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richiemcgold:
.. growing up in the early 80s, we wore aso ebi sown by a local tailor in the neighborhood. You can also call it " and-co"

We also put on our brand new plastic wristwatch and googles

We trek from street to street to visit families friends and church members. We eat rice and chicken at everywhere we visit and returned home in the evening with bloated stomachs and over-bloated pockets. 🤪

There was no knockout or banger in my time, we made use of what we call racket as firecracker. My racket and matches were always in my pocket during this season. We move in group and blast our rackets everywhere we go. Na so we go dey sing "olopa ko le mu wa, odun lo'de..."

My mom once had to rub kerosene on my bloated tummy on a Christmas when I almost eat myself to death. Hahahaha.

I still wonder why people consider rice to be a special food then.

bluefilm:
First of all, your experience is not really that of a person who came from a poor background

It sounded to me like the experience of a typical 80s/ 90s born

The only difference with your own experience is that we don't normally go to the house of strangers to eat food

Our parents will definitely kill us if we did that!

My parent did not know where we went. I always went with my friends.
Rice was a food we did not eat regularly as it seemed ti be unaffordable. We lived in face me I face you all through secondary school.

Dostum:
You're the one that needs help here, what's 2k to even start with sef. Xmas giveaway ni, abi na scam to promote your useless channel ko. Just get lost abeg.

Can you pick N2k from the ground.

You guys are making a big mistake and I don't know how you lot grew up. With this mentality, you will not get any helper in real life neither will you go far. You have to develop the mindset of gratitude, this has been my mindset from when I was a kid, I once given a gift of less than N2k even while having a lot in my account and did not need the money, I thanked this fellow for more than one week.

It does not matter the value of a gift, what mattered was the mind behind the gift, the fact that someone remembers me to send a gift.

I had an in-law who requested money around last year November, I had 50k for him but I only gave 5k to gauge his reactions, I was told this guy was cursing me being my back for the 5k. I have cut him off, his wife and his children, a dime of my money will not be going to him again even at the point of death, he tried to reach me on WhatsApp last month, I declined and blocked his numbers.

Always remember that aside from your parent, nobody owes you anything in this world. If you give me a gift of N500 today, I will thank you very well from the bottom of my hearth and pass the give to someone else who needs it. We have to stop with the entitlement mentality as the fellow who gives N2k today can give N2M tomorrow.

Don't tell me " He who will help you will not stress you? That reeks of entitlements. Attitude is everything.

I am going to read lots of books, I am starting to learn coding for a hobby and hope to become grounded next year, Registering additional two companies and getting an office on the Island and, one outside the country with a minimum of five full time staffs before end of the year. I am also beginning to learn French and hope to complete before end of next year. I am going to socialize a lot next year and make acquaintance of very important people to expand my social circle.

Healthwise, I am beginning to gym and expect to take a delivery of my brand new six pack middle of next year, I have promised myself a short-sleeved one arm tatoo if I achieve this objective. I hope to travel to a minimum of three new countries next year starting with Montego Bay in Jamaica. I hope to party a lot more and enjoy life. Next year is gon be interesting.

Peterzoom20:
Merry Christmas and a prosperous new year to you Mr sapa wey sapa no dey affect, it's been a long time since you were on here I noticed.

My brother. Merry Christmas.

Starz825:
This is the problem

Nothing is impossible though they look impossible


The challenge is...he doesn't need to be like Musk or want to be better than him...

Since it's a known fact that everyone goes out of this world with nothing...so then Run your race ...do your best....enjoy life where you are and stay happy as you progress.

You think Musk became that wealthy in one year. Delusion is not a dream, Even Dangote can never be rich like Musk this time next year.

JovialJune:
I'm a jovial person offline not here, then my birth month, hence the username JovialJune.

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arkad139:
seen. Thanks very much sir. God bless you more nd more

Merry Christmas

arkad139:
Sapasenator please I have not eaten rice this Christmas opay



Pls let this sapa not kill me. Nothing is too small

Sent 5k.

Yemike:
Bros, you be OG o. You just shared my mum's experience.
My own experience of xmas as a kid starts around October/November with racket and my mum's double geese matches dey suffer gan especially the one we usually made with bottle crown, it requires two matches to make a deafening sound. We don't buy shoes and clothes yearly tho'. What my mum usually do is that she go for quality and oversize clothes and shoes that you'll end up passing to the next generation. If my mum buy shoe, it'll spend at least 3 years. There's one ready made cloth with jacket that I wore, my brother wear it, even our 4th born wear it. Christmas present the chance to eat chicken. The friday before xmas, my dad will come home with half bag of rice, a gallon of turkey oil and 2 cockerel nah when I grow up I know say nah from cooperative society. Little wonder January dey always dry. I pray my children have a different and better tales to tell about their xmas.

You remind of racket my brother, we call it knockout in those days. We use car plugs driven into woods, nails and matches and we were good to go.

As kids growing up in Nigeria, Christmas was the most important celebration for us and we eagerly looked forward to it.

I came from a very poor background so rice was not what we eat regularly, Christmas was an opportunity for us kids to eat rice and chicken to our fills.

Christmas usually started around November, this was when my parent would go to Balogun market to buy Christmas clothes and shoes for all of us.

