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		<title>Real Christmas Trees Are a Real Pain</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/05/real-christmas-trees-are-a-real-pain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 19:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RC Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Hands-On]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas Opinion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is spring and we&#8217;re growing things. Every year we plant a garden, green up the lawn and compete with this season&#8217;s version of trying to out-do the neighbors. We do the same thing with Christmas lights each fall. The neighborhood looks great and our unspoken-of competition, I&#8217;m convinced, keeps families and good neighbors together. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loving Our Valentine&#8217;s Christmas Tree</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/02/loving-our-valentines-christmas-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merry Ann Brite</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Christmas tree is still up. The lights outside are down, the Christmas wreath is off the door and the stockings are no longer hung by the chimney with care. But the Christmas tree is still up, doggone it. And we&#8217;re not nuts. We&#8217;re brilliant. The use of evergreens anciently was to invite thoughts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grinch Remake: Bah Humbug</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/02/grinch-remake-bah-humbug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christmas Movie Critic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it is the cold, dark grey of winter outside my window that spoils my Christmas spirit on a day like this. But reading of plans for a new animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas has me feeling blue. First of all, consider who has been hired to do this project: Illumination Entertainment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the Christmas Card</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/the-power-of-the-christmas-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A story out of Bloomington, Indiana today tells of a one time service man receiving a Christmas card from total strangers while serving in Vietnam. The year was 1966 and the man was then 27 years old. He received the card while stationed outside of Saigon and thought it was quite something then to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, I Listen to Neil Diamond</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/yeah-i-listen-to-neil-diamond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read with some interest this opinion piece from a St. Louis publication concerning the Christmas music of Neil Diamond. The piece features a large image of a nondescript middle aged white guy (the writer of the article) &#8212; a guy that kind of looks like me. In the article he explains Neil Diamond&#8217;s connection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Blues: A Soft Light Blue for Me</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/christmas-blues-a-soft-light-blue-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauriebear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Christmas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the post holiday. You hear and read a lot right now about the PCB’s (a.k.a. Post Christmas Blues). I even heard today on the radio that January 14th is the bluest day of the year. They say the “glow” of the holiday season is over. Hogwash! First off, I am a Christmas “nut”. At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Off a Monopoly Icon</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/killing-off-a-monopoly-icon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Westover</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Marketplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have a love-hate relationship with Monopoly in our house. I love it, my kids hate it. It is a big part of our Christmas week tradition. As we gather for the holidays we squeeze time in during the late night hours with game playing. We play Twister, Yahtzee, Clue and all kinds of card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wimpy Christmas Sales: Told You So</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/wimpy-christmas-sales-told-you-so/</link>
		<comments>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/wimpy-christmas-sales-told-you-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Merchant</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Marketplace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realchristmas.com/?p=1066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here we are a week into the New Year and the whining has begun about the business of Christmas. Santa was not nice to retailers the media reports. (Even the post-Christmas returns are making headlines.) Target says it was a ho-hum holiday. JCPenney and Kohls both report that deep discounts hurt earnings. Walmart does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Things Kids Say to Santa</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/the-things-kids-say-to-santa/</link>
		<comments>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/the-things-kids-say-to-santa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Westover</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realchristmas.com/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at Santa Update.com they have been tracking the adventures of Santa as he treks around the world since 1991. Unlike Norad or Santa tracking through the search engines &#8212; which do a great job showing where Santa is on a map &#8212; Santa Update gets the kids involved on Christmas. They tell the stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Returning These Christmas Gifts</title>
		<link>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/why-im-returning-these-christmas-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://realchristmas.com/2013/01/why-im-returning-these-christmas-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Westover</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christmas Opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://realchristmas.com/?p=949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Men are not shoppers. Or so the gift buying world thinks. As a retail worker my entire career I have seen the inside thinking and can wholeheartedly agree that when it comes to shopping it is a woman’s world. Retailers love women. They build displays to catch the female eye, target marketing to appeal to [...]]]></description>
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