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The pressure and the lack of creativity.
Everyone truly expects some Hallmark movie perfection, often with minimal effort from them. Pouting like a spoiled child when you don't do everything just exactly perfectly right. The exact shit that sometime else fetishizes that literally no one else notices. Or the genuine expectation that you have and can spend $2000 to visit, just to sit around and watch TV most of the time you're there.
All of that packaged up in the same exact bullshit. Never waiver. Never add anything new. Same playlists. Same images. Same movies. 20+ years ago Elf worked its way in through sheer presentence. One new entry. So repetitive and droll.
Finally, I love love love the lights. Because it's a pagan solstice party after all, lights to brighten the cold long dark nights of winter are simply intuitive. Why do we take down the lights on Jan 3 or 4 and make the next month ugly and miserable? Leave them up until the second full moon of winter. This year that's Feb 1. Makes sense, yes?