Christmas is widely viewed as a commercialized holiday. Today the focus is on the size of a flat screen tv, the latest toys and gadgets, and anything else you can buy. All this hinges on how much money is saved, from Black Friday until a few days before, the advertisements scream "savings".
The topic of this post is Victorian Christmas and how the traditions shape today's holiday. The two aren't completely different, granted there wasn't Amazon.com in the late 19th century but there was commercialization with the creation of Christmas industries that are still popular today.
