In honor of a New York tradition that is being revived this Christmas, complete with competition, I shall leave you with this beautiful fire burning until I return home. Should you stop by, please feel free to comment about any traditions your family shares.
My grandfather grew up during the Great Depression. For him, a good Christmas meant a new pair of socks and an orange. So every year, someone in the family receives socks for Christmas, a tradition that has continued and carries a little more meaning now that he is deceased. This year, my whole family got socks. So I guess it was a good Christmas. (My husband had to return home today, the 23rd, for work, so we opened gifts a little early.)
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You know - that’s interesting.. I am Jewish and my parents used to give us oranges or tangerines for Hannukah when I was little - I guess it is a “Depression Era” thing. (one has to ward off scurvy in hard times)
Ah yes, the days of receiving an orange in the stocking. °Ü° I remember reading somewhere that receiving an orange in the stocking was a real treat when the delicious vitamin C packing fruit was hard to come by in the northern states during winter months.
Could that have come from Little House on the Prairie? LOL Who knows, but I’m sure many children were thrilled to receive an orange years ago. I’m sad to say that the first time I put an orange in my children’s stocking didn’t result in wonderful felt blessings that’s for sure. I heart “An orange? What did we get an orange?” It was as if they received coal or rocks!
Chalk it up to having fruit around regularly maybe? LOL
I really do long for simple days, but even when things looked simple back then, in reality it really wasn’t.