Christmas 2022

[TastyReuben]

Today’s gifts from the advent calendars:

 

[Windigo]

Today's advent gifts.

Peanut chocolate spread, nougat and mirabelle jam ( does anyone know what that is? )

 

[Lullabelle]

We have another unsigned card

 

[Morning Glory]

Today's advent gifts.
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Peanut chocolate spread, nougat and mirabelle jam ( does anyone know what that is? )

Mirabelle is a type of plum - a yellow plum.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Yep - MG beat me to it. Yellow plum!

 

[Morning Glory]

We have another unsigned card

Is this common? I don't think I've never received an unsigned card. Was it delivered by post or just posted directly through your letterbox?

 

[Windigo]

Today's advent gifts

Hazelnut chocolate spread, chocolate cookie, lavender honey

 

[Lullabelle]

Is this common? I don't think I've never received an unsigned card. Was it delivered by post or just posted directly through your letterbox?

First time for us, both envelopes had our names on them and hand delivered. We can hazard a guess at 1 of them but it really is most unusual

 

[Morning Glory]

First time for us, both envelopes had our names on them and hand delivered. We can hazard a guess at 1 of them but it really is most unusual

If they were Valentine's cards well fair enough but Christmas cards?

 

[Lullabelle]

If they were Valentine's cards well fair enough but Christmas cards?

I am guessing that maybe they felt guilty because we sent them a card and they hadn't sent us one so rushed to give to us but forgot to sign in their haste.

 

[caseydog]

A little Texas Christmas trivia for the members...

BRYAN, Texas (Reuters) - Holiday cheer in Texas has become even sweeter thanks to a giant gingerbread house that has broken a world record for confectionary construction.

Coming in at 35.8 million calories and covering an area of 2520 square feet, or nearly the size of a tennis court, the 21-foot high gingerbread house in Bryan, Texas, 90 miles northwest of Houston, has been declared the biggest ever by Guinness World Records.

The house, with an edible exterior mounted over a wooden frame, was built by the Traditions Club near Texas A&M University to help raise money for a trauma center at the regional St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Here it is...

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[karadekoolaid]

We gave up sending Xmas cards about 20 years ago.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Yeah, ya know, I use to put out a Christmas Letter, filling friends and family members in on what our year had been like ( no one lived anywhere close to us in Hawaii) ... crickets.
So I stopped doing that and just sent generic-plain-vanilla Greeting cards ... more crickets.
Then the price of postage stamps went up and up and I said, that's it! No body gives a we hear nothing from any of them I'm done!

 

[TastyReuben]

Yeah, ya know, I use to put out a Christmas Letter, filling friends and family members in on what our year had been like ( no one lived anywhere close to us in Hawaii) ... crickets.
So I stopped doing that and just sent generic-plain-vanilla Greeting cards ... more crickets.
Then the price of postage stamps went up and up and I said, that's it! No body gives a we hear nothing from any of them I'm done!

You’re missing the point. When you send Christmas cards and don’t get any back, it still gives you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling inside…of superiority over being more thoughtful than anyone else you know!

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Holy
I just looked up what a USPS postage stamp costs now ... 60¢
NO!
Sorry, I rarely mail anything...