Christmas is much better in the east. You get all this party time! – Christmas M

Christmas is much better in the east. You get all this party time!

– Christmas Market (starting sometime in november or december)

– St Nicholas Day December 15th

– The Solstice on December 21st (for us Nature worshipping Pagans)

– Western Christmas on December 25th

– New Year’s Day on January 1.

– Orthodox Christmas on January 8th.

– Old New Year on January 14th.

So basically from Mid December to Mid January there is a feast every few days. And so the big investment in the holidays makes more sense.

And for some reason I think it’s funny that we have a LOT of new year festivals.

– The Solstice as the prehistoric pagan celebration;

– Halloween/November 1st as the New Year Pagan Feast;

– Orthodox Old New Year

– Orthodox New Year

– Catholic New Year

So if you consider Halloween the beginning of the winter festival season:

– Halloween/November 1st as the New Year Pagan Feast;

– American Canadian Thanksgiving as the Fall Feast.

– Christmas Market (starting sometime in november or december)

– St Nicholas Day December 15th

– The Solstice on December 21st (for us Nature worshipping Pagans)

– Western Christmas on December 25th

– New Year’s Day on January 1.

– Orthodox Christmas on January 8th.

– Old New Year on January 14th.

Then you can basically celebrate from October 31st to January 15th.

The entrepreneur in me is horrified at having to pay salaries during such an unproductive period. (if we paid by days worked I would feel differently). But the human in me thinks that we americans are nutcases.

As far as I know all the value of American excess production is consumed by the financial and government sector.

ie: have more sex, more kids, and more time off.