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Theres a weird phenomenon where I only think of books as outdated if they are older than me. It makes a lot of sense- Im not very old, and even as I get older its such a subtle process that I mostly think of anything that happened within my lifetime as pretty recent. So when I picked this book up on clearance for about 25 cents, I didnt give much thought to the fact that it was published in 1991.But holy crap is this book dated.It starts off in a semi-promising way, in that it explains that one of the main causes of Christmas time depression is that women feel stressed and overwhelmed with the amount of baking, cleaning, decorating, and gift wrapping they feel compelled to do. My 2013 self thought, Right, so quit living in the 50s and make your husband help. Instead the book said, Christmas is not only a religious holiday but a celebration of hearth and home, and it makes sense that women should take the lead. It then goes on to give women advice on how to cut back on all of these womanly obligations, for example, by baking 2 pies from scratch instead of 3. (This 2 pies instead of 3 advice was repeated several times.)Holy gender roles, Batman! Now my internal monologue is thinking, Quit living in the 90s and make your husband help you! Normally I reserve Quit living in the 90s! for people who are wearing neon pants. The 90s were like this?! I was ALIVE in the 90s! I lived through a time like this! Mind sufficiently blown.Im not trying to be too hard on the book here. Its not its fault that its so old. It actually makes it kind of funny, and oddly uplifting. I was so shocked that this probably would have seemed radical and feminist to my mom if she had read it during the autumn before one of my early Christmases. My visceral reaction confirms that weve come a long way.There are some good pieces of general advice, like taking time well before the holiday to ask yourself what you really want to get out of it (time with family, charitable feeling, religious observances) so you can make a budget and properly prioritize your activities. There are also some neat specifics where the authors relate family traditions they have heard about to reduce the amount of commercialized nonsense in holiday celebrations. Those are good ideas on their own, and provide inspiration for the reader to come up with their own ideas about simplified gift exchanges and so on. But overall the book is just too dated and therefore not quite radical enough. The real solution to the stress women face is to quit living in the idealized magazine cover from the 90s and make your husband bake the pies for once. Their suggestions for cutting back on commercialization are also pretty tame- plan to buy gifts for fewer people. Well thanks, Captain Obvious. They do offer advice beyond that, for example getting your whole family to agree to make a tradition of buying thrift store gifts. But overall they still seem to condone the whole mass hysteria that is the Christmas season. Their advice is limited to tips about how to scale it back, not reverse the commercialization trend. Im writing this at 11 PM the day before Thanksgiving. In 7 hours, Kmart is going to open before daybreak for people who want to buy cheap TVs. Twenty years after the publication of this book, maybe people are ready to more radically disrupt the status quo.
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