"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
...
> lol, i don't go for pc, but i often say happy holidays, so i don't say the
> wrong thing to an individual...
>
> lots of the food we have eaten forholidays over the years have evolved to
> lwer fat/sugar as we have all aged. dressing for example has half the
> butter and salt it used to and is still perfect... pumpkin pie... no crust
> but still in pie pan, you can use the standard recipe on the back of the
> pumpkin can but sub in splenda, and lower fat items and its still great.
>
> some things like pecan pie just can't be adapted... so now my sister
> "sliver" cuts them. this requires having it cooler, Lee

I guess I am lucky in that we don't really have any holiday traditions when
it comes to food. Used to be my mom would make a Jell-O salad that she
would forget to put on the table. Of course nobody would notice that it
wasn't there because nobody wanted it to begin with! Finally she just
stopped making it. Then she replaced that with deviled eggs which she
always wanted me to make. But then after the third or fourth year of nobody
touching them, I put my foot down and refused to make them.

In our house the tradition isn't food related. We just forget to take down
one decoration. And we don't usually notice it until waaay after the
holidays. This past year we just left it up. It's a nativity scene that
IMO is butt ugly. It's made of sticks and hay and crudely cut out and
painted people. It hangs on the wall. But Angela just fell in love with it
and had to have it. It's on the wall behind the TV and it just seems to
blend right in.

We didn't put out many other decorations this year. I got a new advent
calendar. We dragged a silk poinsettia out of the back house as well as a
tiny metal tree which Ballerina keeps taking in her mouth and running with.
Also my husband's stocking. Angela and I decided to give ours away and buy
new ones and I also got two for the cats. We bought a little 2 foot tree at
Target. It's silver tinsel with white lights and some balls. I let Angela
buy one more package of novelty ornaments and a little skirt at Big Lots and
we put up one string of lights. So it's just enough to make it look a bit
festive but it isn't going to be a pain to take it all down.

we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger and
always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid cat
person, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
> ...
>> lol, i don't go for pc, but i often say happy holidays, so i don't say
>> the wrong thing to an individual...
>>
>> lots of the food we have eaten forholidays over the years have evolved to
>> lwer fat/sugar as we have all aged. dressing for example has half the
>> butter and salt it used to and is still perfect... pumpkin pie... no
>> crust but still in pie pan, you can use the standard recipe on the back
>> of the pumpkin can but sub in splenda, and lower fat items and its still
>> great.
>>
>> some things like pecan pie just can't be adapted... so now my sister
>> "sliver" cuts them. this requires having it cooler, Lee
>
> I guess I am lucky in that we don't really have any holiday traditions
> when it comes to food. Used to be my mom would make a Jell-O salad that
> she would forget to put on the table. Of course nobody would notice that
> it wasn't there because nobody wanted it to begin with! Finally she just
> stopped making it. Then she replaced that with deviled eggs which she
> always wanted me to make. But then after the third or fourth year of
> nobody touching them, I put my foot down and refused to make them.
>
> In our house the tradition isn't food related. We just forget to take
> down one decoration. And we don't usually notice it until waaay after the
> holidays. This past year we just left it up. It's a nativity scene that
> IMO is butt ugly. It's made of sticks and hay and crudely cut out and
> painted people. It hangs on the wall. But Angela just fell in love with
> it and had to have it. It's on the wall behind the TV and it just seems
> to blend right in.
>
> We didn't put out many other decorations this year. I got a new advent
> calendar. We dragged a silk poinsettia out of the back house as well as a
> tiny metal tree which Ballerina keeps taking in her mouth and running
> with. Also my husband's stocking. Angela and I decided to give ours away
> and buy new ones and I also got two for the cats. We bought a little 2
> foot tree at Target. It's silver tinsel with white lights and some balls.
> I let Angela buy one more package of novelty ornaments and a little skirt
> at Big Lots and we put up one string of lights. So it's just enough to
> make it look a bit festive but it isn't going to be a pain to take it all
> down.
>

"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
...
> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger and
> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid cat
> person, Lee

My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my first
tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not sure
if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for $5.00.
To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other customers
for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was able to
fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time and
put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me dress as
an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have the
advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and squirreling
them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights. I
still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I have
an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out. She
can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we also
have a lot of cats and other animals.

When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't have
a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99 cents
per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour. There
were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I made.
I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
popcorn and cranberries.

