If we are honest, we must admit that "the season" was being celebrated long before the time of Jesus. The Feast of the Nativity was placed at this time in an attempt to "Christianize" several pre-existing Pagan festivals.
The extent to which this was accomplished.. or Christianity was "Paganized"... is certainly a point of contention.
And now, for the GRAND FINALE!!! Festivus CANNOT end until the head of the house is pinned to the floor!
Festivus affecianados have learned it is best to hold the celebration in the homes of grandparents. Or great-grandparents. It make this ritual sooo much easier if you only have to lay out & flatten a super annuated codger or aged crone.
HAPPY FESTIVUS, Y'ALL!!! OR - Happy Chanukah! Merry Christmas! Happy Kwanzaa! Happy Holidays! Season's Greetings! Happy Saturnalia! Serene Solstice! Victorious Sol Invictus! Happy Mithra's Birthday! Have A Cool Yule!
Next - the Festivus Dinner. There's much room for individualism here. Also confusion. The confusion arises from disagreement on what was served at the Seinfeld feast. Some folks see spaghetti. Others a Ketchup-Glazed Meatloaf.
The original O'Keefe Festivus usually featured turkey or ham.
A.variety of burgers, pizza & beer might be a good choice!
How do y'all intend to celebrate this most sacrilegious and sarcastic day?
Hey Mimi! Maybe you could make up some special Festivus cupcakes! According to Dan O'Keefe, their original Festivus dessert was Pepperridge Farms Cake. Custom decorated with m&ms. Do ya think you could work something like that into a cupcake configuration?
Actually, Kandy, the REAL Festvus pre-dates Seinfeld by a few decades. Dan O'Keefe was a writer for the show. About 1966, his father tired of the commercialization of the traditional holidays. (Aluminum Christmas Trees probably put him over the line! ) He instituted a family tradition of his own. Thirty years later, Dan used "Seinfeld" as the medium to share Festivus. ..with the rest of us!
Baking soda. Same basic principle as the free-in-the-cereal box nuclear submarine. 'Course, they were FREE INSIDE EVERY SPECIALLY MARKED BOX. So technically they weren't a waste of money. If ya ate the cereal.
Sea Monkeys. Really some sort of miniature shrimp, I think. "Hours of enjoyment" Yeah. If your idea of "enjoyment" was staring at near microscopic-sized ...things moving around in water.
RE: men
Can't ya, Katy.