Weeks after kissing another girl under the mistletoe, I STILL gave my (then, ex)boyfriend a winter coat because his broke ass was freezing to death. True spirit of giving, y’all — helping the NEEDY.

I gave my bf Foo Fighters tickets that had come in the mail for him that ‘he’ bought around 4 months before christmas….I also wrapped them in a box that made it look like a bigger item than it actually was. He thought i was pure evil but i simply new i had given him the best present that year!!

I helped out give food to the homeless so they can be clothed and have food to eat

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nothing i gave nobody nothing because everybody has done something wrong in the year and every kind of deserves coal or nothing (oh ya and can u post the winner on ur web thanx

I gave my parents their first grandchild. We have struggled as a family as this brought everyone a little closer.

He was in the hospital, in the late stages of HIV-Aids.
So, rather than be without him on Christmas morning,
I loaded our two children in the car, stuffing my sons riding hotwheels into the backseat somehow, and my daughter wrapped herself into a pretzel to fit in the car. We sang Christmas carols and rang the bell on the Hotwheels as he zoomed down the hallway to bring Christmas to him, much to the nurses dismay:)

I was very bless to have a good job at the time and the company I worked for had giving all the workers a Holiday turkey. At the time my fathers sister/my aunt had a large family (8) and didn’t have enough money for a Thanksgiving turkey so I called my aunt and ask if she would like to have a turkey for her family Thanksgiving.
It’s better to give than receive
-Teresa

[quote=Teresa Simpson]I was very bless to have a good job at the time and the company I worked for had giving all the workers a Holiday turkey. At the time my fathers sister/my aunt had a large family (8) and didn’t have enough money for a Thanksgiving turkey so I called my aunt and ask if she would like to have a turkey for her family Thanksgiving.
It’s better to give than receive
-Teresa[/quote]
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Honestly, Christmas isnt about gifts. I always get something I think is cool. But more than anything I am truely grateful for the gift I get everytime I see my little boy smile. True Happiness.

The best way to spread joy over the holidays is with love. Yes, gifts and money are nice, but I like just spending time with my family and friends over Christmas.

Everywhere I go during the holidays, no matter where it is, I greet everyone. I say Happy Holidays! Or, Merry Christmas! I think just having a positive attitude gets everyone into the holiday spirit. Every year i put together shoe boxes and decorate them and fill them will candy & toys & such & send them to kids who aren’t lucky enough to have their own Christmas. Altogether, I think that’s how to bring joy to the holiday season & I believe that is also the best gift I’ve ever given someone.

For the holidays, I tend to make gifts incorporating the photos I take of my family. It really personalizes and makes every small moment a significant one.

For the last Christmas, the best gift I have ever given was a photo collage to each of my cousins. One of my closest cousins was diagnosed with cancer, and I was able to capture all our best moments in a single picture frame. Now we are able to look upon the collage and remember her and how amazing she was as a person.

Here’s a picture of it !
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My dad came from poverty in the Philippines. He was able to make it in America and start a family here. Now, we usually go back to the Philippines for Christmas and we fill about 30 huge buckets full of food that poor people might never get to experience. It’s the little things like spam or hot dogs or cheese that never get to have. We drive around the squatter area of the Philippines (which is where they litterally have to squat because they have tiny houses made out of garbage they find like cardboard or tin) and give out the buckets. It’s no lie and it may seem cliche but it helps me appreciate the important things in life, like family or God. It makes me never take anything for granted because I realize I’m very lucky.

Hey’ ! During the winter season, to give joy around me, I love make hot chocolates and cakes, then I give all them for free. In my village ! I love do this ! And the best present I’ve ever done is when ì gave to my BFF 2 plane ticket to London :) And she gave me the 2nd tickets . We’ve done the best trip of ever ! :)

Hey’ ! During the winter season, to give joy around me, I love make hot chocolates and cakes, then I give all them for free. In my village ! I love do this ! And the best present I’ve ever done is when ì g ave to my BFF 2 plane ticket to L ondon :) And she gave me the 2nd t ickets . We’ve done the best trip o f ever ! :)

i GAVE MY GRANDMOTHER A FRAMED PICTURE OF US WITH A POEM I WROTE FOR HER, SHE KEEPS IT BY HER BED AND READS IT EVERY NIGHT

We enjoy making handmade gifts that incorporate photos and artwork from the past year to share with our families. These gifts don’t cost a lot and the people we love and who love us appreciate the thought and effort that is put into the gifts. For our elderly family members who are within driving distance we make sure that we make an effort to not only hand deliver the gifts we allow ourselves plenty of time to spend with them. It’s so easy to be too busy in the frenzy of the holidays and we need to make sure to realize sometimes just being together is enough to bring joy to each other.

