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Christmas Traditions: Manufacturing Memories

What are your favorite memories of the holidays as a child?
More than likely those memories include family traditions from, the day you choose to decorate your tree, to the kinds of food you eat at the holidays.
Remember that you and your husband came from separate families with different customs and traditions.
When creating a legacy [...]

A Sneak Peek at This Christmas

Here is the first trailer for Chris Brown’s new movie This Christmas, to be released in November:

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Mr. Finnegan’s Giving Chest

Dick Van Dyke will forever be remembered as Bert in the classic movie “Mary Poppins.” Now he touches a whole new generation of fans with the beautifully illustrated Christmas book “Mr. Finnegan’s Giving Chest” (Shadow Mountain, $19.95). Van Dyke portrays the loveable toymaker Mr. Finnegan, and also reads the book on an accompanying CD.
Mr. [...]

Site of the Week: Why Christmas

In all the years we’ve followed Christmas online we’ve seen just a handful of sites dedicated to Christmas that were non-commercial in nature and that actually stayed online. This week we feature such a site and we dare to say that not only has this site survived the dot com crashes that so [...]

Christmas and the Salvation Army

The Red Kettle campaign, first started in San Francisco in 1891, has traditionally been The Salvation Army’s most prominent fund-raiser. In 2004, the Salvation Army raised over $100 million in communities nationwide, with the spare change all being put to good use in the towns where the money was deposited into the kettles.
The funds [...]

Exclusive Review: Christmas in Connecticut by DVDGUY

Right up front I want to say this movie should probably be called a Christmas lie in Connecticut. That is after all the whole idea behind it…

Frosty the Snowman

A gold member of the Christmas classic elite, Frosty The Snowman has entertained several generations of children and adults with its charming holiday magic. Jimmy Durante narrates this 1969 animated creation that features the birth of Frosty, a happy upbeat snowman brought to life by a magical hat. The story is based on the [...]

The Benefits of Christmas Shopping Online

I recently did a radio interview with a station based out of Arkansas and we were discussing the differences between doing your Christmas shopping at the local mall versus shopping online. I made the point that many consumers still like to go the mall to get some of that Holiday vibe and the sense [...]