I’ve thought a lot about throwing such a party-we would set up the tree, with lights and pine garlands, and play Christmas carols. Evrybody dresses up like its Dec. 24th!
Has anyone done this? I’d like to give it a try…of course, most of our friends would figure we’d all gone insane!
Heck, just go down to the local mall and celebrate. That’s about the time they bring out the Christmas crap and start decking the halls. You won’t even have to put up the decorations yourself.
I once briefly worked for an electronics store and they always had a Christmas In July sale and we had to wear those stupid Santa hats on the hottest day of the year.
I prefer the beach parties in January - where you throw sand on the floor and everyone shows up in beach attire and you have sun lamps everywhere and all the drinks have tacky umbrellas in them.
A neighbor of ours was born on Christmas, so he always felt cheated out of a birthday. One year, his folks rented a hall for July 25 and threw him a birthday party. I supplied the tree - at the time I had a big enough house that I just slid the tree into a corner of an unused room and tossed a sheet over it.
All I remember about the party was the watermelon full of Ouzo - it was nasty.
…and nothing says Merry Christmas more than the traditional watermellon filled with Ouzo pinata. Felice Navidad!
Never done a Christmas-in-July, but when I lived in Singapore the whole family came back to the Sates for the summer, and we did a Thanksgiving-in-July. This happened every year for about five years.
*Christmas in July * functions are quite common here. For some reason people seem to feel the need to have the whole “winter Christmas” experience, due, I suppose, to all of the cultural baggage about snow, “in the bleak mid-winter” etc. Partly too it’s because the traditional Christmas fare of turkey, ham, pudding and so on is more of a cold weather treat. I’ve never actually been to a Christmas in July function myself. Christmas isn’t in July so the whole the concept strikes me as rather absurd. I’ve noted attempts at re-badging going on over the past few years. The functions are often called “mid-winter” feasts or yulefests.