But the general feeling is that for one Christmas, it will be worth it.
One Christmas he persuaded a shop to use white lights for its big displays instead of coloured ones.
She sat chained in a van outside Scotland Yard all one Christmas, in 1974, while a friend blew the lights on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.
One Christmas, when I was squatting in the East End, I went to a Crisis homeless centre in Whitechapel, where I met a tea lady who started to give me the gospel.
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Speaking of gifts, we've got two huge presents in the form of songsters Jonathan Coulton and John Roderick, who will be playing a trio of brand new holiday classics off their new record, One Christmas at a Time.
With All the Trimmings is on BBC One on Christmas Day at 2120 GMT.
My mother-in-law owns an iMac, and my oldest son wants one for Christmas (and he'll probably get it).
The Royle Family is on BBC One on Christmas Day at 2210 GMT.
And may actually want one for Christmas.
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During one night before Christmas they handed out 54 fines to cyclists without lights and others using pavements.
Ten years ago there was one pre-Christmas international and four Five Nations matches.
One of her Christmas wishes: that the general public would do more to acknowledge the troops still serving in the holiday season.
The company recently made headlines when shoppers on one of its Christmas trips to France were taken to Belgium after a sat-nav blunder diverted their coach off course.
Or what if the meeting is with a near-neighbour in, say, Chipping Norton and you pop round one day over Christmas for a bite of lunch - is that a "meeting"?
When Mr. Friedlander took a picture in 1964 of two front doors in Philadelphia, the focus was on the one wreathed in Christmas lights around a memorial picture of the recently slain John F.
Added to the intelligence review also underway that John Brennan just described, these are changes that will help us prevent another attack from ever advancing as far as the one did on Christmas Day.
The Elton John cover was number one in the Irish single charts for two weeks and narrowly missed out on the Christmas number one position.
Bailing out of the U.S. tv satellite business just before Christmas is one omen of change.
In a touching celebration of Christmas, one of them hands the other a fat wad of cash.
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Their recording of the Hollies' 1969 hit He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother was the Christmas number one.
One of the reasons Christmas carols bring such a sense of consolation and connection is surely their familiarity.
Christmas is one of the best things you Christians have given us, along with mac and cheese, Bono, croquet and politeness.
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Steve Rotheram, MP for Walton, has been in touch with Deloitte about the Justice Collective's Christmas number one "He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother".
The single is currently favourite to become the Christmas number one.
Castaldo added that it did not seem that Leon's song would sell as well as last year's Christmas number one by previous X Factor winner, Leona Lewis.
But every Christmas, one of the nurses used to give me chocolate brazils... so I used to suck the chocolate off and give the nuts back to the other nurses.
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