I feel so blessed about having so much. After Hurricane Katrina hit my city of Biloxi and took so much away, I realized just how much I had. I am so grateful for each meal on my table, a roof over my head, my family being safe and healthy and being able to see each day begin and end. I try and give back to others, especially this time of year as I know it can be such a hard time financially, and emotionally. We have a son who was in Afghanistan with the Army and since we are retired military, we make sure that each Christmas every person who has no family close by comes to our home for the holiday. I make a Christmas stocking for each one as well as find out something special they like to eat and what they might like for a gift, so they have something under our tree. I am never quite sure how many will show up so I tend to make a lot of food. I also bake cookies to send overseas to troops as well as adopt a couple of people to send other items. I am not sure who enjoys it more, those who I give to, or just the joy of giving. The best gift I have ever received is the gift of being able to see my son help his son decorate the tree. Family is everyting to me and having so many people to love and love back is a gift everyday of my life.

I try to bring joy to the season by keeping a positive outlook, donating whatever time and/or money to charities, and helping others in need. The best gift I have both received and given is my youngest son whom I adopted from my sister when she was unable to care for him.

Every year on Christmas Eve some of my friends and I would volunteer to work in a soup kitchen for the homeless or hospitals. We actually meet lots of nice people with interesting stories to tell. & Its always fun to be with friends, doing good together =]

The best way I spread joy is putting on my biggest smile and going out and doing good deeds. They don’t have to be big. They can be just holding a door for elderly, flashing a smile to someone who looks lonely, or even helping my family out around the house.

I don’t feel that one should wait until christmas time to spread joy, I feel that it should be done on a daily basis throughout the year.
I try to do bunch of things throughout the year, like surprising my neighbor with a case of beer now and then from the “beer fairy”, creating a website to help dig people out of debt, volunteering, etc. I wish that people would treat each other on a daily basis the way they tend to during the Short Holiday season.
Bright Blessings!

I try to spread joy by doing little, unexpected things for my loved ones. I think the best gift I ever gave was a plane ticket for my sister to go see her boyfriend.

I always try to connect my family together. My grandmother was the tie to our family, and no matter what everyone made a point to at least visit her Christmas party or stay the night. Since her passing in 2003 we’re scattered and hardly spend the holidays together so I often suggest attempts to reunite. I also donate food and toys to the less fortunate.

I’d say the best gift I’ve given was the painting/collage of my grandma to my mother.

Last year my mom gave each me ad my brothers a $20 bill and told us to help someone in some way. I thought on it and thought on it and couldn’t think of what to do with it… finally I realized. There was a family I knew and they had been struggling… there mom was sick and their Dad spent a lot of money on alcohol… this itself caused problems within the family. So they didn’t have a lot of money for gifts. I added more money to what my mom gave me and ended up giving the mom $75 to spend on her kids…. she started crying what’s I explained to her what I was doing. That was the greatest feeling ever.

this is going to be a really chiche answer but its true. i think the way to give joy during the holidays is to be a good person and put other people before yourself and try to make people happy. the best gift ive ever given anyone is a collage of picture of fun times weve had. becasue its like a bunch of great memories put together

For the holidays this year I’m planning a clothes drive for neighborhoods to gather up all their old clothes to bring to my door so I can send them to a foreign country. I believe the sweetest gift I’ve ever given was when i built a gingerbread home for my best friend, he absolutely loved it!

