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Signs of the holidays for anyone else growing up?

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Signs of the holidays for anyone else growing up?

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breakfasteveryday@reddit

Do people not do this anymore?
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Brilliant_Addendum56@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/qovahclvmt8g1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e570f7604e58daaf1a7dcebc873cd5c25f45c5aa I bought a guy just like this at a thrift store for just such an occasion!
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Polarbearstein@reddit

Wow, that one is really pretty. And probably functions, unlike my wooden fella.
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theoriginalmofocus@reddit

We have one of these with a squirrel somewhere. Also one of my sons broke a wooden nutcracker trying to use it and now he is an injured soldier.
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ViewAskewRob@reddit

One of the few traditions I have carried on. That and the real tree. It’s a hassle, but sometimes the hassle is the point.
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Alternative-Wish-441@reddit

Our oldest got my spouse a vintage set with a bowl, nutcracker, and those little picks for getting stubborn bits of nuts out of their shells. I was with when they spotted it at an antique store and we started joking that it wasn’t Christmas until dad put his nuts out as a snack. It’s a prized possession now and sits out on our bar year round.
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NoMoreFilm@reddit

My favorite were cashews. I don't see them in this picture.
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

You’re thinking of the jar of nuts. These nuts came from a bag.
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rdogg_82@reddit

Right beside the clementines.
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portablebiscuit@reddit

We always got oranges and mixed nuts in our stockings. The only nuts I vet liked were pecans but you’d get a bitter one every once in a while.
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theoriginalmofocus@reddit

So long ago someone at some point had to tell you about Brazil Nuts.
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drinkslinger1974@reddit

Every year. Every year my uncle would remind me what his dad and grandfather would call Brazil nuts. Every. Fucking. Year.
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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

OMG my grandma, too!!! She would take SUCH delight in saying it. Glad to know our family isn't the only one confronted with gleeful, unabashed racism on Christmas.
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drinkslinger1974@reddit

There was a line of books called “Truly Tasteless Jokes” back in the 80’s. The chapters were sectioned out to blocks like blonde, Mexican, black, polish etc, and most of them were pretty crass. “What’s the first thing a blonde does when she wakes up on the morning? Goes home.” Those types. That book was a constant “get out of jail free” card for my mom using slurs. I was 9, so the only jokes she told out that book were the ones that didn’t have swear words, but lots of them were just racial jokes. I think those types of whispered jokes and the Brazil nuts are perfect examples of how genx through millennials needed to evolve with the times. Both were completely normalized at the time.
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

I just need a gumdrop tree and one of those like candle powered carousels.
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iwantmy-2dollars@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/7j8pdg5f8u8g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcef300afe442704a2b365f885f2fed033ac375f
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bluemitersaw@reddit

I always was the one to assemble it during Christmas. God I love that thing. I've already claimed it as part of my inheritance.
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Seicair@reddit

Wow, that’s fancy. I just have a little one stamped out of sheet metal.
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Scrapla1@reddit

The thing cousin Eddie broke?
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Ninja_Conspicuousi@reddit

![gif](giphy|gGjJjhHGwRmyk)
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PickledPixie83@reddit

I want one of these candle deals so bad
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Usual-Role-9084@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/f30twu6s9u8g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fa7ccf9d5378fbeb5512a48d2798240f7335be1 Here ya go!
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MrsRossGeller@reddit

I have one still! You can buy them on Amazon. It’s one of my very favorite things
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Usual-Role-9084@reddit

I love mine :) Apparently it’s a Scandinavian thing, my grandmother always had one and I remember the first time I saw one in a “old timey” Christmas shop and I got hit w such nostalgia! Also… Oh, Mrs. Gellar…*why you cry?*
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mmeliss39@reddit

I just picked up the spiced gumdrops at the hardware store today but I forgot about the tree. THAT'S why we bought em! My family was just like these are the grossest things lol. I couldn't remember why I'm the world this seemed like a holiday specialty, thank you! 
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

Christmas gifts bought from the hardware store was a staple from my granddad growing up.
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jojocookiedough@reddit

Holy crap the gumdrop tree!! Totally forgot that one
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Rough--Employment@reddit

Literally! Always a bowl of nuts and a box of clementines sitting by the fireplace
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Purple-Chef-5123@reddit

And the ribbon candy!!!
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lobaybliss@reddit

And figs
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jtmann05@reddit

https://i.redd.it/gw02k0bekt8g1.gif
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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Except there aren’t Brazil nuts included anymore.
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Secular-Flesh@reddit

