Showing posts with label Christmas Fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Fruit. Show all posts

A Great Christmas Gift For The Picky Chocolate Lover

4:40 AM

I seriously love chocolate. I know everyone thinks stuff like the discovery of fire, and inventing the wheel is huge, but I think the people who found cocoa beans deserve a Nobel Prize too. I mean one of the best things about the holidays is that people send chocolate like nuts! I get lots and lots of chocolate around Christmas. In case I feel like I haven’t received enough chocolate I’ll go out and buy myself some.

I guess it’s easy to guess which Christmas gifts are my favorite, chocolate ones! I mean I like the other stuff too, but I just prefer that people get me Christmas gift baskets full of something chocolaty instead of Christmas gift baskets with cheese in them. I mean hello, I’m not a mouse you know! Since I like chocolate so much, I also gift a lot of chocolate. Most of my Christmas holiday gifts are chocolate gifts. And while I graciously accept any and all kinds of chocolate stuff, my sister, who is just as much of a chocolate fanatic as I am, is absolutely picky! In fact, she’s practically a snob to most chocolates. Getting her unique Christmas gifts is hard, there are only a few select types of chocolates she’ll eat and I want her gift to be a surprise. This year I’m going to deviate a bit from an all chocolate gift. I’m buying a fruit bouquet for her, it comes with chocolate sauce, the fruit is dipped in chocolate and I think she’ll absolutely love it. I’d like to see her pass over the fresh fruit with chocolate. I know she won’t be able to and if she does, I’ll accept a refund.

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Even A Rugged Girl Wants Romantic Christmas Gifts

5:31 AM

For a girl I’m pretty handy around the house. I can fix a blown fuse and even tackle those leaking pipes under the sink. It’s something that comes with having no brothers and a father with a bad back. For some reason my boyfriend thinks it earns me the title of a super girlfriend or something. I can even tinker around the car and I know what he’s taking about when he’s under the hood of his car. Naturally I feel very flattered.

Unfortunately he thinks that I know how to do this stuff out of interest instead of necessity. So on my birthday or any other occasion, he’ll always slip in some sort of hardware with my gifts. His Christmas gifts follow the same principle. Like two years ago he filled my Christmas stocking with nuts and bolts. Not hardware nuts but actual nuts like walnuts and stuff but he mixed it up with actual bolts! I had to sift through those bolts and pick out the eatables nuts. It weighed so much that my Christmas stocking broke off the mantle and I chipped a finger nail cleaning up the mess! After that I sat him down and gave him a crash course in Christmas holiday gifts for you girlfriend. I told him clearly that even if I was a lumberjack or a truck driver, I’d want romantic Christmas gifts.

I didn’t want to wake up to a mess of shells and bolts on Christmas day. I told him in elaborate detail what a romantic or sentimental gift is. Of course I said price didn’t matter, as long as the Christmas holiday gifts said I love you and stuff. I said I didn’t want any jewelry because it was just too much of a cliché romantic gift. Then I told him he had to find unique Christmas gifts for me instead of just buying the first thing some pretty girl behind the counter pointed out. He said he was pretty confident no other woman on earth had received nuts and bolts on Christmas day. He was right of course and that was why we were having this discussion. Last year he got me one of those Christmas gift baskets but it was filled with hardware catalogs and even the whole ‘home Improvement’ series on DVD and a fruit bouquet that had fruit cut and arranged to look like flowers with chocolate sauce. Well I guess edible Christmas gifts are a good start. The fruit bouquet was absolutely gorgeous. I think it was an original way to make Christmas fruits into a gift. After we had enjoyed the bouquet he insisted we watch the whole ‘Home Improvement’ series. He’s getting there but very slowly.

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Christmas Gift Surprise; I Will Have the Last Laugh!

5:20 AM

Last year I spent Christmas at my sister’s house. She has three kids aged between three and ten. And those kids are fast not to mention oddly squishy. They can crawl under and into just about anything when they’re looking for the Christmas gifts. So last year when I arrived at my sister’s place I was already in stealth mode. For those of you not familiar with the Hit man Game, stealth mode is basically me sneaking around my sister’s house trying to hide something. That something would be Christmas gifts.

