Not to mention the 75% off all the decorations for the tree, and most of the gifts you may want to buy.  It’s a great idea.  :o)

You can have mine for free. Hell I’ll even pay you to take it. We took the decorations off New Years day but my husband has yet to get it out of the stand, untied from the banister, and out of the house. 

Double bonus: move Arbor Day up to early january and you can avoid all that bothersome planting!  As Homer tells us, “Lumber has a million uses...”

Reading you at work is going to put me back on unemployment. For some reason my boss frowns on people guffawing and slapping their knees while pointing at their monitors.

Btw, John and I had dinner with ChuckleHut Dan this past weekend. Next time we drive up to SF, we should all go out. Whaddayasay?

moreover, the sales!  you can get like 25% more gifts!  this is brilliant!

Gim, good deal!

Just tell people that, after much research, you are switching from the Gregorian calendar to the Julian calendar.  Then you won’t look cheap for celebrating Christmas in January, you’ll just look crazy.  Or maybe you could start growing a beard and covert to an Orthodox religion.

you hippie, recycling, californians…

Plus it will give you more time to observe and celebrate Kwanzaa and Hannuka without Christmas overshadowing the entire month.

greg with an orthodoxesque (orthodoxian?) beard is a sight i would pay good money to see.

you know, technically, january 6th is the 12th day of christmas.  it’s also the feast of the epiphany, the day the magi (of “we three kings of orient are” fame) arrived in bethlehem and saw the baby jesus.  so many christians, both orthodox and occidental, place almost more emphasis on the epiphany than on christmas.  so, hey, why not celebrate in early january?  bonus: another hallmark holiday!

I have my Christmas party in January, myself, not to steal (ahem, be economic and “reuse") someone else’s tree, but so I can keep mine up longer and so I don’t have to hear the paltry “I have three OTHER Christmas parties to go to that night” excuse.

And yet all of a sudden, there seem to be all of these Martin Luther King Day parties popping up...hmm.

When did you become Jack Handey?

Greg, with a beard, hippie hair and full Kwanzaa-celebrating garb is something I could sell tickets too, especially if he was dragging a sleigh full of trees down the street while barefoot . . . or maybe this little fantasy has gone too far.

i’d like to reserve my block of tickets for that show!

I’m going to cut Greg some slack and fantasize about him in a Kwanzaa-themed Nudie Suit. Can’t we all just get along?

Afterword: I hope the comment readers don’t confuse a Nudie Suit with a Birthday Suit! If confused, please click here.

Why does no one tell me this dude is hilarious?