The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
$500 GC: "Press Pass Collectibles to help me buy a Mickey Mantle autographed baseball. They have been selling for $1,000 or more recently."
Ted
Ugliest ornament: "Some of the "charming" child-made ornaments are painfully ugly.... (not my kids' though....)"
Steve Collins
$500 GC: "Curt Blood, so he could make more furniture for me"
Jen Berman
Best Gift: "My sister made a scrapbook for me of family photos and such. It is among my most prized possessions."
Adam
Ugliest Ornament: "That's tough.... being Jewish I don't see many X-mas ornaments! But if I had to think of one, it would be something hideous, like an angel topper with the face of a troll."
Ruth
Character in Holiday movie: "Snoopy in Charlie Brown Christmas. That dog knows how to have a good time!"
Steve Collins
Best present: "My puppy as a combined Christmas/Sweet 16 birthday present"
Julie
Worst Gift: "When I was a kid, my parents gave me a a barbell set that was too heavy and I couldn't lift it. Never used it."
Timothy
Happy Place: "Scuba diving in Raja Ampat, Indonesia, where we went for our honeymoon."
Timothy
Holiday Tradition: "My parents used to throw a yearly Christmas Carol-themed Christmas party the Sunday before Christmas. By the end, they even started dressing like the Fezziwigs."
Charles
Worst Gift: "crocheted toilet paper cozy"
Jen Berman
Character in Holiday Movie: "Scrooge. Workin’ towards it every day. Mostly because people leave him alone (well, except ghosts on Christmas Eve), but also, he’s rich!"
Charles
Character in Holiday Movie: "Frosty the Snowman, 'cause then I could justify my round belly at the holidays."
Adam
Ugliest ornament: "I have a weird ceramic doll ornament that my mom gave me that has followed me from home to home and I refuse to ever put on my tree, because she's haunted, obviously."
Amanda
$500 Gift Card: "Barnes and Noble, or another bookstore. I absolutely love reading and Classic novels and have been building my hardcover collection, since I have always wanted my own library in my house."
Colette