the joy i get through the holiday seasons is seeing my family’s face light up when i actually have a little something for them under the tree. Nobody really suspects me to ever give a gift, but that little something always makes me feel good. i think the best gift i’ve given for the holiday was a pickle ornament for the trees to come. it is a german tradition to hang a pickle in the tree and first to find it, gets an etra gift for having unhindered eyesight! it was a gift that will be in the family throughout time because of its significance representing a bit of our culture here in california

I would have to say the best gift I gave to someone for the holidays would have to have been the engraved IPod I bought my mom for Christmas last year. My mom didn’t have an mp3 player and really wanted one but couldn’t really afford to buy one for herself. I had recently come into a little bit of money and decided to buy her one to try and show her how much I appreciated her for everything she’s done for me. (Considering I was 18 at the time she wasn’t really expecting it from me and seeing the look on her face when she got it was all I needed to know that I did the right thing.) But…if I were to win this I think it would blow my other gift out of the water. Because, if I were to win this I would take my sister-in-law with me and she’s been a Good Charlotte fan since forever and this would mean the world to her (because seeing as it benefits the Richie-Madden Children’s Foundation there is a good chance that at least Joel might be there.)

I think that the best way to spread joy during the holidays is with love and doing good deeds for others. I think that the best gift I have ever given someone would have to be money that I gave to my mother. We were not very well off that year and she was trying to give us a nice christmas and get us what we wanted. I had been saving up money and after I gave her the money I felt great.

Every year my mom and I go into Atlanta and give out blankets to the men and women who live on park benches and the street corners. My mom always used to tell me when I was younger that no matter what someone else has or doesnt have just warmth from anothers heart can make them feel better.

This year we are going to a soup kitchen.

Every christmas My brother and put on a show for our grandparents. We play piano, flute, cello, guitar and sing carols for them. We also sing some more modern songs that we know lyrics too or of course the famous Beatle songs. My Grandparents live east coast while I live in Los Angeles, so they always look forward to the concert we put on.
The best gift I ever gave has to be the Teletubbie I got for my brother. This was when he was very young and I as well and thus the parents would usually pay for gifts for the other and write our name. For the teletubbie I collected all the change I could and walked myself over to the local grocery store to get dollars for my change. Although now I look back and can chuckle at my childish purchase, At the time it was worth everything to me. Watching my little brother open that present (he was a huge teletubbie fan) was such an rewarding experience.

During the holiday season, I give joy by being extra friendly to those around me. The aura of the holidays coming soon, and winter time being prominent makes me happy, so I like making other people happy as well. If someone is looking glum, or unhappy, or even if they are happy, I tend to send a smile their way, open the doors for them, help them pick up anything they dropped, etc. Simple kind gestures that can make someone’s day instantly.
The best gift I have ever given anyone during the holiday season would have to be my time. I told my family on year that I was going to hang out with my friends for Christmas, rather than spending the day with them like I usually do. They were all bummed and upset, since we don’t get together very often. I realized I was being selfish and was only thinking about myself so I cancelled on my friends, and happily spent the day with my family. They were so excited and happy to see me, the day was just so great. It was great gift because my family only gets together for Thanksgiving and Christmas so we don’t get to see each other very often. Gifts don’t always have to be about how much money you spent on something, the best gifts come from the heart and are usually effortless, like in this case, I gave my presence and my time. :)

Never really celebrated any holidays growing up or ever kissed anyone under the mistletoe. Growing up a Jehovah’s Witness sucks! Maybe this year will be a bit different? Yah?

I believe that Christmas isnt all about the gifts it is about the time spent with family, I guess it’s because I am a little older that I find more joy in giving gifts especially to the little ones in the family. The best gift I have ever given is when my mom and I do Operation Christmas child where you fill a box the size of a shoe box with gifts to give to those kids who are less fortunate.Depending on the age and the sex of the child I give them different things. For instance, teenage girls I have given make-up, hair accessories, perfume, bascially a little care package for them to use. Its the best feeling to know that you made someone’s Christmas

i would give joy for the holidays by singing to my friends and family and spend special time with everyone i can; because family is a must for the holiday…. :-)

Nothing is better than exchanging gifts between close friends. Not only did I buy some new items like tights or a record for my best friend Elsi, but I gave her a shirt of mine she always wished was under her possession! Although that may come off as cheap, I think it showed how much i cherished our friendship. I was able to sacrifice a shirt I loved for myself, to give to a best friend because I knew she loved it. So all in all, the best way to give joy during the holidays, is by giving a gift of something a friend or family member has on their wish list along with something that means a lot to you as well.