Those were my favourite! (Though I didn’t enjoy the part where my grandmother would ask for them, loudly, at the grocery store.) Are they really no longer included in the mix?
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bitsy88@reddit

Several years ago, I heard an older guy at the store talking about Brazil nuts and commented, "Back in my day, we called them.......... toes." Lol I was proud of him for catching himself before saying the full old name for them 😂
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Dizzy-Ad1673@reddit

As soon as I saw this I wondered how widespread that was. I’m so glad my parents told my grandparents in no uncertain terms that if they used such words - in any context - around us they wouldn’t be seeing us, and my grandparents loved us more than using slurs.
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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

My grandma was from the South and couldn't wait to break out the Brazil Nuts at Christmas so that she could tell us what they called them "back home". 😒
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weedtrek@reddit

Literally the only name my parents knew for them and the only time I ever heard them say that word.
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unkelrara@reddit

my mom still calls them that smh
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chocki305@reddit

I was at a Christmas party and a young girl who learned the names of nuts from her grandfather asked an older black grandmother for one. Using the slang name. She got so embarrassed, and was apologizing profusely. When the grandmother handed her some, she said "don't worry child, I call them the same thing. Just don't crack the ones on the floor." The entire room burst out laughing.
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sexwiththebabysitter@reddit

Don’t see any in the pic. Got a bag myself last week and there aren’t any in it.
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alysli@reddit

The growing areas had major drought in the last few years, so no Brazil nuts.
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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

Also because when grandpa comes over he calls them by their *other* name
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justec1@reddit

I keep hoping that name will die with the WW2 generation, but it's still used in my wife's family.
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Wonderful_Charity411@reddit

Actually the N word usage is growing in the youth. It’s really bad
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justec1@reddit

Oh, I know. I may be old, but I ain't *that* old.
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Liakada@reddit

Lidl has a mix with brazil nuts included.
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Chef-Pants@reddit

I knew this would be here somewhere. 🤌
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Puzzleheaded7683@reddit

Yes, and a bowl of ribbon candy, and sometimes one with those mints that look like tiny pastel-colored pillows…
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BaritoneFlower1949@reddit

My wife just bought 4 lbs of these mixed nuts yesterday!
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OkCriticism9433@reddit

OH YEAH!!
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No_Pass8028@reddit

Where's the ribbon candy that is all stuck together in a glob?
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water_bottle1776@reddit

I get them every year. For some reason I couldn't find any last year. I was sad dad.
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tml212@reddit

My family has a saying: "It's not Christmas until dad puts his nuts on the table." So, yeah. 
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water_bottle1776@reddit

But what if it's a hot summer day and he just needs to air them out? Christmas in July?
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portablebiscuit@reddit

My family has a saying too: “It’s not Christmas until everyone gets stuffed with grandma’s Dill Dough.”
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lifeat24fps@reddit

We kept the nuts in this. As soon as this came down from the attic it was Christmas time. https://preview.redd.it/z89c7fdclt8g1.png?width=810&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e6d5c06b44f5f6283ee80662febefb27e61124c
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TheLakeWitch@reddit

Oh damn, I forgot all about this thing! My grandparents had one back in the early 80s they’d bring out for Christmas. Along with the ceramic tree. That tree is one of the things I wish my mom had kept, but most of my grandparents cool old stuff, including a bunch of mid century furniture and mercury glass, got sold for practically nothing in a yard sale after my grandpa died. https://preview.redd.it/nw5br3huiu8g1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed8dd2da1c59287b0a789a07c9e3302d267105fd
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HalfFrozenSpeedos@reddit

yep my mum and her useless brother have talked my grandad into "everything gets sold and the proceeds divided between them and their other dead brother's kids" vs leaving someone the house, I know this has happened as my gran dropped way too many hints before the dementia hit. I was asked to be the executor of the will but I demurred for time to think and reset relations between him and my mum (big mistake) - like a week later I call him to say "ok I can do this executor thing" and get the reply "Your mum and uncle are sorting it, the lawyer said its the law that it has to be them" (the lawyer you got from the back of the newspaper??? - ugh) Recently "well I have 14 grandkids and if I make provision for one I'd have to do it for everyone of them" - which very much sounds like my mum's way of thinking. (I did a fuck ton for my grandparents over the decades, never ever took anything **willingly** in return (my gran was adamant I would take something as "I'd have to pay someone to do it and it might as well be you" and then telling my grandad to make sure I take something and to let the moths out of his wallet), yet my mum was ALWAYS "Don't you dare take advantage of them, they're just poor pensioners" - like I ever did or would?? To the point my grandad said "Its not like any of the rest of them have ever done anything for me and your gran willingly or otherwise" and my gran even after the dementia hit "you'll get what's rightfully yours one day" - So I'm kinda pissed as I KNOW my mum, her golddigger brother and my Xtian fundy cult member cousin have been at work playing "games")
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cheerful_cynic@reddit

