How Do You Thank Someone for Knife?

[GibsonFan]

Also , a few years ago a girl I was dating gave me a Christmas tree ornament in the shape of a pickle (not kidding) , she said that her family (she was Russian/German like me) always had an old glass ornament in the shape of a pickle on thier tree...

My kid got a glass pickle ornament like that from my aunt when she was real little. My aunt told us you're supposed to hide the pickle carefully in the tree... on Christmas morning, the child who is patient enough to find it gets an extra treat or present. Supposed to keep the kids from just tearin' into everything, can't really say it slows 'em down much in my experience, though

BTW we're German/Norwegian with a splash of Welsh... my aunt's husband is Polish... so who knows where it came from? I never heard of the coin tradition before but I think it's pretty cool.

EDIT: OK, here it is: http://www.theframeworkshop.com/store.cfm?SubCatID=2&view=25 ... looks like my aunt bought the smaller one to make it harder to find, lol

my best buddy and I regularly exchange knives at Christmas and/or birthdays without ever having our friendship compromised for lack of a penny....

I'm thinkin' the fact that you both give a knife cancels out the lack of a coin?

 

[yobbos1]

Each give a knife, each give a coin!

 

[ranger88]

I had never heard of that before comming to bladeforums. Sounds like a nice custom though.

I agree. And it's better than slicing your hand open like a Klingon.