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Old 12-28-2010, 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by KarmaContestant View Post
I keep trying to convince my family to do this, but the older generation finds it absurd that we'd have no presents to open under the tree (I'm 37, so by older I mean those in their 60's - we still do Christmas as a family every year, travelling to see each other).
Yeah, when my Dad was alive... He wouldn't hear of having "nothing" under the tree. Even as I got older and I wasn't with my parents on Christmas, he would still mail us wrapped gifts beforehand and tell us "not to open them". My mother is the opposite, she just sends me a check now.
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