Based on the beloved novel by Jason F. Wright, CHRISTMAS JARS shares the story of Hope Jensen, a reporter who uncovers the remarkable secret behind a holiday phenomenon: money-filled glass jars anonymously given to people in need. The New York Times bestseller has created a new holiday tradition that has changed the lives of people in their time of need, all over the country. CHRISTMAS JARS is a one-night movie event that provides hope to all as we enter this special season. In theaters Monday, November 4 only, CHRISTMAS JARS is a heartfelt reminder that kindness truly is contagious. In theaters Nov. 4, ONE NIGHT ONLY!! Get your tickets HERE If you're a fan of Hallmark Christmas movies, you'll love this one! It pulls at your heart strings from the beginning to the end. Some times made-for-tv movies have an air of corniness to them, but this movie does not. The acting was great, funny characters and in the end it'll leave you feeling inspired to do something generous just in time for Christmas and to start a new holiday tradition. Let's just say, as soon as the movie was over (after midnight) I went downstairs, found some old canning jars and made my own Christmas Jars. This is something I will get my whole family involved in and will make part of our yearly traditions. In theaters Nov. 4, ONE NIGHT ONLY!! Get your tickets HERE GIVEAWAY: Here are the rules for the giveaway:
1. One contest winner will receive their 1 physical DVD following the DVD release date on November 4th. (Shipped directly from the studio or LEV3L Digital.) Must be in the U.S and over 18 years old to enter the contest. 2. In the comment section below write your favorite Christmas memory or tradition. 3. I will announce the winner on Sunday, November 3, 2019 4. There is no answer better than another, this is a random drawing. #ChristmasJarsL3
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Gloria Marquez
10/21/2019 12:23:15 am
My favorite memory is making tamales and menudo
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Holly Davis
10/21/2019 12:24:19 am
All of our family meets at a restaurant for Christmas Eve breakfast. After breakfast, my dad always issues a shopping challenge. We are given a certain small amount of money (maybe $10) and challenged to buy a certain number of gifts or a certain theme, etc. we split up and go shopping. It’s always so much fun!
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Kimberly Rodriquez
10/21/2019 01:09:26 am
Best Christmas memory is spending time with family!
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Wendee Kerr
10/21/2019 02:02:39 am
Christmas was always a time for family. My favorite memory as a child was waking up super early and sneaking to the tree with my brothers and sister to peek at what Santa had left. We would then excitedly go wake my parents (who probably just went to bed after “santa-ing”) and we would explore and open the gifts we received.
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Staci St.Onge
10/21/2019 03:02:01 am
Christmas is, and always has been, my very favorite time of year. Even now as an adult, I still feel the excitement of the first snow, the first decorations that go up, the music and yes- those childhood Christmas shows. We didn't have a lot of money growing up so for me it was all about the experiences- sledding, Christmas day at my Grandparents, Midnight Mass and of course the anticipation of Santa Claus. My Grandparents and my parents are gone now and I hold these precious memories close to my heart.
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10/21/2019 03:38:59 am
My best Christmas memory was My daughters first Christmas with us. We had just adopted her and my husband got a Santa suit so we could wake her up and peek at him putting the presents under the tree. That was an amazing year for us and she is now 12 and has never forgotten that visit from santa
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Leti
10/21/2019 03:45:16 am
Best Christmas memory was from when I was a kid. I remember visiting my grandparents in New Mexico every Christmas. I knew that I would be having a white Christmas. Those were the best memories
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Josie May
10/21/2019 03:47:37 am
My favorite christmas memories are the ones with my grandparents. My pepaw would crack nuts of all kinds and then my memaw would make fruit cake with those nuts. We would decorate the tree and it felt like Christmas should. It's been many years since those days happened yet I can still see every bit of it.
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Audrey
10/21/2019 03:51:21 am
I really love everything about Christmas. My favorite memory From growing up is that we would all go to my grandparents house for breakfast. She always decorated everything and we always had to answer the phone saying Merry Christmas. It just made the whole day feel amazing.
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Betty Jo Blevins
10/21/2019 03:51:37 am
My favorite memory is making Christmas cookies with my grandmother when i was 5 years old. She would roll the dough out and I got to cut them out with her cookie cutters. I was the oldest of 5 kids and I thought I was pretty special. I am now the owner of those Christmas Cookie cutters and think of all those years I got to make cookies with her. Later when I was older I would roll the dough out also then cut and put on the sheets. She would put them in the oven and take them out. Sharing those memories when I make cookies with my grand kids now.
