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A Christmas MeMe... More than you probably should know...

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Home Stager with Home Matters

Thanks Melissa for asking!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?    Wrapping paper.  I've always liked to wrap with stripped paper and make the lines all meet on the ends. 

2. Real tree or Artificial?  Artificial.  When I was a kid we always had real trees and I use to love the smell, but I was never really fond of the mess....

3. When do you put up the tree?   Day after Thanksgiving.  It's always quiet at the Barnett house the day after Thanksgiving so Linda and I have the Grand kids over and we put up and decorate the tree.

4. When do you take the tree down?   New years day.  Funny the grandkids are no where in site for the take down.

5. Do you like eggnog?     Nope.  Just never had a taste for it.

6. Favorite gift received as a child?   Lone Ranger rifle and pistol set.  Guess what year this would have been?

7. Hardest person to buy for?   Linda... We both already have everything we need and if we don't we buy it when we need it.

8. Easiest person to buy for?   Grand-kids.  They get excited about anything you get them,,,  Well maybe not so much with cloths.

9. Do you have a nativity scene?   No.  Just lots of snowmen

10. Mail or email Christmas cards?    Mail. 

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?  My Grandfather use to give me nuts, Nuts that were still in the shell.  I think it must have been some form of humor, but I never got it.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?   National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.  If this won't put you in a good mood, nothing will.  Just writing this and thinking about cousin Eddie makes me laugh.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?  All year long.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?   Yes. Never an opened one....

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?  Ham

16. Lights on the tree?   Solid White, no blinking

17. Favorite Christmas song?   Mary did you know.  Kenny Rogers & Wynonna Judd...

18. Travel at Christmas or stay at home?   Home, always.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?  Yep, I'm a grandpa....

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Both, it's a snow baby angel holding a star.

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?    Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year?   Some people go nuts.  They loose thier minds and become rude.

23. What theme or color are you using?  White, Snow Babies and Snow men...

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner.  Friends and Family, the food doesn't matter.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year?  A GPS for Linda so I can stop writing out directions....

How about, Julea Joseph, Teresa Meyer and Cindy Bryant

Charlene Storozuk
Dezigner Digz - Burlington, ON
Home Stager - Burlington Ontario

I enjoyed reading your Christmas MeMe Gary.  Christmas Vacation is my favourite Christmas movie too.  How can you not love eggnog though?  It's one of the highlights of the season for me :-).  Good thing you can't buy it year round though, or I'd be the size of a house :-).  I hope you and Linda have a fabulous Christmas!

Dec 17, 2008 12:19 AM
Gary Barnett
Home Matters - Indianapolis, IN
Home Matters Property Stylist Group, Indianapolis

Thanks Charlene, I just have never found a warm spot for Eggnog.  Can't explain it.  I'm ok with taking everything out but the whiskey...  You and your family have a great holiday also...

Dec 18, 2008 12:09 AM