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Meaningful Hypothetical Traditions

• hirundo 5y ago
  I think that a large part of the popularity of Festivus is the attractiveness of Feats of Strength and Airing of Grievances. These have been part of our family's holiday celebrations since long before Seinfeld. Turning them into official traditions is the paving of desire paths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path The Festivus Pole paves the desire path of not wanting to mess with or clean up after an actual Christmas tree.
• _jal 5y ago
  Not quite the same thing, but a past startup I was at developed the tradition of the Day of Peeves. It was a effectively a floating day off, taken on-demand when you are having One of Those Days. Never would have survived growth, but I did rather like it.
  • elil17 5y ago
    My company (15k employees, industrial equipment manufacturer) has this currently. Survived growth just fine