One of my Favorite winter memories is the time my older sister and i made a big snow dog in our grandmothers yard, i was quite little back then and can't remember much of it anymore but we built it where the outdoors table was in the summer and at least to my eyes it took up all of that space.

my favorite smell would be cinnamon and cloves. And my favorite food are vanilla crescents. or the dough of it when we made them ourselfs XD

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Where I live in Texas it doesn't snow often. But when it does I just love it. One time it snowed when my son was maybe 8 or 9 and it piled up on the cars. He made the cutest snow man on the hood of my car. I don't remember too many details but it was very clever. It looked like he was sitting there. Had arms and legs. When it started to melt I slid it off very carefully onto a big platter and kept it in the freezer for a long time. <3

My favorite wintry smell was when we had live trees. (like jersey said) I haven't had one in years but I love that smell.

My favorite food is Divinity for Christmas. It's the only time we can get it. :)

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Thank you for hosting this! My favorite winter memory is lighting the Chanukkah candles with my family and celebrating the holiday with them. Latkes are a favorite winter food for me, and I love the smell unscented candles (like Chanukkah candles) give off.

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I have many fond winter memories, but the one that I think of immediately is only from last year, not because it is so fresh but because it was so intense.

I live in a small, rural town in the San Diego mountains. We are barely over an hour from the beach, but we get snow. When I was a kid, man we use to get so much more snow. I moved back to my hometown about 10 years ago, after city life just stopped fitting my needs. My anxiety couldn't handle the hustle, bustle, noise, crime etc, etc, etc. I went from a 15 year career in prepharmaceutical behavioral research and traveling all over the world for work , to the last 7 years as a park ranger in a small private district park (nongovernment, not private, it's complicated lol) When we get snow, our tiny town of ~1800 residents gets hammered by tens of thousands of visitors. Winter is all ready a hard time for various reasons, and when we get inundated with people who trespass, leave trash, block the highway... it ruins the holidays and winter in general for me every year. But last year, last year was special. We got three feet overnight of beautiful powder, and they closed the roads. The next night, another three plus feet. As the onsite ranger my house overlooks the park and is right on our busy little 2 lane highway that is the main way people from San Diego can make it up. And for an entire week, that road remained closed. In 7 days fewer cars passed my house than in the slowest early morning hours of a normal day. It was silent. I had nothing but nature surrounding me, and it was glorious. I felt a deep connection to my home, and at a point at which I was so close to breaking because of countless things in my life burying me in stress and woes, I was healed.

I am praying that this year we will get another snowfall like that one, because boy could I use that week of peace.

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I'm trying to, but I really can't think of a favorite winter memory, unfortunately. Don't think I had anything special happen to me in my life during winter, or at least I don't remember. I have hope that I will get to make awesome memories in the future! I love the smell of rain. It doesn't snow where I live, so rain is the winter thing here. The only winter food I can think of that I get to eat is lentil soup. Here it's considered the ultimate winter food, though I'll admit I have never been a big fan of it. xD If they count, I like getting to eat oranges and tangerines. :)

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Christmas growing up for me was always a fun time. My family is very close knit and I loved seeing everyone at our big party on Christmas Eve. Anyway one year sticks out in my mind... back in those days we would have a big Christmas Eve party, and then go back on Christmas Day for leftovers and to see family who might not have been there Christmas Eve. So this one year, I'd gotten the They Might Be Giants album Flood for Christmas (on cassette hahaha), and it was raining (winter is the rainy season in California so cold winter rain always makes me think of Christmas), and we were listening to the tape in the car on the way to my aunt's house, and I was just really happy with my life at that moment.

Favorite winter smell is definitely the smell of smoke from people's fireplaces. One year at Target (I worked there for many years) there was this candle called "First Snow" and they had somehow put the essence of winter in a jar full of wax. I could smell the fireplaces, but also the cold air and the snow and just a tiny hint of pine needles, it was amazing. But I don't know where that candle came from (it wasn't a brand we sold) and it disappeared and never reappeared. I wish I'd bought it! So that would be my favorite smell but seeing as how it doesn't exist anymore, I'll take the smell of fires in cold winter air.

Winter food? Ummm... candy canes! Anything else I could think of I can get any other time of year, but candy canes really only come out at Christmas. I love mint flavored things and I love whittling them down into a Christmas shiv. 😂

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Winter memory: spending christmas afternoon at my grandparents with my whole family.

Winter Smell: the christmas tree that just came in the house from outside... that smell.. lovely!

Winter food: hot chocolate, viannetta & we have a bread called Kerst Stol (dutch) wich is bread with dried fruit and almond paste.

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thank you for the ping! Winter memory: having lunch with my mom's parents (they are gone now) and spending the afternoon playing cards (and betting money 😂) and playing board games with them and with my cousins! We were little and our parents were more relaxed, now everyone is always in a hurry, no time to play pointless games!

Winter smell: fireplace being lit! (And a little bit of smoke too!)

Winter food: absolutely cappelletti (similar to tortellini) with broth. I like salty things over the sweet ones! maybe you will enjoy this memory lane too!

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My favorite winter memory is probably the first year after I had moved in with my family of choice. Not only was it Christmas but my birthday is in early January as well, so it's a big deal to me. I'm not religious but family time, good food, and presents, you know? We had gone to the farmer's market a couple weeks before and bought a mini rosemary tree that had been decorated with pretty bows. My memory in general is not very good overall, but I remember that tree and how cute it was with the bows. I don't even think it had lights if I recall. It was just this tiny tree (18 inches tall, maybe two feet? not big at all) with a PILE of presents under the tree on Christmas morning. After that it's a little nebulous because again, memory problems, but that was such a warm and fuzzy feeling.

