Saturday, December 26, 2009

Christmas Traditions present vs. 1950

Christmas Day is over. Santa has already visited and is back at the North Pole resting after his very busy night. You have cleaned up the paper, but how did you choose to celebrate this year? StrategyOne survey asked how people celebrated their Christmas and found that just over 1/2 of Americans choose to open gifts on Christmas Day. If you compare today's traditions to those in 1950, 53% opened up gifts on Christmas Day today, just like 52% did in 1950. But making the holiday on Christmas Eve is on the decline. 30%of Americans in 1950 started Christmas on Christmas Eve and now today that number is down to only 12%. Celebrating on both days is on the rise though with 28% opening some gifts on Christmas Eve and the rest Christmas Day where in 1950 that number was only 3%.
However you chose to celebrate this year I hope you enjoyed your Christmas and will continue to make your own traditions!