When my husband and I were first married (decades ago
) we were teachers making a combined income of 14K. My husband at that time was basically a young frustrated artist trying to break into the artistic world as all young artist strive to do. 
He worked with metal, welded steel and pottery. On a whim, one summer, we set up our garage as a working artists studio on a busy main street (zoned for business) and opened it to the public. Since we had so many people drop in, the next thing you know he had orders for work and to keep myself busy I added plants and antiques to our little garage store. What started as a summer artists working gallery became a full time business.The nursery where we bought our plants gave us an opportunity to sell trees at Christmas. On a good night, we made about 200 dollars and I think the first year we brought in 1600 dollars in just a week. Did we feel RICH! We had so much fun during that time (we did it for a few years)and when it snowed, people seemed to spend more money on a tree than when it didn't snow so we brought our prices up during snow nights.
We felt so crafty with that idea! This time of year, living in Florida I find myself remembering how much fun it was to be up north during the holidays. It is not the same here and never will be. It's hard to think about the holiday season when it's 80 degrees outside!
Eventually we became parents and life got a bit more complicated and so did the holidays.
We talk so much about our kids here, our kids help to define who we are and how we view life so I learn alot about people here. I like to think that I was a person before they came along. I know many of you only through your children and bb experiences.
I got this idea from iitg when he recently posted about himself. I really enjoyed that story.
So maybe we can take a break and in this thread, not talk about our kids or baseball, maybe something about yourselves that brings fond memories during this season without baseball or kids!
Have fun!