I moved into the house when the kids were out playing and my sister helped me hide my Christmas holiday gifts. This wasn’t easy because all the good places were already housing my sister’s Christmas gifts for her family. I actually had to hide some of my smaller Christmas gifts under a loose floor board in the attic. Then there were the Christmas gifts waiting to be wrapped. They included most of my Christmas gifts for my sister so she found out what I was getting her. All surprise was instantly killed and I realized that my hours of shopping for unique Christmas gifts for everyone would amount to nothing when it came to my sister’s gift.

I suspect she even took the one gift I had managed to wrap and shook it to get an idea of what’s inside. Brought me memories of kindergarten, my teacher used to tell us it was very rude to shake a gift before opening it. The house looked more like ‘Operation hides Christmas gifts’ than anything. What I didn’t like was the fact that none of my gifts for my sister would be a surprise. There was only one way around it; super stealth mode (not featured in hit man). I went online and searched for something that could be delivered to my sister’s doorstep as close to Christmas as possible. It had to be something that didn’t need wrapping. There were a lot of Christmas gift baskets out there but they would deliver at least a week before Christmas and the wicker baskets were too big to hide anywhere. I finally stumbled on to these fruit bouquets. They were available in a lot of sizes. They were pretty unique and beautiful to look at. I ordered the small size and asked a neighbor if she’d store it for just one night. Everything worked out! My sister couldn’t close her surprised mouth! She absolutely loved the gift.

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Back To The Realities of Christmas Gift Shopping

9:55 PM

Christmas is in twenty four days, that is less than a month and surprisingly (not really), there is still unfinished Christmas shopping. I still have tons and tons of Christmas Gifts to buy. I read somewhere that people mostly begin shopping for Christmas gifts after thanksgiving. Since I had already bought some gifts before thanksgiving, I was definitely feeling smug. But all smugness is now gone, it’s December! Now that there is the added pressure of less time, I realize I haven’t in any seriousness started my Christmas Shopping. On top of all that, my list actually got longer because I missed a few people at work.

It’s beginning to turn into another stressful Christmas. The stores have run out of my favorite metallic wrapping paper. I love that stuff so much, it makes ordinary stuff look extraordinary. It comes in handy if in a serious time crunch I don’t manage to find unique Christmas gifts for some people. I just wrap the ordinary Christmas holiday gifts in metallic paper. People look at the wrapping and are flattered.

Something I’ll always be grateful for is Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I was wondering if I should have bought my Christmas gift baskets earlier but I came across some great discounts on Cyber Monday so I’ll be saving a ton. In fact, I’d say Cyber Monday made it a bit easier for me to find some really Unique Christmas gifts. I’m going with my usual chocolate fruit for the people at work; it’s the only way I’ll manage to stay in budget.

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Christmas Gifts Of Real Value

4:50 AM

I’ve heard a lot of people say a lot of different things when they open their Christmas gifts. Like my brother, among the many Christmas Holiday Gifts he received from me last year, there were also three pairs of woolen socks. So he took them out and is like, ‘What’s wrong with ones I’ve been wearing for the past two months?’ what I have never heard people say is, ‘Really! You spent that much money on me? I’m so cheap I’d never spend that much on my self’

I came across something on the net that suggests people think their Christmas gifts cost less than they actually did. Here’s what I think; as long as they like the gift, who cares? Let’s say I get a huge Christmas gift basket and fill it with coupons. The basket might cost something like $75 and the person I give it to would hate it. That’s $75 down the drain.

The person I get the gift for might think, ‘She gave me coupons?’ they’ll think it costs something like $15. Or I might use my brain and get them one of those nice Christmas gift baskets or a take my pick from the variety of Christmas fruit baskets out there and the guy could go, “I love fruit! Must’ve cost a fortune!” and they don’t cost that much at all. I think the real value in buying successful Unique Christmas Gifts comes from how much the receiver likes their Christmas gifts. People really tend to ignore how important it is to get something that your loved ones will like. Companies count on this to sell their new shiny toys and gadgets. And that’s what can devalue Christmas gifts. Buying the newest most expensive things doesn’t spell great Christmas Holiday Gifts; but getting that people gifts that they like does.

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The Smell oF Christmas In December

3:52 AM

People throw the phrase, ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ around a lot. I think the phrase, “It beginning to smell a lot like Christmas’ could do just as well. In fact I think it would be more universal. Have people ever really paid attention to how great Christmas Smells? All those wonderful cookies being baked, the gingerbread men, the peanut crunch and the hot chocolate. To me the smell of Christmas is more appealing than the look. The whole house smells edible.

