During my first holiday season as a married woman, I was introduced to the ‘nut box’ tradition in my husband’s family. My father-in-law bought lots of mixed nuts and peanuts. My mother-in-law would wrap a large cardboard box in Christmas wrapping paper. Once the nuts were in the box, it was placed in the living room for non-stop snacking throughout the holiday season. My father-in-law would put the \box on the footstool and sit in the chair, cracking nuts and throwing them in a tin wastebasket sitting near by. Often you could hear the sound of walnuts shells (his favorite) hitting the sides of the wastebasket. My husband always wanted the filberts and I like Brazil nuts.
For many years since, we’ve had some version of a ‘nut’ box. Here’s this year’s nut box:
Do you have a similar holiday tradition? If so, I hope you enjoy it; if not, perhaps it’s time to create a holiday tradition.
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