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Jennifer - 2005-03-28 09:49:18
Will you please post a pic of your new outfit? I would love to see which one you got. I love Love LOVE CJ Banks!!! I am with you! I can't WAIT to see spring here. I hope my hyacynths come up. I planted about 8 bulbs in the front garden. I had left them in my car all winter and they started sprouting when we had some warm weather, so I planted them. It is going to be close to 70 degrees. I bet they will be wearing shorts all over Mpls! I know I am pulling out the capri pants at least.
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amy - 2005-03-28 12:19:34
My mom and dad always gave me a gift for easter. Some years it was a record (yes i am dating myself) last year it was a family membership to the local community center for a year. I grew up on the east coast so maybe it is different out there, or did they do that becuase I am allergic to chocolate? my brother got gifts too.
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Sandy - 2005-03-28 13:31:29
When I got too old to really give a crap about candy, my mom started getting me a pair of pajamas every year for Easter. But this year at my Christmas I had to leave the room during the gift frenzy because it was so overwhelming. They weren't big gifts, but even small gifts are enough to incite rioting among small children. I'm not religious, but I thought, when did Easter turn into ... this?
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Sandy - 2005-03-28 13:32:40
Okay, I said, "this year at my Christmas" when I meant "this year at my sister's house." See? They ARE turning it into Christmas!
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Sunny - 2005-03-28 15:21:16
Religious or not...Easter really isn't "about" eggs, candy or bunnies. The reason for Easter is because of Jesus and The Resurrection!!! I never had heard of "gifts" neither..and think it's a more recent (in years) phenomonen. I think the egg/bunny thing came about as a celebration of 'new life' or Spring! But of course as Madison Avenue gets their dibs in and the secularization of our society they will make it into a materialistic event. It's a way of obliterating what the actual event is/was.
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Jen G. - 2005-03-28 16:42:55
I think there's a difference between gifts like computers and gifts like stuffed animals, etc. I got my son a DVD he had been wanting...I hate materialism as much as the next guy, but I don't feel like that was too much.
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