Every year on the twenty fifth December we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, this day is known as Christmas Day. The word Christmas or ‘Christ’s Mass’ originally comes from the old English name Cristes Maedde. It was in AD440 that the Christian Church fixed a celebration date of December 25th.

It’s a particular time for family. Many individuals residing in several towns, cities and even nations will make the journey back dwelling to spend the festive season with their family.

On Christmas Day they will have a family gathering and an enormous dinner consisting of meals equivalent to turkey, brussell sprouts, roast potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Apparently consuming turkey on Christmas Day dates back to the Tudor occasions and Henry VIII – he was the first man to eat turkey on this day.

Sending Christmas cards is a big part of Christmas, with more than a billion cards being sent in the UK alone. There are a lot of genres of cards starting from Relation cards for Mum, Dad, Brother Sister etc to the more humorous type for friends and relations who enjoy an excellent laugh.

Individuals shopping for cards for Mum typically look for the more traditional Christmas card with lengthy, meaningful versus whereas folks looking for Dad cards are likely to go for Humour.

The rush for purchasing cards and presents generally starts at the finish of November, beginning of December. Shopping centres become so busy it’s generally impossible to move! Queues in shops become longer and longer and sometimes a half hour shopping trip can easily turn into half a day.

In recent times with the development of the internet and internet retail firms it has never been easier to shop on-line in your Christmas cards and items which means avoiding the busying crowds in the high street.

We generally start sending cards originally of December and this continues right up till the 25th. By mid-December you will usually find most homes will be decorated with a Christmas tree, vibrant lights and paper or foil hanging decorations across the living room.

Others take things one step further by decorating backyard bushes and exterior walls with coloured electric flashing lights and Christmas characters comparable to Santa Claus or reindeer, this is extraordinarily well-liked in the USA and has been for quite some time.

Santa Claus also performs a significant part in Christmas; footage are hung up in the streets, he’s on the television and children may even go and sit on his lap at your local shopping centre and inform him the presents they’d like. But the place did he come from? Well, Father Christmas or ‘Santa Claus‘ is based on a real person, St Nicholas.

It’s believed that back in the 4th Century AD, Nicholas was very shy Christian leader from Myra and determined he needed to help the poor individuals by giving them cash but without them knowing.

It’s said that in the future he climbed the roof of a house and dropped a purse full of cash down the chimney which landed in a stocking that a girl had hung up to dry by the fire, which is the place the tradition of Santa coming down the chimney and putting items into children’s stockings comes from.