Sharing Christmas Memories
Sharing Christmas memories is FUN! This can help bring your own memories of Christmases Past back into focus... even after many years.
You might find a new idea for Christmas or simply enjoy others memories -- simply spend a few hours to get into the Christmas Spirit!
Let's share Christmas Memories -- the greatest holiday of them all!!
Just Havin' Fun!
Christmas Memories Book from Retirement-Online!
Read the green directions below and get my free Christmas book!
Share your Christmas Memory (approximately one page of text) on the form at the bottom of this page. I will include it in updated book.
** Be sure to include your email address and I will send you a free copy of this book as my Thank You!
Christmas Stories previously published in my newsletter, Inky Trail News, from readers who contributed... they are so heart-warming! 234 pages of Stories, 302 pages total include Christmas Survey Answers from Many! The stories are from all over the USA and the world. Many Memories and all worth smiling over! Just can't let them die... gotta share and keep them living in the hearts and minds of many!
Wendy, on the book cover photo! That huge Christmas ornament decorates Bronner's, the World's Largest Christmas Store, in Frankenmuth, Michigan... cool, huh?
Just sharing the Christmas Spirit and the Many Memories We All Hold in our Hearts!
This is the Christmas Memories Book you will get by email after I receive your contribution!
Christmas Memories or Survey: Share the Christmas Spirit!
If you have a Christmas Memory to share, write it below! Maybe one of the Survey questions will perk up a long lost memory for you to share!
This is a Christmas Survey that was completed by many on my Christmas website (no longer published). I loved reading the different responses and hope you will too!
Please consider adding your own Christmas answers below so that we can all share the many different ways we all love our Christmas Holidays!
Christmas Tree
-- Real Christmas tree or artificial?
-- When do you put up your Christmas tree?
-- What is your favorite ornament on the tree? Describe it!
-- Clear lights or colored lights on the tree?
-- Angel on the tree top or a star? or something unique?
Outside Decorations
-- How do you decorate outside the House? Details!
Christmas Gifts
-- When do you start shopping for Christmas?
-- Do you buy lots of gifts or is your shopping limited (post retirement)?
-- Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
-- Best, most creative, most thoughtful, gift ever received?
-- Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
-- Do you use wrapping paper or gift bags?
-- How many Christmas cards do you mail?
Christmas Day, Christmas Eve...
-- Do you travel at Christmas or stay home?
-- Do you go to church on Christmas or Christmas Eve?
Christmas Food
-- Favorite food(s) to eat at Christmas?
-- Does your family have any traditions regarding the food?
-- Favorite Christmas cookie(s)?
-- Do you like eggnog?
Christmas Entertainment
-- Favorite Christmas song(s)?
-- Favorite Christmas Movie(s)?
-- Ever attended the Nutcracker ballet?
-- Any family traditions you do each year?
Joy or Stress
--Do you feel the JOY of Christmas or mostly STRESS?
-- Do you do anything special to rid yourself of stress?
-- Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Santa
-- Do you have a special/funny memory of Santa Claus?
-- Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Grin!
I Love Christmas because: ** WHY? **
What Other Visitors Have Said
Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
Lack of Christmas spirit
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Christmas
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Roll …
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I do know …
Smiles are the Medicine of Life
Click to view on Amazon! Modern Day GumDrop Tree!
I remember many things, my Aunt Annie's Bubble Lights on the tree fascinated me.
We …
Peace, Goodwill and Daleks – A Child's Christmas in 1960s London
Download this Christmas Story as an ebook here!
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A GENEROUS HEART FOR CHRISTMAS!
I saw a great story on TV this morning! A well-to-do gentleman here in America who has a generous heart is giving away cash!
He shares his money with …
A Christmas Poem for Retirees
I'd like to write a poem: Twas the night before Christmas And all through the house We retirees had gathered We'll leave out the mouse We looked at our …
Clement Moore....Twas The Nite Before Christmas
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EASY PEASY
NO Christmas tree and NO mess. Food cooked well in advance for easy warm/up. Houseguest come and gone. Quiet/restful/serene days with enjoyment of movies …
Christmas 2017
Well, here we are a few days before Christmas. I can't get excited. What is wrong with me???
Last night I went with my husband to a nice Italian Restaurant …
Christmas
Well, as we all know the magical holiday of Christmas is just two short weeks away.
Since I have retired some four years ago, the holidays all seem …
A Funny Christmas Story
As a joke, my brother used to hang a pair of panty hose over his fireplace before Christmas. He said all he wanted was for Santa to fill them.
What …
It's Almost Time for Bah Humbug Day
Is is just me or do many others feel the same as I do about the Christmas Holiday being nothing more than a day to drive one onto the verge of bankruptcy …
Paula's Christmas Survey
1. Is your tree real or artificial? We usually have a real tree but this year we are putting up a fake one due to financial consideration! 2. When do …
Ronald J's Christmas Survey
Here are Ronald's answers! fun fun!
1. Is your tree real or artificial? We have five or six and they are all artificial, even though my nephews sell …
Wendy's Christmas Survey answers!
Here are my answers...
Christmas Tree
-- Real Christmas tree or artificial? Fakey, here.. uggg!
-- When do you put up your Christmas tree? …
Alone Over the Holidays? Share your ideas!
Alone Over the Holidays? How do you Stay Happy at this time of year? What do you do to bring a bit of joy into your life?
Being alone over the holidays …
POST CHRISTMAS BLUES
I shall tell you the truth....I really have a hard time with "letting go" of the holidays. Well, not in a crazy way....but it has been so much fun that …
Irwin's Christmas Survey Answers!
Here are Irwin's answers to the Christmas survey questions... just fun!
Christmas Tree
-- Real Christmas tree or artificial? Artificial
-- When do …
Pacific Christmas
Merry Christmas Everyone,
I am so very grateful to technology. Although my children live away from our country we keep in touch through emails, text …
2015 XMAS
This Christmas we have been blessed to have found our retirement home in a Village where our neighbors are now extended family.
Our cross-country …
Christmas Humor: Lost Eyelashes
One year when I was about seven or eight, my paternal grandfather took my family, mom, dad and three kids, and my aunt and uncle and their three boys, …
Home Sweet Home
Well, this time of year many of our thoughts reflect back to home and our loved ones. Home has different meanings to different people.
When I think …
Lost and Found with Santa Claus
THE SUBJECT OF whether or not we should tell children about Santa can be a heated debate.
Some are adamant against lying to children ( like many of …
Christmas Memories Over The Years
My first memory goes back about sixty five years.
Westerns and cowboys were all the rage and yours truly could never get enough of Hoppy, Roy, Gene, …
Christmas Spirit: Elizabeth - Spokane, WA
Christmas Tree
Artificial tree for only last 3 years (I live in an apartment now). A few years ago, a friend of mine bought me the biggest tree I have …
My Kind Of Christmas
Christmas Gifts
-- When do you start shopping for Christmas?
I think it would be about a week before Christmas because my entire family of three …
Giving a little something...
Love Christmas because I have always loved to give gifts to loved-ones and see them smile, and appreciate the little something I had given them.
I …
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