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Show Christmas Likes . . .and Dislikes clerks smile patiently instead in-stead of grumbling when you return something. I love all the people who realize that Christmas is for children and let them hang homemade chains and Santas with cotton beards on trees instead of all expensive "don't touch" ornaments. I don't like seeing false Santa Clauses with cotton beards in all the stores from Thanksgiving on. I love going to the Parowan Third Ward Primary Program on Christmas eve where the "real Santa Claus" drops in when his reindeer bring him into town. . . the excitement is almost unbearable. I like packages under the tree all ready and wrapped before midnight Christmas eve. I like jingle bells, Christmas programs, and children singing "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." I like bargains. I don't like buying a shirt for $20 and then seeing the same shirt on sale for $5 a week later. I like a nice soft flurry of snowflakes to fall on Christmas eve and a nap on Christmas day-what day-what more could anyone ask. Just as a reminder. . . ' there are now only 9 more shopping days until Christmas. By Mary Gae Evans Ah, the Christmas season trees, shiny decorations, and kids so full of bubbly excitement they drive everyone around them stark raving mad. I love Christmas. It's a very expensive ex-pensive habit, but I love it. I love the excitement of putting up the tree and except for the usual fight over who hid the extension cord where and who has to untangle the lights, it all goes well. I love the feeling that I get in the evening when I turn off the room lights and watch the tree lights twinkling on and off. I j don't particularly enjoy the i ; kind of lights that wherr one 1 goes off so do all the rest. Then it seems that the whole family spends their Christmas season screwing and unscrewing bulbs up and down each line always searching for the guilty bulb. I like grandmothers who make fruit cakes and homemade candy and I don't like people who talk about their diets when a plate of homemade fudge loaded with walnuts is sitting on the table. I like toys that don't need batteries to operate or toys that do and forget to mention it on the box. I like red foil paper that comes in rolls with more than one tiny piece on a large economy cardboard roll. I don't particularly enjoy paying 75 cents for a gift box that probably cost the manufacturer less than a penny to produce. I love people who decorate their houses with lights, manger scenes, and Santa Clauses so we can drive around at night and ooh and aah. I love stores that gift wrap free and I'm not too fond of those that stuff dresses, candles and candy all into one sack and hurry you out. I. love stores where they play Chrstmas music and the |