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Christmas Decor Rules and Cash-Gifting Aunts
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
2 min
Discussion of what separates classy vs sloppy Christmas light displays, and nostalgia for rich childless aunts and uncles who handed out cash at Christmas, contrasted with sad childless holidays as families stop having kids.
- Tim on Christmas decorations: slovenly exterior lights and flickering cords are a sign of rough Christmas inside the home.
- Rules for Christmas lights—white lights on the tree, or color lights done intentionally as kitsch homage to the 1960s.
- The uncle and aunt without kids who showed up on Christmas with stacks of cash-filled card holders, dispensing crisp fifties.
- Tim's Aunt Kate, an executive at a Philadelphia company, was his godmother and cash-gifting model—extra money for favorite relatives.
- As families age without having children, the holidays become progressively sadder without fresh generational blood.
- What kills holiday joy when there are no kids: families sitting on sectionals staring at cell phones instead of engaging.