A recent episode of The Christmas Show about the Fake Christmas drew an email response from a listener who shared an interesting take on how meaningless the modern Christmas tree has become. She wrote: “I inherited my parents aluminum Christmas tree. They acquired it in the early 1960s. I have not known what to do […]
Christmas movies we now consider must-see classics came from a very brief period of time in 1947. These movies are so iconic that we cannot see a Christmas season passing without seeing them at least once. Everyone knows them. Lines are quoted from these movies and trivia games are based on them. These are movies […]
The Christmas season is a topic of debate, celebration and broad definition. No other holiday has a “season” associated with it quite like Christmas. Just as the date of December 25th is declared fake (as discussed in a recent episode of The Christmas Show on My Merry Christmas) the actual date associated with “the Christmas […]
It’s A Wonderful Life is heralded as the greatest Christmas movie of all time. In fact, it famously ranks in the top ten of the greatest of all movies of all time. That is pretty good considering that publishers hated the original story when it was written, that the movie studios of Hollywood rejected it […]
Introducing The Christmas Show of My Merry Christmas – an all-new look at Christmas through music, history and tradition. It is not the Merry Podcast. But it is not far removed from it either. Instead of putting MyMerryChristmas-For-Your-Ears out there on podcast platforms and streaming channels we are bring it back home – to MyMerryChristmas.com. […]
The biggest news in Christmas movies seems to be the sequels or remakes of Christmas movies we have seen before. A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Polar Express are all making headlines for possible sequels in the works. When was the last time a Christmas remake or sequel did anything other […]
The annual recognition of Leon Day is still in its infancy. Less than 30 years old, Leon Day began as an Internet marker of the half-way point to Christmas — a countdown to the countdown to Christmas celebrated in online communities, message boards and forums dedicated to celebrating Christmas in the mid-1990s. It is now […]
Picture a man who so loved celebrating Christmas with his children and grandchildren that he spent months at a time preparing gifts and planning gatherings. When Christmas Eve arrived he engineered a party that included the singing of songs about Christmas and Santa Claus, the hanging of stockings and telling of the stories of Jesus […]
The legend of Santa Claus has many elements, one of the oldest being a letter or a wish list sent to Santa to share what one wants for Christmas. The idea has ancient roots in the origin story of Saint Nicholas, the benevolent 4th century Bishop known for kind acts and generosity. As Saint Nicholas […]
The United States Postal Service has released information regarding their 2024 offering of Christmas stamps. The new stamps sell for $0.73 each, reflective of postal price increases put into effect in July. The new stamps shown below go on sale September 14, 2024. That is a full three weeks earlier than new releases in years […]
The best part of looking back at Christmas 100 years ago is that we see both change and lasting tradition. As with many things, only Christmas gives this unique perspective. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge was president, the average income was about $2,200.00 and the average home cost about $7000. Consumer products that were launched during […]
Many are the ways of sneaking Christmas. It is heralded by some, booed by others. For the critical media, it’s something called Christmas Creep and they drag it out every year. Right after Christmas-in-July is over the stories start to pop-up of Christmas trees for sale at Costco and how horrid that is. But the […]
