Santa has a long way to travel on Christmas Eve, and he has to cope with different climates and rules along the way.
How often do you check under your car for sleeping children? Do you dress well to keep your license? Do you bother buying sprouts for Christmas dinner?
These and other interesting questions arise from the following infographic kindly shared by case luggage.
And as for me – I never check under my car or sleigh for sleeping children (I don’t think that makes me negligent!), I don’t dress nicely for the sake of my license and I don’t buy sprouts very often at all, and certainly not for Christmas!
I am so amused that Canada is still holding out hope that a Sasquatch discovery is on the horizon. lol I’m also surprised that only 45% of the world celebrates Christmas. In America, from the day after Thanksgiving until the last day of December, it is Christmas 24/7. It can make one feel like the whole world is waiting for Santa to come. The more you know…
Australia is covered in Christmas things, too, especially now we’re into December, mcamf. Still, not all Australians celebrate or believe in Christmas, so the 45% is not so surprising. I guess so much of Christmas isn’t religious now (trees, presents, etc) that it can be hard to always associate Christmas as a belonging only to Christians.
This is hilarious! I had no idea that there are laws like that ;)What if Santa tried to leave a house without the underwear on? 🙂
It does make you wonder, doesn’t it Trissandra 🙂
I am from Canada – didn’t know it was illegal to kill Bigfoot. Also, we always ate mince pie on Christmas Day. My Mum was British and I am not sure she knew that UK law. lol
I guess you don’t get many chances to kill a Bigfoot anyway, Clauzetta, so perhaps not an important law to know, lol! And how on Earth could anyone police the mince pies on Christmas Day is beyond me 🙂
Wow I had absolutely no idea about these. I wonder what could possibly happen if I would eat a mince pie in the UK?The one about being “poorly dressed” or “unbathed” in Greece is quite hilarious and weird honestly .
They are interesting rules, aren’t they? 🙂 Enforcing some of them would be take a lot of effort, though, and I’d have better things to do on Christmas Day than check no one was eating mince pies!
Those are funny! I am American but live in Poland. Christmas here is lovely and traditional. But very different from mine back home. The don’t do much of anything on Chrsitams day. They have a big dinner with mostly fish dishes on Christmas Eve. Presents are snuck in while you distract the kids and then you explain that santa came! In our house also do Christmas morning because in my opinion there is nothing like kids waking up to a tree with presents in the morning with the cookies and milk gone!
Many European traditions are based around Christmas Eve – it sounds nice but it would also leave me feeling lost on Christmas Day, dhrynio, as I’m used to being busy on the Day itself.
It sounds like you have found a nice mix of the different traditions and cultures, though.
It has been a challenge mixing the traditions. Trying to explain why Santa comes to our house twice has been interesting but for some reaons by kids still haven’t questioned it! But they do love both traditions. They bake cookies with me an dfill up the glass of milk for christmas morning and are learnign what we do on Christmas eve and what we say when we share the Oplatek (thin wafer that you break off a piece and share with every member of the family and wish them the best for the next year).
Kids tend to be pretty adaptable, don’t they? 🙂 You may need to find a creaive solution to two visits…
This was such a cute read. My daughters and I read it together and they were giggling so much. dhrynio, the Polish Christmas sounds a lot like what my Grandparents used to do when I was little and we’re not Polish. Hmm, makes me wonder now. We’d go to their house on Christmas Eve. We’d hear some sleigh bells and a hard knock on the back door. When we went to see what was going on, there were presents spread out all over the porch. Now that I’m an adult and look back on it, it’s kind of funny that Grandpa would always be out feeding his mink and pigeons when this was going on. LOL
Another great story, Jaimie! I love how you found the presents on the porch after hearing sleigh bells!
Glad you and your daughters liked the infogram, too.
You know, I’m surprised the man is as jolly and cheerful as he is. The different cultures all over the world and dealing with them all at once must be very difficult. I think he’d be stressed out by now for trying to be on his best behavior.
Probably just as well he is jolly or those rules would have crushed him long ago, I think, Sorrowscal 🙂
But I agree that it would be tough to keep track of all those different expectations…