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[quote=Anonymous]I'm 44 and I had an advent calendar growing up that had a little note for each day with a either a riddle or a joke or just something telling me where to look and I got a gift. Nothing huge, but a gift every day. We were family friends with a couple who ran a British tea house and the husband would come to our house as Father Christmas (he also dressed like that for the Christmas teas they did) at a party. My mom swapped out everything in our house - plates, glasses, beds, linens, even art work, for Christmas versions of it all. We drove around to see the lights, threw a big party and attended another, and did a lot of Christmas activities every year.

My mom worked full-time downtown as a financial advisor for billion dollar businesses, so it's not like she did it to kill time. She just loves Christmas! And this was before any kind of social media, so she did it because she loved it and we loved it, not because she wanted to show off to people on the internet. Some people do more at the holidays because they truly enjoy it. If you don't like doing X, then don't do it. And I get that it's annoying if it seems like people are doing activities just to brag about them on social media, but I do the Elf on the Shelf because my kids absolutely love it and no one but them ever sees it (we have thrown two parties this December and both days I did it in a room that was closed off to company). I also work full-time in BigLaw but I really enjoy doing gingerbread house decorating parties and having people come over to celebrate and wrapping presents and all of it. Christmas is the only holiday I decorate for but I love how my house transforms for the month of December. If you don't like it, that's ok, and if you don't want to do something, then don't. I do spend more time doing stuff this time of year but that's because I want to![/quote]

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