Today I want to continue my journey through the vast landscape of Christmas DVDs with an article I found about the movie The Year Without a Santa Claus. Blogger Shanel Yang writes about her childhood memories with this movie:

When I was a kid, I always looked forward this time of year to the animated holiday specials, especially the stop-motion ones with the stiffly-moving characters performing their little song and dance numbers like a mini Broadway musical. So, when I found two of my favorite characters from back then recently on YouTube, the adorable Heat Miser and Snow Miser stepbrothers, I just had to share them with all of you!

The YouTube clip shows the introductory numbers of these two guys when Santa’s elves and Mrs. Claus visit them in an effort to get them to cooperate in letting it snow in a part of the world that has never seen a white Christmas in exchange for letting the North Pole have a warm Christmas, all to save a little reindeer’s life.
Isn’t it fun to remember when we were kids and holidays meant days off from school, great food, colored lights, shiny tinsel and garland, and, best of all, lots of exciting presents! Even though times might be getting tougher at the moment with our economy in a slump, all we really need to make our holidays truly magical is to show all the special people in our lives how much we love and appreciate them.

I couldn’t agree more. In my opinion it’s Christmas DVDs and movies that show us quite plainly some of the true values in life like friendship, family, love and appreciation of one another. It’s too sad that there is only one time of the year when it really makes sense for most people to pop in one of the classic Christmas DVDs. But better once a year than never. Hopefully people can take some of the things they see in those movies into their daily lives beyond christmas.

What about you? Did you gain something from watching Christmas DVDs beyond pure entertainment value? Tell me in the comments!

 

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