Ettie Lou Stooper does a tinsel dance at a tree-trimming party in Gumsville, Nebraska, Christmas Eve, 1923

• Advent calendars
• after-Christmas sales
• charcoal beauty products as “gag” gifts
• creatively wrapped packages
  • paper patterns aligning perfectly when I wrap presents
• cute reindeer antlers on vehicles
• elaborate window shop displays & nativity scenes
• hot mulled cider with butterscotch schnapps & cinnamon sticks
• multi-colored Christmas lights with large unblinking bulbs that remind me of candy dots on gingerbread houses
• pet animals full of joy & wonder at Christmas trees & ripping up wrapping/tissue paper
  • putting little Santa hats or taping Christmas bows onto their heads
  • when they stuff themselves into gift bags or cardboard boxes (after they're opened, not before/during the wrapping of presents)
• sweets
  • candy-coated stirring spoons
  • chocolate-coated marzipan bars
  • gingerbread
  • mini-panettone in ornament boxes
  • peppermint stripes
  • polvorón wrapped in colored cellophane
  • turon or banana lumpia
• tinsel
• when Mr. Scrooge's heart opens up on Christmas day
• vintage illustrations of Krampus torturing children

would like to try

• Christmas pudding
• mince pie

but please no

• Beatles' Christmas songs