Plus, my family has a nice Christmas tradition. Every year when we take down the Christmas tree (always a real tree), we cut off all the branches and put those out for the trash. The trunk, however, is kept in the garage all year long, and next Christmas Eve it gets chopped up and burned as that year's Yule log.
The primary school I was at would always have a life-size Father Christmas postbox each December, just cardboard boxes with a cut-out Father Christmas stuck to the front, for "posting" the children's Christmas cards to each other. When I was in the top class of primary, we found out what happens to him after his work is done: on the first day of the next term, the teacher took Father Christmas out into the playing fields, set fire to him, and told us all to watch the smoke "making its way to Valhalla".
Peter
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