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[pixiecrinkle]

I do the Christmas thing because my family does. I went through guilt for several years, because I don't have the proper religious belief that would warrant recognizing it, but, though it creeps me out, I've deemed it ok to do because I'm not alone in celebrating it merely as a gift-giving situation. Plus, it would hurt too many people in my family to completely reject it.

However, there are things I will not do and things I believe there should be ettiquette to govern. I want to see how off the wall I am though, so regardless of your belief/celebration situation, offer me your thoughts on these:

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[ms-interpret.livejournal.com]

I was torn between 'after halloween' and 'after thanksgiving' because I'm Canadian, and I always feel moderately weird about the after thanksgiving thing when that's not even one of my holidays (well, we do have it of course, but as you likely know it's in early October). I've always figured that it's okay to put up Christmas stuff in December, but malls and crap have to do it earlier to cash in on the 'spirit of the season'. *barf*

No animatronic Santas should ever be seen. :)

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

So does Canada have a generally acceptable date to kick off the "season"? Here in the US I think Thanksgiving is the unofficial start to the retail season because the retail industry has promoted the next day as the biggest Christmas shopping day of the year. Does Canada have something similar? Or is everything blissfully better there? ;-)

[ms-interpret.livejournal.com]

Well, the lights can start to go up anytime now. Our first neighbours to do so were last week. The malls all start the day after Halloween. I usually put up the lights and tree on the first weekend of December. But I *love* Christmasolstice, and my daughter does too.