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Jana
10/21/2019 04:08:33 am
My favorite family tradition is one we started when our 11 kids were little. We set their stockings at the end of each bed and leave a continental breakfast of fruit, granola bar, drinkable yogurt etc. in the top of the stocking so when they wake up excited to open them, my husband and I get to continue sleeping!!! It has continued on even with our kids friends that spend Christmas with us and everyone loves it!
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Kalli Moore
10/21/2019 04:09:56 am
My favorite tradition is giving the kids Christmas pjs, making cookies, and eating a Christmas movie all together on Christmas Eve.
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Kathy Martin
10/21/2019 04:29:22 am
My favorite Holiday tradition is baking a treasured family recipe cookie each year. They were my favorite as a child, and even though I had a rough childhood those cookies are a good memory from before the bad times. Now my children and grandchildren look forward to them and they are their favorites too.
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Mary A
10/21/2019 04:33:07 am
Making cookies to give to family and friends. I love baking and it’s so much fun with my girls.
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Amy Andino-Gonzalez
10/21/2019 04:38:01 am
My favorite Christmas memories are every year since my 1st child was born is making a wish list for Santa. My husband makes cookies and hot cocoa, we play holiday music and all write our lists. The past few years weve added family who all come over to write their lists with us. After we are done we all pile into the living room and watch a Christmas movie and have popcorn and snacks.
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JOAnne Cox
10/21/2019 04:55:08 am
We had the best Christmas Eve, MY grandparents were from Sweden and we had a Swedish Christmas Eve, with all the wonderful food and beautiful Swedish Cookies. We always dressed up, it was truly special, Also on this night was my American Grandfathers Birthday so we always had a Birthday celebration to go along with it
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Ashley mitchell
10/21/2019 04:57:09 am
My favorite Christmas memory is just getting all the family together. I have a very small amount of my family left and on holidays especially Christmas we try our best to all come together and just spend the day talking, laughing, and making new memories.. I love just sitting backing and watch the family smile and enjoying themselfs.
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Tisham Cintron
10/21/2019 05:50:35 am
My best Christmas memory is my first Christmas with my husband. We had no money for a Christmas tree since I was pregnant and on medical leave and he went to the dollar store and got a tiny tree with some decorations and came home so happy with the bag and trhu everything on the coffee table and said "come let's decorate our tree together".
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Patty Sines
10/21/2019 05:52:13 am
I am the oldest of three sisters. For many years it was a tradition that we three got matching frilly dresses for Christmas. I love seeing photos of us in those dresses!
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Laurie Miller
10/21/2019 05:58:37 am
Favorite tradition is going to IHOP on Christmas Eve morning with family then heading back home to start making lasagna. When we were stationed in the military we would invite all our friends that didn’t have family nearby to come for a Christmas Eve dinner. Christmas Day we would stay in our pajamas, eating leftovers for lunch/dinner and just enjoying the kids playing with toys and time spent with family.
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Destiny Knapp-Nance
10/21/2019 06:03:06 am
Christmas is my favorite holiday. It’s nearly impossible for me to pick one favorite tradition as we have so many. When I was little my dad and I would cut our own tree from our backyard. We would take late night snowmobile rides trying to find Santa on Christmas Eve. He taught me the “those who don’t believe don’t receive “ phrase I still use in my own house. My favorite tradition has to be my dad. He was Christmas...it is fitting that he passes on the morning of December 26.
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Bridgette Tullos
10/21/2019 06:27:20 am
Making cookies with my mom
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tammy
10/21/2019 06:52:45 am
Going to grandparents for christmas eve
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Alex
10/21/2019 06:55:08 am
My favorite tradition is getting my huge family matching pjs.
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Paula Moore
10/21/2019 07:14:05 am
My favorite Christmas memories are my kids' firsts. For holiday traditions I love our pajamas and a new book the night before. I adore drinking hot chocolate and reading to my babies to calm them before bed.
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Nakeemia
10/21/2019 07:34:18 am
When I first got married we couldn’t afford to celebrate like I did as a kid. And my husband wasn’t into the holidays very much but we did agree that having kids we needed to give them the chance to enjoy the holiday to the best of our ability henceforth we have a huge Xmas dinner and have had such for the last 20 years.
