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During the wild fires in California, I donated some goods to the families in need and who have lost their houses. I still want them to feel special during the holiday season after all the disaster that the fires have caused to them.
During the holiday season, to give thanks I help my church out with the homeless we cook them dinner and give them places to sleep for a few nights. The best christmas gift I have ever gaven to somone is a jingle ball ticket. My friend had always wanted to go and I tried everyday calling KIIS Fm, and finally got in, and I give my ticket to my friend it was really exciting.
Well, I spread Christmas joy by not being a pill all the time! hah, but the best present I’ve given…that’s hard because I try to put a lot of thought into each gift. But my brother is allergic to metal, so he can’t wear rings and etc., but he still enjoys it. So I went to his favorite, or one of them, little shops and I got him a ring made out of Buffalo Bone, nobody expected me to get him that.
At the end of the day Christmas isn’t about gifts, but the time you spend with family. Making and sharing the memories that have happened over the years, and the ones you make on Christmas is the best gift I can give.
i do whatever i can to help my family make ends meet, and i don’t ask for much for christmas, and if i do, it’s inexpensive.
one year, my dad and i brought my cousin bryan home from iraq to see his family, since we’re all really close, and it was going to be his 2nd christmas away from home.
I give joy during the holiday season by donating to toys for tots and a dollar here and there when i get the chance. The best gift I and my husband have been given is our daughter Audrey, who is turning 9 months old this month. Although we are both young, 20 and 22, she is defiantly the greatest blessing.
I give joy by being thankful for what I got and not be upset that I didn’t get something or I don’t like something. The best gift would have to be going to spend Christmas with my dad because I hadn’t had a Christmas with him in 5 years.
My dad is in a semi vegetative state (almost like a coma) and in a healthcare facility. It’s very hard to be there all the time, but we cope. I’m going to bake cookies for the staff and patients – they can’t leave the facility for the holidays so I thought I’d try to bring some of the holiday cheer to them instead :]
I spread Christmas joy at various times throughout the year to anyone unfortunate enough to be within listening range or stay up singing Christmas carols with my suitemate until 3 in the morning just after Halloween. Since my amount of US dollars consists of dirt and pocket lint, I mainly stay in charge of keeping the festivities alive during Christmas and gifts are showers of love and affection to all my dearly loved family and friends. Perhaps the odd stranger is thrown in there too ;)
The way I spread joy in the holiday seasons is by spending time with my whole family,Going over to my grandparents house and celebrating with them being happy enjoying the food,honestly the gifts arent that important whats important is being with the family and enjoying that all your family is okay and celebrating another year with them.
One of my close friend’s younger sister has a disease called AT. With this rare disease, patients are predicted to have lymphoma cancer. Last winter she was in the hospital getting treatments for a few months. Winter rolled around, then Christmas, she was still bed ridden on the hospital bed. We all went to the hospital that day with a mini tree, cookies, and gifts. It’s just nice to know she felt like it was Christmas in the hospital too. It’s just what she needed to feel better.
If this is about giving one person the most joy: I must say, I used to be SO proud bringing home the silly holiday trinkets we made for Mom in Kindergarten. Why? Ahh, you know :)
If it were about giving the best to everyone, no DOUBT everyone would be getting the Urbanoutfitters “Booty Buddy”, Premium hipster ‘Snuggie’ knock-offs with an inflated price tag!! Because who could resist the warmth and ridiculousness?
If this were about getting a date with Hannabeth? Hah, well I guess joy would be all mine, enough for everyone!
Helping the homeless and needy people is always at the top of my list. I take a bunch of old clothes & blankets to all the homeless people who sleep under bridges in my city. So sad. And this year we set up a huge food drive to give to the needy!
I give during the holiday season by making cookies and other things and handing them out to my neighbors. Also during the Christmas season I make a special exception to clean out my closet of things I don’t use or need that someone else would appreciate more than me. The best gift I ever gave to someone was when I volunteered at a Christmas Handicapped dance, for all the handicapped kids in the local high schools. Seeing the looks on their faces when we got them to dance with us and with one another was one of the greatest feelings I have ever felt. It wasn’t about buying them something, they appreciated our presence and it made me over joyed to be a apart of it.
i donate hot burrito’s every week during the holiday time, and when i have extra bucks i give beenies, hot hands, blankets, socks and gloves to a homeless shelter in the mojave desert during the winter because i know that it can get extremely cold out in the high deserts. The 1 best gift i’ve given was a ride from reno to san diego, i drove over to pickup a lady and take her to her family’s house in sd, it wasn’t a big deal because i was driving out anyway, but the lady was lit, i never seen a grown/old peson so happy in my life she was like a 3 year old kid again. it was pretty wild
I bake cookies and cupcakes for local homeless shelters and even just for friends whose families don’t celebrate the holidays like mine does. It’s really amazing what two dozen chocolate chip cookies can do for a person.
