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Ma’s gift bag ideas

e will be a full house as usual during the holidays, with an intense peak of more eating heads around my festive table on Christmas day. At a first briefing meeting with the ‘main management’ team it was impossible to reach consensus or commitment. It turned out on the brink of open aggression but in the end, everybody did acknowledge the fact that times are difficult and that the festivities should be toned down. A decision was made that the family kids, age group under 13, would not miss out on gifts (although cost within reason as their

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