However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would appear
that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated trees.
Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
ornaments and not even one every year!

I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would flip
out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few of
the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of fishing
floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest. When we
do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things that we
like.

I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the kind
my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were all
silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no personality.

she sounds a bit jealous to me, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
...
>
> "Storrmmee" > wrote in message
> ...
>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger and
>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid cat
>> person, Lee
>
> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my
> first tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby.
> Not sure if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut)
> for $5.00. To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the
> other customers for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around.
> And I was able to fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K
> Mart at the time and put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One
> year they made me dress as an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too
> well. But I did have the advantage of finding all the best ornaments and
> decorations and squirreling them away until they went on sale. I also
> bought a few really nice and expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick
> and Nelson's and Wights. I still buy at least two ornaments from Wights
> each year for Angela. I have an empty ornament storage chest just waiting
> for when she moves out. She can take the ones she wants. She collects
> the ballerina ones and we also have a lot of cats and other animals.
>
> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't
> have a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it.
> I couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99
> cents per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour.
> There were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I
> made. I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands
> of popcorn and cranberries.
>
> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would
> appear that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated
> trees. Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box
> of ornaments and not even one every year!
>
> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would flip
> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few of
> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of fishing
> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest. When
> we do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things
> that we like.
>
> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the
> kind my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were
> all silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no
> personality.
>

"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
...
> she sounds a bit jealous to me, Lee

I thought that too.

On 12/20/2011 1:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger and
>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid cat
>> person, Lee
>
> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my first
> tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not sure
> if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for $5.00.
> To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other customers
> for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was able to
> fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time and
> put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me dress as
> an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have the
> advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and squirreling
> them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
> expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights. I
> still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I have
> an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out. She
> can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we also
> have a lot of cats and other animals.
>
> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't have
> a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
> couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99 cents
> per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour. There
> were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I made.
> I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
> popcorn and cranberries.
>
> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would appear
> that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated trees.
> Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
> ornaments and not even one every year!
>
> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would flip
> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few of
> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of fishing
> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest. When we
> do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things that we
> like.
>
> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the kind
> my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were all
> silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no personality.


I need to ditch a bunch of Christmas decorations...............
fortuntely teenlet is closing in on 18



i'll cull and sort and i'll share the antiques from his Great
Grandmother with him as 'gifts' for Christmas when he's on his own

:/

they all grow older!

kate

that will make a great memory for him, Lee
"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
...
> On 12/20/2011 1:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger
>>> and
>>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid
>>> cat
>>> person, Lee
>>
>> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my
>> first
>> tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not
>> sure
>> if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for
>> $5.00.
>> To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other
>> customers
>> for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was able
>> to
>> fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time
>> and
>> put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me dress
>> as
>> an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have the
>> advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and
>> squirreling
>> them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
>> expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights. I
>> still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I
>> have
>> an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out. She
>> can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we also
>> have a lot of cats and other animals.
>>
>> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't
>> have
>> a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
>> couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
>> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99
>> cents
>> per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour.
>> There
>> were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I made.
>> I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
>> popcorn and cranberries.
>>
>> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would
>> appear
>> that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated trees.
>> Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
>> ornaments and not even one every year!
>>
>> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would flip
>> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few
>> of
>> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of
>> fishing
>> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest. When
>> we
>> do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things that
>> we
>> like.
>>
>> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the
>> kind
>> my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were all
>> silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no personality.
>
>
> I need to ditch a bunch of Christmas decorations............... fortuntely
> teenlet is closing in on 18
>
>
>
> i'll cull and sort and i'll share the antiques from his Great Grandmother
> with him as 'gifts' for Christmas when he's on his own
>
> :/
>
> they all grow older!
>
> kate
>

I collected a number of things that 'no one else wanted' in 'no
uncertain terms'. It cost me close to $3K to reupholster grandma's
couch and chair. Another family member walked into my house and said 'I
see kate gets ALL the antiques'

????????? they were given first offer! and she had NOT clue what MY cost
was, i could have bought some fancy leather lazy-boy recliner sofas for
what that cost me!

lol
(and *I* bought the other antiques that were 'assumed' to be
inherited....... so, i brought out some other 'antiques' that needed
restoring and told her 'Honey, you can have whichever you want and
whatever you want, they will take some work to restore, and they won't
be considered 'antiques' proper as you have restored them)

gotta love family...........

