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Let’s Bring Back The 12 Days Of Christmas
The Federalist ^ | December 29, 2014 | Molly Hemingway

Posted on 12/30/2014 7:09:12 AM PST by C19fan

A friend on Facebook wrote that she and her husband were taking a walk the night after Christmas Day. They passed a neighbor out in his yard and wished him a merry Christmas. The neighbor paused and said, “Oh, you mean for next year?” The husband “told him that no, the wish was for this year since Christmas lasts twelve days and we’re only on day two. He said, ‘Oh, yeah, I guess you’re right.’”

The day after Christmas my husband and I were walking in our neighborhood retail area. I thought we might get our children some Christmas treats at the candy shop. It was closed.

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To: PhilCollins

I don’t think it really matters how many there were :)


21 posted on 12/30/2014 11:17:54 AM PST by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Ace's Dad

I remember that, in Bethesda, Md. Definitely in the ‘fifties. I was three or four years old. I think they did it on the grounds of the public grade school.


22 posted on 12/30/2014 11:29:49 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: al_c
Stores in my area were setting out Christmas stuff in September. But now it's all transforming into Valentine's Day stuff.

Sounds like you live in a backward area. Here, Valentines stuff started hitting the shelves 2-4 weeks before Christmas, filling the space where the cheesier Christmas crap had sold out.

Today, I received emailed photos from my indignant niece in England, showing me Easter candy already in the stores. Easter is just over 4 MONTHS away!

23 posted on 12/30/2014 7:00:47 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: ApplegateRanch

I am truly behind the times. :-/


24 posted on 12/31/2014 7:07:36 AM PST by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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