Every December, children craft holiday wish lists with painstaking care, circling toys, gadgets and “must-have” gifts as if their futures depended on it. But when the wrapping paper is gone, what do they actually remember?

A viral Instagram video is bringing that question into focus. In it, Andrea Dahms, a mother of two in Southern California, asks her 13-year-old daughter, Brinley, to name three things she received last Christmas. Brinley hesitates, struggles, and finally gives up.

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But when Dahms, 43, pivots to another question, about where they went on their family vacation, the answer comes instantly — Lake Tahoe! Dahms says its proof that experiences, not things, leave the deepest mark.

The reel resonated with

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