So as a result, I really associate rosemary with winter. I don't know, it's not exactly a typical scent I guess, but for the reasons above and another few, I lose rosemary. If I had to go a bit more traditional I think I'd go for the smell of freshly cut pine.

As for food... That one's tougher. I think I should probably say something about peppermint bark mocha, but that's not exactly a food. Ooh, I know. Snickerdoodles. That's a good cookie, and was my nickname as a kid from my mom. hee.

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In winter I like to stay in the warmth of the fireplace with family and smell the burning wood, eat chestnuts and dried fruit. Our favorite recipes for Christmas are lasagna and meat on the spit. Panettone, a traditional dessert, cannot be missing. Snow here in southern Italy is quite rare, so I've never seen it snow for Christmas.

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My favorite winter memory is skiing up at Heavenly Ski resort, and for the first time going up to the top of the mountain. On one side of the mountain the view was of forest and snow for as far as the eye can see. When I circled over to the other side, the view was of all desert and sand! It was such an incredible surprise! I think my favorite smell is a cup of warm cocoa next to a crackling fire place, and my favorite winter flavor is eggnog. :D

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1. there was a year where I went to see the Niagara Falls during the winter time, the falls was frozen and it was kind of cool, then we went to the casino to play a few rounds and had the buffet there :P not sure what's a wintry smell, snow smells nice right? 😂 one of my fave food for winter is hotpot for sure :)

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Winter memory: Waking up and checking out my window to see if there's snow and then watching the news text scroll hoping to see my school listed as one of the ones closed for the day. Makes me feel a little old though lol.

Winter smell: Two things definitely, the smell of fires carried on crisp, cold winter air, and the smell of apple cinnamon candles and air freshener inside the house.

Winter food: My moms pecan ball cookies and her walnut chocolate chip cookies ❤

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- My favourite winter memory is going out to the mountains every year to pick out a Christmas tree! One year it was snowing really hard and we couldn't see much ahead of us, and my sister's dog ran off and when she came back she had caught a filed mouse! We were all quite impressed!
My favourite winter smell is the smell of a fresh christmas tree, that evergreen-pine smell is just so lovely! And my favourite winter flavour is mint chocolate! Mint Chocolate always reminds me of the Christmas season! Mint hot chocolate, after 8 mints, peppermint mochas etc, these things always make me feel warm on a cold day!

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There are so many great winter memories from childhood to now, but there's one (among many others) that stands out. For Christmas my then boyfriend gifted me a horse sleigh ride. It was just perfect. Sleigh, two horses with little bells attached to the harness, freezing cold with lots of snow and sunshine. Our ride led through a wintery forest to a small rural restaurant where we had lunch and then we returned to where we started.

My favourite smell is oranges and cinnamon, my favourite food homemade cookies.

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Thank you for this chance My favorite memory would be when I wanted this giant tiger from a store my sister worked at. We visited fairly often since she worked there and they all sold out. I was super sad but on Christmas morning it was sitting there she had bought it for me with her own money from her first job

Fave smell - pine probably Flavor Uhh hot chocolate? XD oh or rum chatata with fireball yum xD

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thanks for the chance! winter memory: driving around the lake on Christmas Eve and then returning home to find that Santa had been there already. Apparently we were one of his first stops, lol!

smell: pine, but I am sooo allergic! also Christmas dinner cooking.

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1. Favorite winter memory hands down would be the Christmas I made pies with my grandpa. Everyone else had left to do various things, honestly don't recall what all. Grandpa and I were the only ones still at my grandparents' house and we decided we'd make the pies. Grandpa was set on making a chocolate pudding pie, while I made a lemon meringue from scratch. Very much was following the recipe to the last little detail. While measuring the sugar out grandpa noted there was maybe 1/8 of a cup left over and dumped it into the pan I was using to make the lemon filling. The look on my face must have shown my horror, thinking it was ruined because he instantly was all "a little extra never hurts". That was the beginning of my tweaking recipes. Thanks, grandpa! ❤️ My pie turned out beautifully. Grandpa's never set up and neither of us could figure out what went wrong. He'd even tried setting it out on their back porch in below zero temperatures, with a couple feet of snow outside and it still was liquid. Something we laughed about the rest of his life.

2. Favorite wintery smell is cinnamon and ginger. There's something about the two combined that's pure winter and Christmas for me. It's comforting and makes me smile every time I smell those spices mixed together.

3. Favorite food that is uniquely wintery to me is lefse. ❤️ Delicious. Just a little butter over it, roll it up and enjoy. Buttery, potato perfection. Growing up it was always present during winter, especially for the holidays. Something both my great grandma and grandma made from scratch. While I have their recipe I sadly never learned to make it. Lived too far away when they both still made it and by the time I lived close enough for them to teach me, my great grandma had passed away years prior and my grandma no longer made it. One day I do plan to try and hope to recreate it as they did.

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1. Favorite winter memory - I think probably when I was really young and my grandparents used to come and spend Christmas with us at our house. We went all out back then and had a big christmas lunch with them and everything. It was a lot of fun.

2. Favorite winter smell - I found a candle at Bath and Body Works that smells like roasted marshmallows, so definitely that one for me.

3. Favorite winter food - Pumpkin pudding...Kinda both autumn and winter

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