We would keep a collection of the best jokes we'd heard all year in small notebooks and make them our "Secret Santa" gift to one another at Christmas.
When you have so much, Ted would say, you can only really receive by giving. He said that there come a point of affluence when additional gains start to hurt.
Christmas gifts in our home came in the form vouchers for back massages and warm drink making services.
Every year our Christmas gifts were a baking exchange, gingerbread men in glass jars and spiced cookies. If it came from a store it didn't get in the door - that was our rule.
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