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Please September in the din with dangerous Day. You know,
I know some traditions might be dumb, but are we
basically ready to cancel Christmas? A poll asked two thousand
Americans what major traditions would they be open to get
rid of. Top of the list, sending Christmas cards. I
actually like getting cards. I like to see the pictures
and get the notes, and ugly Christmas stutters was number two.
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Gift giving was number three on the list of things
we would get rid of for Christmas. Secret Santa exchanges
in Christmas music rounds out the top five. The rest
of the top ten watching Christmas movies, helf on a shelf,
Christmas lights, holiday treats, and decorating our tree was number ten,
so basically canceling Christmas all together. They also ask people
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to rank some new traditions they'd swap in. Spending all
day in your pajamas came in at number one, followed
by focusing on quality time instead of gifts, decorations, and meals. Okay,
I'll give you that one. Taking a vacation themed Christmas
is like tropical Christmas or Christmas in your pajamas. I
guess we really want to spend a time in our pajamas,
going on a quiet person or retreat. So, in other
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wordsification without the family. Rest of the top ten big
nice breakfast instead of dinner, spend a day volunteering, Now
that's nice, do it yourself. Gifts allowed friend only Christmas,
no family, and instead of gifts, giving handwritten letters of gratitude.
But come on, get real, are we really going to
swap out gifts for thank you letters? Everybody would let
chat GPT write them and go out and buy themselves
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a PlayStation. Deeper in the two, there's something almost everybody
will experience over the holidays in their lifetime other than
Bala's joy of spending so much time with extended family
receiving a gift that well, just isn't that great. A
new survey ask people what are your go to responses
to say when you get something you don't like? Top
ten include thank you for thinking of me. Twenty seven
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percent of people say something like that. That's followed by
I love it, So twenty three percent of people are
willing to lie, I really appreciate this. You shouldn't have literally,
what a thoughtful present, What a great present? You're too kind.
It's the thought that counts. Ten percent of people said that,
but apparently that's something you're supposed to think to yourself.
It's so unique, and where did you get this? At
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eight percent? In other words, do you still have the gift? Receipt?
Survey found that avoiding eye contact is the clearest sign
of a gift dissatisfaction, followed by putting on a fake smile,
changing the tone of your voice, or making too much
about it and how the gift looks. So if you
make too much about it, you either really really love
it or you really really hate it. This is kind
of amusing. Two more than half of people in the
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survey said they're great at concealing their disappointment if it's
something they don't like, and also more than half of
people in the survey said they can tell right away
when others don't like the gift. Usually I just look
at them and say, what's wrong with you? Do you
even know me too? They can For another episode of
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