traditional gift?

[canesisters]

Is there a traditional gift that you either receive or give every year?

When we were kids one of the things that we'd always find in our stocking was a Lifesavers Book. We grew up and Santa stopped filling our stockings, but I make sure there is a gift under the tree every year TO: Pam FROM: Santa that is a wrapped Lifesavers Book.


My sister has given Dad a 'Poor Man's Fruitcake' every year since we were kids.

 

[Nyboy]

I remember the lifesaver books !!! Not traditional gift but food. Christmas eve we do 7 fish, my mother made stuffed squid she only made it once a year christmas eve. It is one of my favorite dishes 1st year after she died we had Italian restaurant make her holiday meal big mistake. now my little sister does Christmas eve still seafood but more upscale.

 

[thistlebloom]

We got LifeSaver books too Cane. And always a naval orange and a handful of nuts (in the shell) in our stocking.

I still fill stockings for all of us. I have a lot of fun with it, and usually my boys slip something into mine when they think I'm not looking.

As adults we give dh's parents smoked salmon every Christmas.

 

[ninnymary]

I give my homemade tamales and salsa to very special friends.

Mary

 

[flowerbug]

i will give hugs all year and accept them. i'm not much into stuff, but i like to cook so if i know you like something i'm happy to cook it for you. fruitcakes are divine. love 'em. even the ones that nobody else likes and uses as door stops. nobody ever gives me them. which is good because then i would be fatter than i already am.

niece is in town for the holidays, just seeing her and her hubby will be gift enough.

hope everyone has a nice Christmas.

 

[so lucky]

I used to always give myself a box (at least one) of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas.
Now I'm watching my sugar intake, so none this year.

When my parents got married, Dad fresh from WWII in November 1945, they were so short of money, they just got themselves some lemon drops for Christmas. I think they kind of forgot about that in the many years that followed, but the Christmas after their 50th anniversary, I was able to slip a bag of lemon drops under the tree from Santa. I think they enjoyed the sentiment.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

For a long time during my school days, it was a tradition in our household that, on some night of Hanukkah, or a few days before Christmas (whichever came first) we would get a tin of King Leo Peppermint Sticks. I would then take this to school the last day before break and share it.

We only stopped because they got too hard to find (actually we could still find them, but they had tinkered with the recipe and the were no longer the right consistency or weight (a King Leo used to have the exact same balance as a cigar which was great for Groucho Marx impressions.)