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Laura Moore
10/21/2019 07:42:29 am
My favorite memory of Christmas was the year I got a brand new bike and dad was putting it together. My brothers were jealous I got a new bike and they didn't. They didn't see the big boxes laying against a wall with their bikes in them. We were some happy kids that Christmas
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Peggy McCann
10/21/2019 07:49:10 am
Watching my granddaughters open their Christmas presents while the quiche is baking in the oven. It never gets old and we have been enjoying them for 11 years now. It's fun to be a "parent" again to children who need someone so bad. <3
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Sherrell M Breashears
10/21/2019 07:52:47 am
My favorite Christmas tradition is after having Thanksgiving celebrations with my family kicking off our Christmas season by putting up our tree to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies.
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Barbara Briggs
10/21/2019 09:09:12 am
Our family tradition has always been going to the movies on Christmas Day. There is usually a new movie released on Christmas Day. So this give-away is perfect.
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Andrea Rundell
10/21/2019 09:16:21 am
My mom was sick my entire life. My favorite things was to decorate for her. She would wake up to all the Christmas decorations up. I use to tell her she would never go without Christmas. I miss her and those days.
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Jessica otero
10/21/2019 09:21:17 am
My favorite memory was going to my mothers side of the family to pass a christmas with my great grandmother, grandma. We did a picture together 4 generations of women in 1 picture. I cherish that picture. My great grandmother was an amazing woman she accomplished a lot in her days that most wouldn't of dared in those day. Other than that it's my oldest sons first christmas with my husband (his stepdad but he sees as his daddy) his happiness was beyond above anything I've seen from my son. It was beautiful
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Ronnette Nolff
10/21/2019 09:37:22 am
My favorite tradition is making cookies with my granddaughters and decorating the tree.
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10/21/2019 09:42:34 am
The biggest tradition of my family is putting the tree up Thanksgiving evening, while watching Christmas classics.
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Jennifer S.
10/21/2019 10:15:23 am
My favorite Christmas memories were when I was a teenager and we'd go on hayrides and sing Christmas carols.
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Brittany Holsinger
10/21/2019 10:18:16 am
Sitting on my grandmas stairs as a child while she tell us all the good thing Santa brought us. She would get us so hipped up. I was to give that to my kids.
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Kim S.
10/21/2019 10:27:09 am
Since we lived far from any relatives, my parents had to establish their own traditions for our family. Midnight service (which started at 11pm, go figure, on Christmas Eve) and then first thing Christmas morning, we got our stockings and piled on their bed to open the gifts. One by one, some practical, some whimsical, were opened. It's been more than 40 years and it's still one of my fondest memories of Christmas.
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Heather
10/21/2019 01:02:44 pm
One of my favorite family traditions is driving around town seeing all the fun Christmas lights! My favorite personal tradition is reading The Christmas Jar every year. <3
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Kari T.
10/21/2019 01:21:51 pm
We had to drive 25 miles between Grandparents' houses. On Christmas Eve, we always kept an eye out for Santa.
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Teresa Jimenez
10/21/2019 05:34:03 pm
Love our tradition of opening 1 gift on Christmas Eve and then prepping Food plates to give the homeless on Christmas morning after Christmas service.
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Kelly
10/21/2019 06:36:31 pm
I love our tradition of playing music while we light the luminaries. It started with my mom playing Silent Night on her accordion when we were little. (The only song she can play anymore.) Now it’s a full family band. Some grandchildren can actually play instruments, like they’re in the school band. Others shake bells or play a drum from the drug store. Now the neighbors all come out to light their luminaries at the same time as “the concert”
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Donna Thomas
10/21/2019 06:46:14 pm
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting the whole family together on Christmas Eve and having a white elephant exchange~
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Wendy
10/22/2019 12:11:43 am
I love this book. I also just bought its sequel. My favorite Christmas tradition was on Christmas Eve. We would go to McDonald’s or Burger King and bring dinner home to eat. Then get dressed and out the door to church. Afterwards we went driving around looking at Christmas lights. When we got home we each got to open our Christmas Eve present which was new pjs, robe and slippers Some hot chocolate, a little tv and off to bed to try and sleep.
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Annabelle Kirchhevel
10/22/2019 12:18:47 am
My favorite Christmas tradition is, on Christmas Eve, my family and I make Tamales and prepare all the dishes for Christmas Eve dinner. We celebrate both days, so it has always been tradition 2 have dinner on Christmas Eve and Day. We stay up late on Christmas Eve, and at midnight open gifts. We then usually wake up a bit late late that morning, but continue the festivities late into the night.