We never went along, it was only our parents who would select Christmas clothes and shoes and we had this curiosity waiting for them to come back so we can inspect the clothes and shoes.

They had us place our feets on cardboard boxes and a pen was used to mark our feet sizes before cutting the cardboard boxes, this way, the right sizes of shoes were bought.

Once they were back from the market, we locked the doors and windows to test the clothes and shoes, our friends would be at our windows, peeking to be the first to see our clothes.

I remember wiping the bottoms of my shoes after testing them so they remain brand new on Christmas day. That was the only day we got brand new clothes, the rest of the year, my mom would send us to Sylvanus store to select used clothes to compare and see who got the best clothes. Hehehehe.

Two weeks to Christmas, my mom would go to the market and select about three chickens to feed for slaughter on the eve of Christmas day. So, at 6 pm on the 24th December, we would kill the chickens and start preparing for Christmas, we kids never sleep in the night as we kept dreaming of the next day.

I and my friends we used car plugs, wood and matches to create knockouts for the celebrate as we could not afford banga.
We would wake very early in the morning of Christmas, bath and put on our Christmas clothes, shoes and attires and, off we went to our friend's houses, together as a group we knock on the doors off all our neighbors and random strangers.

The rule then was anyone who came to your house on Christmas, you have to feed them even if they were total strangers so, we just randomly knocked on doors, walked in , eat rice and chicken and, ask the adults to " do Christmas for us".

We walked all around town eating from strangers, blowing knockouts and collecting Christmas money.

After we are done eating outside, then I would lead my friends to our home, by then my moms food was ready, by and I would eat together. We also dished out foods in trays to share to our neighbors and the neighbors in return will offer us trays of food and drinks.

We had this family friend that worked at Coca Cola and every year end , we always received about 4 crates of Coca Cola for this family reserved for our Christmas day feast.

At the end of the day, I would be so full that I would not be able to lie face down for all the food I had eaten that day.

What was your experience growing up on Christmas day, was it similar to mine?
Did you guys go about eating food from strangers and asking for Christmas money?
Is this practice still continuing today?

Thinking back, I must say it was very fun every Christmas and on new years days, we carried on with the celebrations.
I would not lie as it was a magical moments for us.

Share your experience growing up in Nigeria on Christmas days. Forgive my typos as I am on my second champagne bottle with my Jamaican Dragon Stout beer.

G0Oodharddick:
What's so special about pastor kumuyi's son leading worship in his Father's business empire?

How exactly is this news?

I remember two deeper life babes wey I knack. Very nice and fresh kpekpus

Nothing special.

They have turned themselves to idols to be worshiped.

La watch, la bend!

MaiDeribe:
How much is your rent in Nigeria? Mine is 60 thousand Naira monthly 30 Pounds.

You pay N60,000 monthly for rent? Are you living under the bridge or on a canal?

Can I have what you are smoking?

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That is how to fight currpotion. With this law, over 99 percent of our past politicians will be executed. Imagine Yaya bello still arrogant after stealing billions?

Ebubu6:
Marketing strategy.

By airport managing director?

If you give Yahaya Bello scorecard he will score himself high.

Just like me as a Managing Director says my business is bad market. Will I try it?
No


Who will de-market himself or herself even if it has to be the truth.? Even Nigeria tells creditors they can pay whereas they're plagued with debts.

It would have been more reasonable if neutral national aviation agency declares it.

While Ebonyi Airport is being used by cattles and goats. Umahi should be in prison for that bogus white elephant project.

handsomeyitayo:
shey make I no ask for advice ni...

Pele o, Ade love, Olu romantic.

wtf is sexual purity? Keep deceiving una self!

You never meet someone in real life, you are busy disturbing the peace and quiet of NL. I f I catch you enh?

yusufu16:
Marriage is not all about children. You can marry early and not have kids. I have seen many people spend over 10 years before getting their first child.

There are many things in this life that you don’t have control of. Just live your life and be happy and expect the best. Don’t force what you cannot change.

Don't mind the myopic guy.

35 is too early for a man.

Karleb:
I remember a dude here on NL who married at 27, has 2 kids and earns close to N100k.

He was complaining bitterly and I really feel bad for him.

His salary is not even enough for me as a single guy with no baggage.

I really wish guys, especially Yoruba guys, would wait till their mid 30s before marriage.

But everyone of them is planning to marry the girl they are currently dating.

They are a slave to their society and it's expectations and, many men will go that route a d regret later.

Enugurangers:
I am highly disappointed in the SE region. Even NE that's plagued by Boko Haram did better

Because a large population of Easterners do business and pay VATs in others states like SW .

Zonefree:
Then follow these steps;

1. Always buy her gift.

2. Take her out on a vacation.

3. Buy gifts for her kindred people.

4. Remember to pray for her every hour.

5. Idolize her.

6. Help in doing house chores at home.

7. Remember to wash her undies every weekend.

8. Take over the kitchen department from her.


In doing all these, she may consider to allow you put the tip.

Zonefree, women will gang up and kill you one day.

Who cares. Tinubu till rapture!

Ebubu8:
You dey believe the news of an unreputable BLOG?

Shame nor dey catch you?