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Old December 16th 05, 02:33 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default What do YOU want for Xmas?

Jay Honeck wrote:
we don't exchange useless stuff (AKA x-mas presents) in our family for
years. We spend some time together and try having a good time.



Well, with our kids I don't mind. However, I proposed holding that kind of
Christmas with my sisters a few years ago (ages 59 and 56, by the way), and
you'd have thought I was trying to steal their favorite teddy bears.

So, onward we march, into consumer heaven...


You're a good American, Jay. Remember the current Christmas
celebration with all the gift-giving was invented in the 1930's as a way
to start the country climbing out of the Great Depression.

In colonial days the idea of decorations and gifts would have been a
sacrilege.