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Mary Ellen Torres
10/22/2019 03:40:05 am
my favorite Christmas memory is waking up when I was just 5 yrs and seeing the most wonderful pink toy kitchen set fridge, stove, sink under the tree. I played with that set for years. And my favorite tradition is celebrating Christmas brunch with my family each Christmas morning thanks for hosting this giveaway
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Y Kantola
10/22/2019 09:18:09 am
Going to my grandparent's home for dinner. The Christmas tree in the corner of the living room. Grandma Goldie passed in 1977 and Grandpa passed in 1988 and I have their ornaments now.
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samantha
10/22/2019 09:42:17 am
I love how we open gifts on christmas eve from each other and then Christmas morning we open Santa's gifts <3
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Jenni Lindsay
10/22/2019 12:21:06 pm
My favorite memory is driving around to look at all the Christmas lights on Christmas Eve before going to bed.
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Melissa
10/22/2019 02:24:58 pm
I have a lot.... but one that I remember.... my mom made my entire family matching aprons for Christmas. She did a lot of the sewing at the hotel (we drove there). We also took a family photo. 4 generations in one picture all wearing matching aprons. It was cool.
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Tanya
10/22/2019 04:09:41 pm
Favorite Christmas memory is the cookie baking with my kids.
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Autum
10/22/2019 08:16:36 pm
Growing up mo ey was tight, though my mom never let me or my brother know it. Holidays were always about spending time together and about the food. Our Christmas dinners were always a big, big deal and we each got to pick out anything and mom would make it for us. It grew until one year we didn't have a single "traditional" holiday food on our table and that became the new norm. My favorite thing is when my mom calls around, usually in early November, to get our requests in so she can start planning the epic feast that is our Christmas dinner.
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Rebecca Lister
10/22/2019 11:06:29 pm
My favorite Christmas memories is Preparing Christmas dinner together as a family and enjoying each other as we open gifts. Spending the entire day together making new memories!
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Tammy Stevens
10/22/2019 11:35:24 pm
Christ’s birth and Having family time, priceless!
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Yolanda
10/23/2019 12:21:00 am
Staying at grandpa’s Christmas Eve
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Jennifer
10/23/2019 04:46:07 pm
Midnight mass when I was a kid. It was magical in the dark church, listening to my dad sing It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. I'd love to go back to that time and hear his voice again.
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Elaine Gard
10/23/2019 08:39:24 pm
Every year before Christmas, my Mom and I would bake all types of Christmas treats. Cookies, candy, and cakes, of which I loved the spritz cookies that would come out of a cookie press. I was the assistant and my Mom was the baker. The best part of the assistant’s job was licking the beater, bowl, and spatulas and then getting to decorate with all kinds of frostings and sprinkles. Some of the items were kept to enjoy throughout the season and most went to people in our community. The postwoman, the gas station attendants, librarians, school staff, and scout leaders were all blessed with homemade items from our efforts.
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samantha
10/25/2019 05:46:44 am
My best Christmas memory was with my son his first year. I never thought I was going to be a mom and my little blessing was born. Christmas is such a magical time. To me it's a time for counting blessings and spreading cheer and joy. My little boy has spread cheer and joy in my life since I found out I was pregnant. I dont ever want to forget to count my blessings everyday and he is the perfect reminder to do so. Not only at Christmas but all year round.
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Diana Hall
10/25/2019 02:18:23 pm
Best Christmas Memory with having all my family together....this is as an adult, but as a child it was visiting our grandparents out of state and having Santa find us anyway!! I was so afraid he wouldn't know where we were!!!
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Jo Moore
10/27/2019 07:07:56 pm
As a kid I remember going to midnight service, lighting candles and walking outside singing Oh Holy Night then when we got home we all got matching Christmas pajamas!
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Debbie Parnell
10/28/2019 07:05:25 pm
So so many, But my Favorite memories of Christmas, would be sometimes we would get to open our presents on Christmas Eve, we would have to go hind so Santa could come early. My Aunt and uncle that I loved dearly, we always went to spend Christmas with them. They made it all so magical. It was just so exciting to open our gifts on Christmas Eve. And have a big breakfast next morning . And the most wonderful Christmas Dinner ever made. I miss it so much, They all celebrate with Jesus now.
