Ka tiaho ēnei mea whakapaipai i roto i ngā wā hararei maha. Whakamahia hei whakapaipai rākau ahurei: he mea hanga he tangata hukarere iti, he tangata tia rānei, hei tāpiri i te ngawari ki tō rākau, kaua ki te whetu pakari. Ka hangaia he mea whakapaipai tōkena ngākau nui—tāpirihia he elf, he Hāta iti rānei ki roto i te tōkena o te tamaiti hei whakapaipai ka awhihia e rātou i te wā katoa. Mō ngā rōpū hararei, whakatakotoria ngā taonga whakapaipai ki runga i ngā mantel, i ngā tēpu kawhe, i ngā tēpu koha rānei hei tāpiri mahana ki tō whakapaipai. Ka mahi anō hoki hei koha whai tikanga: he mea whakapaipai ritenga o te kiripuaki Kirihimete tino pai a te tamaiti, he huinga tangata hukarere rite rānei mō ngā mema o te whānau, ka noho hei tikanga ka tino tumanakohia e rātou i ia tau. Ahakoa i muri i te Kirihimete, kāore e hiahiatia kia tākaihia ēnei mea whakapaipai—waihohia he rākau Kirihimete ngohengohe, he tangata hukarere rānei ki runga i te whata hei whakamaumahara i te harikoa o te hararei puta noa i te tau.

He hononga tahi te mea ngohengohe me te mea Kirihimete—ā, he take pai anō hoki. He rite tōna āhua ngawari ki te awhi mahana, e hangai ana ki te āhua whakamarie, manaaki o te wā. Kāore i rite ki ngā whakapaipai Kirihimete pakarukaru (whakaarohia ngā whakapaipai karāhe, ngā whakapakoko uku rānei), he pai mō ngā tamariki ngā taonga takaro ngohengohe, ā, he pakari hoki—ka taea te pēhi, te kawe, te whakatakoto rānei ki te moenga i te pō. He ataahua hoki te pupuri i ngā tae whakanui o te mea ngohengohe: ka noho kanapa tonu ngā kākāriki hohonu, ka pūataata ngā whero kanapa, ā, ka tāpirihia e ngā whakapaipai koura (pērā i ngā whetū whakairo) he kanapa engari kāore e tino taumaha. Hei tāpiri, ka roa te ora o ngā mea takaro ngohengohe kounga teitei—mā te horoi mārie, ka taea e te taonga takaro Kirihimete ritenga te waiho hei taonga tuku iho a te whānau, ka tukuna iho ki ngā tamariki, ki ngā mokopuna rānei mō ngā tau maha.