"My dad's eldest sister started a tradition for their side of the family when she started having kids. Each child in the family was assigned a winter/Christmas theme, such as snowmen, mittens, or snowflakes. My dad's sister would buy an ornament for each kid based on their theme. We got one every year! My theme is stockings, so I currently have 25 stocking ornaments and counting!"
"A bit of backstory: We didn't have a lot of money growing up, but one year, I was gifted a beautiful swan princess Barbie by a school friend for my birthday. Our family always liked a fairy/angel on top of the Christmas tree, but we couldn't afford to buy one, so we used my Barbie. The problem was that, as the creative type, her beautiful dress was no longer a long, flowing ball gown,"
One family assigns each child a winter theme (snowmen, mittens, snowflakes) and gifts a themed ornament annually; a stocking-themed person accumulated 25 stocking ornaments and the tradition continued after the aunt's death, including cousins and a friend who now receives a Christmas-tree ornament each year. Another family places a Twilight Burger King New Moon crown atop their tree as a tradition, despite male relatives attempting to remove it. A family repurposed a gifted swan princess Barbie as a tree topper by fashioning a crown from a toilet-roll tube and a flowing gown from tin foil; the tin foil Barbie is still recreated yearly.
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