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Court M
10/28/2019 07:15:41 pm
Since becoming a mom, I love watching the pure joy my children have during Christmastime, and I love being able to create and carry on traditions with them. My favorite time is Christmas morning when they open their gifts. We have cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then have a lunch feast with family.
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Jenna Kent
10/28/2019 07:43:03 pm
My favorite memory is when I was 8. I got my very first stereo and a 45rpm vinyl record of Private Eyes on one side and another song on the other. I also got 8 track tapes of Christmas music, and Kenny Roger's. Thus sparking my love for music.
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Aileen
10/29/2019 06:55:56 am
My favorite memory was when my mom went into labor, I was 5 and I was so said that my mom went to have my brother ( I wanted a sister) on Christmas. I was in between believing in Santa and not believing. I was like ok here’s the test moms at the hospital if I do not get gifts Santa isn’t real if I do he is. On Christmas morning I woke up to the presents I asked for and it made me believe a little longer.
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Percilla
10/29/2019 09:50:57 am
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to see them luminarias on Christmas Eve with my daughters, my son-in-law and my grandchildren after we have lunch and open gifts.
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Lauralee
10/30/2019 01:55:29 pm
My older sister, her two daughters, and I would drive around to look at lights. Then we'd drink hot chocolate and watch movies at her house. My sister died five years before my first daughter was born. Now my two daughters and I enjoy cold December nights the same way.
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Victoria
10/31/2019 12:23:02 pm
My brother and I went to the store on Christmas Eve and when we got back Santa had arrived and leaf presents. We celebrated on Christmas Eve that year. It was the biggest surprises ever.
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Karen Price
11/1/2019 09:16:57 am
My favorite Christmas tradition is that when we open presents my daddy always gets to go first because he just can’t stand it. Then we start with the youngest after that and go to the oldest opening presents. It’s always fun and the anticipation gets bigger and bigger as we each wait our turn to open all our gifts.
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Sarah Bailey
11/1/2019 03:52:18 pm
Mine is one that I've carried over from my childhood to my children - we make cut out sugar cookies while we decorate the Christmas tree with ornaments made by mom or purchased on vacation and blast the Christmas music.
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Valerie Aponte-Boily
11/2/2019 10:22:54 am
Oh this is an easy one! How I wish I could post a photo of it! Though we have many traditions that are important, it’s a little one that stands out to me as a mom. In the mid 1980s, I was a married, but poor teenaged mother of two. To make extra money for Christmas for the kids, I started (tried) to sell Avon products....well, I didn’t succeed, in fact, I lost money. But, one of the things I bought that year from the Avon clearance store (in 1986) was an Avon advent calendar that had a Santa and Mrs Claus and a little stuffed mouse on a string that you moved daily from pocket to pocket. As poor as we were, we didn’t really feel so back then..we had shelter, food, and two perfect babies who grew up taking turns every day ‘moving the mouse’...my son and daughter LOVED that tradition and we never stopped it even after they grew up! Fast forward to 2008: I remarried (my late husband) and had my third baby (it was the year my older son got married.) I knew my new baby would also have to participate in the tradition (he does, and LOVES it just as much) but what about my oldest baby boy? How would he ‘move the mouse’ from across the country? My late husband also loved the tradition I passed onto our baby boy and agreed it would be sad for my now married son to suddenly not have that. Thank goodness for eBay!! It was expensive being hard-to-find, but I found him a vintage but new-in-package one exactly the same as our old weathered and loved calendar, just in time for his first Christmas with a family of his own... and now at 35, he shares that tradition with my granddaughter. It was so worth it!
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Teresa Augustine
11/2/2019 12:46:30 pm
My favorite Christmas tradition is having Christmas at my parent's every Christmas Eve. Being grown with grandchildren of my own, it's so nice for all generations to come together and enjoy a meal, and watch the excitement of the littles opening gifts
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Stacy Gregg
11/2/2019 01:13:42 pm
As an elementary and middle school teacher, my FAVORITE Christmas tradition was Elf on the Shelf. I have all of Snowflake’s outfits; including the last two Elf Pets! I loved dressing him up and planning what mischief he would get into at night. My kids would get so excited when they would come in the classroom every morning during the month of December and try to find where Snowflake and his Elf Pets were!
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Gwendolyn vanarsdale
11/2/2019 04:06:15 pm
my favorite Christmas memory is from my childhood and my grandmother would have a bowl on her table with fruit like apples, oranges, and bananas with assorted nuts and hard Christmas candy. It was so simple but that bowl was what I looked foward to each Christmas
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