‘Twas the Escapism Before Christmas: Why Wholesome Hallmark Plots Dominate the Holiday Film Industry with Their Predictability, B-List Acting, and Strict Happy Endings

Put on your red dress and get ready to be kissed, because Hallmark movies are back on the air for the Christmas season!  I don’t personally watch Hallmark movies for reasons I’ll divulge later, but I learned recently that whenever the female protagonist puts on a red dress, there’s a 100% chance that romance is …
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1 Week ‘Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season

Have you started your Christmas shopping yet?  It’s hard to believe there are only a few scant days until the holly-est and jolliest of days this year. 2024 flew by in a flash and it seems like only yesterday that we were carving pumpkins on our lawn. Alas, with the winter winds billowing and rainbow …
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Selfish in-laws spit on their son-in-law’s compromise and give him an ultimatum, making him choose between his parent’s Christmas and their holiday party: ‘Linda and Greg have flat-out disinvited us from Christmas’

They see his parents on Christmas Eve and then spend Christmas Day at your house–what more do you want? This man was pushed to his limit with his in-laws when they tried to dictate their holiday plans, but with a non-confrontational wife and pressure from his own family, he tackled their ultimatum with a blind …
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2 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (December 11, 2024)

Christmas may be a stressful time of the year, but it’s also the most wonderful!  The weather is chilling, the windows are frosting, and the twinkling lights fill the dark afternoons with magic. Despite Mariah Carrey playing on every speaker from here to Nantucket, Christmas cheer spreads far and wide as kiddos dream of the …
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3 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (December 4, 2024)

Are you tired of hearing Mariah Carrey’s voice yet?  Every year, she crawls back from some hole where only dolphin squeals can be heard in the distance and bestows upon the good-natured townsfolk a single song that is so catchy, so upbeat, and so belligerently overplayed that it becomes the bane of every retail worker’s …
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Thanksgiving guest sends a bill to his daughter-in-law who hosted dinner, claiming he spent more money on supplies, she adamantly refuses: ‘His father DIDN’T host!’

If you have a normal, run-of-the-mill family, the holiday season is likely a polarizing time for the entire group. While we love our in-laws, siblings, cousins, and parents, spending any length of time together reminds us why we moved out in the first place the day we turned 18 years old. So when we’re all …
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4 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 28 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (November 27, 2024)

Have a holly jolly Meme-mas! It’s the best time of the year. Oh what fun it is to scroll some very merry Christmas memes. Say what you will about Christmas time, but the lights, the cheer, and the merriment (when all goes right) are pretty gosh darn magical. Maybe it’s because the holiday spirit is …
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5 Weeks ‘Til Christmas: 20 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (November 21, 2024)

Full disclaimer: I love Christmas.  And when it starts beginning to look a lot like Christmas–whether we’re seeing eggnog pop up in the aisles at Trader Joe’s or the tree lot is beginning to fill with fragrant pines at the department store parking lot–there’s something in me that snaps, crackles, and pops with glee. However, …
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27 Introvert Memes for Grateful Loners Happy to Stay in Their Lane (December 22, 2023) (CHRISTMAS EDITION)

When festive folks think of the holiday season, they imagine cozy nights with their families, holiday office parties, and countless Christmas-themed parties. For introverts all they associate with the holidays is the desperate need to recharge their social battery with no relief. Introverted people need 2-5 business weeks between heavy social events and the 1 …
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A Stocking Full of 32 Tinsel-Covered Holiday Memes to Decompress the Christmas Stress

We have 10 days until Christmas, y’all.  If you haven’t had a minor panic attack yet this holiday season, that last sentence might be the thing that pushes you over the edge. It’s the busiest time of the year for mom’s pretending to be Santa Claus and for friends dashing around town trying to find …
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