For your amusement, I present a Christmas Eve quiz
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Before we jump into my quiz I shall set forth a disclaimer. I’m going to rate this quiz PG-13 in an effort to step back from the grim reality of disillusionment.
Kids, don’t read any further, it’s really not worth the knowledge you will gain after reading this post.
Click the red X, step away from the computer and then come back in four days when this quiz rolls off the first screen and you have to click on the phrase “Next Page” to see it.
If you insist on reading it, you do so at your own risk. Last warning. You might cry after you read this.
Alright, then. Here we go.
One more note. I tried to make this an interactive quiz with radio buttons and automatic scoring and it ain’t workin’. Apparently I am Quiz Builder’s bitch. So I put the points behind the answers and you’ll have to add it up yourself. How 1990, I know.
Cardiogirl’s Christmas Eve Quiz
1. As a child did you receive a Christmas stocking?
Yes, of course I did 4 points
Sometimes 3 points
No 2 points
What’s a stocking, betch? 1 point
2. If you did have a stocking, where was it hung?
Above the fireplace 4 points
On the tree 3 points
Under the tree 2 points
No hanging, it sat on the couch 1 point
3. How old where you when you received your first stocking?
0-9 4 points
10-18 3 points
As an adult 2 points
I told you, toerag, no stocking for me 1 point
4. When wrapping gifts do you:
Use tape sparingly 4 points
Tape the wrapping paper to itself so the gift slides out 3 points
Tape the wrapping paper to the box 2 points
Tape the wrapping paper to the box, tape the box shut and laugh as the recipient tries to open it 1 point
5. When wrapping presents for your kids do you:
Wrap at your whim, your kids are happy to receive presents 4 points
Have to use an assortment of wrapping paper because the kids notice what Santa used compared to what Mom and Dad used. 3 points
Have to use different tags to show that Santa uses something Mom and Dad don’t have 2 points
Have to write with your opposite hand because your kids will notice Santa writes like you do 1 point
6. When picking out Christmas presents in general, do you:
Shop through out the year, wrap and label each present immediately and kick back on Christmas Eve 4 points
Shop in November and wrap on Christmas Eve 3 points
Shop til the last minute and wrap presents until midnight 2 points
Hide the gifts ahead of time, barricade the kids’ door on Christmas Eve and wrap until 5 am on Christmas Day 1 point
7. How old were you when you learned Santa was not real?
5-10 4 points
10-15 3 points
15-20 2 points
(grabs Kleenex and exclaims) What do you mean Santa’s not real?! 1 point
8. On Christmas morning what time do you get up to open gifts?
7 am 4 points
6 am 3 points
5 am 2 points
4 am 1 point
9. When opening presents do you:
Separate the gifts into piles and wait to take turns to open them 4 points
Shake each box to guess what’s inside 3 points
Separate the piles and rip into them in a frenzy 2 points
Blow through the pile stopping to check the name and then rip into them in a frenzy 1 point
10. Did you enjoy my quiz?
Yes 4 points
No 3 points
Meh 2 points
You suck for telling me Santa isn’t real 1 point
Scores:
40-31 You have solid Christmas memories and continue to create a happy Christmas tradition.
30-21 Not bad, Christmas was anticipated and exciting and it continues to be that way for you today.
20-11 Hmm, things could have been a bit more festive as a child, but you’re trying to make it work as an adult.
10-0 Man, that sucks. At least you didn’t get coal in your non-existent stocking. And Christmas will be over before you know it.
Thanks for playing my reindeer games!
p.s. Quiz Builder gets a lump of coal from me.
How Seventeen magazine in 1990 of you, I say ;)
35 points. I want extra points though. I knew Santa wasn’t real before I was five (hey, I’m the youngest!) and I sleep in until 10a on Christmas Day (it’s a day off!)
Merry Christmas Cringle and more snow than you can stand to you this holiday season :D
Oh I like that, Heather. It is very Seventeen magazine, isn’t it? I grant you extra points and you get a perfect score, plus three for extra credit.
Other than #’s 8 & 9 (which I couldn’t answer at all – pfft!) I got 4 points for every one – 30 total. I have to wake the Idiot Child up to open gifts, believe it or not, and apparently, I’ll have to pay attention to how I open mine.