I shared this thought with my brother and he says he too can smell Christmas. He can smell Christmas gifts and Christmas wrap. He predicts when mom is about to buy a new Christmas ornament or a very special Christmas gift basket. That isn’t really smelling Christmas, as much as it is smelling Christmas gifts but he’s lying. In all our attempts to find our Christmas holiday gifts, hidden by our mother, he has never really been successful at finding anything. Maybe it’s the tape brand we use. But all jokes aside, I do love the look of Christmas but I like the smell too. It could have a lot to do with my mom being a really great cook.

One of my other favorite Christmas smells is the scent of gourmet chocolate. We have a lot of gourmet chocolate around the house at Christmas time, but what I really like is the fruit covered in gourmet chocolate that my great grandma sends us. It’s like taking two of the greatest things on earth, i.e. fruit and chocolate, and making them into one. It beats all the Christmas holiday gifts that we get by a long shot.

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It’s Christmas, Blame The Government!

3:10 AM

I dated this guy for a while. He liked to blame everything on the government. It didn’t matter who was in government at that time. He could blame Republicans and Democrats with equal enthusiasm. I was okay with it for a while, because it seemed like they were screwing up but then his criticism began to get really dumb.

His mom had just had hip surgery and she was going to be in a wheel chair for a while. It was near Christmas so I thought I’d take one of those nice Christmas Fruit baskets over for her. She loved it and was wheeling herself into the living room to talk to me when she accidently bumped the wall. My boyfriend went off blaming the government for making substandard wheelchairs and for approving the design of his house. Three days later, my car started acting up and I asked him to drive me to the mall so I could shop for my Christmas Holiday Gifts. He blamed the government for my car problem and then drove to the mall. It took us fifteen minutes to find parking and he blamed the government. I was really beginning to feel sorry for the government and thought I might end up sending Christmas gifts to city hall, they deserved a Christmas gift basket at the very least.

I had to pick out Christmas gifts for my anti-government boyfriend and my mom. Mom would be a piece of cake, but what could I get for him? I guess everyone is thinking he’s some guy stuck in the seventies with big hair, i.e. a hippie but he is actually a huge Red Sox fan. So I thought I could buy a nice Red Sox jersey for him. He was a pretty huge guy and they didn’t have his size. And it was the governments fault. As much as I hated doing it, I broke up with the guy before Christmas. It was because of the government.

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Good Christmas Gifts are hard to find

2:56 AM

For a lot of years I thought the secret to shopping successfully for Christmas holiday gifts lay in a nice balance between the number of shopping mall visits and online purchases. I never really stopped to think how often lady luck had been on my side during all my online shopping. I’ve always had a one in fifteen chance of getting ripped off while shopping online. Now that I think back to the earlier days when the internet was my first choice for finding unique Christmas gifts, I do remember several tings that looked highly suspicious.

The worst thing is these scams hit harder on Christmas when people are looking for their Christmas holiday gifts. That’s like Scrooge gone cyber. What kind of people try and scam others on Christmas anyway? So this happens a lot with stuff like Christmas gift vouchers. The ones that have those extended expiry dates and stuff can be a total scam. I received a Christmas gift basket a few years ago and it had some of these ‘fabulous’ gift certificates in them. I only managed to use one; the stores wouldn’t pass the other three. I thought it was because of where I was shopping, like a location thing, but now I know better. Personally I don’t think gift certificates are a nice thing to put in Christmas gift baskets. I prefer giving Christmas fruit baskets that I can purchase from very reliable people on the internet. There are some companies out there that are dedicated to saving online shoppers from being ripped off. It’s good to know someone is on our side. So be careful where you shop online, apparently you can now get your pocket picked or your credit card pinched online too.

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Online Christmas Gifts: A Word Of Caution

2:17 AM

I was busy buying my Christmas gifts online like I always do. I shop at some very particular sites, they’re reliable in that they have really good stuff and bring in unique Christmas gifts for the online shopper. And although I am satisfied with them I decided to surf the net anyway and see if there was anything new. I came across this article saying that a lot off the Christmas gifts or any gifts that people buy online turn out to be fake. It’s really common in gift certificates and vouchers. And can happen with big name companies.

