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Opinion by katiemariie posted 2 years ago
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I really enjoy the Christmas season. I love the movies that get played every year. I love the Christmas music radio station. I love the lights. I love the snow. I love the togetherness. I love the Claymation. I love wrapping presents. I love unwrapping presents. I love making cards and presents for my friends and my teachers. I love going to the mall and finding the perfect gift. I love going shopping with my friends. I love the classroom Christmas parties that are against school rules. I love going to Petsmart with my mom to get stocking stuffers for my cats. I love waking up early on Christmas morning and being too excited to go back to sleep because you know how much everyone is going to love their gifts. I love not eating breakfast and going straight to the candy in my stocking. I love reading the book my sister got me right away. I love watching my cats play in the discarded wrapping part.

However, I do not love Jesus. I don't hate Jesus. I am not a Christian and I have never met him so I have no reason to love him. I feel it is disrespectful to Christians for me to celebrate part of the holiday. This is why I have come up with Giftmas. Giftmas is Christmas for...
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Opinion by harold posted 1 year ago
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Would you pick this over something else?
Last edited on 20 December 2007.

While not necessarily limited to the Christmas holiday, White Elephant Gift Exchanges are popular at this time of year for clubs, associations, small groups, churches and offices around the United States. It is often a more affordable (and, possibly, fun) alternative to buying presents for everyone in the group. But what is a White Elephant Gift Exchange?

The history
The story - almost certainly apocryphal - goes like this: in pre-colonial India, the rajahs would give gifts to their vassals as tokens of their esteem. Chief among these was the elephant. The elephant was both vehicle and beast of burden, a creature you could both ride to war and use to haul large weights, take goods to market, perform demolition, and the like. Essentially, the elephant was an extremely valuable creature. But a white elephant was considered sacred, and could not be put to work. So a rajah would be bestowing a great honor to a vassal by giving him a white elephant, while at the same time giving the vassal a rather huge burden. White elephants had to be kept, tended, groomed, fed, and exercised, all without getting the benefit of...
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Opinion by Cammie posted 11 months ago
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Merry Christmas Fanpopping Friends
'Tis the season to be jolly!
I have had to remind myself of this fact constantly in the past week for I have had probably the most stressful week of 2008. All I wanted was to be in readiness and organized for my favourite time of year but things do not always go as planned.
I decide to do some home renovations and paint my house back in September, the house did not really need a revamping but I was bored and thought it was time for a change. Little did I imagine that only a few days before Christmas the house would still be looking like a hurricane had swept through it.
I decided to get rid of some good quality but no longer needed furniture, so friends jumped at the chance. Although the furniture was being given away they still decided to take their time and collect it when they were good and ready, thereby leaving my home looking like a furniture warehouse for weeks. That hurdle out of the way and another one appears - the carpet cleaners could not get their act together with keeping their appointments.
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