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Originally Posted by raeanna74
I was raised conservative, protestant, Christian. There were times that we had no tree, exchanged no gifts, and we NEVER pretended, or acknowledged Satan, I mean Santa, except with distain. We infact did not even wrap gifts with paper that had images of Santa on them.
...Happy Holidays? - go ahead and say it but don't you dare complain if I still say "Merry Christmas".
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Huh. I was raised in a very similar environment (mostly Conservative Southern Baptist). In the same way I never knew from one year to the next how we were going to be allowed to do anything from trees to santa to whatever. OK, Santa was never any part of our holiday, but if Mom found Santa wrapping paper on sale, we'd use that (on the premise that it'd be ripped up and destroyed anyways...oye). Same with Easter.
I don't worry about that stuff anymore at all. And I'll say just about any crazy thing, including Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas--whatever happens to pop out of my irreverent, sacreligious mind at that moment.
By the way raeanna74, I'm always interested in your point of view, seeing how similar our upbringing seems to have been, and the things you do/way you live now.
