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Renee

Harmful Holiday Habits

            If you're like me, then the holiday season brings along several traditions that soon become holiday habits. Like baking cookies, decorating the Christmas tree and singing along to holiday music whether we know the words or not. What about your family? Do you get joy from these traditions or have they become a burden or harmful? Buying a tree for Christmas raises the house fire possibility rates by more than four times! Besides that, many have the knack of putting many seasonal decorations in their yard or on their house; and electricity bills go up by the hundreds! The types of food we eat during the holidays don't always help the growing population of obese people either. Though all of these things can be avoided, most people choose not to see that option whether it's because of tradition or desire. Change is very difficult, but much more caution should be taken when it comes to the holiday season.

Here is a link to a video of a Christmas tree catching on fire provided by: the National Institute of Standards and Technology:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6088005364445286505