Christmas 2022

Imagine thinking these were sweet-flavored sticks:

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TastyReuben said:
I don’t think anyone here would know how much running Christmas lights for a month or so would even affect their electric bill. I think it’s assumed to be minuscule and not worth considering, whether that’s true or not.
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It depends on where you are and what you use for lights. LED strings are very efficient, and energy prices in the US are not that bad, because we are a major producer of Natural Gas. European countries were very dependent on Russian gas. I read Germany just opened a new LNG terminal to receive LNG from other countries, like the US.

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kaneohegirlinaz said:
Got a Christmas card today and I feel guilty ... I stopped sending cards many years ago ... am I now obligated to replicate?
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Um, reciprocate? You don't have to, but it may nag at you if you don't. It doesn't bother me, but my ex-wife would have felt obligated.

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karadekoolaid said:
No!:D
And slightly off topic - I was very surprised (ie. aghast) at the number of shops in the UK that only sell cards. I mean, cards for every single occasion. An immense number of shops - only matched in Venezuela by the number of beauty salons.:laugh::laugh:
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Hallmark used to have stores that were mostly cards. The one near me closed... I think.

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I used to sent two envelopes to the UK; one containing a dozen cards and the other, five. I left it up to the recipient of each to distribute them.
 
caseydog said:
Hallmark used to have stores that were mostly cards. The one near me closed... I think.

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We used to have one in town, but it closed years ago. I can remember a time with a mall of any respectable size had two Hallmark stores.

I do know where one is, but I haven’t been there in years. MrsT says there’s another one she’s aware of. Used to be, Christmas wasn’t complete without a Hallmark visit, because they used to have a giant ornament display.
 
Yorky said:
I used to sent two envelopes to the UK; one containing a dozen cards and the other, five. I left it up to the recipient of each to distribute them.
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We send the cards directly to each person/household because Aussie post do a substantially discounted postage to certain overseas countries at Christmas starting in November but it is card only, not letters or parcels. Presents all go into 2 parcels. One for each household to distribute.

This year, we sent those parcels on the 16th November and they've arrived in the UK but have not yet been delivered. We'd not sent the children in the family anything in those parcels, so sent those directly to the children a week later (21st) after discussing it with parents as to what we'd send. They have already been delivered. And 2 pairs of socks I had knitted for myself turned out to be too big (circumference wise), so I posted them to my mother around the 2nd or 3rd of December. They were delivered to her yesterday but those first 2 parcels remain undelivered so far! Typical. The ones we sent early to ensure they arrived on time are the ones that haven't been delivered. All parcels were sent via the same post service.
 
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