The way i give joy is letting my family know i love them and how much they all mean to me. I honestly think the best gift anyone can receive during the holidays is having and seeing all of their family another year, unlike others, some don’t get another year with one of their loved ones. So I’m very thankful for that.

I remember it was during christmas week,It was the coldest week ever. We were driving home from a family get together over in Mexico and there was this man ouside in the cold without a sweater and was barefoot asking for help, And from all the cars no one helped him. my heart dropped. I wanted to help him in so many ways but i couldn’t. So i gave him my jacket and a blanket i had as well. He took it right away and covered himself and said thank you and god bless you. That was the most grateful feeling i had ever experienced.
So that was the best gift i have given to someone.

I like to spend time with my one and only family. They’re the truest of the true in every way. A few years ago, I went down to Skid Row with a bunch of people and we used a lot of clothes and other things to give out to people in need. Very amazing. Love Christmas :]

Since I study abroad, I am not physically around my family during the Holidays season. However, I send them postcards every three days for a month so they know they are always in my heart.
Last year, I flew back to Paris and knocked on my parents’ door wearing a bow on my head and said “Surprise! I’m your Christmas present!”. It was very tearful & joyful!

I give joy of the holidays by being with people, my friends and my family the most. I really enjoy being with them during the holidays because it’s always so much more fun when you’re around the people you love! Every little thing, like making crafts, baking cookies, small get togethers, playing outside, doing a puzzle, or setting up decorations, just gets you and the ones you’re with the joy of the holiday season. I like to give the gift of being together and just enjoying life and, of course, the holidays!!!

I give everyone around me a smile, strength and honesty. You can’t put a price on affection, love or friendships; no mater how hard you try. So to me, money and material possessions don’t mean anything, All that matters is having the important things,;your family and friends to share the season with full of love and good cheer.

I bring joy by simply keeping a happy vibe during the holiday season and making sure that others around me are just as excited to reunite together.

The best gift I have given someone would have to be an Ipod for my mother. Not because of the gift itself, but it was the first time I could say I really impressed my mom and made her happy with what i got her for Christmas. I felt like a working woman who could really afford something nice for their parents at the the age of 17.

..and I just realized someone wrote almost the EXACT same thing for their best gift. haha!

i spread the joy on holidays by spending time with my friends and family letting them know I really care. We decorate the house together and cover christmas cookies in frosting. At this time of year we’re all just together and happy. I’m not sure that I have ever given someone a present that I can say is the best present I’ve ever given. I don’t think I’ve given one yet and that is pretty upsetting. I have come to realize now that I should make a goal by giving everyone the best present ever.

My best friend’s step dad died last night, Christmas is more about love not gifts, I talked to her, I cried with her, I was there for her. Friendship is definitely one of the best gifts in the world.

spreding the feeling that cannot be explained by eny word or phrase in any language on earth the feeling you get when being around your friends youve known for years. or your family or to evin be with the one you love to be happy and to over come every challange that rears its head in your life and to look past it all for a day and be thankful ur alive and with the ones that matter most

The best thing about Christmas for me is getting to be around my family. Some of them I don’t get the joy of seeing as often as I like and at Christmas we are all together, so it’s wonderful. One year I made my now ex boyfriend (oh well) a book, about us and all the reasons I loved him. I enjoy being really crafty and at the time I didn’t have a job so I couldn’t afford to get anyone gifts. I’m excited for this year, I’m getting my mom tons of twilight stuff (shes obsessed!!!) and some cloths. Then for my dad he’s pretty bummed that it’s getting to cold to ride his motorcycle so I’m just gonna stock him up on some new Harley stuff since that’s what he loves. I also plan on picking up a few more things here and there for a few other people but this year is going to be exciting! I can’t wait to see if everyone enjoys their gifts!