Many countries celebrate Christmas through January 6th (epiphany/Three Kings), the 12th day of Christmas, but not the US. That’s fine. But why sing about it if you don’t celebrate it?

  • @someguy3
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    7 days ago

    “Hey get back to work!”

  • snooggums
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    7 days ago

    The song is about someone doing the things, and is catchy. Don’t see it as a plan for activities over a period of time.

    Christmas has been drilled in as a single day where we support commerce by buying stuff we don’t need and giving it all on one morning. We don’t really have week long holidays because that would cut into business, and business is all we are good at!

    Seriously though, not having any expected time off beyond a single day per holiday really kills the incentive to celebrate holidays that last more than a single day.

  • Ricky Rigatoni
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    36 days ago

    It’s bad enough I have to listen to christmas music in August, if it lasted until jan 6th I will become a domestic terrorist.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    6 days ago

    We do celebrate it. Or at least, everyone I know does. But the way we celebrate is simply having an Advent calendar, so you get a little chocolate treat every day for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.

  • @esc27
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    6 days ago

    Many of us don’t experience white Christmases, tell scary ghost stories at Christmas, put presents “on” the tree, roast chestnuts, have any sort of fire, “rock” around the tree, dash through snow, or commonly hear silver bells in town.

  • @[email protected]
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    36 days ago

    Honestly, I had no idea there was a related tradition. Song’s a banger though, more than happy to have it.

  • HubertManne
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    37 days ago

    many folks keep the decorations up to three kings and then some do the advent calendar thing.