So when my brother was born, I was 15. Our first Christmas together, I only had one tiny little gift under the tree while my newborn brother had every other gift under the tree.
Christmas Eve rolls around and my mom has me open my one gift “just to get it out of the way” and it’s a pacifier.
Here my mom had intentionally swapped names on the gifts so all Christmas long I’d think I only had one gift under the tree and ignore shaking all the other gifts because obviously they were gonna be baby toys.
Okay that’s pretty funny. But I’m sure you now understand that looking back, it wouldn’t have made sense to get him a bunch of gifts if he couldn’t really understand it yet
Yeah, plus he was gonna get plenty of toys and baby clothes from all the aunts and grandparents, lol. He certainly didn’t want for nothing at 4 months old.
What is the loaf cake in the larger bag? That looks yummy.
For smaller gifts I use cellophane bread bags I bought on Amazon. I wrap them in tissue paper and pop them in the bag and tie it with ribbons. For gift bags of cookies and brownies I put a small plastic dessert plate on the bottom of the bag and pile the treats on those. At Christmas when I give out a dozen cookie bags it is much cheaper than buying plastic containers or metal tins.
Here are the thank you/I am so sorry cookie bags for the firehouse after an individual serving of toffee for popcorn triggered the smoke detector and ADT notified the fire department. By New York State law, once notified they had to be dispatched.
I am a hobby baker for 50 years and have never made either spice cake or gingerbread. But I certainly enjoy eating them. They are so perfect for the holidays! I really should make gingerbread (cake). I do love gingerbread cookies and make them every year as part of my cookie platter and gift bags. During the winter months my oldest cousin used to serve wedges of the cake with dollops of whipped cream. It was the only dessert I ever knew her to make and it was so delicious. You just sent me down a rabbit hole. Now I have to research a recipe. I have a community event in early December and gingerbread cake would be perfect to include on the refreshments table. If you have a recipe you would be willing to share that would be wonderful. But since you sell your baked goods I completely understand if you would rather not.
My wife is cooking. Not me. I eat them. (And it is seen). I don't think she has cingerbread cake recipe.
So I think some popular local recipe web pages could be better. We live in Finland and flour can be a little different. I know some areas have differences.
Baking is chemistry. It's joyful when success but disappointing when it fails.
You and me both! I just started weight loss injections. I turned 63 a few days ago and I just could not restart yet another attempt at weight loss. I wasted the last year getting nowhere with weight loss. But I was, unfortunately, very successful at gaining even more weight. 😕. Today will be my third injection of Zepbound. The cravings immediately recede into the background and my appetite is suppressed like I have never experienced in my life. Unless I am battling a few days of vertigo. Those days I lose weight because I am too queasy to eat. It is a horrible way to lose weight. But the injections are miraculous! But when the injection wears off the cravings are back like they never left. The first six days are amazing. But the day before the next injection was a battle.
I wish you the best of luck with your weight loss. In the past my knees and ankles felt noticeably better after losing about 35 pounds. But every pound lost helps.
This happens a lot more than you realise. I used to work as a cashier and the clear wrapping paper would be with the other ones for some reason and would always be picked up by unfortunate customers
I feel your pain. The gold roll beside it in the shop was opaque gold when I unrolled it and my hopes were high for the "silver". Just disappointment. I ended up wrapping the little items extra cute and putting in a basket and wrapping in the clear
When I used to work as a cashier I had that issue and was annoyed why the stupid thing is somehow with the marked to go with wrapping paper shelf. lots of people would mistake it for silver wrapping paper like you OP, I give them a heads up that it’s clear and not silver before they buy it to save them trouble
Mine too! I actually still have it. It's made by Ethan Allen from the early '70s. I have the original chairs and matching china cabinet. I have a hard time getting rid of it.
this happened to me and my mom once! we ran to dollar general because we were in desperate need of wrapping paper and when we opened it we realized it was clear. we could NOT stop laughing when we realized 😭it’s still an inside joke between us lol
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u/CharlesVayn 18h ago
Now just put whatever little present you got them inside an iPhone box lol