Christmas pickle

[imgoingtodisney]

anyone else do the hide the Christmas pickle? Kid needs to find where DH hid the pickle and then gets a small present?

 

[ratsrule]

Originally posted by imgoingtodisney
anyone else do the hide the Christmas pickle

I hide the pickle every chance I get!

 

[Jenzebelle]

I thought RR played hide the summer sausage?

 

[JuliaEeyore]

I grew up doing the Christmas Pickle! I still do it with my husband on our tree and then with my parents on theirs.

My mom would hide it on Christmas Eve and now my husband, Dad and I fight to be the first to find it. She has a specific "Pickle Present" that is appropriate for anyone, and whoever finds it gets to open it on Christmas Eve.

When I was a kid, (and an only child so it wasn't much of a competition ha ha ha ) she used to let me pick any one present... however, I picked the big present and then Christmas morning was kind of different because I had already opened my special gift. So that's why she started having an actual "Pickle Present."

Hope that helps! I love traditions like that... I believe it's German?

Julia

 

[JuliaEeyore]

(Well, not my post just sounds naughty... )

But I was being serious!

 

[ratsrule]

Originally posted by JuliaEeyore
I still do it with my husband on our tree and then with my parents on theirs.

 

[Cindy B]

Originally posted by ratsrule
I hide the pickle every chance I get!

 

[dandave]

JuliaEeyore, Yes it does! LOL!!

 

[JuliaEeyore]

Hee hee hee... darn dial up connection just got me too far behind in the conversation.

But I do encourage you ALL to do the Christmas Pickle! It's great fun!!!!!!!!!

 

[Snow White]

 

[dizneenut]

LOL!!

We are doing it this year. My Ya Ya sister, Pam, (thanks again, Pam! ) sent a pickle ornament to me so I can start this tradition w/ my boys.

 

[Annie&Hallie'sMom]

Ok, this sounds like a fun tradition, but are we honestly talking about a real pickle or an ornament? What is the "special pickle gift"? What's the whole story behind all the pickle business??? Inquiring minds need to know.!

 

[JuliaEeyore]

A pickle ORNAMENT.

In Old World Germany, the last decoration placed on the Christmas tree was always a pickle…carefully hidden deep in the boughs. Legend has it that the observant child who found it on Christmas Day was blessed with a year of good fortune...and a special gift.

This is actually the one DH and I have... but I grew up with a glass pickle.

 

[JulesMom]

I have never heard of this...it must be a Yankee thing

 

[hercamore]

Last time I was at the Germany store in Epcot, they had a whole xmas tree ful of pickle ornaments.

Herc.

 

[phins_jazy]

Yep, we do it too. Thanks for reminding me that I need to wrap my pickle gift!!

 

[DonnaS]

Originally posted by JuliaEeyore
A pickle ORNAMENT.

In Old World Germany, the last decoration placed on the Christmas tree was always a pickle…carefully hidden deep in the boughs. Legend has it that the observant child who found it on Christmas Day was blessed with a year of good fortune...and a special gift.

This is actually the one DH and I have... but I grew up with a glass pickle.

I've never heard of this and both of my DH's parents are German born and raised. I'll have to ask DH and his mother about it-- maybe they just never mentioned it.

 

[tiggerlover]

We do the pickle ornament too, but at DS's age (6), we always let him find it.

 

[MerryPoppins]

We hide the pickle at our house, too.

Ours is glass and whoever found it last year gets to hide it this year.

 

[JohnTBap]

Originally posted by JulesMom
I have never heard of this...it must be a Yankee thing

I'm sayin'!