Hit up an estate sale
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unelune@reddit

There’s a ceramicist on Instagram that repurposes vintage molds - this was one of them for Christmas she made! Go look up sunroom_ceramics on Instagram, maybe get yourself a Christmas present for the years to come!
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BiteyKittenRawwwr@reddit

Oh wow! This picture unlocked a memory for me and I messaged it to my mom to confirm that we had one. She said it was a ceramics class project she did in the late 70s! Greenware that the students sanded, painted, and kiln-fired, and then added lights to and wired up. I had no idea. Thanks for posting the picture!
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caramelpupcorn@reddit

This is my first time seeing one of these and I love it! The wide basket to catch all the flying nut pieces. Very cool!
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impliedapathy@reddit

My favorite part was at the end it was always just a bowl full of almonds because they were hard to crack, but tasteless.
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TinyReader@reddit

Clementines 💕
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ItsDarwinMan82@reddit

Yes!!! I miss it. I need to bring the tradition back.
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Remytron83@reddit

Walnuts and mandarin in a bowl was always a sign.
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Liakada@reddit

Yes! I've reintroduced this tradition at my own house a few years ago too. I always kept them out on the sofa table so that we can crack nuts as we watch TV. Until this year when my dog suddenly decided to become a squirrel and cracked open 10+ hazelnuts overnight to eat them. Now I gotta keep them on the counter.
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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/p57xmircot8g1.jpeg?width=2296&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62da45356ee121245ba5557ea056b00c5d6ec28c Yep, plus peanut brittle, and these weird green cherries, and other weird stuff my Grandma would buy for the holidays from the Hickory Farms Catalog.
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theladyroy@reddit

SO sticky. Grandma made a spice cookie that was decorated with little pieces of red and green cherries on either side of a quarter of pecan. Guess who spent hours with sticky fingers putting the finishing touches on those suckers? I still like a fiddly bake.
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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

Love that memory 👍🏾
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Damnation77@reddit

That was a completely useless instrument for a 5-year old, but was the only one we had. I held the hazelnut in my left hand, nutcracker in the right and used my knees to apply force. Still remember how it felt.
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lirio2u@reddit

The brazil nuts were my greasy fave
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NeverEndingCoralMaze@reddit

I love nuts!
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Elethuir@reddit

Yes that was a thing in my house too
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freshcreator@reddit

100%. We would also go pick pine nuts and roast them.
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HurriedFirmament9@reddit

![gif](giphy|1HCA3aiVzyscnB21Y9) Me, visiting my in-laws who don’t follow this tradition.
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KDiggity8@reddit

Actually, you know what? I'd like some of that gazpacho soup.
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Chief_Chill@reddit

![gif](giphy|wjrj7kY4hJlCHgnqGE|downsized)
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80cartoonyall@reddit

Are those Legos by the bowl?
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BrotherCool@reddit

Yup. And Grandpa’s, uh, interesting term for the Brazil nuts still in their shells…
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EggsceIlent@reddit

Yep, and so much so that I go hunting early in supermarkets to try and find bags of pecans and walnuts in the shell. I usually do find them (seperate bags for each type ) because usually the bags that are variety mix are all filler and no killer (short on walnuts and pecans usually and heavy on almond). Got a kick ass nut cracker on Amazon this year too it was a few bucks and looks like that torture device that is the shape of a human and inside there's just nails. Kinda the same thing, but for hard shell nuts. And I wish I had found it so long ago. Makes me feel like my grandpa because he LOVED having these around during the holidays but he cracked them all just bare handed. Hed grab 2 of the same kind and squeeze and one would crack. Pretty soon ill tell em to turn down the TV and yell at the kids on my lawn 🤣
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realjimmyjuice000@reddit

Nope I don't see any "Brasil" nuts! Not what my family called them but it's what I prefer
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Peanut083@reddit