I was completely amazed. I remember a really long time ago, I had purchased some online gifts. They never made it to my doorstep. Since they didn’t cost much, I thought it was because of the holiday rush and I didn’t really do anything about it. I never thought for one minute that my gifts might have been fake. It makes me all the more glad that I now know exactly where I can shop safely online.

The article said something about always being careful about what kind of deal you’re getting. If something is too cheap, then it’s probably fake. The whole too-good-to-be-true thing. I thought this might be for really expensive and highly priced goods, but it can happen to almost everything like the very popular Christmas gift item, Christmas gift baskets. Yu could end up ordering one, an expensive one and might never show up at your door step. So I’m really glad I have my reliable list of stores to buy Christmas holiday gifts from. I know for a fact that if any of really important Christmas holiday gifts were not delivered I’d have something close to a heart attack.

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The Gift of Fresh Fruit On Christmas

3:25 AM

A year ago a group of farmers held a fruit exhibition in our local area. Everyone was crazy excited about it. We wanted to see some seriously fresh fruit; some people were even under the impression that there would be fruit trees. They weren’t disappointed.

There was a lot of fresh fruit and a few fruit trees as well. And while some of us wondered how they got the trees all the way here, what most of us wondered was, what were these little old ladies thinking when they decided to do this. All the farmers at the fruit festival were petit little old ladies. They looked so grandmotherly that you just wanted to hug them. And they had excellent fruit. Everyone bought a lot of it and for the rest of the week we received Christmas fruit baskets from a lot of the neighbors. There was even a local business there that bought the fruit. They made some really nice fruit bouquets and I guessed they were stocking up for the Christmas orders. Their Christmas gift baskets are very popular and I often buy them for Christmas gifts.

The ladies themselves had some really terrific fruits baskets on display and were even demonstrating how to arrange fruits in a basket to make your own unique Christmas gifts. Since people never tire of fruit as Christmas holiday gifts, they had a really huge audience and an even bigger profit from their produce. I bought some excellent oranges and gifted half to my mom who has recently taken an interest in making jams, the rest of the half were made into orange juice and devoured by my family.

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Car Pooling Around Christmas

2:30 AM

People who commute to work know that on the way to the office there will be a traffic jam. They have a rough estimate of how long the traffic jam will be and they will know where the traffic jam will occur. So they make allowance for it by leaving home early and getting a head start. Then there are people who are stuck car pooling. My guess is that car pooling works for eleven months of the year, but not for December. During December there are more people on the road. People headed to shopping malls to buy Christmas gifts. They are the Christmas shoppers.

A few while ago I was stuck car pooling for two week. It was the longest two weeks of my life. It may have been fuel efficient but it was bad for my nerves. I didn’t like my fellow car poolers. They were frequently late and wore way too much perfume. Since they were so late and we had the added number of cars on the freeway, the commute to work for those weeks was hell. I was late everyday. I tried my best to get along with them or to blend in. I didn’t have much luck. They had this annoying game they played in the car. While I worried about being late for work, every three seconds someone would say, “Hey, You know what would make a really Unique Christmas Gift?” and the whole car would start off. Not that I don’t appreciate unique Christmas gifts, it’s just ideas for unique Christmas gifts hardly occur on the freeway while you’re stuck in a traffic jam. But they talked about their Christmas shopping, their Christmas holiday gifts and what not.

Then one day they broke my restraint. The rather plump woman who usually sat next to me brought two Christmas gift baskets with her. She was taking them to work and while the sentiment was very nice, carrying them in my lap was less than pleasant. One of them was a fruit basket and the other had chocolate and wine. We hit a bump somewhere and the bottle cracked and spilled on my brand new cashmere sweater and the pomegranates left a dark stain on my sleeve. I arrived at work looking like I had been mugged. I quit the car pool day and decided I’d sleep in the office before I tried it again.

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Inventing Christmas Gift Baskets

2:25 AM

There are some really great inventions out there. And there are some really weird ones too. I’ve always been a fan of the wheel; it’s what my car sits on. Then I really like the microwave and microwavable dinners. But as I watched ‘Maid of Honor’ with Patrick Dempsey and his ‘Coffee collar” I realized that there is a lot of potential for a lot of dumb inventions to make it big. Take for example the guy who motorized his easy chair and then sold it for a lot of money on eBay. I just didn’t get that.