It looks like you have some homework in front of you, Les.
31!! I found the presents under my mother’s bed when I was about 4, and having 4 older siblings meant that I pretty much knew by the time I found them. My kids and I used to open presents on Christmas Eve (Santa had to start somewhere!!) so we could go to my parents on the Day. It was too much to do two sets of presents on one day. The kids just were too wound up.
Way to slip into the top category beanie! Whoop, whoop (shakes fist in a circular motion)
i scored a perfect 10, i’m the bomb!
don’t cry for me argentina.
I’m right there with you, Natural. And it’s funny you mention Argentina because I’ve been listening to the Evita sound track with Madonna and Mr. Antonio Banderas. Every time I listen to him sing I image Puss in Boots from Shrek. It’s quite amusing and adds another dimension to the music.
Do I get bonus points for giving my kid Benadryl on Christmas Eve so he’d finally go to sleep and I could put the presents out? I’m not even kidding. Bad Mom Award goes to…….
How about buying all their stuff in October to beat the crowds and get them the big ticket item before they’re sold out? Any toy commercials from Nov. 1 onward would be met with rebuff and scorn from me. If the kids mentioned something they wanted, I would totally trash talk it. Unless of course, it was already hiding in the attic.
It’s good that I give them stuff to talk to their therapist about–there won’t be huge therapy bills ringing up trying to figure out why they are all screwed up. It’s my special “gift” to them.
I think I might start a new Christmas Eve tradition over here — cookies with Benadryl chasers! And I think my kids will also be spending some significant time on the therapist’s couch. Like Mr. C always says, “They’re bags (baggage) are going to be packed when they leave here.”
You forgot to give options for those of us without kids!
Well, that and I only “celebrate” Christmas for my grandparents anymore. My fiancee is Jewish, so now I’m all about the menorah and Hanukkah.
…But we had two fireplaces in my house as a kid, so we had two mantels – and even the dog got a nice big stocking!
(I ruined Santa for myself – I figured out the handwriting and confronted my Dad.)
You know that crossed my mind, but I guess it’s all about me, huh? If you don’t have kids you automatically get four points for each question you couldn’t answer. Recalculate please.
I don’t have time to do the quiz. Just wanted to say Merry Christmas :)
Thanks for stopping in anyway and Merry Christmas to you as well struggling writer!
I refuse to say my score on the grounds it will incriminate me. Several points I want to make:
1) I grew up with three older sisters (who were the inspiration for Cinderella’s step sisters) so they told me the truth about Santa,( raging alcoholism and only works one night a year and all that) BUT I didn’t believe them
2) Every kid knows Santa can make his handwriting change from house to house – he is magic – plus he shops at the same stores my parents do so his wrapping paper is the same
3) I used to wrap presents with tape Now I use my origami skills to fold the paper just right (if I am short on time (wrapping on Christmas day) I use duct tape – a guy thing
4) I KNOW Santa is real because every time I complain about a gift, my wife says: Blame Santa, he got it for you.
So Take heart Kids – Santa is real ! Cardiogirl is just joking. (Aren’t you ?)
You know Frank, I am the youngest of six and for some reason I truly believed in Santa until I was 13. Crazy, I know. I like the concept of the handwriting and blaming Santa! Ho, ho, ho!
My childhood quite pointy, my children’s,…. so far not so much. I’ve been deluding myself in thinking my children will have a teensy bit better childhood than I did. Ten 0′ clock in the morning here who’s ready for a little Christmas Eve drink ? Kidding, ummm Santa’s really not for real?
Right there with you Heather. My kid got up every hour on the hour from 2 am on. I finally relented and got up at 5:15 with her and told her watch TV in the basement. Ugh.
33.
Like Heather, I was the youngest child and worked out that Santa’s not real probably when I was 3. Actually, I don’t remember ever believing in him.
We had no fireplace, but we hung the stockings, not on the tree but someplace I can’t remember. I do remember that my stocking was made of a red plastic screen-like material with red and white striped piping all around. So I could see what was inside. Incredibly, these items were wrapped! We were allowed to open the items in the stockings before going to church. But the real presents had to wait until, like, friggin hours later!
