(v) To gleefully rip wrapping paper off gifts, done for the sheer pleasure of destroying someone's overly perfect gift-wrapping rather than for seeing the gift inside.
However, in our house, grandmothers Flossie and Ethel stood by to control our enthusiasm, so they could take every single piece possible of paper and ribbon, and carefully fold or roll it up to be recycled. My parents stopped buying wrapping paper, as our tradition was savital.
Havito sounds like so much fun.
ReplyDeleteHowever, in our house, grandmothers Flossie and Ethel stood by to control our enthusiasm, so they could take every single piece possible of paper and ribbon, and carefully fold or roll it up to be recycled. My parents stopped buying wrapping paper, as our tradition was savital.
gasp! How ... mean. heh.
ReplyDeleteI can assure you that savital certainly isn't genetic, as havito keeps emerging in Flossie and Ethel's descendants!
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