You really dropped the ball on this one-and we don’t mean the New Year’s Eve ball drop in Time’s Square, because the odds are you missed that too. Secondly, you should probably include an apology. You might be asking: “What do you write in a belated Christmas card?” You’ll need a sincere greeting in order to cover your tracks.įirst of all, you’ll need the perfect Christmas greeting card to write your wishes in. By then, the presents are all unwrapped, the bottle of rum is empty, and the Christmas songs are suddenly grating on everyone’s ears. However, it’s probably in your best interest to offer a belated greeting any time after Christmas Day itself. After that, you should switch your greetings from merry Christmas to merry belated Christmas. So, according to everyone’s favorite Christmas carol, as long as your present arrives by the 5th day of the New Year, you’re golden. It may come as a surprise, but the partridge isn’t even in the pear tree until Christmas Day itself, and the 12 drummers finally drum away on January 5th. Of course, we can’t forget about the 12 Days of Christmas. Then there are Advent calendars, which begin on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day and end on Christmas Day itself. Paired with the Halloween-and-Thanksgiving-decor-stuffed aisles, it just doesn’t feel right.

Shortly thereafter, every store ever starts blasting a loop of Christmas tunes from their overhead speakers. Not everyone agrees on when the Christmas season begins and ends.Īccording to Hallmark, the Christmas season begins on October 24th-which is when they begin a nonstop loop of gloriously low-budget movies that somehow all follow the same plotlines.

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