Christmas then and now

[Alex]

I have been wondering what Yule will be like in years to come. Plastic toys in crackers are on the way out, and people are being encouraged to use plain brown paper rather than coloured wrapping paper (although I am finishing off stuff we bought last year I used brown paper to wrap a lot of presents this year myself) as it can't be recycled and so on.

[RCMerchant]

I have been wondering what Yule will be like in years to come. Plastic toys in crackers are on the way out, and people are being encouraged to use plain brown paper rather than coloured wrapping paper (although I am finishing off stuff we bought last year I used brown paper to wrap a lot of presents this year myself) as it can't be recycled and so on.

My Ma and Dad used the Sunday color funny pages from the newspapers. She would save them up all year.

[chefzombie]

mine too! and my sister and her girls have continued that tradition for kid gifts too! 

[lester1/2jr]

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-12-23/jesus-bethlehem-birthplace-gets-makeover-will-it-boost-tourism



"A fragment of a wooden relic, reputed to be from Jesus' manger, is show here displayed ahead of its transfer to Jesus' birthplace in Bethlehem for the official launch of Christmas season, in Jerusalem's Notre Dame, on Nov. 29, 2019."

I had never heard of that