! Christmas is closing up fast, have you remembered everything?
We have been doing a xmas special here at the buyers guide three years in a row now, and every year
is the same story on how I complain about how Christmas is not the same as it used to be, how it has been
commercialized and how it starts way to early, despite that this year I'm putting the guide in effect already
at the end of October. Why you ask? Mostly because I figured if I can get the shopping part done fast and simple
later on in November.
Honestly I find it to be more stress than fun and something to look forward to. .. and also it seem like people tend to forget what the Christmas is all about. Walking around smiling and being nice to
people the normally hardly give a thought, and then there's the shopping with desperate people ready to kill each other for that last item on the shelf, but OK this Christmas I'm just rolling with it....
So here is my little 2005 Xmas guide I've put together that hopefully help you stress down and find that special Xmas feelin' , and oh keep coming back this page will update frequently as closer we get to the date.
NB PLEASE NOTICE THIS IS LAST YEARS GUIDE: NEW DEBUTES 6-8 NOV.
GIFT TIPS OF THE WEEK
It's not always easy to find those perfect gifts and by all means I'm not
claiming to have the ultimate answers. I do however know that these
gifts proved popular last year.
Name a Star and custom jewls.
- now that is a gifts that's gonna be rembered. But you better hurry
christmas is closing up on you!
write to us at:
. We would love
to here about your very own christmas tradions, in other words in don't have to be old - grandma's cookie,
and fruit cake recipes and so on are highly welcomed. For Further inspiration see:
Find a big collection of Christmas cards and greeting pages for you
to send your friends, relatives, loved one, and at of friends web-site.. But first check out our own cards: exclusive cards here also check our partners: ~Everytn Kisses (mostly for teens) ~Coolthingsandstuff.com/greetings
(for everybody)
if you have any poems or drawings you would like to share as a christmas card contact us:
Every week from November to Christmas you find fun facts here,
I promise you have no idea what you did not know about...
sources: Encarta®, christmas.com, and others
Did you know that: modern christmas pagan actualy got very little todo with Christ.. (whole story here next month)
Did you know that: Christmas cards only became commonplace in the 1870s, although the first one was produced in London in 1846.
Did you know that: Christmas crackers were invented in the late 19th century
by an English baker, Tom Smith, who, by 1900, was selling 13 million worldwide each year.
Ineventions:
The familiar image of Santa Claus, complete with sled, reindeers, and sack of
toys, is an American invention which first appeared in a drawing by Thomas
Nast in Harper's Magazine in 1868
No joke:
Puritans banned Christmas in England in 1652, a move followed in Massachusetts
seven years later.Christmas returned to England in 1660.
christmas celebration:
The pagan festival most closely associated with the new Christmas was the
Roman Saturnalia, which honoured the god of the harvest, Saturn, on December
19 and was marked by seven days of riotous merrymaking and feasting. At the
same time in northern Europe a similar winter festival known as Yule was
celebrated in which giant logs, trimmed with greenery and ribbons, were burnt
in honour of the gods and to encourage the sun to shine more brightly.
! Christmas is closing up fast, have you remembered everything?
Have a good recipe for Xmas cookies, cakes, dinner, candy, or drinks? 
Find a big collection of Christmas cards and greeting pages for you
to send your friends, relatives, loved one, and at of friends web-site.. But first check out our own cards:
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