What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I miss so much my dear Mother. Most Christmases there was only the two of us (my father having been killed in war)and she went out of her way to make each and every one so memorable for me. Unfortunately when one’s a child one doesn’t fully appreciate the effort made, but I do now and each Christmas Day now I set aside a couple of hours to sit quietly and think of her.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
Retro Christmas flash back to 1983.....Cabbage Patch Doll Mania.
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
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Retro Christmas flash back to 1983.....Cabbage Patch Doll Mania.
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
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I had a pet rock, but in the 80's, amazing what kids can convince parents to buy.
I don't remember if my sister got a cabbage patch doll in 1983, she would have just turned 3, and I was 4 1/2 and don't have sufficient memory of 1983, can't remember anything really from 1983 specifically.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
Retro Christmas flash back to 1983.....Cabbage Patch Doll Mania.
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
Doll retailed for $20, but was reselling as high as $50. ($52 & $130 when adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars.)
https://youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
She then wanted another one the next Christmas, and I got another one then, and she used Christmas money to buy a male Cabbage Doll during the Christmas sales!
She played with them for quite some time, then they went on the shelf as she grew too old for dolls. In 1995, she gave me the second female doll to take to England to give to my niece's then 3 year old daughter .... and she loved it. Later, we took the first doll and the boy to Halifax. They are now on the shelves of stuffed toys in her son's room. Yes, he liked stuffed toys, though growing out of them now!
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You are obviously a chip off a rather special loving Mum's block & she brought up a wonderful son. She would be so proud.
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My daughter would have been about 8 that Christmas, and I remember she really wanted a Cabbage Patch Doll. I went to The Bay downtown around late November, and got the last one on the shelf in the Toy Department. I paid the going price for it! It was well-loved for years ......... and she still has it.
She then wanted another one the next Christmas, and I got another one then, and she used Christmas money to buy a male Cabbage Doll during the Christmas sales!
She played with them for quite some time, then they went on the shelf as she grew too old for dolls. In 1995, she gave me the second female doll to take to England to give to my niece's then 3 year old daughter .... and she loved it. Later, we took the first doll and the boy to Halifax. They are now on the shelves of stuffed toys in her son's room. Yes, he liked stuffed toys, though growing out of them now!
She then wanted another one the next Christmas, and I got another one then, and she used Christmas money to buy a male Cabbage Doll during the Christmas sales!
She played with them for quite some time, then they went on the shelf as she grew too old for dolls. In 1995, she gave me the second female doll to take to England to give to my niece's then 3 year old daughter .... and she loved it. Later, we took the first doll and the boy to Halifax. They are now on the shelves of stuffed toys in her son's room. Yes, he liked stuffed toys, though growing out of them now!
My mom doesn't recall having to go deal with the crowds, I don't think my sister got one until a couple years later when she was older, at 3 she probably didn't even know they existed, I certainly have no memory of 1983, I do have cabbage patch dolls, but I don't think I was aware of them in 1983....but maybe I was, I literally no specific memories from 1983, not until 1987-88 where I have some specific memories begin.
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Nice Christmas cake. But there is good news.
I usually buy a couple of those brick types of what they call fruit cake here. Not the light ones but not necessarily the dark ones either. They are acceptable but not really.
Last year, just after Christmas, Sobeys sold something they called "Sensations by Compliments Royal British Fruitcake" and I thought it was the real deal. Easily the best I've had in Canada and it seemed to me on a par with M&S.
I was just looking at the latest Sobeys flyer and I don't know if they've rebranded it (I remember something about a new name for 'sensations') but they appear to be calling it Deluxe Fruitcake now. But the wrapper is absolutely identical to the one illustrating it when it was Royal British Fruitcake.
So that's the one to get.
I usually buy a couple of those brick types of what they call fruit cake here. Not the light ones but not necessarily the dark ones either. They are acceptable but not really.
Last year, just after Christmas, Sobeys sold something they called "Sensations by Compliments Royal British Fruitcake" and I thought it was the real deal. Easily the best I've had in Canada and it seemed to me on a par with M&S.
I was just looking at the latest Sobeys flyer and I don't know if they've rebranded it (I remember something about a new name for 'sensations') but they appear to be calling it Deluxe Fruitcake now. But the wrapper is absolutely identical to the one illustrating it when it was Royal British Fruitcake.
So that's the one to get.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
Nice Christmas cake. But there is good news.
I usually buy a couple of those brick types of what they call fruit cake here. Not the light ones but not necessarily the dark ones either. They are acceptable but not really.
Last year, just after Christmas, Sobeys sold something they called "Sensations by Compliments Royal British Fruitcake" and I thought it was the real deal. Easily the best I've had in Canada and it seemed to me on a par with M&S.
I was just looking at the latest Sobeys flyer and I don't know if they've rebranded it (I remember something about a new name for 'sensations') but they appear to be calling it Deluxe Fruitcake now. But the wrapper is absolutely identical to the one illustrating it when it was Royal British Fruitcake.
So that's the one to get.
I usually buy a couple of those brick types of what they call fruit cake here. Not the light ones but not necessarily the dark ones either. They are acceptable but not really.
Last year, just after Christmas, Sobeys sold something they called "Sensations by Compliments Royal British Fruitcake" and I thought it was the real deal. Easily the best I've had in Canada and it seemed to me on a par with M&S.
I was just looking at the latest Sobeys flyer and I don't know if they've rebranded it (I remember something about a new name for 'sensations') but they appear to be calling it Deluxe Fruitcake now. But the wrapper is absolutely identical to the one illustrating it when it was Royal British Fruitcake.
So that's the one to get.
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Re: What do you miss about Christmas from homeland?
I got my Christmas cake from Sobeys as above. Sadly it's not UK made like last year. Deluxe from Weston Foods Toronto.
But it is better than the usual stuff available. I always find light fruit cake to be just fruit cake and the dark version just seems like molasses was added.
But it is better than the usual stuff available. I always find light fruit cake to be just fruit cake and the dark version just seems like molasses was added.