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Holiday Meal Planning: Practical Tips to Save Money on Cooking
Emmeline Kemperyd The holiday season is finally upon us, with its blend of joy, family gatherings, and festive meals. However, with food prices up 3.3%, many people worried that enjoying the season...
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Best Christmas Movies of All Time, According to Critics
– by Chris Compendio Since well before Thanksgiving, streaming and cable networks have featured Christmas movies in anticipation of the season. Some wholesome classics, like “Miracle on 34th Street” or...
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The Abridged Christmas Classics: Holiday Haiku
Home Alone (Movie: 1990) Nothing says “Christmas” like an eight-year-old boy with abandonment rage. A Christmas Carol* (Movie: 1951) Am I alone in finding Tiny Tim more than slightly annoying?...
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Pope Francis Backs Snoop Dogg Christmas Song to End Homelessness Now
By Ooberfuse In the UK over 160,000 people are homeless. Just off London’s Oxford Street, in fashionable Mayfair village, a homeless film director and London band has teamed up with Rap Royalty’s...
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New Data Reveals Which Board Games Maybe Most Likely to Cause Arguments This...
A new analysis reveals which board games are best left unplayed this Christmas due to their argument-inducing qualities; with Clue Conspiracy named the worst offender The data compared customer...
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50 Coldest Cities in America on Christmas
by Anuradha Varanasi The traditional portrait of a picture-perfect Christmas Day includes neighborhoods covered in soft snow, smoke wafting from homes’ chimneys, and families gathering together to...
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Christmas Traditions: Why Do We Kiss Under the Mistletoe?
When I think of mistletoe, I often think of Justin Bieber’s “Mistletoe” song or some cheesy Hallmark movie where a smalltown guy and big city gal who’s home for the holidays kiss under the plant for...
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5 Tips For Xmas Emotional Survival
I don’t know about you but I find that enforced fun can be a little jarring at times, to say the least. It can be a time of feeling like a cracker waiting to be pulled or, better put, cracked! Yes,...
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Family Estrangement at Christmas Is Hard — Here’s How to Make it Less So
If you asked me to recount my happiest Christmas memory, I’m not sure I could select a single one that has not consisted of tension thick enough to carve, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and the...
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50 of the Best Christmas Movies of All Time
by Jacob Osborn The holidays have arrived, and that makes now the time to revisit history’s most beloved Christmas movies. But what constitutes a Christmas movie, exactly? So goes a question that...
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Is it the End of the World?
Several years ago, a member of the congregation I served asked if I would officiate at a relative’s wedding. I agreed as a favor, even though I had some concerns based on rumors I had heard. When I...
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The Origins of Santa Claus
I love the various American incarnations of Santa Claus that I remember from childhood — from the old man in the original, black and white version of Miracle on 34th Street to the jolly old elf...
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Counter Holiday Stress in Your Marriage With Fun and Laughter
Stressed spelled backward is desserts. Loreta Laroche The countdown to the holidays and the end of the year is in full force. For many, it means the stress is ramping up as well. Maybe that’s you. Or...
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Holiday Lights With a Vengeance
Holidays are a special time. Celebrations, gatherings, festivities, everybody dressed in clean, pressed outfits, that seem to be made just for the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Oh, the...
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Oh, Christmas Tree: The Economics of the US Holiday Tree Industry
By Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University and Patrick Abouchalache, Boston University Christmas today is a big business, and one part of that is the multibillion-dollar business of selling Christmas trees....
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How Christmas Is Celebrated Around the World
by Andrew Lisa For centuries, cultures worldwide have celebrated the end of the midwinter season’s darkest days and the rebirth of new life. Now, in much of the world, it’s simply known as...
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The Case For The Grinch & Scrooge
I’m Not Okay The Grinch. Ebenezer Scrooge. We know their stories. Two isolated, lonely, and angry-at-the-world men see the light on Christmas as a result of some kind of ego realignment. For Scrooge,...
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10 Reasons Christmas Makes Me Love My Husband Even More
Holidays weren’t always simple for Joanna Schroeder and her husband. But over the years they’ve come into traditions that bring them closer every year. – No, it’s not the presents. It’s all the...
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What If Peace Broke Out on the Planet?
I have been, like many, struggling with the reprise of an authoritarian presidential candidate with self aggrandizing narcissistic characteristics who seems to have a hypnotic hold on people from all...
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Formerly Incarcerated People, Family Member Reflect on the Highs and Lows of...
By Rachel Crumpler, North Carolina Health News Gathering with family. Decorating. Viewing Christmas lights. Baking. Unwrapping presents. Eating a festive meal. These activities define the holiday...
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