Christmas Swap
Christmas Swap
Christmas NewsChristmas Online

Be Careful Joining an Online Christmas Swap

Online Christmas swaps have become a new tradition in the ever-evolving celebration of Christmas. Folks online swap Christmas cards, ornaments, cookies, gifts and other themed elements of the season as a way of extending traditions of old. But there are perils in the practice. ~ A Cautionary Tale ~ Last year Ken Childs of Jackson, Michigan joined a Facebook Christmas group that offered a Christmas card swap. He says they …

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Christmas Anniversaries
Christmas Anniversaries
Christmas FeaturesChristmas HistoryChristmas Past

Christmas Anniversaries 2020

Every year for Christmas in July we recount the anniversaries of Christmas – literally a history of Christmas history. The amount of Christmas to recount in 2020 is amazing. ~ Christmas 25 Years Ago (1995) ~ One of the amazing things about Christmas is that a Christmas movie doesn’t necessarily have to be about Christmas to be a Christmas movie. In 1995 such a movie was made in While You …

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Mistletoe Ghost Story
Mistletoe Ghost Story
Christmas FeaturesChristmas LegendsChristmas Past

The Ghost Story of Mistletoe

The ancient roots of mistletoe have nothing on the 19th century popularity of mistletoe. It was, for all intents and purposes, a great fad of Christmas. It began with a poem, as many things popular with Christmas of the 19th century did. It was 1823 in a book titled “Italy” by Samuel Rogers. The poem was titled “Ginevra”. The poem tells the horrific story of a young bride who got …

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Christmas Fireworks
Christmas Fireworks
Christmas FeaturesChristmas History

Thank Christmas for Your 4th of July Fireworks

Fireworks at Christmas are not a thing many people think about. For many folks, Christmas is long associated with snow, stockings and jingle bells. None of that seems to fit with the colorful summer traditions of fireworks. But the truth is that without Christmas you likely would not celebrate Independence Day with fireworks. For hundreds of years fireworks have had a long association with the celebration of Christmas around the …

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Christmas in July
Christmas in July
Christmas EventsChristmas FeaturesChristmas NewsChristmas Trends

Why Christmas in July is Different This Year

Christmas in July, like nearly everything else in 2020, is going to be different. Traditionally Christmas in July has been a laid back affair. Merchants would drag beat up and shop-worn merchandise on to sidewalks and put them on sale. Amazon, with almost nothing else to do, created Prime Day, an event that in their eyes (an in some in the world), rivaled Black Friday. Hallmark, who for years has …

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Die Hard Christmas Movie
Die Hard Christmas Movie
Christmas DebatesChristmas MoviesChristmas MusicChristmas News

Yippee Ki Yay and Merry Christmas

Yippe Ki Yay and Merry Christmas. Die Hard is back. It is a Christmas movie. I knew it! Mommy told me if things don’t turn out just the way you want them to the first time, you’ve still got to believe. (Ok, that’s from a different movie but it still applies here.) What has so inspired me? This brilliant Christmas song from Jonnie Common, which was released in 2016. I …

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The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
Christmas MusicChristmas News

The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot

Famed British singer Vera Lynn has passed away at the age of 103. While she was famous for many things Dame Vera Lynn made some Christmas music history by introducing The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot in 1937. It could well go down in history as perhaps one of the saddest Christmas songs of all time. Written by British composers Michael Carr, Jimmy Leach and Tommie Connor, it tells …

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Christmas Social Media
Christmas Social Media
Christmas HistoryChristmas NewsChristmas Past

A Christmas Social Media Post from 1818

Social media Christmas is a thing. From Twitter to Reddit to Facebook, today’s youth do comment about Christmas. The social media of today is building a wonderful record of their thoughts about Christmas and that record will be available for their grandchildren to read in the future. Too bad we don’t have the same thing from the teenagers of the past, eh? Who says we don’t? In our ongoing research …

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Christmas Blogathon
Christmas Blogathon
Christmas News

Christmas in July Blog-a-thon

If you’re a Christmas writer or just a lover of all things Christmas we invite you to participate in MyMerryChristmas’ Christmas-in-July Blog-a-thon 2020. This is your chance to share some merry thoughts on our big Christmas stage. Until July 31st, 2020, we will be accepting written articles on the following topics: The Most Important Christmas Movie of All Time – Christmas movies are as big a tradition as mistletoe and …

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Christmas 2020
Christmas 2020
Christmas News

Early Signs that Christmas 2020 Will Be Different

The freak show we have come to call the year 2020 is starting to affect Christmas. Election year politics, Coronavirus, and civil unrest have so far dominated the headlines. Now folks are seeing how it will change the holidays. A survey of thousands of Americans indicates they anticipate changes this Christmas. A full 51 percent said Christmas will be spent away from extended family this year. Seventy-five percent of Americans …

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Carrier Underwood to Release Christmas Album in 2020
Carrier Underwood to Release Christmas Album in 2020
Christmas MusicChristmas News

Carrie Underwood Releasing a Christmas Album in 2020

Country superstar Carrie Underwood has announced that she will release her first full Christmas album later this year. No date for the release has yet been announced but drops for major stars like Underwood usually happen towards the last two weeks of October. Underwood does have some Christmas under her belt. She previously recorded Do You Hear What I Hear, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, The First Noel, What Child …

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Bad Christmas Songs
Bad Christmas Songs
Christmas MusicChristmas News

Bad Christmas Songs

Here in our locked down madness of 2020 some are worried about Christmas and how it might not be so great this year. Along with the requests for how we see Christmas 2020 (that’s a podcast in the making), we get suggestions for some of the most depressing things about Christmas you can imagine. Right now it is bad Christmas songs people are complaining about. Maybe it is because so …

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