Christmas Shopping for 2007

With so many toys being recalled this year, many parents have to be cautious about what they buy! Hopefully, with this Wikizine we can help people find the best and coolest presents available. If you know where we can find some excellent... [more]

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There are some Great Christmas Stockings - Fill them Up with These Stocking Stuffers updated ...

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My mother would sew and personalize our Christmas stockings She loved to add that personal touch to our Christmas Stockings. She would actually sew a new one for each of us very year. She would find some nice Christmas material and proceed to cut out a pattern for each stocking and started to sew. She would embroider our name onto each of the stockings. Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings that my mother ... Read Full Story

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Christmas Stockings

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Have you ever thought about where this Stocking came from? It seems that most countries lay claim to this tradition, but most experts claim that the Dutch came up with this custom almost 400 years ago. Children placed their shoes next to hearth on December 5, the night mostly associated with St Nicholas. The children would fill their shoes with straw for the white horse that was carrying the gifts and for the food for St Nicholas. Stockings, pillows, or commercial Santa sacks would replace the wooden shoes in Britian, Europe, America and the rest of the world in the 20th Century. This is ... Read Full Story

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Black Friday or is it Wack Friday?

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Kill or be killed. Take no prisoners. Only the strong survive. When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. Give no quarter. Show no mercy. Are you a man or a mouse? Hey lady, watch your cart, I only have two of these and I'm really fond of them both. It's Black Friday, damn it. I'm sure I've left out some of your favorite cliches but eight is my limit for one paragraph. I'm fascinated by the concept of "Door Buster Bargains" beginning at the same time respectable degenerates are first crawling home after a night of exhibiting their full arsenal of proper ... Read Full Story

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Christmas Stocking Stuffers For The Entire Family

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The tradition of hanging Christmas stockings began in Germany when plain socks were hung to show Santa where to bring their gifts on Christmas Eve. At that time only small gifts or pieces of fruit filled the socks.As times went on the practice of hanging socks was replaced by hanging colorful stockings. By using larger and more colorful stockings, it was intented to make sure that Santa did not miss the stockings.Many poems and stories were written mentioning Christmas stocking of which " 'Twas The Night Before Christmas" by Clement Clarke Moore is the most famous. This poem was originally published with the title ... Read Full Story

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A CHRISTMAS TRADITION STEEPED IN FEAR & PARANOIA IS BORN

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With a post that I wrote a few weeks ago, I gleefully announced the return of Christmas and all that comes along with it. And while I have struggled to get myself into the Christmas spirit this year, it is clear that Christmas is back and better than ever. Further proving my point is a wonderful new item just in time for Christmas called "Elf on the Shelf." With this product, a strange new Christmas tradition is born for parents everywhere. If you're all about threatening and frightening your kids and resorting to Orwellian or Stasi-esque tactics to keep them in line, then this ... Read Full Story

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'Empty Stockings' reflects economy

At least 20 musicians and singers -- plus one baby -- packed into the tiny sound room of Eclipse Recording Studios this week to cut tracks for the last of 24 songs on this year's album, "Christmas in St. Augustine 2009." Sales of the 80-minute ...

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