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Hope everyone has a wonderful time whether they celebrate the holiday or not and have a terrific new year full of new toys and paint. Massive thanks to all who post here and keep things chill, its a great pleasure to deal with all and sundry.

Regards,
ingtaer.

If I didn't get the chance, I want to wish you a happy:

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Happy Days to You All!

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope ya'll have some zoggin good loot this year and a great time with friends and family!

Merry Christmas! I hope it's a happy one for everyone.

Happy Sanguinalia to all the loyal followers of the Emperor, and to all the heretics as well

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Dakkanauts!

Merry Christmas or Your Preferred Festival!

Happy days to you lovely folks, be it a festive one or just a day or two of kicking back and recharging, have a good one.

Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and general wishes of good cheer. May your family be tolerable and the loot plentiful.

I am full of Curry, and it is wonderful.

Hope everyone else has their own slap up Christmas Nosh.

The Merriest Of Sanguinala to all!

Season's Greetings



Reaper Nativity painted by me as a gift

A question I always have about Christmas related Christmas gifts: do you give them to the recipient a week or two early so the gifts are relevant to the season, or do you give them Christmas Day so the recipient enjoys them for twelve hours and then loses stores them in the closet for next year?

I have l anxiety about giving holiday related gifts on the holiday itself.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
A question I always have about Christmas related Christmas gifts: do you give them to the recipient a week or two early so the gifts are relevant to the season, or do you give them Christmas Day so the recipient enjoys them for twelve hours and then loses stores them in the closet for next year?

I have l anxiety about giving holiday related gifts on the holiday itself.

If you're concerned about giving them a holiday related gift on Christmas day, just remind them that the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas, so they have until at least January 5th to enjoy the gift before putting it away for the next season.

I just give them when I normally would. Even on Christmas day, decorations tend to stay up for a few weeks anyway.

The twelve days don’t lead up to Christmas? What is the connection to Advent Calendars, then?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The twelve days don’t lead up to Christmas? What is the connection to Advent Calendars, then?

They don't, and there is none, other than counting the days to the beginning of the Christmas season. The twelve days of Christmas traditionally start on Christmas and end the day before Epiphany (there are some variations with different denominations but that's the general concept). The idea that the twelve days of Christmas lead up to Christmas is a relatively recent misconception driven by the commercial Christmas marketing season. Advent calendars are for the Advent season that leads up to Christmas and the start of the Christmas season, or 12 days of Christmas that begins on Christmas day.

2026 will be our year for sure