How to Tell if You’re a Grinch

Test to see if you are a Grinch: 1. You reuse last year’s Christmas cards and send them out under your own name (5 points). 2. You steal light bulbs from you neighbor’s outdoor display to replenish your own supply (5 points, 10 if neighbor’s whole light sets or lighted Santa goes out)....

Christmas Contention

At a monastery high in the mountains, the monks have a rigid vow of silence. Only at Christmas, and only by one monk, and only with one sentence, is the vow allowed to be broken. One Christmas, Brother Thomas is allowed to speak and he says, “I like the mashed potatoes we have with the Christmas...

Odd Christmas Traditions Around the World

In Italy they have no Christmas trees, instead they decorate small wooden pyramids with fruit. In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the streets to be blocked off on Christmas eve so that the people can roller-skate to church. An artificial spider and web are often included in the...

Why the Angel is on the Top of the Tree

Not long ago and not far away, Santa was getting ready for his annual trip…but there were problems every where. It was Christmas Eve and NOTHING was going right. The Elves were complaining about not getting paid for the overtime they had put in while making toys and were threatening to go on strike....

Gifts for Mother-in-Laws

One year, a particular harried husband decided to buy his mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift. The next year, he didn’t buy her a gift. When she asked him why, he replied, “Well, you still haven’t used the gift I bought you last year!”