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             December 14, 2025
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                 Today, we’re lighting the candles, decking the halls, cooking up some tasty treats—and taking a look at the businesses that rely on the holiday season to survive, from toymakers to tree farmers to ballet dancers. So, get into your matching PJs and read on.
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                 The holiday season may be built upon ancient traditions, but it evolves over time. After all, you couldn’t surprise a loved one with a luxury SUV back in the 1500s (you probably still can’t now, but for different reasons). This year, there are
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                 You may have to unwrap some of the trendiest gifts this year more than once. Toys and collectibles are increasingly being sold in “blind boxes,” which create surprise and collectability. Spin Master, the maker of Hatchimals, has been employing the strategy for years, but major companies, including Mattel and Hasbro, have hopped on the blind-box bandwagon in a big way this year.
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                 According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 85% of shoppers expect gifts to cost more this season because of tariffs. That’s affecting spending trends:
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                   Gift cards, whose very specific dollar amounts help shoppers stay on budget, are one of the hottest presents to give this year, and were purchased by 26% of Thanksgiving-weekend shoppers surveyed by the NRF.
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                 Ballerinas are busier than mall Santas during the holiday season, and it’s thanks to
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                  The Nutcracker
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                 . Going to see the Mouse King get vanquished in a meticulously choreographed festive extravaganza is an enduring American holiday tradition—which serves as a crucial lifeline for ballet companies nationwide.
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                 The production’s wintry magic and uplifting themes
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                 beyond classical dance aficionados, delivering a windfall to nonprofit ballet theaters that helps keep the ballet tradition alive throughout the year. The seasonal mainstay accounts for about half of American ballet companies’ yearly ticket sales, despite running for just six weeks or so around the holidays, according to a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts survey.
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                  It also provides ballet dancers with a career lift…
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                 with many background dancers from major theaters using their experience to clinch leading roles at smaller companies, according to The Independent. And
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                 functions as a vital vehicle for ballet education, with its many children’s roles allowing new generations of performers to put miles on their pointe shoes in front of an audience.
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                 Origins of a box-office superhero
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                 Though it dominates the ballet landscape now, it didn’t start that way. During its 1892 debut in St. Petersburg, Russia,
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                 flopped despite the goosebump-inducing score by composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It only became a stateside holiday staple after the New York City Ballet (NYCB) staged a hit production in 1954 with an elaborate set and spectacular choreography by its legendary co-founder, George Balanchine:
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                   The dazzling Balanchine version helped popularize the production, with the NYCB’s flagship
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                    Nutcracker
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                   alone selling over 100,000 tickets every holiday season, and licensed productions of it, as well as other renditions, get butts in seats across the country.
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                   Enchanting effects like a Christmas tree that grows during the show, the ethereal presence of dozens of dancers onstage, and a dazzling grand finale using 1 million watts of lighting, cost the company $140,000 per performance, according to the NYCB.
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                  But the price tag is worth it—and not just for holiday revenue.
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                 The
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                 offers
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                 an annual opportunity to cultivate mass appreciation for the high-brow medium, as the family-friendly production becomes many young people’s first brush with ballerinas aside from Italian brainrot.
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                 People celebrating Christmas must make a choice when it comes to a tree (assuming they can fit one in their place)—fake or real? Whether it’s a Balsam Hill or a Douglas fir, they’re all part of a multibillion-dollar industry that wants you stepping on needles in your home during December.
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                 Americans will spend about
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                  $6 billion on around 50 million trees
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                 (real and fake) this year, per the global fintech comparison site Finder. Both leaving a department store with an artificial tree and cutting down a real one from a farm have their fans and their use cases.
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                 They’re real and they’re spectacular
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                 On average, ~25 million to 30 million real trees
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                  are sold annually
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                 , according to the National Christmas Tree Association. It’s easy to think that chopping down millions of trees so you can put gifts under them is bad for the environment, but the NCTA says it’s actually
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                   Of the 350 million to 500 million trees growing on farms in the US, less than 10% are destined to be decorated.
