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lbeery

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The Christmas Box
« on: December 28, 2013, 09:25:34 am »
A previous post reminded me of this story.  When we were all young and really really had to be frugal at Christmas, I started using old boxes and pasting cut outs from old Christmas cards on them instead of wrapping them.  These were usually real sturdy corrogated cardboard so they were saved by the people who got them. Over the last thirty or so years, several have become traveling Christmas boxes.  I got one back this year....it had been all over the country. Evidently the first person to receive it wrote Xmas 1982 from LB on the inside and so it went..from Colorado to California to Florida, to Michigan, to Kansas and so on.....through family and friends and each recorded who they got it from.  It really made a special package from my sister in law who got it back from her grandkids last year.

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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2013, 04:02:40 pm »
Hey that's a great idea! We ship across the country every Christmas, so we are going to do that next year.

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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2013, 07:20:06 pm »
I don't send packages but I do like the idea

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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2013, 04:28:31 am »
A previous post reminded me of this story.  When we were all young and really really had to be frugal at Christmas, I started using old boxes and pasting cut outs from old Christmas cards on them instead of wrapping them.  These were usually real sturdy corrogated cardboard so they were saved by the people who got them. Over the last thirty or so years, several have become traveling Christmas boxes.  I got one back this year....it had been all over the country. Evidently the first person to receive it wrote Xmas 1982 from LB on the inside and so it went..from Colorado to California to Florida, to Michigan, to Kansas and so on.....through family and friends and each recorded who they got it from.  It really made a special package from my sister in law who got it back from her grandkids last year.

I think this is an awesome idea!  That 30 year old box has quite a story to tell.
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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2013, 04:32:07 am »
What a neat idea!!! I don't have relatives all over the country but I can see that if you do it would be such a nice thing to keep going. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2013, 07:08:02 pm »
That's pretty cool.

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Re: The Christmas Box
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2013, 07:38:36 pm »
Sounds like a cool idea! I have relatives in Japan so maybe I will try this out one year.

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