Mum always used to get us these Darrell Lea Nougat Christmas puddings. They were amazeballs! Then she stopped getting them several years ago because they were ‘too expensive’. https://preview.redd.it/5ea9ziyp5x8g1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d41e70b46c54cdd5b81c4d13dec8b5ecb1851b0 I happened to notice the pricing when looking for an image to share and they seem to be cheaper than I remember them being over the last several years. Maybe I’ll get lucky this year and Mum will buy me one. It will be even better if she also gets them for my kids and they decide they don’t like them. More for me!
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Aggressive-Bit-2335@reddit

Aww my grandpa!! I was actually thinking about this a few weeks ago. So nostalgic!!
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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

If you're Italian, this was every Sunday. 🇮🇹
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NoxKyoki@reddit

Missing the Brazil nuts. My dad and I practically fought over them.
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Suspicious-Refuse219@reddit

Trip to Grandmas for sure! 😭😭😭
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somenemophilist@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/st6bpr85aw8g1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b777546c4dac16102c0f15a1c957c87689a7a1c6 Always had a bowl of mints nearby too
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butterfly_ashley@reddit

Yes. Especially the nut crackers tbemselvss.
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sfcameron2015@reddit

Yes! I loved cracking open the big walnuts and scraping out the meat with the spiky tool.
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CornishShaman@reddit

We had them but they were not for eating. No. They were for decoration. 🤷‍♂️ I still don’t know why?
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moxvoxfox@reddit

Ours were for eating, then I tried to eat one at a friend's not-for-eating house 🤢
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cherhorowitz44@reddit

Same. I ate one once and thought it was so vile.
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SeekingNoTruth@reddit

Family is Mexican American, and we're from South Texas. I knew we were gearing up for Christmas when a pig's head appeared in the fridge so we could make tamales. When the family got together, my aunts, mom, grandma and great aunts would spend the afternoon in the kitchen making masa and spreading it on the hojas while myself and my cousins ran around outside doing whatever stupid things kids do.
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justec1@reddit

Does the family celebrate Christmas with the tradition of singing Robert Earle Keen while heading to the QuikPak store to get some tampons and Marlboro Lights?
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Simple-Pudding4376@reddit

Yes it was but my mom always figured out a way to show up late to grandmas so she never had to help
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BrewingNerd@reddit

Grandma! You can't say that!
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isosparkle@reddit

![gif](giphy|1HCA3aiVzyscnB21Y9)
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bootsnfish@reddit

Where do you even buy these nuts? I'm guessing Amazon but how did my grandma get them?
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noonelikesyou2@reddit

What, no Brazil nuts?
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

In this economy???!
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theoriginalmofocus@reddit

A Brazilian dollars! Hey what do those Legos go to?
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Regular_Jim081@reddit

![gif](giphy|YAvwFiPMObQzK)
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rubybean5050@reddit

100
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Beneficial-Sky946@reddit

![gif](giphy|B3Q78yR2JPH4Kov4nf|downsized)
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May_of_Teck@reddit

My mom *always* put out nuts and a cracker for Thanksgiving through Nee Years. She got me a tacky but adorable mid-century nut bowl several years ago that she knew I would love. She’s gone now, so of course I think by of her when I’m buying that obligatory bag of mixed nuts. I had to replace the cracker and pick set this year, and the classic, cheapest set on amazon fits right in my bowl ☺️
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phuktup3@reddit

The spice smell starts welling up
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drowse@reddit

This was the first year in a while I didn’t buy a bunch. I’m the only one who still likes these
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ThinkFree@reddit

Just the castañas
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esomers80@reddit

Yes...my grandparents house in the 80s and 90s and a nut bowl...
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Crazy_crazy_chipmunk@reddit

Those slapped before I developed an anaphylactic tree nut allergy in my 30s
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OSCgal@reddit

The hazelnuts were the best!
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Brandywine-Salmon@reddit

I was well into my 40s before I learned that hazelnuts and filberts are the same thing.
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bananachow@reddit

I’ve gone through 3-1lb bags of hazelnuts by myself this December. I only ate the hazelnuts then, and I only buy them now lol
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EloquentGoose@reddit

Tell me I'm not the only one who constantly (gently) squeezed their fingertips with that thing. It was an oddly pleasant sensation. Things being actual metal and having heft to them, God I miss it...
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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

