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9. When I was in the Army stationed in Germany

Reply to gopiscrap (Original post)

Thu Nov 9, 2017, 03:23 PM

Nov 2017

All the other soldiers opened gifts as they received them. I waited until Christmas Day. There were literally 5 people who came into my room to watch me open my gifts.

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Today's Christmas Poll [View all] gopiscrap Nov 2017 OP

My family always did the immediate family gifts on Christmas Eve bearsfootball516 Nov 2017 #1

Mine, too. But now we have no one under 40 except a baby... Sigh, I miss the relatives. Shrike47 Nov 2017 #2

as a German gopiscrap Nov 2017 #3

When we were kids True Dough Nov 2017 #4

In my liberal household, we call it "Holidays Eve" and "Holidays Morning" Bucky Nov 2017 #5

My mom, great atheist that she was, loved the Christmas story. Hamlette Nov 2017 #10

One Present Christmas Eve the rest in the morning. nt el_bryanto Nov 2017 #6

I don't celebrate Christmas or any of the other pagan holidays underthematrix Nov 2017 #7

Used to be Christmas eve, now Christmas day Ezior Nov 2017 #8

When I was in the Army stationed in Germany underpants Nov 2017 #9