Spooky Holidays 2010/11

[binkie]

(06-12-2010 06:51 AM)JHyde Wrote:  My family is the opposite. The lights and tree stay up wayyyyyyy too long. My dad usually excuses the lights on the basis that Australia's national holiday is a few weeks after New Year's.

That is bizarrely interesting to me. I am the first person on either side of the binkie family to have been born outside Australia since early-18-something-or-other, and this was always the reason my parents gave for not doing the thing with the tree. The Christmas tree, robins and snow, etc. Christmas seemed to really annoy them (probably because it wasn't relevant to their experience). Now I'm thinking my sister and I missed an excellent opportunity to be devious about other holidays!