As those of you who flip ahead in your calendars will have noticed, Hanukkah comes early this year. And when I say early, I mean you'll still be eating leftover cold turkey sandwiches from Thanksgiving alongside your latkes. But that's fine; Hanukkah is never really a problem. Rosh Hashanah requires resolutions, Yom Kippur requires atonement, but Hanukkah just needs a few candles. Let's be honest -- Hanukkah is not a major holiday, and most of us have the whole Hanukkah thing down by this point in our lives.

Christmas, on the other hand, is a royal pain in the tuchus.