1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Depends on the gift and how rushed I am. If I'm rushed or the gift is weird shaped (like those things in plastic bubbles) I use bags otherwise wrapping paper. 2. Real tree or Artificial?
Artificial with real boughs for centerpieces and additional decorations, so you get the pine smell.3 When do you put your tree up?
Thanksgiving day while dinner is cooking and before football.4 When do you take the tree down?
New Year's Day after the Rose Parade and before the Rose Bowl 5. Do you like eggnog?
Yes! with Jack Daniels!6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Erector set. and a metal Buck Roger's ray gun made by Daisy7 Hardest person to buy for?
Anybody that doesn't give me a list.8. Easiest person to buy for?
Me.9. Do you have a nativity scene?
Yes.10. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Christmas cards. (Old fashioned, like Currier and Ives) 11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Clothes from relatives trying to change my tastes.12. Favorite Christmas Movie/Cartoon?
Christmas Story and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
January 114. Have you ever regifted a Christmas present?
We had this hideous tie that got passed around and around as a gag.15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
Chocolate Peanut butter fudge16. Lights on the tree?
Individual blinking multicolor or bubble lights.17. Favorite Christmas song?
White Christmas. 18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Travel to friends.19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
Yes.20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Angel (cheap and cardboard, but old enough to be an antique.)21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning?
Both. There are two shifts. Christmas Eve is five way chili night (I make the cornbread) for a small group of immediate family and friends. We watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation as a tension reliever from planning a big party and because it's a comic version of what tomorrow is going to be like. Christmas day it's presents for the rest of the family when they come for dinner.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?
Unpredictable weather.23. Favorite Ornament theme or color?
Old fashioned ornaments. I like a Christmas setting that evokes a timeless nostalgia.24. Favorite for Christmas dinner?
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.25. What do you want for Christmas this year?
Financial security for me and my friends.