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Pinoys round the world... when will you start decorating your home for Xmas? Will you have a parol hanging?
I know some houses in the Philippines have already started late September, but that would be akward here in europe. I'm planning on hanging traditional Filipino xmas decors at home around mid November.
How about you guys?

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Answer by Reeze
Yes, in fact we just bought one in San Fernando Pampanga on our last vacation ( July) there for only ph2,500.00 . They sell it here for $ 179.00. What a big difference!

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It is common knowledge that most personalized Christmas gifts are more expensive than regular or generic Christmas gifts. That?s because there is more work involved in creating and producing personalized Christmas gifts.

However, you can always make personalized Christmas gifts inexpensive and affordable. Here are the steps you have to follow in order to have personalized Christmas gifts that will not put significant strain on your Christmas budget.

1.You have to buy personalized Christmas gifts earlier to avoid skyrocketing prices as Christmas day nears. Due to increasing consumer demands, the prices of gifts usually go up one or two weeks before Christmas. That is why it is not good to join the Christmas rush because personalized Christmas gifts will be very expensive during peak shopping season.

What you can do is to buy personalized Christmas gifts 1 or 2 months ahead before Christmas day. At this time, the market for personalized Christmas gifts are not yet deluged by orders so the prices would be more stable. By buying personalized Christmas gifts a month before Christmas, you can save money and you save yourself from the hassles of Christmas shopping rush.

2.Personalized Christmas gifts are also cheaper online than in specialty or novelty stores. Another advantage of online shopping is you can browse and compare prices from hundreds of virtual stores offering personalized Christmas gifts. There are online catalogs that you can browse freely. In fact you can download most of the pricelist for personalized Christmas gifts. In this way, you can take your time in comparing different prices of personalized Christmas gifts.

3.Stay away from traditional and really expensive personalized Christmas gifts. You can never do anything about the prices of some highly specialized personalized Christmas gifts. So you better stay away from these items if you want your budget to stay on track this coming holiday.

What you can do is to find alternative personalized Christmas gifts that will truly be unique and one of a kind. A goods idea is to buy custom bobbleheads online. Custom bobbleheads are standard gift items for all ages. But they can also become your personalized Christmas gifts.

That?s because you can order bobbleheads in the image of those who will receive the gifts. Custom bobbleheads are the true personalized Christmas gifts today. What?s more, these bobbleheads are very affordable you can order lots of them without hurting your budget.

4.Lastly, some shoppers today tend to hand craft gifts to make their own personalized Christmas gifts. This is probably the best way to make personalized Christmas gifts really inexpensive.

With custom bobbleheads, you can also do this kind of personalization. You can order a custom made bobblehead. When you received the item, add further customization to it such embossing the name of the recipient on the bobblehead base. Not only you get a unique gift, you are also able to personalize it with just a simple tweak.

There are still more ways to make personalized Christmas gifts inexpensive. The best items however that can be personalized easily are custom bobbleheads.

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Christmas is, for many people, their favourite time of the year. Taking away the fact it is a time of rampant Christmas gift giving and stress, it is also the time of year when families most often come together and see each other. For others, it is the joyous occasion of celebrating Christ's birth, and as Christmas has been overtaken by the commercial side of the season, this religious basis for the celebration is often overlooked. However, many people wonder about the origins of Christmas, and especially how the tradition of Christmas gift giving came about in particular!

The celebration of Christmas has its roots in ancient winter festivals. At this time, Christianity was trying to get people to convert and realised that people would be more likely to if they did not have to lose their beloved winter festivals.

The winter solstice was also celebrated, and the Sol Invictus festival lays claim to cementing the 25th of December as Christmas Day, as there is no definitive birth-date of Jesus in the Bible. Pagan Scandinavia used to celebrate a festival called Yule, where there would be carousing until the Yule log burned out, which usually took twelve days. Pagan Germania's equivalent was the mid-winter night, which also used to last around twelve days.

In the Middle Ages, Christmas consisted of bouts of drinking, feasting and caroling. Puritans at the time disliked this carousing, that was ostensibly in Christ's name, and self-styled Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell cancelled Christmas in 1645 due to these reasons. In England, Christmas gifts were traditionally exchanged on New Year's Day in this period.

Pretty soon Christmas was a widespread feast, although after the US revolution it was considered a very British thing to do and as such fell out of favour in America. This soon changed however into the 1800s with Washington Irving's short stories reviving American interest in Christmas. Back in England, Dickens' A Christmas Carol worked to popularize and reframe Christmas as a time of family togetherness. By the late 19th century, Christmas had assumed the traditional form it has today, and in 1870 President Ulysses Grant officially declared Christmas a federal holiday in America. In Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand however, the 26th of December, as Boxing Day, also became a holiday. This day became a rest day for servants and other house staff that may have had to work on Christmas Day.

The most iconic association with Christmas is of course Santa Claus, also variously known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Sinterklaas and Pere Noel. His image was created by cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1863, and was standardised by advertising in the 1920s. The myth of Santa Claus possibly comes from stories of Saint Nicholas, though in Britain the image was popularly thought from the 15th century to symbolise drunkenness and merriment. Santa is now thought of as the man who brings Gifts at Christmas, though in South America the legend goes that he makes toys for the baby Jesus to deliver.