Wow, SPG, that’s harsh — never believing in the man in red. And I’m impressed at the self control it took (or was imposed by your parents) to wait until after church to open gifts.
Wow, this was really good! I got 32 :D
How did you do?
Oy vey. I got 20, yikes. But I am working diligently in the hopes that my kids will score close to 40 when they take this quiz in 20 years.
23. I’m impressed with myself.
You know what my fave Christmas present would be? Not having to spend it with the family. :D
Yeah, I came in under that, Solomon. And I have to admit I am not spending Christmas with my extended family and it *does* feel like a favorite Christmas present.
Yay! 31 for me.
Woo-hoo! Way to go Alicia and Merry Christmas and all that jazz!
Yay! I win at Christmas! I had to give myself the lowest score on where the stockings were hung. Ours weren’t placed on the sofa; they were on the table. And they weren’t stockings, they were just regular socks. Hmmm. Maybe I shouldn’t have scored so high.
Happy Holidays!
Yes you do win at Christmas, JD! Actually we all win even though I am betching about my lame score. Christmas was still a fun orgy of wrapping paper and cardboard containers that would not yield to any amount of pressure.
I lost my little piece of paper that I marked all my answers and subsequent score on. At least in Seventeen magazine (and Cosmo, later and racier…) I could fold it bookmarking the page. Oh well, this is what I get for illegally blogging while held captive at work on Christmas Eve. (earlier, much earlier, I’m home and thru elf duty at the nonce.)
A side note about Benadryl — it makes lovely pink icing, cherry flavored. Or so I’ve heard from um, someone else, no personal experience, no not me. Max just takes the little capsules now.
Merry Christmas, dear CG, and all the VIP’ers. Happiness in the new year.
Bummer, Elle! Oh, now that’s a great idea, Benadryl frosted cupcakes as a new Christmas Eve tradition. That or Ativan brownies. Happy Holidays, Elle!
I must skip the quiz, in an effort to get my presents wrapped before the sun rises.
I second Elle’s greetings. Merry Christmas to all hangin’ in the VIP lounge these days. This is sort of like the bar I frequent every night (this analogy coming from a teetotaler) for all the fun gab! Hope the holidays are merry for all of you.
Wendy I love that idea of hanging out at the bar, minus the loud music — truly a low key lounge from the 60s! Holiday greetings to you and everyone here in the VIP Lounge. All of you are the best and make my time in the Lounge full of fun and cheer!
Sigh…* And I used a calculator, too.
Now that the worst is over, I can tell you that I use scissors to open my gifts, and (this year, at least) Kyla’s didn’t even get wrapped. I made her close her eyes as I placed them in her hands. That’s what I get for taking the night shift, I guess.
I’m a bad Mom.
Nothing wrong with going, um, old school, Les (hides a chuckle). Scissors?! Are you Leslie Scissorhands? Come on, say it with me: My name is Les and I am the best Mom I can be. I use that mantra a lot, but I instead of saying “Les” I say “Batman.”
I got 32, HOWEVER, I couldn’t answer the following questions, but gave myself one point for each anyway. :p
2. Stockings get hung on the stairs railing.
8. Growing up, 7 a.m. was the official time we could wake up the folks and start opening presents. We could, however, go downstairs and grab our stockings as of 5 a.m. I, however, never got up. All I wanted for Christmas was to sleep. My sisters (all younger) would bring my stocking to me in bed and I’d go back to sleep. They’d have to shake me out of bed when the clock struck 7.
And today? I got up at 10a.m. As Sofie gets older though, I think my sleeping in on xmas days are numbered.
Big hugs and holiday luv to you, C-girl! :)
For sure you get four points on the stockings, because they were actually hung thereby rejecting gravity.
As a kid you SLEPT IN ON CHRISTMAS MORNING?! (grabs your shoulders and shakes you back and forth) Um, I don’t even know how to score that one, regina. Damn girl. I will be thinking about that all day today. It will become my mental rubik’s cube.
Here’s a Christmas hug right back atcha, girlie!
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