10 Life Lessons from National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation”

Hint: Emptying “the shitter” isn’t one of them.

Rose Bak
3 min readDec 23, 2021

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Christmas Vacation movie advertisement, distributed by Warner Bros.

I’m not much for celebrating holidays, but I do love a holiday movie. One of my favorites is “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, a film which you might be surprised to learn is a treasure trove of life lessons that we can all learn from.

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Rose Bak

Rose Bak is a freelance writer and yoga teacher who lives in Oregon. Find her at https://linktr.ee/rosebak or follow @authorrosebak on social media.