So what triggered my comparison of useful and useless inventions? That would be my visit to a local Christmas fruit baskets exhibition. There were just about the dumbest things people had put in their baskets. Some had really good ideas too but the bad ones made me cry with laughter. There was this one guy who had put a Christmas gnome in his gift basket. The gnome was heavy and went through the frail basket. Then there was this other guy who had filled his basket with beer caps. I think they missed the fact that Christmas gift baskets are supposed to be Christmas gifts, not a collage of useless thing lying in your home. The men had more bad ideas as compared to the women.

The stuff women had put in their baskets was jars of homemade jams, cookies etc. they looked nice but some of the cookies were crumbling before the many eyes of the visitors. The Christmas fruit baskets were really popular, and in my opinion they would have made great Christmas holiday gifts. The men would just have to keep trying. They had a competition for ‘Best Christmas Gift Baskets” and the winning basket was raffled off. I was disappointed that I didn’t win it.

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Greetings Cards On A Gift Basket

2:04 AM

A while a back I was someone big on giving greeting cards. That’s all change now, but back then I found the cute and (in my opinion) expensive things to be as necessary as Christmas Holiday gifts. I would put them everywhere and on just about everything. One time I took a meat pie over to my mom’s and put a greeting card on that too. My mom thought I had obviously lost my mind.

When I wrapped presents I did them in three steps. I’d tape the box shut from every side. Even the box lid. I’d tape it with long pieces of tape from one corner to the other. Then I’d pick three different warping papers. One would plastic, the other would be patterned paper and the last would be something metallic. The paper would go on first, followed by the plastic and then add corners with the metallic one. My husband often said my Christmas gifts were hard to unwrap and I though it was because he was afraid of getting emotional about my really great Christmas gift. The third step was the bow and a greeting card. I’d just address the to: and From: and that was it. My Christmas holiday gifts were something I was proud of. Not just because they were really unique Christmas gifts but also because I had put so much time and energy into wrapping them.

I began holding back on the greeting cards and the tape when one December my husband announced we had exceeded the tape roll quota. We had bought sixteen rolls and the store wouldn’t sell us any more. So I started to conserve tape. I slowed down with the greeting cards because of my mother. I had bought her a Christmas fruit basket and was about to take it over to her when she showed up for a surprise visit. I told her I was going to bring the Christmas fruit baskets over. She said she’d take it herself and thanked me. I ran to get a greeting card for and that’s when my mother with the kind motherly patience told me ‘Greeting Cards are not shoes that go with everything’.

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But Mr. Scrooge, It’s Christmas

5:07 AM

Around seven years ago we used to have a manager who was no joy to work for. He was the kind of guy who would breathe down your neck while you were working. On any given day of the year, he would go around and visit as many cubicles as he could. He poked annoying questions at everyone, asking them what they were doing and why they were doing it. But around Christmas time he was even worse.

A lot of people use office hours to look for Christmas gifts. and I know that’s not right but as long as the work gets done on time I don’t see what the big deal is. So in an attempt to make sure no one was buying Christmas holiday gifts during office hours, the manager appointed ‘deputies’ to help him keep a watch on everyone. These deputies were a bunch of suck-ups that monitored our online activity since we didn’t have CCTV or cruel people in the IT department. This made us unable to shop online for Christmas gifts and since we were pressed for ideas for Unique Christmas gifts we began discussing them in any spare time we got. This was unacceptable to our manager. If it weren’t for free speech and the necessity of communication, he would ban all speech in the office. Finally someone in the accounts department snapped. The guy was determined to give the manager a piece of his mind. He went to his office and yelled for fifteen minutes and was fired for ‘insubordination’.

The accounts guy said it was worth. When he came back the next day to pick up his things, his mood had changed. He knew he wasn’t getting his job back but he felt bad about yelling at someone during the Christmas holiday season. He had said a lot of things that would have hurt anybody’s feelings. So in an attempt to apologize he brought two Christmas gift baskets to the office. The big one was for all of us and the smaller one was for his now ex-boss. He also put a DVD of ‘A Christmas Carol’ with it and gave it to the boss. The effect was astonishing. He got his job back and the manger eased up about our online activities.

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What Will The Christmas Gifts Be Like?

