delicious pickle.

don't act like its strange, acid-head!
http://loveyalyn.blogspot.com/2007/12/pickle-present.html
http://mymerrychristmas.com/2005/pickle.shtml
http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth11.htm <guess it's not german

anyway, its fun

 

Wow that is weird,cool tho

 

long as nothin changes

 

Aint nothing strange, just saying I never heard of it!

 

fair enough haha

 

I had not either. Thats the funny thing about going into other people's houses andhearing their traditions.

I was so confused when they discussed hiding a picklein the tree. Then again, I had no idea it was an ornament. I thought it was going to be real. LOL

 

how many of the other ornaments get knocked off while you try to find it?

 

none if you hand them properly.

besides, some folks decorate the tree in a normal, tasteful fashion and hide it in some hard to see spot or inside the tree, some fill every possible spot on the tree and hide it right out in the open like the one picture of the super gaudy tree....

my family decorates our tree with a lot of stuff, but its not super packed or anything

we never really knock any ornaments off. if you have decent hooks they'll stay in place pretty well unless its placed in a super risky place with no support

 

what kinda presents would they do as the pickle present?

 

meh, something small that anyone would like. nothing major. depends.

i dont remember any specific examples honestly

 

In my house, when my parents made stew or spaghetti, whoever got the bay leaf had to do the dishes.

 

that sucks...