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Many public and private employers, as well as school systems, provide additional days off around the end of December, often including at least a full or half-day on December 24 (Christmas Eve) or December 31 (New Year's Eve) or in some cases, the entire week between Christmas and New Year.
Incorporating Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the various celebrations during this time create a peak season for the retail sector (Christmas/holiday "shopping season") extending to the end of the period ("January sales").
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Iceland. The traditional 12 days of Christmas begin on Christmas Day and end on the Epiphany, but in Iceland there are 13 extra days of Christmas, and they lead up to Christmas Eve.
Given that Christmas Eve is always the night before Christmas Day, in 2023, Christmas Eve will be on Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. So, the holiday lands on the tail end of the weekend.
The Toronto Santa Claus Parade, also branded as The Original Santa Claus Parade, is a Santa Claus parade held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. First held in 1905, it is one of the largest parade productions in North America, the oldest Santa Claus parade in the world, and one of the world's oldest annual parades.
Thanksgiving falls on Nov. 23, which means you have exactly one month between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, the final shopping day before Christmas.
Consecutive doors are opened every day leading up to Christmas, beginning on the start of the Advent season for that year, [2] [3] or simply on December 1, as is the case of reusable Advent calendars. Often the doors are distributed across the calendar in no particular order.