The best gift i ever gave someone was in the 6th grade when i helped out my home room teacher with the presents to the needy.They dont have anything and donating things for them to make there chritmas a little better then it was last year for them makes me very happy
I donate stuff like food and clothes to charites when we have drives at school, I work in a local homeless shelters/soup kitchen type organization on Saturdays. The best gift I’ve given some one for the holidays was an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii using money I had saved/earned from fund raisers. Sadly she has passed away now, but I’ll never forget how grateful she looked when she came back. She’d always wanted to go and I was happy to have made her dream come true.
During The Holiday Season I Give Joy By Jest Spending A lot Of Time With Everyone, Especially My Family & And Anyone Who Needs It. Its The Best Time Of The Year To Show The People You Care About That You Truly Do Love Them.
The Best Gift That I, I Dont Want To Say I It Was My Family & I.(Mom, Dad, & Sister), We Actually Called One Of My Uncle’s Who , At the Time, Jest Had a Heart Attack. We asked Him What He Was Doing For Thanksgiving, He Sounded Kinda Gloomy, So We Knew He Had Nothing Happening, & Nobody To Share Anything With. So My Family Invited Him Over For Thanksgiving. WE Tried To Make Sure He Had A Good Time, (Even Though We Had Jest Found Out My Grandmother (from my dad’s side) Died That Night On Thanksgiving Day). It Was Nice To See Him Smiling After What He’d Gone Through. That Night, Even When We Were Sad Too, My Closest Cousin & His Dad Were Trying Really Hard To Find A Flight Right Then And There To Go See Her. It Was Impossible…By The End We had To Take It All In, And My Cousin, My Sister, And Her Boyfriend Were Trying To Lighten The Mood Up… Especially My Dad & Uncle. We Got Some Smiles Later That Night.
Last christmas my family, instead of spending money buying presents for each other, bought 5 beds for one of my mom’s special ed students from the inner city who has been living with his aunt and 6 cousins in an apartment with no furniture for the past 4 years.
the best gift i had when my best freind matt gave me a star and named it after me to remind his love and freindship to me bc he had 6months to live dying with cancer.. its been 2years now and the love and happyness fun we had lives on everytime i look up to the sky looking at my star he named after me i miss him..
christmas isn’t all about getting or giving gifts. it’s about being around the people that love you, wether it be family or friends or someone that you just met on the street. i think the greatist gift of all is knowing that you can go home to a place where people care about you. even those that are less fortunate. when you help then and get them food or gifts and the smiles that are on their faces. they know that someone care enough for them.
Christmas has always been the best time of year for my family. We never had much but we would always do something, like see the Nutcracker together every year back in California(when I lived there). We were happy because we had food, each other’s company, and a few presents. So on Christmas, I go with the Church to make sure that ALL people who ask for food, gets a nice meal on Christmas, which makes them so happy. I also help organize a small christmas party for the local children’s after school program, for those who qualify for the free service. The kids love it. This is the best way I could think of to spend my holidays because I would have loved it when I was little, and everybody deserves a meal on this glorious day. =)
So probably everyone will say community service. So i dont want to be just another one of those people.
So every year my school has a day where kids buy gifts for there parents and friends. My mom hates that day so she always took me out of school to give away gifts. I was always pissed because my mom was the only mom that took her kid out. She would take me to hospitals to give away toys i dont play with anymore to kids that wont be home for christmas and stuff in the hospital. The most memerable hospital was when we went to an organazation that had toddlers, babies and kids that had parents that are in jail for some sorts. Seeing those kids smile and play with them really opened up my heart to this place and thinking about what it would be like to not be at home for christmas with my family. I ended throughout the years help out there and make food.
I thank my mom so much for taking me away from shopping and buying things for myself and finally give. It definently makes you feel good. Thanks mom!
i love christmas being with all my friends and family is so nice.
i always get my friends gifts weather i make it or buy it but i always get 2 for them a joke gift and somthing they like, one year for a joke gift i got her smoking mittens cause she does not smoke so she was just like what am i going to do with these, but then i gave her the gift she would like, this really nice coach bag. i think the best gift i ever gave was in grad 5 i did alot of arts and crafts and i was working on a present for her for about 2 week at school and i made her this nice glossy clay jewelry box with a nice design on it she loved it and 5 years later still has and uses it, it really came from the heart
Last year my friend’s mother died of cancer that spreaded all through her body. She was the only employed person in her family, and I came up with an idea to go shopping for my friends family. I spent all of my money and help with my mom to go grocery and neccessity shopping for her. The look on their faces full with happiness was over joying. That was a true holiday story.
i give joy during the holiday season, by stuffing everyones stocking with tons of candy. the best gift i have given would have to be the camera i gave my sister because shew loves taking pics
~Sara
Giving joy during the holiday season is by showing love or giving someone a gift.i have given my mama a gold necklace with her name that she always wanted.
