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    </div><p id="f856"><b>Heard:</b> My SIL, still going “old-fashioned.” Cut down the tree herself. Decorated all by herself, too. She’s happy; I’m exhausted for her.</p><p id="175e"><b>Noted:</b> We trimmed Christmas when I realized it was just <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-not-to-lose-a-guy-in-four-decades-7da0c7b40d82">us</a>, sometimes featuring one kid, and on rare occasions, both. Acquired an aluminum tree, born in the 1950s in <a href="https://upnorthnewswi.com/2021/12/09/aluminum-christmas-trees-theyre-a-home-grown-wisconsin-invention/">America’s “Tinsel Town.”</a> Yeah, and Jeff Bezos helps a lot with the shopping.</p><div id="e742" class="link-

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Tradition

How to get more out of Christmas

Shrink the celebration, not the sentiment

Author’s Archives.

Seen: A smaller Christmas, but more fun. Kept the sweet traditions. And ditched Ye Olde Tannenbaum — less for kitty to climb.

Heard: My SIL, still going “old-fashioned.” Cut down the tree herself. Decorated all by herself, too. She’s happy; I’m exhausted for her.

Noted: We trimmed Christmas when I realized it was just us, sometimes featuring one kid, and on rare occasions, both. Acquired an aluminum tree, born in the 1950s in America’s “Tinsel Town.” Yeah, and Jeff Bezos helps a lot with the shopping.

Quoted: “Don’t forget the sandbakkels!” Norwegian sugar cookies, featuring cardamom. Never would. And won’t scrimp on Grandma Vera’s Sugar Cookies. Secret ingredient? Nutmeg.

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