4:57 AM

The way kids ask about their Christmas presents has changed over the years. There was a time when they would ask what they were getting for Christmas, or try and guess it. Their guesses were centered around modest things that they heard about in school. Later kids began to demand that they be told what they were getting for Christmas holiday Gifts, so they could let parents know before hand if they wanted it or not. And then there are today’s kids. They pick through the various magazines that are delivered to the house during the Christmas Holiday Season, they watch all the T.V. campaigns for toys with the utmost concentration and focus. The ones who know how to write make lists. The ones who don’t know how to write draw big circles around pictures in the magazine and yell ‘I want that!’ at the T.V. when a toy commercial is running.

There are several ways of dealing with this. One is to cancel all magazine subscriptions and pull the cable cord. But then what would my husband do while I prepare dinner? He would hover around the kitchen and that is something I can’t stand. And in all honesty I have to get Christmas Gifts for my kids and I need to get Unique Christmas Gifts ideas from somewhere.

I find holiday food a good way to pacify kids over excited about Christmas gifts. I don’t have a lot of time to bake cookies and I can’t have them eating candy canes all the time. So I give them Christmas Fruits to eat. We receive a lot of Christmas Gift baskets and I put them out for the kids. Often when they don’t feel like eating the ordinary fruit and crave something more festive, I order them a special fruit bouquet. It has fruit dipped in chocolate and they like it more than the conventional Christmas fruit. And it keeps them pacified. Apparently if you’re a kid, chocolate covered fruit means you’re getting something very special for Christmas.

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Work Place Politics On Christmas

1:24 AM

The one thing I don’t like about work is office politics. And by office politics I don’t mean who’s a democrat and who’s a republican. In a work place issues are like are too far in the background. Our office politics revolves around ‘whose idea for the Christmas party is the best?’ We literally take sides and run actual campaigns to promote our favorite idea. We are a ballot box away from having our Christmas Party theme democratically elected. Right now we just see which side of the room has more people.

I remember a few years ago when we had one such party idea conflict. Someone wanted a Santa Clause theme and someone wanted a snowflake theme. Lines were drawn and we chose sides. My support was with the Snowflakes, not that I have anything against Mr. Clause. But I was working at a junior post at the time and my supervisor was leading the snowflake campaign. The only thing missing was a debate. So people began sending out Christmas holiday gifts like little candy canes to anyone who was still neutral. Some one baked cup cakes and passed them around. There was enough food to feed an army. Other small Christmas gifts were given out as well. My supervisor went around asking for ideas to ‘make our snow flake party happen’. We were slowly forgetting the whole point of the Christmas party.

That’s when I had an idea. But it would be very hard on my resolve. A new store had opened downtown for Christmas Gift baskets. But they weren’t the ordinary Christmas Gift baskets. They came in decorated containers; and held fruit cut magnificently and dipped in gourmet chocolate. My husband was going to buy one for me. After giving myself a very long pep talk I convinced myself to bring the Christmas fruit basket to work. I brought it and placed it by the water cooler; the border between Santa clause and Snow flakes. I have never seen so many thirsty people in my life as I did on that day. Throughout the day people began to see the Snow Flake side of the story. By the end of the day, it was decided that the Christmas party theme would be snowflakes with a Santa Cardboard cut out by the food table. My supervisor was really impressed with my silent efforts for her campaign.

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The Christmas Fruit Tradition

1:19 AM

Christmas as I remember it from my childhood was very different from the ones my kids experience. It was a much calmer time. My mom didn’t work until we were all grown up and moved out of the house and our Christmas holiday gifts were normally a surprise. We always thought they were the best most Unique Christmas Gifts ever. Mom would wrap and hide Christmas gifts while we were at school. I have to wrap them in the dead of night so that my kids don’t see them and then hiding them is even harder. My kids can wiggle into the smallest of places to search for their Christmas gifts.

I remember one such episode where in an attempt to hide presents I pushed a long thin box too far under a dresser and we had to use a broom to force it out on Christmas Day. We all looked forward to Christmas dinner. My Mother, who is an excellent cook, would make roast, meat pies, and mashed potatoes with cranberry sauce. At that time Christmas fruit baskets were very popular. We would receive a lot of Christmas fruit and mom would put it out for us to snack on. It was one of the greatest and most peaceful moments in my life. I’ve tried my best to give my kids the same experience. I feel guilty when I’m busy at work and they’re fixing lunch for themselves during the holidays but they are very understanding kids, and don’t complain about it.

