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
• children caroling at the door (go away)