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[quote=Anonymous]Hmmm.  I watched her clip.

I don't buy it.

I came from a family where the women did a lot of emotional and house labor at the holidays.  Made everything pretty, baked, did crafts, decorated.  Raised a generation of girls who enjoyed doing this stuff but they also became career women. Then those little girls all had boys.  6 of them.

So these boys...are not very interested in holiday crafts, baking, or decorating.  We tried.  But they really didn't care much.  We moms ended up finishing the projects.

We gave our little boys Easter baskets, filled stockings, and tons of gifts.  They liked these things but weren't sad to grow up and out of the phase where we did these things obligatorily.  So we've kind of stopped.

We do meaningful things for each other and give meaningful gifts without tying that to holidays.  We visit family at holidays and I think even that is a quality tradition.

I'll be interested to see what kind of DILs and grandkids come my way.  If anyone else wants to dial up the effort, I'm game. But I don't think my family life lacks meaning or I'm low effort because I didn't duplicate my childhood holiday practices.

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