Funniest Christmas Memory

Faith316

Share a funny Christmas memory that you have. 

I'll go first.

When I was a little girl, my parents were into "flocked" Christmas trees.  They had some kind of spray-on white stuff and somehow a vaccuum cleaner was used in the application.  (I'm not exactly sure how the application process went.)  Apparently one year the application wasn't going so well.  I still have the mental image of my dad being so mad that it wasn't going right that he kicked the vaccuum cleaner across the yard!  I'm not sure how many more years we had flocked trees.  That might have been the last one.  So funny!  But, HE didn't think so!

SpecialK

We had a crazy little tortoise-shell cat.  For some reason she loved that shiny tinsel that you hung on the Christmas tree in individual strands (this was a long time ago!)  Apparently she ate one strand, but we only knew this because it was dangling from her hind end!  She was a very lively kitty and did a lot of scampering around so it was hilarious to see that sparkly tinsel under her tail.  Sometimes she would see it too and start jumping around trying to play with it!

Laurie08

When I was about 15 my Mom and I went to cut down the family Christmas tree.  We went to a place we had never gone to before- there was almost two feet of snow on the ground and the Christmas tree farm we went to was kind of  "wild".  We walked through thigh high snow- FOREVER- trying to find a tree.  After forever, we finally picked just about any tree and had to climb the damn thing so we could cut it and have it not be too big.  We had a little hand saw, we took turns, we dragged the damn thing through the snow back to the pick up truck.  I swear- we were there forever, we were so cold.

We get the tree into the truck and start it up and turn the heater on and just sort if sit there.  My mother turns to me and says- "well that sucked.  We are NEVER cutting a tree again, if we do your father and brother are doing it."  I looked at her and laughed, and she smiled back and said " ho, ho, ho."  We never cut a tree again and I guess if you knew my mother it would be funnier- but she never said "sucked" it was rude etc.  Every year after we would say- want to go get a fresh cut tree?  HELL NO!!!