From all of us heathens to all of you heathens.

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Okay, well, I had to work way too hard to try and help a guy on 43 Folders.

Anyway, here's what he was complaining about: tucking away songs that you don't want because they are tied to a particular event. Xmas, for example.

Real simple. It helps if you have everything tied with a genre like "Xmas" or "Holiday" or something.

Select all the songs you wish to tuck away somewhere else. Then right click and "Get Info" on all of them. Change the album to "Xmas Tunes" or whatever you want to call it, and make sure you check that this IS a compilation.

Now…go to your compilations folder, grab that Xmas Tunes folder and move it wherever you want it. Then just go back into iTunes and delete the songs from your library. When it becomes time to celebrate our favorite "reformed" pagan holiday, just throw the songs back into your library. Done.

Now, if you don't have everything fixed with a genre, then just use my previous tip about using stars to mark things needing action, and if you come across "Jingle Bells" when you shouldn't, mark it with the right amount of stars and then deal with it when you get home.

As to the comments on 43 Folders: I had to register, fill in my personal info, do a captcha, then wait for my password to show up. Then I put the password in and was told that I was denied access to the comment form after all that. No error messages. No whoops, you did something wrong. Just nada.

If I ever put in place a scheme so user-unfriendly as that bullshit, please promise me one of you will call me on it, okay?

Okay, I'm a recovering Christian myself, so I don't buy into Xmas as what Christians think of it as. It's just a holiday. Just a time to get together with family members, try not to kill each other, and give out gifts. Some of these gifts are cool and well thought out. Some of them are boring socks. But that's what Xmas means to me. Not getting boring socks.

That being said–and me being a firm believer in the fact that Christians shouldn't impose Christian hoohah on others–why in the hell is everybody afraid to call it a Christmas tree? It's a freaking Christmas tree. I'm also a firm believer in separation between church and state, but if a government wants to put up a Christmas tree…who cares? It's a f reaking tree. And calling it a holiday tree doesn't even make any sense, because holiday tree is too generic.

If you're going to fall back and have a holiday something, why make it a tree? Have a holiday cactus. Have a holiday pinata. Have a holiday gingerbread house made to look like it's destroyed by flames complete with weepy little gingerbread people. Okay, no, don't do that last one–that's really kinda disturbing. But man, if you're going to not have it be a Christmas tree, just don't use a tree. Otherwise it makes no sense.

P.S. That being said, there has only been one holiday tree I've ever seen. Somebody I did theatre with had a Christmas tree up in her room in her house year round and she would decorate it with ornaments depending on what holiday was closest: Halloween, St. Patrick's, Thanksgiving, etc. Now that is how you do a holiday tree.