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1. One of my favorite memories is a silly one from my childhood. In the 90's we would always film our Christmas morning. One year my sister and I were goofing off before we began opening gifts and I though the camera wasn't really on. I loved being over-the-top to make her laugh, so I was being dramatic and silly. I ended up running up to the camera and sticking my tongue out, getting close enough that the camera would have filmed in my mouth. In our laughter she told me the camera was on, which I denied. This can be heard during playback, as the camera was in fact on the whole time. It doesn't seem super funny to anyone outside, but since we've grown apart a lot over the years it makes me smile to think about that inside joke that we carried for years and the way we used to make each other laugh so much. My favorite seasonal smell will always be a combination of evergreen / pine type trees and an active fire (be it in a firepit or fireplace). I have two favorites when it comes to food (okay maybe three). Every holiday season my mom would make cranberry bread as gifts. It was (and is) one of the best thing I've eaten in my life and will always remind me of home. No other cranberry bread has compared. In addition, eggs benedict makes me immediately think of the holidays. My dad would make it for us every year - plain english muffins, ham, and homemade sauce. So delicious. I'm vegetarian now, but I will absolutely still eat every part of it I can because it's so warming and happy. And I can't leave out my mom's mint icing. We would take cookie dough (sugar cookies), cut the shapes with those red and green holiday shapes cookie cutters, and when they were baking my mom would make homemade mint icing. We've had some hard experiences since then and I have a complicated relationship with my mom. These memories mean a lot to me, and taking time to make or enjoy these treats helps me connect with those good times.

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I like the smell of pine. 🎄 Come win free things.

Favorite seasonal memory is baking up a storm of goodies & sweet treats with my mom <3

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Favorite winter memory: Snow coming down outside, and we lit a fire in the wood stove and just stayed inside, baking.

Favorite wintery smell: cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg while baking. This combination of smells just says "christmastime" to me.

Favorite Food: Homemade chocolate chip cookies

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My favorite winter memory is the years we would go as a whole family, grandparents and cousins, and cut down a tree at a local tree farm. My favorite smell is obviously fresh cut pine! ;) And my favorite treat would be the orange rolls we make on Christmas Eve morning!

TOO MANY favorite winter memories but I'm going with one that's a weird choice. For a few years in school I had a lot of academic troubles. The school incorrectly felt that keeping me after school to do homework in detention would help. Didn't; turns out when someone's learning disabled handing them work and saying don't leave until you do it doesn't get results.

But I never minded in winter. Since I'd miss the school bus, I had to take the regular city bus home, which was super annoying in a lot of ways, but it went down Fifth Avenue, which...idk if you know, but is transformed into a freaking magical winter wonderland in December. Rockefeller tree, giant snowflake, every single bonkers store display.

Every now and then some Decembers I go uptown and ride the bus (or take a cab, because I'm older and crankier these days and the bus remains super annoying) down 5th. Even the bad times can create good memories, if you're open to it.

Wintry smell is pine or just that cold air smell...if there's a name for it I don't know. But if you know, you know! Wintry food is stuffing, since I only eat it once or twice a year and it's so GOOD. But only get it on Thanksgiving and sometimes xmas. Don't know why. But I guess some things are more special if you only get them now and then. (Also...the sodium content is absolutely bananas. I don't take care of my body as well as I should, but even I have to side-eye things occasionally!)

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1. My favourite winter memory is when I moved to Europe and got to visit the Christmas markets. ^^ It was so cold but the drinks were so warm! My favourite wintery smell is drinking hot chocolate indoors while watching the rain or snow falling gently outside. ^^ Favourite wintery food... soups and stews! Yum.
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My favorite winter memory is building snow forts with my brother. either using the snow plow pile and digging a tunnel and hangout spot and getting yelled at or we would take Tupperware containers, rectangle ones and pack snow and build igloos. we then would dump water on it so that it would freeze in place but it was on our deck. I love winter.

My favorite winter smell-- two things. The cold winter air, also when things are baking like banana bread or cookies.

Favorite food--my great great grandmas banana bread my mom used to make us all the time. Defintaly my favorite smell

My current favorite winter holiday memory is the one I'm planning to make this winter. xD I finally get to stay at home, relax with all my online friends, be able to sleep in and stay up like a late night hooligan, and enjoy time with my cats (Pumpkin and Nero). I just love, love, love being able to do things on my own terms without the social pressures that come with the holidays. Ya' know? Especially if it let's me be lazy and feast on all the leftover ham and drink all the spiced chai I want. = v=

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I absolutely loved the winter we spent visiting Silver Dollar City. It was freezing rain, but the place still had the water rides running. Which we rode, of course! We were very cold, but I enjoyed making candles and seeing the lights all over the place.

My favorite wintery food is something that doesn't come too often where we live. It's Snow Ice Cream. You have to wait for the 2nd or 3rd snow of the season, and then it has to snow deep enough that you no longer see grass. Then scoop up some snow, add a little milk and flavoring and Ta-Da! Snow Ice Cream! But, alas! I live in the south, so we don't get it too often. should know what I'm talking about!

Well, let’s see… I don’t really have just one favorite memory! Spending time with my grandparents, aunts, and uncles is always wonderful, and I’ve done it consistently since I was born, so there are too many to choose from!

Favorite wintery smell… the smell of wintergreen and sassafras flavoring for the candy we make each year, as a historical demonstration. Candy canes, ribbon candy, and little pillow candies!

Swedish ginger cookies are associated with winter, for me. I get to make them with my grandma, and other relatives will help make some when they can, and they’re always eaten up by spring! They’re so good. ^u^

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My favourite winter memory would def be my cat Chronos and the Santa Clause parade that would go by our house every year. He would scream at my husband and I to come watch and we would all sit at the window together every year. I really miss it but it always made Christmas so much more fun.

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My favorite memory has to be all the hoopla leading up to the holidays I really love my family, and I enjoy doing everything with them, from spending time witch we really don't do alot of outside of the holiday, to baking and cooking with my grandmother!

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My favorite winter memory is the one year it snowed (I live in a place where snow is a once-in-a-decade rarity) right after Christmas. It was like a bonus present from the weather gods! A uniquely winter food is roast lamb, which my family only ever makes on Christmas. It’s SO good, and the smell of it cooking with the garlic rub on it is going to be my winter scent X)

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