Here’s a fun website, just in time for Christmas…Elf Yourself!
Not since Will Ferrell has so much fun been associated with an elf. Upload your picture and…voila! Just like that, you’re a dancing elf.
Use it to make a Christmas e-card and send it to your friends, your family…and if the boss doesn’t catch you, your co-workers. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Elf Yourself for Christmas!
November 30, 2008Listen Free Online to Adventures in Odyssey
November 30, 2008When my girls were young, they could listen to the radio stories of Adventures in Odyssey for hours at a time it seemed. We had to buy the tapes of course, but you can have your children listen for free right from your computer at WhitsEnd.org (click the “How to Listen Online” button for instructions).
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Send Your Kids to the North Pole!
November 29, 2008Here’s just one of hundreds of fun sites for Christmas…
Let your children explore their “kids” section to play interactive games in the Elf Clubhouse, write a letter to Santa, print stories and color the pages, visit the Reindeer Barn, the Mailroom, Santa’s Den, and much more. They can even chat with an elf: Bif or [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2008Where’s Christmas? wishes you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!
Black Friday Runs Red for Grinches
November 27, 2008Black Friday is the name used to refer to the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, and is generally regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Since Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November, Black Friday may occur as early as the 23rd and as late as the 30th of November. [...]
Best Buy Obsesses Over Christmas Shopping Plans
November 26, 2008Best Buy, while outwardly hostile to Christmas, harbors deep concerns about your Christmas shopping plans this year. Their online “Holiday Planning Survey” obsessively uses the word “Christmas” 4 times in a survey consisting of only 6 questions inquiring about your shopping plans, compared to only one occurrence in their entire 24-page online “Holiday Gift [...]
Grinch Dominates Best Buy
November 25, 2008You’d never know it was Christmastime if all you had to go on was Best Buy. The Grinch has personally swept their stores clean and expunged all indications that Christmas is on it’s way.
Well, there is one indication…on the last page of their online “Holiday Gift Guide”, Best Buy describes their “Holiday Helpline” service [...]
"Christmas Shop" Sets Wal-Mart Atop the Nice List
November 24, 2008Wal-Mart continues to lead among retailers Where’s Christmas?supporters will be spending their Christmas dollars with. You’re greeted online with a Christmas ad, and three links to their “Christmas Shop”.
“Christmas” is prominently and explicitly displayed throughout their website and their advertising. It’s clear that Wal-Mart has abandoned their politically correct ways of Christmas 2005 when they [...]
Kohl’s Leads in Christmas Spirit!
November 22, 2008I haven’t even started doing my research yet for this year, and the Kohl’s commercial grabbed my attention this evening for their Christmas Power Sale!
So I wandered over to their website, and I was very pleasantly greeted by today’s Christmas Power Sale ad, and their Christmas Home Sale Catalog.
The most prominently [...]
Fireworks Won’t Fly in Patchogue Parade
November 20, 2008Fireworks by Grucci, America’s First Family of Fireworks and the top name in fireworks entertainment since 1850, generously donated over $5,000 worth of fireworks last year to the annual Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade in Long Island, NY.
This year, however, a narrow majority of Grinches on the chamber board voted to change the name to the [...]
