Comments on: Not About Real Estate

By: Steve Simon

Steve Simon — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:01:26 +0000

Health and Happiness to you and yours:)

By: Jonathan Dalton

Jonathan Dalton — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:06:11 +0000

I’ve been receiving Christmas gifts (long story) in the same box for more than three decades. The box is mostly tape at this late date.

My dad recently converted some Super 8s onto DVD … and the box made a cameo some 35 years ago.

I really like the box. Just don’t tell my mom since I’ve tried lighting it on fire for the last 10 years running.

By: Bill Lublin

Bill Lublin — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:49:44 +0000

Teresa you always make me smile – Merry Christmas to you and Boomerjack – and my sincerest wishes that the holidays are everything you want them to be -

By: Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:55:16 +0000

I hate wrapping gifts too. For a few years I went to the bags…that did not go over for the kids, they missed all the boxes.

So mom did what they wanted.

Merry Christmas!!

By: Monika

Monika — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:52:48 +0000

Merry Christmas Teresa I hope you and your family have a great holiday season.

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:27:44 +0000

Matt – my brother and I had a tradition involving a large candy cane he gave my daughter when she was 2. I wouldn’t let her have it but sent it to him as a gift the next year. It was passed back and forth. It was broken and just a bag of powder with tape all over it after 10 years. We kept adding to it and putting notes on it until one year it got lost in the mail between St. Paul and Chicago. Neither of us has seen it in years but we are never entirely sure that the other doesn’t have it and keep waiting to see it again. He thinks I have it and I just might.

By: Bridget Magnus

Bridget Magnus — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:34:29 +0000

Merry Christmas to you too.

Our “unwrapping game” is that all the gift tags have clues on them. Instead of “To Joe From Jane,” it’s “To Joe from China,” and perhaps it will have a tea set inside. Or this year, maybe something made of melamine! Part of the game is you have to guess what’s inside before unwrapping it.

By: Brian Brady

Brian Brady — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:27:28 +0000

Merry Christmas, Teresa.

My new Christmas tradition is to look at your St Paul pics on Facebook.

By: Matt Stigliano

Matt Stigliano — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:24:04 +0000

Teresa – I’m just as bad at wrapping. I love the idea of what you do, both from a not wasting standpoint and the game of trying to think of who’s it was last time. I may just try that. My grandfather used to pass a can of Heinz beans around the family for some odd reason. I was very young and didn’t understand it fully, but the same can had been with him for years. I think it had to do with the Depression (and they were from Pittsburgh where Heinz got his start during the Depression). It always fascinated me as a kid though.