I have however managed to keep the Christmas Fruits tradition alive. Christmas fruit has changed too over the time. Instead of the fruit bunched together in those brown baskets, they now have fruit bouquets and fruit dipped in gourmet chocolate. My kids love these Christmas gift baskets and it takes away a bit of the guilt I feel for not spending as much time with them.

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Finding Unique Christmas Fruit

4:01 AM

I like getting really unique Christmas gifts for everyone. It’s the main reason why I need so much time to pick out Christmas Gifts. Buying the newest and latest product on the shelf has no appeal for me because I know it’s just a momentary hype around some new product. I like to go with something that has general appeal and doesn’t burn a hole through every single purse I own. So while people are standing in long lines waiting to get the latest doll for their kid or are being run over by people who want to buy the latest phone I sit in front of my computer and look for useful Christmas gifts. But that doesn’t mean the gifts for Christmas that I buy are mops and detergent supply.

I buy things that people will actually enjoy while they use them. One such gift is the fruit for Christmas that I send. It’s a great Christmas gift for people who live far away. And by Christmas fruit, I don’t mean the ordinary farmer’s market fruit wrapped in green net, placed in a brown wicker basket and topped with a bow. I buy my Christmas fruit from a store that makes beautiful fruit bouquets; a very appealing way to gift fruit for Christmas. I can buy them online and the store can have them delivered anywhere in the country. It makes a good early Christmas gift and even though it won’t last the whole year, it will still be enjoyed.

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Sending Fruit Gifts To Texas

4:00 AM

I have a friend who lives in Texas. We met in college and were very close until she moved away after getting married. Ever since she began living in Texas, her tastes have changed a lot and I find I have to get to know her all over again. She used to like getting crystal ornaments and other delicate things but not any more. I guess some of her husband’s attitude has rubbed off on her. The biggest problem is getting Christmas gifts for her since I don’t know what she likes anymore. We call each other a week after Christmas and discuss our Christmas Gifts, our favorites and the misses.

She never brings up mine. It really began getting to me so I thought I would either buy her the perfect Christmas gift or start sending her gift certificates. I tried to find something that was really popular in Texas. I couldn’t afford most of the stuff and the stuff that I could afford didn’t seem to make an appropriate Christmas gift. I decided I’d end up sending her a gift certificate after all. The thought was depressing and I decided to cheer myself up with a box of chocolate strawberries. They had been an early gift from my sister. She knew how much I loved them.

The Strawberries got me thinking. I had sent this chocolate fruit to almost all kinds of people and they had loved it. It even came in fruit bouquets that were very appealing Christmas Fruit baskets. I decided to take a chance and ordered a big chocolate fruit bouquet for my friend. I scheduled the delivery so that it would arrive early for Christmas. The very next day after the delivery was made my friend called me up. She was raving about my Christmas gift and wanted to know where I had ordered it from. After teasing her for a while, I finally told her where she too could buy the delicious Christmas fruit.

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Christmas Fruit For The Kids To Enjoy

3:59 AM

We have a system for buying Christmas gifts for the kids. They get one toy each, two items of clothing and something healthy or educational. The first aren’t a problem. Catalogs and magazines start pouring Christmas Gift Ideas into kids’ heads as early as November. They already know which toy they want. Actually they have a list and I pick out the more reasonable one and clothes are never a problem. But the most important gift for me and my husband is the healthy one. We look online and in stores for something that will help build our child’s health or brain.

For a long time we’ve been giving them fruit for Christmas. But it isn’t easy getting kids to eat fruit over candy, especially if the fruit is wrapped in green net and placed in a wicker basket. The kids will always want candy canes over it. So I try and make the fruit look attractive and that has proved to be very hard. I can’t think of a whole lot of things to do with fruit and I end up wasting most of it. I gave up trying to do anything myself and searched for a nice Christmas Fruit basket online. I found some wonderful Christmas fruit on the internet. It was something that my kids would be tempted to eat. The fruit looked so wonderful, it had been cut and arranged like flowers, the pineapple was cut into daisy shapes and the strawberries had been dipped in chocolate. The whole effect was very appealing and made my mouth water. The kids loved the Christmas fruit gift even more than the toys they had received.

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