kate

On 12/20/2011 10:41 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
> that will make a great memory for him, Lee
> "Tiger > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 12/20/2011 1:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger
>>>> and
>>>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid
>>>> cat
>>>> person, Lee
>>>
>>> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my
>>> first
>>> tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not
>>> sure
>>> if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for
>>> $5.00.
>>> To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other
>>> customers
>>> for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was able
>>> to
>>> fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time
>>> and
>>> put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me dress
>>> as
>>> an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have the
>>> advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and
>>> squirreling
>>> them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
>>> expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights. I
>>> still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I
>>> have
>>> an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out. She
>>> can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we also
>>> have a lot of cats and other animals.
>>>
>>> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't
>>> have
>>> a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
>>> couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
>>> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99
>>> cents
>>> per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour.
>>> There
>>> were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I made.
>>> I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
>>> popcorn and cranberries.
>>>
>>> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would
>>> appear
>>> that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated trees.
>>> Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
>>> ornaments and not even one every year!
>>>
>>> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would flip
>>> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few
>>> of
>>> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of
>>> fishing
>>> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest. When
>>> we
>>> do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things that
>>> we
>>> like.
>>>
>>> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the
>>> kind
>>> my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were all
>>> silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no personality.
>>
>>
>> I need to ditch a bunch of Christmas decorations............... fortuntely
>> teenlet is closing in on 18
>>
>>
>>
>> i'll cull and sort and i'll share the antiques from his Great Grandmother
>> with him as 'gifts' for Christmas when he's on his own
>>
>> :/
>>
>> they all grow older!
>>
>> kate
>>
>
>

the only reason G*D lets us choose our friends is because he doesn't allow
us to choose our family, Lee
"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
...
>I collected a number of things that 'no one else wanted' in 'no uncertain
>terms'. It cost me close to $3K to reupholster grandma's couch and chair.
>Another family member walked into my house and said 'I see kate gets ALL
>the antiques'
>
> ????????? they were given first offer! and she had NOT clue what MY cost
> was, i could have bought some fancy leather lazy-boy recliner sofas for
> what that cost me!
>
> lol
> (and *I* bought the other antiques that were 'assumed' to be
> inherited....... so, i brought out some other 'antiques' that needed
> restoring and told her 'Honey, you can have whichever you want and
> whatever you want, they will take some work to restore, and they won't be
> considered 'antiques' proper as you have restored them)
>
> gotta love family...........
>
> kate
>
> On 12/20/2011 10:41 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
>> that will make a great memory for him, Lee
>> "Tiger > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 12/20/2011 1:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger
>>>>> and
>>>>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid
>>>>> cat
>>>>> person, Lee
>>>>
>>>> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my
>>>> first
>>>> tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not
>>>> sure
>>>> if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for
>>>> $5.00.
>>>> To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other
>>>> customers
>>>> for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was
>>>> able
>>>> to
>>>> fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time
>>>> and
>>>> put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me
>>>> dress
>>>> as
>>>> an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have
>>>> the
>>>> advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and
>>>> squirreling
>>>> them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
>>>> expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights.
>>>> I
>>>> still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I
>>>> have
>>>> an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out.
>>>> She
>>>> can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we
>>>> also
>>>> have a lot of cats and other animals.
>>>>
>>>> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't
>>>> have
>>>> a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
>>>> couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
>>>> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99
>>>> cents
>>>> per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour.
>>>> There
>>>> were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I
>>>> made.
>>>> I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
>>>> popcorn and cranberries.
>>>>
>>>> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would
>>>> appear
>>>> that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated
>>>> trees.
>>>> Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
>>>> ornaments and not even one every year!
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would
>>>> flip
>>>> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few
>>>> of
>>>> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of
>>>> fishing
>>>> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest.
>>>> When
>>>> we
>>>> do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things
>>>> that
>>>> we
>>>> like.
>>>>
>>>> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the
>>>> kind
>>>> my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were
>>>> all
>>>> silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no
>>>> personality.
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to ditch a bunch of Christmas decorations...............
>>> fortuntely
>>> teenlet is closing in on 18
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> i'll cull and sort and i'll share the antiques from his Great
>>> Grandmother
>>> with him as 'gifts' for Christmas when he's on his own
>>>
>>> :/
>>>
>>> they all grow older!
>>>
>>> kate
>>>
>>
>>
>