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                   For every tree cut down each year, farmers plant 1–3 seedlings in its place, which benefits wildlife and the soil.
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                   Most trees become ready for sale when they are seven to 10 years old, while younger trees are left to grow.
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                  Second life
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                 : When you take your real tree down in January (or February, or March…no judgment), it can be recycled, unlike most plastic trees. Real trees can be turned into chips that can be returned to the forests, used for mulch, or
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                 For one, plastic trees don’t need the potential pesticides that most real trees are given. And if real trees are
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                 as opposed to being composted, none of the aforementioned environmental benefits come into play.
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                 Artificial trees can be reused for years. They’re also safe for people who have allergies to the pollen or sap in real trees. And for homes with pets, the artificial tree is safer because its needles are far less likely to fall off and there is no need for tree water that contains chemicals.
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                 And while plastic trees are often more expensive than natural, they typically become a bargain when used over and over.
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                 There aren’t a lot of things that feel worth braving the wind chill factor for this time of year, but huge crowds of people have decided that sugary cocktails served in Santa’s hollowed-out head are among them.
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                 The holiday pop-up bar has exploded over the last decade, with bar owners claiming it can
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                 revenue and attract new visitors.
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                 The concept can mostly be traced back to one company: Miracle. In the winter of 2014, Greg Boehm was about to start construction on a new bar called Mace in NYC. His mom suggested holding off on construction until the new year and using the space to open a temporary Christmas bar. The location, called Miracle on 9th Street, was so successful that Boehm has brought it back annually. And he and his team have
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                 the process of global holiday cheer:
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                   Now, 11 years since that tinsel-filled watering hole first opened, over 200 locations around the US and abroad brand themselves as Miracle bars every holiday season.
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                   These bars pay a franchise fee for everything needed to put together a holiday pop-up: cocktail recipes, printed menus, logistics, and even holiday playlists. Through Miracle, they can also get specialty glassware at cost. Locations are encouraged to source their own ingredients and personalize the experience.
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                  Other bars are also reveling in the fake snow.
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                 This year, Mariah Carey is once again tapping event company Bucket Listers to
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                  host
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                 Queen of Christmas-themed holiday pop-up bars in four cities. More bars are also DIYing some holiday spirit. Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood, for example, has 25 pop-up holiday bars this season, with themes ranging from Hanukkah to
                 <em>
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                 Germany has a word for “Christmas market,” but centuries after the tradition originated there, we’re still waiting for a phrase that translates precisely to “can’t talk, double fisting trinkets and strudel.”
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                 Long before they became tourist attractions and your saving grace for last-minute gifts,
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                  holiday markets started
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                 as simple community fairs where townspeople could buy meat, baked goods, and other commodities in one place. It wasn’t until the 1960s, amid a postwar global consumerism boom, that the festive spots exploded in popularity:
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                   The number of Christmas markets in Germany
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                    tripled
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                   from ~950 in the 1970s to ~3,000 in 2019, according to National Geographic.
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                   Westward expansion picked up decades later: New York City’s
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                    Union Square Holiday Market
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                   and Chicago’s Christkindlmarket—inspired by a historic German market of the same name in Nuremberg—both opened up shop in the 1990s.
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                    ,
                   </strong>
                  </span>
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                   holly jolly holiday markets are a major attraction for both locals and tourists.
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                  And speaking of blind boxes…
                 </strong>
                 this year, Wowcher, a UK-based voucher company,
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                  sold
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                 a $115 Christmas Market Mystery Holiday package with 80 possible Christmas market destinations, including Toronto, Rome, and Lapland, Finland—a place where reindeer outnumber people. For travelers with more than $115 to spare, seasonal
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                  cruises
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                 on the Danube River take passengers on tours of Christmas markets in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.
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                  Just don’t go to Buckingham Palace.
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                 Several holiday enthusiasts recently showed up at the British monarchy’s pad expecting to find a traditional Christmas market outside…only to
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                  discover
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                 that the TikTok or Instagram Reel that directed them there was actually AI slop.
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                  —ML
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