My dad works in B2B marketing, but I never really knew what that meant.
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One thing's for sure, I'll be known as the MQL man's kid for the rest of my days.
Why can't you just be a fireman or a lawyer?
Why? You ruined my life, dad.
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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to come up with creative ways to split the holidays.
If you have a big family, inevitably some folks are going to need or want to spend holidays with other sides of the family.
But if you plan well, you might be able to see everyone and avoid bad feelings, too.
If you have a partner, it is possible that you live near both sides of your family.
Or maybe one family loves to celebrate Thanksgiving, while another leans more into Christmas or another religious holiday.
If so, that is great.
But many families wind up in more complicated situations.
Two sets of grandparents are many hours away from each other, and both want their whole broods under their roofs.
Or maybe one particular family member can't or won't travel or has to work on the holiday itself, which means that people, more often than not, wind up going to them.
That means these travelers don't get to spend holiday time at home, which many people like to do, too.
You can alternate doing Christmas and Thanksgiving with each side of the family, but what if another set of siblings is on a different schedule?
Then you are never seeing them.
Ideally, everyone is accommodating, but that doesn't always happen.
It can lead to hard feelings.
But I recently heard an idea which I find intriguing and is a good one for the matriarch or patriarch of a far -flung or big family to implement.
That is, you establish a holiday -gathering time that is not Thanksgiving or Christmas.
You all gather on your family's particular celebration day.
But that leaves the other days open for families who wish or need to celebrate with their other side of the family or who'd like to stay home.
Your family's celebration day could still be around the holidays.
For instance, you could host your big holiday gathering on a mid -December weekend.
You all gather on, say, December 17th.
People might need to take a day or two off work to travel, but maybe not too many days.
And in any case, for folks who work in, say, law enforcement or at a hospital, it might be easier to request the days around December 17th off than an actual holiday.
You can all celebrate and then people can spend Christmas or Thanksgiving at home or with other relatives if they wish.
Or those who are available can gather again if they want to.
More family time, fewer bad feelings.
Now, to be sure, there are often a lot of office parties and kid Christmas events and such on December weekends.
So to make this even easier on people, you might host your holiday gathering the weekend after New Year's, whatever that happens to be.
I will note that the 12 days of Christmas actually happen after Christmas, extending to January 6th.
Many places still have their lights up and it might be easier to get tickets.
If you are the frugal sort, I'd note that having a family holiday party around January 6th means you've got a week of shopping time available during the biggest sales of the year.
How much of a win is that?
Plus, you stretch out the fun.
January can be blurry in many places.
Having a big celebration to look forward to pushes any doldrums off a few weeks closer to spring.
So if you've got a big family you'd like to see and many of your family members have other sides of the family that they need or want to see, then consider instituting a non -holiday holiday.
The holidays are more about spending time with loved ones than the actual dates themselves.
If you can arrange to spend time with your whole family without causing tough choices, that's really a huge present you are giving to everyone.
It is definitely better than another tie.
In the meantime, this is Laura, thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
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