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	<title>Christmas Newswire &#187; Features</title>
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		<title>Site of the Week: TERD.org</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/10/12/site-of-the-week-terdorg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   No, we&#8217;re not being crude and we&#8217;re not making this up. We&#8217;re loudly applauding the efforts of an organization that aims to &#8220;to explain the unexplainable, prove the unprovable, and make the mysterious unmysterious.&#8221; We&#8217;re talking about T.E.R.D.
This is what they claim: &#8220;There are a lot of websites with a lot of phony ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Strategies For Planning Early Christmas Shopping</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/10/07/strategies-for-planning-early-christmas-shopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Shopping early for the Christmas is always a good idea because you will find yourself ahead of vast majority of the crowds that only start their shopping when Christmas is just days or weeks away. Shoppers and other people generally will be green in envy this holiday season knowing that you are way ahead ... ]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Christmas Meal</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/10/06/the-family-christmas-meal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Cooking large meals during the holiday season is basically a holiday tradition in many families. It is part of the fabric of a family. I can remember countless years of gathering the extended family around a large table (children at their own table of course), attempting to put aside the disagreements of the past ... ]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of the Christmas Flower</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/10/05/the-legend-of-the-christmas-flower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Decorations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The ancient Aztecs considered the poinsettia to be a symbol of purity. Today, poinsettias are the most easily recognized flower symbolic of Christmas. Poinsettias are also known as the &#8220;Christmas flower&#8221; and &#8220;Mexican flame leaf.&#8221;
Poinsettias originally came from Mexico and Central America. According to legend, one day near Christmas a child who was too ... ]]></description>
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		<title>What Guys Really Want for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/10/03/what-guys-really-want-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Okay, ladies: listen up! I am here to tell you what men want for Christmas. It isnâ€™t cologne and it isnâ€™t some awful looking tie. Please! It could be NFL playoff tickets, but we know that prices for them are through the roof. Instead, us guys want stuff that is both useful and practical ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas for the Rich and Shameless</title>
		<link>http://www.realchristmas.com/2007/10/02/christmas-for-the-rich-and-shameless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neiman Marcus unveiled its 81st annual Christmas Book Tuesday, boasting everything from a $20 set of four peppermint tins to a $2.3 million getaway to the Ameya Preserve in Montana. 
The Dallas-based luxury retailer&#8217;s catalog, first published in 1926, is seen by many as a harbinger of the Christmas shopping season. The &#8220;ultimate wish book&#8221; ...]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Traditions: Manufacturing Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.realchristmas.com/2007/09/30/christmas-traditions-manufacturing-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  What are your favorite memories of the holidays as a child?
More than likely those memories include family traditions from, the day you choose to decorate your tree, to the kinds of food you eat at the holidays.
Remember that you and your husband came from separate families with different customs and traditions.
When creating a legacy ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Site of the Week: Why Christmas</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/09/28/site-of-the-week-why-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[   In all the years we&#8217;ve followed Christmas online we&#8217;ve seen just a handful of sites dedicated to Christmas that were non-commercial in nature and that actually stayed online. This week we feature such a site and we dare to say that not only has this site survived the dot com crashes that so ... ]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas and the Salvation Army</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/09/28/christmas-and-the-salvation-army/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Red Kettle campaign, first started in San Francisco in 1891, has traditionally been The Salvation Army&#8217;s most prominent fund-raiser. In 2004, the Salvation Army raised over $100 million in communities nationwide, with the spare change all being put to good use in the towns where the money was deposited into the kettles.
The funds ... ]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefits of Christmas Shopping Online</title>
		<link>http://christmasfinest.com/2007/09/26/the-benefits-of-christmas-shopping-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I recently did a radio interview with a station based out of Arkansas and we were discussing the differences between doing your Christmas shopping at the local mall versus shopping online. I made the point that many consumers still like to go the mall to get some of that Holiday vibe and the sense ... ]]></description>
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