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We were doing most of the last of the shopping, getting the boxes together to ship gifts to Alaska. For those who don’t know, the trick is to get gifts that wrapped will fit in a flat rate box, otherwise you basically pay by the inch and the pound. The flat rate is the way to go, but it has to fit in the box. So when shopping, you plan…

I was able to spend most of the day helping to decorate my parents tree and house. It was great and we had a wonderful time going over the stories about the different orniments while my mother played the keyboard, filling the house with music. After collecting orniments not only my whole life, but from before my birth, my parents own quite a collection. I imagine they could cover a…

Holiday decorations get more and more complicated. A strand of lights, now has more bulbs, webbing, extra wires and more capacity to become tangled. The labor saving storage does not prevent human error, broken or twisted wires or pieces lost in a move. Dealing with all of those challenges is part of the joy of the holidays. Sentimental orniments is the standard in my family, no uniform glass balls or…