5 Days of Christmas
Posted by
Kaelizilla (#5) on Dec 20, 2011
Santa Paws his holding daily drawings for special items up until Christmas! These drawings will be posted each day both here, in the news, as well as in Mini Updates/Admin Updates, at some point before midnight. There is one prize per drawing and it's completely up to chance (haha, NOT the companion!) to choose the winner. The rules are simple and they are straightforward, but they are not to be trifled with.
Read the Rules!:
1.) Post ONCE in this thread before Midnight Ala time, on the day the thread is posted in order to be entered into the drawing. (If you post more than once, you may be disqualified from the running)
2.) You may post once per account.
3.) Players found creating more than the 2 allowed accounts to enter these contests will be BANNED from Alacrity; no exceptions. Don't do it -- we hate banning people.
4.) All Alacrity standard rules still apply! If you're not familiar with them, please take some time to do so -- you can find the link at the bottom of every page!
5.) We don't care what your post says, provided you follow the above rules, although Santa Paws is also picking a secondary winner based on criteria listed at the end of this post :)
This drawing will be for: a December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag!
You can find the December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag thread here
The winner will receive a December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag, which contains an assortment of this month's monthly shop items!!!
Day 6 had some wonderful tradition posts!
The Winner of Magical Rubber Ball (drawn completely at random) is: Zee-antaclaws! Congratulations!! You will be receiving your prize shortly :D
We had some pretty unique submissions yesterday and it was impossible for us to choose just one. So, today we have two second winners!
Xylax posted about a Polish tradition which I didn't believe until I looked it up:
In Poland, there's tons of traditions. The most famous one is that we buy a carp two weeks before xmas and we let it swim in our bathtubs for it's a fresh meat on Xmas Eve table. Then nobody has a heart to kill them anymore and we notice a rising trend of carp pets.
How do you take baths if a fish is in your bathtub?
dormatorymoss posted a unique and wonderful family tradition which sounds like so much fun:
My family has a rather unique tradition, I'd say, involving a coconut monkey.
It all started with my mum and dad, shortly before they were married. They were going through my dad's things with his mother (I don't entirely remember why; I think he and my mum were going to move in together or something). Anyway, my mum was tossing things out that she didn't see fit to keep of my dad's, when she came across a coconut-shell monkey that he had acquired from my grandmother (his mum) when she had gone to Aruba on a short holiday.
Now, my mum.. she wasn't a fan, to say the least, and without anyone knowing, the poor thing ended up in the rubbish bin!
I'm a bit blurry on the details, but somehow Ms. Monkey found her way back in the house, wrapped up as a gift from my grandmother at Christmas time, much to my mother's everlasting dismay.
Again, like I said, I forget many of the details, but this Gifting of the Monkey stuck, and every year, the monkey is gifted to another family member and must stay in display in that person's home lest they keep it for another year. When it is time to part with the monkey for that year, you must write a fitting poem for its departure, and read it aloud when the primate is transferred.
At first, the monkey was rather bare, but over time she accumulated many accessories-- A pearl necklace, hat, and mink shawl being a few.
Right, so, that's our tradition, I guess. Hope someone finds some amusement in it!
Xylax and dormatorymoss have each earned a free Magical Dog Biscuit for sharing their holiday traditions with us! Good job! You will both be receiving your prizes shortly :)
Happy Howlidays!
<33
P.S. Santa Paws told me he'll pull this round's second winner based on strangest holiday story. Things always seem to happen when they shouldn't and holidays are no exception! Post your strange holiday story for a chance to win! :D
Read the Rules!:
1.) Post ONCE in this thread before Midnight Ala time, on the day the thread is posted in order to be entered into the drawing. (If you post more than once, you may be disqualified from the running)
2.) You may post once per account.
3.) Players found creating more than the 2 allowed accounts to enter these contests will be BANNED from Alacrity; no exceptions. Don't do it -- we hate banning people.
4.) All Alacrity standard rules still apply! If you're not familiar with them, please take some time to do so -- you can find the link at the bottom of every page!