Mt grandparents had two producing pecan trees. So did their across the street neighbors. The thing about some types of trees is they produce more if they are fertilized by a different cultivar. Between my grandfather and Mr Red they had four varieties of pecan tree all within 200 feet of each other. You know those brown paper lawn refuse bags? Grandaddy would fill four or five of those a year even after the squirrels ate their fill. So our sign was when we used variety of nutcrackers to shell them, and Mimi would make fried pecans.
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mangocalrissian@reddit

My mom and dad always put nuts out and I started doing it as part of the "snack table" beside the advent calendars!
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janeyschwarz@reddit

To this day one of my dad’s presents is a bag of nuts in the shell and a pack of Twizzlers.
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Emotional_Bonus_934@reddit

Wrong bowl and where are the picks?
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HiaQueu@reddit

Yes, but just Pecans and Walnuts from family land. Used to take home garbage bags of them when i got older. Glorious.
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FnordRanger_5@reddit

I was in the backyard having a toke and chucking some of last years leftover nuts to squirrels like an hour ago, highly recommend This seasons nuts arrived yesterday, they will also be eaten by squirrels after but display season, most likely
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Dog_Baseball@reddit

There's no brazil nuts in your picture. I searched for in-shell mixed nuts at multiple stores with Brazil nuts and i could not find them. Hmmm
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

We were never so fancy as to have Brazil nuts. Only the basic 4 you see here.
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Dog_Baseball@reddit

I just Googled it and apparently there's a worldwide shortage of Brazil nuts right now. You should try them next year, though. You only YOLO once
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YarnBunny@reddit

I was just talking about this the other day! That we need to get this for Christmas 
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Relevant_Owl_8841@reddit

Certain ads for me. The old Folgers ad where Peter the grown son comes home Christmas morning and surprises his family was a favorite of mine for years when I was little.
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exxiegreed@reddit

When I was a kid I could entertain myself for an hour cracking those. Simpler times for entertainment.
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lechelle_t@reddit

Just put a bowl of these out on the table today.
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73-68-70-78-62-73-73@reddit

Funny, I forgot about the nut cracker and pick. As a child, I boiled a snail and used the pick to pull it out of its shell. For the life of me, I can't figure out why my parents let me to it.
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EmmalouEsq@reddit

I always ate all of the walnuts! Still my favorite
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adammerkley@reddit

So spot on. There's a big ass bowl of Walnuts at my mom's house right now lol.
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BondG10@reddit

My mom would put out Turron de almemdra, pretty much a nut brittle. It’s super thick best broken while cold. My teeth can’t handle it anymore.
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Rough--Employment@reddit

We had the exact same bowl growing up. No one actually liked the nuts, but cracking them was a whole holiday event
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96385@reddit

My dad broke his old nutcrackers and of course we can't find a new pair of those that aren't garbage.
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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

Yes, I hated those types of nutcrackers though.
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

It’s surprisingly easy to crack any of these nuts in your bare hands if you just hold two of them together.
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Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit

I could never fit both of my nuts in one hand
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fyrefly_faerie@reddit

This was when I was a dumb kid that I last used one.
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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

🤭
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caramelpupcorn@reddit

Even the chestnuts? I've never been able to open them fully without the aid of a sharp knife.
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plasticbagroadkill@reddit

Yup. Every year.
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Puffyfugu8@reddit

Dude that was totally my home growing up
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bassjam1@reddit

He's but ours were in one of those 80's wooden salad bowls https://preview.redd.it/j8cd0fxq6u8g1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5f6cdbf31074931e7f36a6f06ef16d1aed760ff
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pink_faerie_kitten@reddit

I still have those crackers in my silverware drawer 😆 they were hard to work as a kid. We also had a matching pick to scrape the stuck nuts from the shell. Almonds were my favorite to crack because of their softer shell. I love eating nuts like this. I think it's good for kids to have this tactile experience and understand more about where their food comes from.
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Jadziyah@reddit

Had a bowl of these at my grandparents house right next to the fireplace, every winter
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themoonhasgone@reddit

Omg yes
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ollie81578@reddit

no candy?
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bananachow@reddit

Now that I’m my own adult, I only buy the nuts I want. 100% hazelnuts and none of the other junk.
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Mrzillydoo@reddit

Nothing is more fun than knowing there's a shard of walnut shell SOMEWHERE on the floor. Will I step on it? Or will one of my parents?
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Cmdr_Monzo@reddit

Bought a nutcracker and two big bags of mixed nuts for Xmas this year. My Old Man would approve!
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Simple-Pudding4376@reddit

