Nobility of Order

Several people have pointed out that Thanksgiving and Christmas feel empty now, and thats true but for different reasons than Halloween. A, nobody has kids anymore. Holidays are for kids, without them you're just having a weird themed dinner party basically, the fun is watching them experience finding their presents under the tree etc. B, old women (silent gen, greatest gen, old boomers) were the last generation that 1 knew how to cook, and 2 cared enough to decorate the house and facilitate the whole thing. C, everyone wears muted colors now and does these "refined" and "muted" decorations. No, you weren't imagining it, Christmas was much more vibrant when you were a kid. And D, nobody lives in the same place anymore. If one kid is in Portland, the other in NYC and the parents in Virginia, how likely are you really to get the old gang back together. All of this combines into a sterile childless catered dinner party that's refined and pseudo elegant but contains exactly zero percent of the magic or meaning of the original. CHRISTMAS IS SUPPOSED TO BE KITSCH YOU ANIMALS.