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23. Money Cake

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 04:30 AM

Sep 2014

My grandmother would bake a cake with foiled wrapped coins in it.

Since I have been to New Orleans for work many times. I have collected dozens and dozens of mardi gras beads over the years. Every year for the past few years, we would throw mari gras beads at the christmas tree. They make fun decorations.

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Did you grow up with any family traditions? [View all] begin_within Sep 2014 OP

Rug spotting KamaAina Sep 2014 #1

LOL- I thought maybe you were a family of food & drink spillers marzipanni Sep 2014 #38

Quite a few: Xyzse Sep 2014 #2

Ravioli on Christmas and lasagna on Easter a la izquierda Sep 2014 #3

We always eat latkes on Xmas Eve Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #35

PUMPKIN BOWLING!!! dr.strangelove Sep 2014 #4

i love that! it sounds completely wonderful. i hope people continue to go for orleans Sep 2014 #19

I have pictures of me doing it with my dad in the late 1970s dr.strangelove Sep 2014 #21

that sounds like fun... also like a story Ted might tell his kids on How I Met Your Mother yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #45

Fun! begin_within Sep 2014 #24

During the holidays Dad would make fresh dough for homemade ravioli... Callmecrazy Sep 2014 #5

Of course. femmocrat Sep 2014 #6

Sauerkraut, boiled potatoes, depression LiberalEsto Sep 2014 #7

Egg smashing on Easter. DamnYankeeInHouston Sep 2014 #8

Ice cream when it thunders. DamnYankeeInHouston Sep 2014 #9

Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Aristus Sep 2014 #10

Was this before or after "A Christmas Story" dropped? jmowreader Sep 2014 #14

Before. Aristus Sep 2014 #17

no Skittles Sep 2014 #11

no ass kicking? yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #46

birthdays are usually the only time we go out to eat fizzgig Sep 2014 #12

Only one, really DFW Sep 2014 #13

We are Jewish. Every Christmas Eve we would light a fire in the fire place mucifer Sep 2014 #15

Real-life DUzy! KamaAina Sep 2014 #39

My mom and dad didn't decorate the xmas tree till after we kids went to bed on xmas eve. KG Sep 2014 #16

Yes to avoid having any family traditions LynneSin Sep 2014 #18

it was a 1940 movie with jack benny, 84 minutes long orleans Sep 2014 #20

Is that the one he made when he was 39? KamaAina Sep 2014 #40

Nativity scene under the Christmas tree shenmue Sep 2014 #22

Money Cake IrishEyes Sep 2014 #23

you know, I never really thought about this before... steve2470 Sep 2014 #25

If something came in the mail too late for "Santa" to deliver eShirl Sep 2014 #26

Hey, that is both clever and convenient. I'm going to remember that one. gvstn Sep 2014 #30

The Three Kings could also be tasked--then you'd have until Jan 6!!! nt MADem Sep 2014 #31

Danish aebleskives madamesilverspurs Sep 2014 #27

The Saturday night pipi_k Sep 2014 #28

You must be from New England KamaAina Sep 2014 #41

Brown bread? The stuff in a can? trof Sep 2014 #42

B&M Brown Bread! trof Sep 2014 #43

My mom always put oranges in our xmass stockings to remind us of the depression and applegrove Sep 2014 #29

Omgeee our parents did that too! An orange or a tangerine. mackerel Sep 2014 #32

Sounds lovely! nt lunamagica Sep 2014 #57

I tried to do the same with my kids but they weren't having. LOL mackerel Sep 2014 #59

We did that for our kids ... Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #36

i remember buying my parents special, boxed & wrapped orleans Sep 2014 #44

same here. we always got an orange, apple, tangerine and some nuts yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #47

So did we and a big barber pole candy cane. Also a coloring book and a box of 64 caryons. SammyWinstonJack Sep 2014 #56

Pizza EVERY Sunday night! adirondacker Sep 2014 #33

only one onethatcares Sep 2014 #34

On Halloween my mom always dressed up as a witch, sat on the porch, Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #37

my secondgrade teacher lived in a creepy old house and yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #49

Ha ha. Fun memories. Arugula Latte Sep 2014 #50

many of ours center around the food, good Southerners that we were... yellowdogintexas Sep 2014 #48

Inside joke in my family since 1978 wyldwolf Sep 2014 #51

LOL geardaddy Sep 2014 #54

Lighting candles on the Advent wreath at dinner during the four weeks before Christmas Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2014 #52

We do that in our household now. kwassa Sep 2014 #55

Baked bean sandwiches geardaddy Sep 2014 #53

We used to put the Nativity together under the Christmas tree shenmue Sep 2014 #58

not anymore... DavidG_WI Sep 2014 #60

every place we went had to have alcohol rurallib Sep 2014 #61