I go down to the local nursing home and decorate doors in Christmas decor and sing with the residents. Then, I go in the Alzheimer unit and bake cookies for them and help them decorate the eating area. They love when I spend time with them.
What i do is just giving off positive vibes and trying my best helping others in anyway possible. I personally don’t think it should just be for the holiday season i think it should always be like that. I would say the best gift is any joy I’ve given to anyone. No material things just if I’ve given joy or made someones day better is enough for me.
I go to college, and most of the time my friends & I are quite broke. No one expects anything special, nor get in the holiday cheer. We’re on our own and are far away from family. The holidays are so much fun to me, and I want my friends to enjoy it as well so I make sure that they feel loved & joyful like the family we are. The best gift I’ve given wasn’t just one gift, but the gift of pure holiday cheer complete with presents & food to brighten up everyone’s holiday. No matter how many scrooges I have to deal with, I will always get the holiday spirit out of my friends… we’re a family.
Dear Celebuzz.com,
There is necessity and then there is joy.
It is my belief that these things go hand in hand.
It makes it easier to experience joy
after having a good hot meal.
The holidays can be a difficult time for some folks.
We all have to eat…
Being a song writer, the best gift I’ve ever given to someone for the holidays is the gift of song.
My friend Antoine is a very talented trumpet player here in NYC…Every year at local soup kitchens he plays
music for the homeless.
Last year I went with him and brought my guitar.
The room was filled with the smell of food
and the sound of music.
Some people chose to sing along with are holiday songs.
This put a smile on all are faces.
Participating was the greatest gift…because in that room there was a sense of community,
and through this participation and community there was Joy.
Sincerely ~ Mark Prescott
I give joy by spreading around the most fondest memories I’ve had with everyone I’ve known, regarding if we talk on a daily basis, occasionally or at all. Just letting them know it was great knowing them and they still mean something to me because they were a part of my life. The greatest gift I’ve ever given someone in my point of view was at age of 15 I begged my father for a bunch of toys and woke up Christmas morning and found them under the tree, I was so happy. Then we went to visit family friends to spend time with them, we came across this family that the kids couldn’t get any toys because they didn’t have the money to buy them, I being young asked my parents to explain why couldn’t they have what I got, my parents then explained their situation, i then only felt right to give all my toys away to that one family. Ever since then I’ve felt so proud of myself and have had a tradition of giving away a toy every year to a kid who i think really needs it.
i want to go on a holiday with karl wolf i am his # 1 fan because in school i never stop talking about him my theacher is sssssssooooooooo annoyed by it but i never stop i met karl wolf 8 times and i am 11 years old
For Christmas, my mother always told my brothers and I that she do not want gifts for christmas.All she wants is for us to be good kids.(No arguing,fighting,attitudes).So one day my brothers and I cleaned the whole house and made dinner.We wrote our mother a poem telling her how much of a good parent she is.Giving joy on christmas is just to be happy and show love to family and friends.
The way I give joy to the people I love during the holidays is by making them smile and laugh. Thats the greatest gift I can get.Ive never really had much money to give people presents on Christmas but I Try my best to at least get them something special. I guess you can say the best gift I can give them is love and there will always be love from me no matter what.
This ‘gift’ was the best for the person but the worst for me. Two years ago, close to Christmas, my great grandma was in the hospital. She was dying. My gift to her was being able to tell her one last time that I loved her and to promise to take care of her dog. I granted her last request but not without a heavy heart. I miss her deeply, but I know she’s in a better place.
i guess what id was a few years ago i did this charity thing for cristmas called Christmas Cheer its away for parents who arent making eough money can give gifs to there kids. and this one lady i had was so sweet she started to cry as she told me that she wished she didnt have to go through charity to get gifts for her kids she said that it made her feel weak she couldnt do it on her own so hugged the lady and told her “everyone needs a helpng hand once in a while so we should be greatful to have this one”. and she smiled to me i felt like srong words can be the greatest gift anyone can give. that da really impacted me and i still do the christmas cheer every year cause i love the smilesi can bring to people
I give joy by simply having a smile on my face and just loving my family and friends. They are the thing that get me through the day. As for the best gift, I believe it would be anything I have made. Whether it be a simple card or a blanket, I love to just show my love through my own special ways
The best Christmas gift I’ve ever given is when I single handedly put together & personally delivered gift boxes for over 150 residents in an Armed Forces Veterans Home to help spread the holiday cheer. The gift of giving truly is the ultimate christmas gift.
I barely turned 15 this year so last year i actually bought my whole family presents and made home-made cards. I was so proud of my wrapping and just giving them to my family was the icing on the cake. Everyone loved their gifts and were grateful and I can’t wait for this year to do something even better.
I give joy to little kids by showing them the true meaning of christmas. they all think i’m crazzy for not wanting gifts.
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