The notion of Christmas gift giving is one of the main questions here and it has a very straightforward answer. The giving of Christmas gifts has its roots in the magi, or wise men, bringing gifts to Jesus. In fact, some Eastern Orthodox Churches and European countries still celebrate the traditional date of the Magi's arrival, January 6th, with something like a Christmas gift exchange. In history, the Romans traded gifts as part of their Saturnalia festival, and in the 13th century French nuns gave presents to the poor on St Nicholas' Eve. However, Christmas gift giving as we know it today did not really come about until the late 18th century. In short, the giving of Christmas gifts was meant to remind people of the magi's gifts to the baby Jesus, and by extension God's gift of Christ to humankind. As we all know, nowadays the more social aspect of Christmas gift giving has taken over, as a means of showing affection to family and friends for instance, but the roots of the gift giving should always be remembered as a Christian religious tradition.

The commercial aspect of Christmas is now a gigantic economic operation, as Christmas gift giving is a major tradition. Many shops advertise longer hours to ensure those searching for last minute Christmas gifts are not disappointed. With the advent of the internet, the shopping aspect of Christmas gift giving has been further simplified, with the ease of selection and stress-free browsing major attractions. The greater choice of Christmas gifts online also makes this method of shopping more attractive. Another advantage is that personalised gifts are more widely available on the net than on the high street, and more creative presents such as spa weekends and flying experience are more easily booked online.

In short then, it is fair to say that Christmas gift giving has come a long way from its roots in the Epiphany to what it is today.

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Ever since the number one singles chart began in 1952 we - and our parents and grandparents before us - have looked forward with great anticipation to the Christmas Number One being announced before the Queen's speech on Christmas Day.

It has to be said that years ago it was far more exciting than it is now; there was a time when it really did go to the wire and no one knew who was going to be the lucky artist to whisk away the festive honour that year.

 Nowadays it's a different story with our 25th December top spot being decided long before the Christmas cards have hit the shops thanks to shows like X-Factor. Just take a look at the number ones for the last three years and there's the proof; it's pretty much decided for us! Where did the challenge go? 

So what is the most popular type of Christmas number one? One with religious undertones? Something on the party theme? A novelty single? Or songs that have nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever? It's quite astonishing that considering Christmas is after all first and foremost a religious festival, there have only been a total of four religion-themed Christmas number ones out of 56 to date. Can you name them? Answers at the end of this article for those who like a memory challenge! 

Songs on the party theme are far more in abundance however and are on the most part responsible for the Christmas classics that fill the yuletide compilations that are two-a-penny in the tinsel-framed retail displays these days. But don't we love them! Timeless tunes like Merry Xmas Everybody; Lonely This Christmas; Merry Christmas Everyone and Mistletoe and Wine definitely have that neck-tingling effect that brings the blissful childhood memories of Christmas flooding back. Any idea what years these all time greats graced the Christmas number one spots? Answers below! 

Novelty hits; you can't possibly love them, you can easily loathe them, but let's face it, it's likely you've had one stuck in your head for a long and painful twenty four hours, or less if you're lucky. Benny Hill, Mr Blobby and Bob the Builder are probably the worst novelty Christmas number one offenders but others that were slightly more endearing included St Winifred's School Choir (There's no one quite like Grandma; 1980) and Rene and Renata (Save your Love; 1982).OK probably not strictly novelty, maybe just a little bit on the tacky side, but fun even so. 

All in all, the majority of Christmas number ones over the years have actually had nothing to do with Christmas whatsoever. Some of them were timeless anthems that will, nevertheless be constantly played for years to come. But others have been sanctioned to the never-to-be-aired-again one-hit-wonder file. 

So with Christmas drawing ever nearer thoughts turn to what melodic ditty may occupy the number one spot this 25th December. Let's wait and see... 

Answers to questions posed above: 

The four religious themed Christmas number ones were:

1.    Mary's Boy Child: Harry Belafonte; 1957

2.    When a Child is Born: Johnny Mathis; 1976

3.    Mary's Boy Child-Oh My Lord: Boney M; 1978

4.    Saviour's Day: Cliff Richard; 1990 

The Party theme hits number one years were:

1.    Merry Xmas Everybody: 1973

2.    Lonely This Christmas: 1974

3.    Merry Christmas Everyone: 1985

4.    Mistletoe and Wine: 1988

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This half-hour Christmas show is one of the truly lovable animated specials in TV history, a status proved by its annual network telecast since 1965. A Charlie Brown Christmas was the first, and best, of a series of programs based on the Charles M. Schulz cartoon strip "Peanuts." Hapless hero Charlie Brown finds himself depressed at Christmastime, searching for the true meaning of the holiday amidst the glitz and commercialism of the modern age. Appointed director of the school holiday pageant, Charlie Brown ventures out with Linus to buy "a great, big, shiny aluminum Christmas tree." Instead they bring back a miserable tree--a real one. A Charlie Brown Christmas shows off the "Peanuts" gang doing what they do best: Lucy is bossy, Snoopy is crazy, Linus is sweet, and Pig Pen is, well, filthy. Instead of using adult actors trying to sound like kids, the production features real children providing the voices, an endearing effect. The jazz music score, composed by Vince Guaraldi, has become a classic in its own right; like so much about this program, it's an unexpected but perfectly right choice. --Robert Horton

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