I misplaced the old nut cracker.. I need to buy another one
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That1Master@reddit

Oh my parents totally did this. Eventually we developed a huge, decorative Nutcracker collection too.
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LemonPartyW0rldTour@reddit

*holds up Brazil nut* “Grandpa, what’s this one called?”
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danisse76@reddit

I couldn't open most of them, and the ones I got open were nasty.
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Marsley82@reddit

Wow! It’s been so long since I’ve seen that scene! Hello 80s!
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AbilityDramatic5006@reddit

Oh my gosh. I was so excited to get a bag of mixed nuts from fresh market and when I cracked one open it was swarming with ants.
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Bulky_Goat_9624@reddit

Nuts and ribbon candy
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enters_and_leaves@reddit

![gif](giphy|Eld43dWug4rqE)
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ArtisanalMoonlight@reddit

Yep. My mom had a wooden bowl that came with two shell crackers and a couple of nut picks. She put it out around Thanksgiving.
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meeyes77@reddit

![gif](giphy|JEVRfQblU1XbjaYf7g)
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Flimsy-Shirt9524@reddit

Could never get them open, then resorted to teeth lucky I did not break one.
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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

Nut crackers were a common gift lol 
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NachoNachoDan@reddit

My mom collected nutcrackers. Like the ones shaped like little men with the hinged jaw. She didn’t collect the cheap ones either, she only collected the really nice German made ones. I was about eight or nine when I decided to try cracking an actual nut with one and promptly broke the Nutcracker. Yes, I had been told they weren’t actually supposed to be used to crack nuts
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Jamie-81@reddit

yep
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WestboundPachyderm@reddit

Absolutely right! Plus we’d always have a bowl of those pistachios that had the red-colored shells.
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Hefty_Parsnip_4303@reddit

Yes, I remember that so well getting your fingers caught when you were cracking the nuts
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Ph4ntorn@reddit

I can't say I recall having a half moon shaped Lego or that weird peg shaped piece. Also, most of the Legos we had as kids were bold primary colors.
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PureOrange7049@reddit

We always had a bowl of these and the ribbon candies. I’m not sure if anybody knows what clear toys are, but we also had a bowl of those too.
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Is_This_For_Realz@reddit

I had to identify and explain a nutcracker just yesterday
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RetailBookworm@reddit

Oh man yes!
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SaltBag666@reddit

LOL YES!!!!
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Switchbladekitten@reddit

The 4,000 plastic tubs of ornaments that can’t all possibly fit on the tree but somehow my dad finds a way.
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bigmacher1980@reddit

Noting says holidays like making your guests put out an eye opening these hard ass shells. We had it too and never understood why
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someguyfromsk@reddit

Were you using an Official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle to open your nuts?
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bigmacher1980@reddit

I grew up in the Schwartz household. We just got best mercifully for cursing.
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Persis-@reddit

Christmas at my grandma’s! Always sat on the little table my uncle made out of a log from a tree he had cut down.
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pentax10@reddit

Yes. And the whole bowl would get thrown out by new years.
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Beansie_Wish2182@reddit

I ordered a similar mix for my mom. I’m home for Christmas and noticed she didn’t have any nuts on the coffee table.
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ElisabetaDub@reddit

Yes, OP. This picture conjured memories. It also made me want to ask: anybody else think pecans taste like *nothing* these days? They used to have their own flavor. "Ah, that's a pecan! I can taste it!" Not so much these days.
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CorgiMonsoon@reddit

These were at my grandparents’ house. I liked the process of cracking them open way more than I actually liked eating the resulting nuts (especially walnuts 🤮)
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PhiloLibrarian@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/gqilrvovlt8g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2675fa6269b962bd19f4090a99d24b7321e239d8 Growing up and now!!!
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Natural-Ad-3666@reddit (OP)

![gif](giphy|l0ErFafpUCQTQFMSk)
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InNausetWeTrust@reddit

This and Andes Candies
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BabySlothDrivingFast@reddit

Yes. The mixed nuts bowl for sure. My great grandmother's dish of ribbon candy dish is lost to time, but Hawaiian Punch can still be conjured up if needed.
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wintor9@reddit

Papa. ♥️
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proxminesincomplex@reddit

And the tree thing with apples sticking out of it and a pineapple on top and then the oranges pierced with cloves.
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ShesWrappedInPlastic@reddit

Wow does that ever bring back memories! Ours would always be in a green-colored glass dish.
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