Christmas Traditions

[Budweiserbob!]

Well, it's coming to that time of year again so I guess it's time to start the Christmas threads. :super_hap

My question is simple. Do you have any favourite/quirky/nice Christmas traditions that you follow each Christmas?

Just curious to see how everyone else celebrates Christmas. 😛

For me, I don't really have any quirky traditions... but it is typical for every male member of my family to drink consistently throughout the day so I guess you could call that a tradition. 😛

 

[11225]

It's nothing much about my years of Christmas, for someone used to be able to buy a real tree and with some work, it would be placed in the Living room....however that was easy enough becuase of some space there was.

Now that tradition has changed because he room was rearranged and now the tree can't get in. Shame, but oh well. I usually like the holiday best because I believe it's about being with your family and I think I remember hearing that it's all about giving rather than receiving. Although getting a present doesn't hurt much, does it?

 

[hazelf1]

Well in the new year if a tall dark man is let into your house it is supposed to be lucky, and i have heard that great grandmother used to hide silver threepenny bits in her xmas puddings, they were like a small 5 pence pieces, and my grandmother had them collected over the years and made into a bracelet.

 

[PAINTEDakiGREEN]

Crazy traditions? If it happens every year, it's a tradition, right? Several months before Christmas, mom goes on about how we're broke and we'll get nothing for the holiday. My brothers and I always try to help, and we say we don't want much. She still splurges, and we suffer a drought of food, and freeze, since we don't have heat (only a wood stove).

Also, we get out the old glass decorations my uncle made when he was a kid, and leave the tree up til April. Then throughout the year we find little Christmas trinkets spread throughout the house and amass them in the box for the attic. By the time it's put away, I'm ordered to crawl up there and get it all out to restart.

 

[Horus]

Opening ONE gift at midnight. That was the family tradition.
Could never figure out why all the other kids laid out milk and cookies for Santa and my Mom and I put a bottle of beer and a ham & cheese sandwich. No wonder Rudolph had a red nose.

Christmas tree and house were decorated on Christmas Eve and left up until January 6.

We never had "The Feast of Seven Fishes" although we lived in a mostly Italian neighborhood. Shrimp was the delight for the night. Philly is a city of neighborhoods and ethnics. We live in an area that has German, Italian, Irish, Polish, Russian, Chezch, Albanian, etc. More variations of food in one place for the holidays.

 

[Dovalys]

It's not quirky exactly, but every year the entire family comes round a house, including the dogs, and we have a massive barbeque lunch, the leftovers of which are then eaten for dinner, then lunch the next day, etc.
The day after everyone's always pretty badly sunburnt, especially if said house has a pool 🙂

 

[ticklebug101]

Nice topic Bobby 🙂
Ever since I can remember, my dad has gotten what my family has come to know as christmas eve presents. Dad'll go out and buy us all a gift to open every year on christmas eve. My gift last year was a Gordon Ramsay recipe book 🙂

 

[melanie2]

Ya someone always seems to die around then..

 

[XaviarRkR]

Surely the most popular Christmas tradition is to be buying presents from about mid July... and leave the food shopping until Christmas eve just to irritate anybody and everybody working in the shops.... 😀