Office Christmas parties are often a company tradition, resulting in stories that get told all throughout the year at work. Whether the boss drank a little too much eggnog, or someone got a funny gift in the gag gift exchange, the office Christmas party is a great way to let everyone unwind and be social [...]
If you’d like to start a few Christmas traditions but don’t know where to start, the Christmas Memories blog is featuring an article this week on creating holiday traditions that you and your family can enjoy year after year. All you need to do is find activities that you can enjoy together as a family-and [...]
The recession has a lot of people changing their spending habits and going back to old-fashioned Christmas traditions, like hand-making Christmas gifts. But what if you’re not crafty? You can still make thoughtful gifts, if you know where to look. Gift mixes in a jar are a great gift for almost anyone on your list, [...]
Families have many different Christmas traditions, and hearing about them is a great way to gather ideas for starting new Christmas traditions of your own. This video on family Christmas traditions features many creative ideas.
There’s probably no Christmas decoration in your home with more tradition and memories wrapped up in it than some of the ornaments you hang on your Christmas tree year after year. Ornaments can carry a family story, or be used to remember a special event, or remember a person who has passed on. For some [...]
Do you know the origin of the family traditions you already participate in? How many years ago they were started, or who started them? Did you great-great grandmother start making homemade fudge every Christmas Eve and your own mother still does it to this day? These sorts of simple Christmas pleasures that repeat year after [...]
Looking to change up your family’s Christmas traditions this year? Why not go on a vacation together? The Christmas holiday is a great time to travel because December is one of the best months to score a killer deal on a vacation package. You could go someplace warm, or someplace picturesque, or someplace full of [...]
Christmas carols are certainly an old Christmas tradition, and most people know the lyrics to at least a few of their favorites. Regardless of whether or not you actually go caroling, you probably sing these songs at some point during the holiday season, so you’d better know the words! The Christmas Music Blog has an [...]
Caroling is probably one of the oldest Christmas traditions, and also one of the most endangered. According to the Christmas Caroling Blog, Manila has banned caroling due to safety concerns when carolers walk across busy roads, while religious debate ensued in one New Jersey school after religious Christmas carols were removed from choral programs because [...]
One of your family’s foremost Christmas traditions is likely the family Christmas tree. Whether you go to a tree lot to pick out the perfect tree on the day after Thanksgiving, or have a nice artificial tree that you drag down from the attic every year, the Christmas tree is always a centerpiece.
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