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28 December 2019

Unexpected

Phillip (the USA) made this cardboard envelope out of a box of Kleenex. I wonder how people can resist to buy such packaging, whatever it carries...

I found inside a Christmas card. While we are more or less used to see Christmas bears (odd, if you come to think of the matter)... The Christmas octopus was totally unexpected. Love it, though!

6 comments:

  1. Heleen28 December, 2019

    Indeed a lovely package (and by your lines through your address there appears a tiny christmas tree :-) )

    The Christmas Octopus is great (and inspiring)!
    Here in NL we don't have a tradition of christmas socks (in trees, at chimnees - or actually I don't know where a christmas sock belongs, other than pictured on christmas cards :-) ). But we have a tradition of shoes before the chimmey at Sinterklaas, so I guess now I know which animal to draw next year for 5 december :-) )

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  2. FinnBadger28 December, 2019

    Glad to see your bonus Christmas card arrived, and I was sure it would get the nasty sharpie treatment, so even better that it didn't.

    @Heleen - traditionally the Christmas stocking was hung on the mantelpiece, or the foot of the bed. Funny that in the Netherlands it is shoes.

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  3. fafa28 December, 2019

    Magnifique enveloppe ,j'adore et j'ai reçu la même carte que j'adore aussi ,en France aussi le père noël met les cadeaux dans les souliers pas dans les chaussettes ,peut être une coutume anglosaxonne:)

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  4. Mail Adventures29 December, 2019

    In Spain, we also leave the shoes in the balcony (or window, with some food (vegetables) for the camels or the horses of the Magi.

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    1. Heleen29 December, 2019

      But that must be 6 January?
      Funny how all dates differ:
      5 december Sinterklaas/ Sint Nicolaas eve in the Netherlands,
      6 december Sint Nicolaas in Belgium
      25 december is the day in the Netherlands to give christmas presents (if people didn't already do so at Sinterklaas' eve)
      26 december Boxing day (in English-speaking countries, I think?)
      And in January the three kings / three wise men from the East

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    2. Mail Adventures29 December, 2019

      We leave the shoes the 5th, and we find the presents the following morning. If we haven't been good, we find charcoal.

      But in Catalonia is the Tió who brings the presents on Christmas Eve, and in the Basque Country, it is the Olentzero, on the 24th or later.

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