Those Costco chocolate-dusted truffle things are really good.
Never question a Gen-Zer on their phone etiquette. Just don’t.
Ukraine’s version of Santa Claus is called Ded Moroz, which, if you pronounce it phonetically in English would be “Dead Morose.” His helper is a nice elven lady made of snow called Snegurochka (a northern European legendary figure who also inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen, who would then be reinterpreted by Disney as Elsa in Frozen).
If you add up all the pre- and post- Christmas calendar traditions, you’ve got 40 days to celebrate “The Season.” Advent starts the Sunday after Thanksgiving. All the Twelfth Night stuff (the “Twelve Days of Christmas”) goes till the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6.
Speaking of the Epiphany, the US is about the only culture that doesn’t make a big deal of the Epiphany in their Christmas season. Slavic lands, Latins in America and Europe, Caribbeans, and even the Commonwealth.
You can get your wife a skillet if she asks for it. You can get your husband anything from Craftsman whether or not he asks for it.
Somehow imaginary worlds ranging from Harry Potter to Star Wars celebrate Christmas or something close to it.