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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Gift Exchange 2025

Here are the goods from Chad! Video coming soon!

Gave his coffee beans a whirl this AM for my second cup! Haven’t had a darker roast in awhile so it was a cool trying something different. Looking forward to trying out the other items!
 

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Here are the goods from Chad! Video coming soon!

Gave his coffee beans a whirl this AM for my second cup! Haven’t had a darker roast in awhile so it was a cool trying something different. Looking forward to trying out the other items!
Merry Christmas! Hope you enjoy
 
After a pretty intense 24 hours I finally found a quiet opportunity to open my TSC secret Santa gifts. I don’t usually do videos but the sheer volume of things to open I figured a video was needed. I have to say thank you to @Spider for all the cool stuff. Opened the Cherry Bomb hot sauce to go with our afternoon snacks and the bottle is nearly half gone now…it’s a lovely garlicky sauce with just a hint of spice. I also snuck a taste of one of the beef jerky’s…I love beef jerky so much.
All the homemade (Boo Bees and Khiller Spider ) stuff is great. And who knew Avon had a Jeep bottle, I love it!
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Oh my gosh! What a wonderful set of gifts I received from @dangerousdon ! My wife and I are super excited to try out the creole foods and Pecans! I flipping love pecans they are my favorites! I was absolutely shocked by the Blackland Vector when I opened up the wrapping paper! I’m looking forward to many wonderful shaves with it! I’m very thankful for everything in this package and yes, Don went way overboard and I’m super thankful. Merry Christmas and happy new year my brother!
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Oh my gosh! What a wonderful set of gifts I received from @dangerousdon ! My wife and I are super excited to try out the creole foods and Pecans! I flipping love pecans they are my favorites! I was absolutely shocked by the Blackland Vector when I opened up the wrapping paper! I’m looking forward to many wonderful shaves with it! I’m very thankful for everything in this package and yes, Don went way overboard and I’m super thankful. Merry Christmas and happy new year my brother!
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Enjoy that Vector it's an amazing razor!
 
Thanks Chris for the great gifts! I ended up needing to do 2 videos. You’ll see why when you watch.



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I’ll say this too. This is the second year in a row that I have received something giving “the finger”, lol.
 
Merry Christmas to all!

Finally a chance to sit down and breathe! Family just left and the wife and I cleaned up. It's an all-day affair and next year I think we'll insist on having it at one of the other's houses. LOL!!

A BIG thank you to @Luecke3262 for the wonderful gifts!! All vintagey goodness that was right in my wheelhouse of course!

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An absolutely immaculate Lenthéric shave soap/talc set that I'm going to have to struggle like hell to NOT use! Oh, but I want to soooooo badly.. There's scent left on the soap too! What to do? What to do? 😟

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Some good old fashioned Packer's brand pine tar soap and uber cool metal soap container, along with a vintage Rexall metal comb. That was a new one on me. I've never seen a metal comb before.

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Lastly, some absolutely beautiful art done by Mrs. @Luecke3262! "Dot Art" is what it's called. Again, I had never heard of it and found the following online:

Dot art is most famously called Pointillism, a technique using small, distinct dots of pure color that blend from a distance, pioneered by Georges Seurat and Paul Signac in the 1880s, but other terms include dot painting, stippling, and modern Aboriginal dot painting.

Beautiful pieces, both! The smaller one is a magnet and the larger I'll be taking to work and display it in my office.

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Again, a BIG thank you, @Luecke3262 and to everyone else, I hope your Christmas was wonderful.. Now, it's time to sit back and have a wee dram or two. 🥃
 
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