Christmas Ends When Total Money Spent is Tallied

"Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year." -- P.J. O'Rourke

Christmas Bills Paid By Adults, Fed Deficits By Children

"Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it." -- Richard Lamm

Scrooge's Nephew Fred on Money at Christmas

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest." ... "And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" -- Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew Fred in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Scrooge on Christmas and Money, by Charles Dickens

"What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer." Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"