might have a problem with that (i.e. Hannukah cards or something of the like).

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The other night, as[Unknown site tag]dude was helping me out with putting lights up on my tree, it occured to me that we had very different styles for decorating. I had this image of my first Christmas with a significant other, or perhaps a new roomate, and wondered how interesting it would be to try to meld styles. For instance, I really hate tinsel garland, and instead love to use icicle tinsel and ribbon on my tree. I can imagine falling in love with someone who lives by tinsel garland, hates the ribbons, and thinks icicle garland is nothing but a big mess.

Have you ever had any interesting issues trying to reconcile holiday traditions with a new person, perhaps after marriage or co-habitation, or maybe a roomate? Perhaps that Christmas village they're so attached to, but you wish you could break every little piece of and flush down the toilet?

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Ah, whatever happened to the days of early grade school, when you could buy Christmas presents for the whole family for under ten dollars at your school's annual "Santa's Workshop", or "Christmas Fair" or whatever? While decorating the tree, I noticed that my dad still has three or four ornaments I know we purchased for him in grade school at precisely these fairs. One was embroidered with "DAD", and probably cost $2.50- and extra fifty cents for the "personalization". I also have a collection of ornaments that I made each year, most of which have my school picture in it. I still have ornaments from kindergarten, first, second and third grade that probably should be tossed, but I just can't bear to part with them (in fact, I have them because my mom tried to toss them a few years ago, and I rescued them). I also noticed that some of my dad's old ornaments are almost bordering on heirloom, as long as they continue to make it through one Christmas after another.

Are there any particular ornaments you know you could never part with? Ones that need to be tossed, but still show up on the tree year after year? Any that have particular sentimental attachment?

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I think everyone is getting cookies for Christmas. Be warned.