5.) We don't care what your post says, provided you follow the above rules, although Santa Paws is also picking a secondary winner based on criteria listed at the end of this post :)
This drawing will be for: a December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag!
You can find the December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag thread here
The winner will receive a December 2011 Monthly Ultimate Bag, which contains an assortment of this month's monthly shop items!!!
Day 6 had some wonderful tradition posts!
The Winner of Magical Rubber Ball (drawn completely at random) is: Zee-antaclaws! Congratulations!! You will be receiving your prize shortly :D
We had some pretty unique submissions yesterday and it was impossible for us to choose just one. So, today we have two second winners!
Xylax posted about a Polish tradition which I didn't believe until I looked it up:
In Poland, there's tons of traditions. The most famous one is that we buy a carp two weeks before xmas and we let it swim in our bathtubs for it's a fresh meat on Xmas Eve table. Then nobody has a heart to kill them anymore and we notice a rising trend of carp pets.
How do you take baths if a fish is in your bathtub?
dormatorymoss posted a unique and wonderful family tradition which sounds like so much fun:
My family has a rather unique tradition, I'd say, involving a coconut monkey.
It all started with my mum and dad, shortly before they were married. They were going through my dad's things with his mother (I don't entirely remember why; I think he and my mum were going to move in together or something). Anyway, my mum was tossing things out that she didn't see fit to keep of my dad's, when she came across a coconut-shell monkey that he had acquired from my grandmother (his mum) when she had gone to Aruba on a short holiday.
Now, my mum.. she wasn't a fan, to say the least, and without anyone knowing, the poor thing ended up in the rubbish bin!
I'm a bit blurry on the details, but somehow Ms. Monkey found her way back in the house, wrapped up as a gift from my grandmother at Christmas time, much to my mother's everlasting dismay.
Again, like I said, I forget many of the details, but this Gifting of the Monkey stuck, and every year, the monkey is gifted to another family member and must stay in display in that person's home lest they keep it for another year. When it is time to part with the monkey for that year, you must write a fitting poem for its departure, and read it aloud when the primate is transferred.
At first, the monkey was rather bare, but over time she accumulated many accessories-- A pearl necklace, hat, and mink shawl being a few.
Right, so, that's our tradition, I guess. Hope someone finds some amusement in it!
Xylax and dormatorymoss have each earned a free Magical Dog Biscuit for sharing their holiday traditions with us! Good job! You will both be receiving your prizes shortly :)
Happy Howlidays!
<33
P.S. Santa Paws told me he'll pull this round's second winner based on strangest holiday story. Things always seem to happen when they shouldn't and holidays are no exception! Post your strange holiday story for a chance to win! :D
Where's the thread to? <br /> (I didn't know there was a thread.)
Posted on 12-20-2011 at 9:34 PM
Please remember to post your entry in the thread! We will not be selecting winners from the news comments.
by
Kaelizilla
#5
Posted on 12-20-2011 at 3:20 PM
Four years ago, when me and the rest of the family got together to put up the tree together, something quite odd happened. Earlier that day I had adopted my first rat "Scrat" after the death of my hamster. Bringing him on my lap, as I sat on the couch, taking a break from decorating the tree, I began to watch a Christmas movie. The rat, even pet ones, I didn't know were very sly. And within thirty seconds from not looking and paying attention to him, he was off. It turned out that he had crawled under the cushions, and found a hole leading to the center and inner parts of the couch.<br /> It took me, my uncle, my mother, and my aunt to be able to come up with a plan to get him out. Which was to turn the couch over and cut out part of the bottom and try to hoax him out.<br /> However he seemed in no mind to want to come out, and was feasting on old popcorn and other food that had fallen down into the couch.<br /> Deciding that we would all take shifts to try and get him out, while others tried to finish to decorate the tree.<br /> It was while I was decorating the tree that I heard a scream.<br /> My aunt, who had and still has a horrible phobia of rats had held Scrat in her hands crying and screaming for someone to take him.<br /> Up until the time of his passing we never let Scrat near the couch again, due to the fear of having to go through all that trouble, that Christmas gave.
Posted on 12-20-2011 at 2:17 PM