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Originally Posted by Nagoyankee
Your mother-in-law is right and I like her sense of humor! That indecent "new custom" for the Eve is entirely the relics of the bubble period. Before the bubble, Christmas had been a more family-oriented event. It was a three-generation event for many of us. It's now a two-person one.
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I`m guessing you had quite a nice childhood to be celebrating it back in the 60s - according to my husband, they never even
mentioned Christmas where he was growing up (during the 80s). He only knew of the event from KFC commercials. Apparently he asked his parents if they were going to have a tree with presents under it one year, and they told him to go out and climb the mountain behind the house and he could see as many trees as he wanted and pick up anything he found underneath of them - for free.
Another year he pestered his dad who brought him home a fish with a ribbon tied around it.
