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Author:  Alexander [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:07 am ]
Post subject:  Do you have any traditions for Christmas?
"Christmas will be coming soon miss."

So then, do you do anything special or unique for it?

In my family, when we're shopping for gifts, we never give lists to each other, but only small ideas. So shopping is always a more mysterious and much more enjoyable experience for everyone.

At my grandmother's, we have a tradition were the relatives can only buy presents for children, because we don't have very much money. This year was my last, because I'm seventeen.

At my home, we have a pickle ornament that came from Germany when my ancestors came to America. Every Christmas morning, we hide the pickle somewhere in the house and leave everyone to search for it. The first person to find it receives the first gift.

The year, I'll be starting a new tradition on my own. I'm going to take one present that I purchased and wrap it in socks. (Thank you CT for the inspiration!)

So, what does your family do?
Author:  Beyond the Grave [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:25 am ]
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I have two traditions

1. Opening presents
2. Eggs Benedict.
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:39 am ]
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We celebrate St. Nick's Day to get the Santa nonsense out of the way so we can concentrate on family on Christmas... I got a cell phone this year. Woo.

not from milwaukee though... don't know what makes them so special...
Author:  ramrod [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:09 am ]
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We don't really have traditions. We mostly just go spend time at multiple family members houses. We're running around that whole day, pretty much.
Author:  ready for prime time [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:19 am ]
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open presents.
oh, no, we're out of batteries.
drive down to the local corner shop, which is always open.
Author:  BazookaJoe [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:32 am ]
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Not really any Xmas-Day traditions other than the standard church + presents. My dad is a firefighter, so some years he works on Xmas, and then we don't really do a whole lot except hang out and go to the station. This year though, we are all going down north to our relatives' rented ski cottage for the second year in a row. So I have that going for me. Which is nice.
Author:  Dark Grapefruit [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:11 pm ]
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Yeah, go Christmas Pickle! We have these little felt pickles we put on the tree. We're not even German or anything, we just like the tradition. Christmas Eve we always have a party with my dad's side of the family, because it's my cousin Chris' birthday. When we get home we give each other new pajamas to wear. Then we all get to open one present from under the tree.
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:32 pm ]
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Forgot to mention, we open all our presents on Christmas Eve. Only stockings come in the morning.
Author:  Acekirby [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:39 pm ]
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I have Christmas Eve with my dad's side of the family, and we open the gifts to each other. On Christmas morning, my parents and I open our presents to each other. On Christmas afternoon, we go up to my grandparents' house (mother's side) and open those presents and have Christmas dinner.
Author:  Chekt [ Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:52 pm ]
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I was just about to make this thread. :p

We go to the 2 hour midnight church service. When we gat back in the morning, we open presents and do the Stockings in the morning.

We used to go drive around and look at Christmas lights, but was stopped doing that, I hope to do it again this year.

Other than that, we really don't have any, my parents doing really get into the Christmas spirit, we don't even have a tree or lights this year. :((

Alexander wrote:
At my home, we have a pickle ornament that came from Germany when my ancestors came to America. Every Christmas morning, we hide the pickle somewhere in the house and leave everyone to search for it. The first person to find it receives the first gift.

That is a good idea! I might do that with my children.
Author:  IantheGecko [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:56 am ]
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Sometime during the season, we go light-watching. That's where we drive around a couple neighborhoods at night and look at peoples' Christmas lights. It's gorgeous.

Also, my mom, my brother and I go to Cost Plus and we each buy one new ornament for the tree. Somehow we're missing 5 years' worth of ornaments. :(

Then on Xmas Eve, we go to church and open either our stockings or one present. In the morn, we open presents and drink Martinelli's and eggnog.
Author:  Schmelen [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:55 am ]
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We used to have a huge backyard, and we had Christmas Carols every year, with neighbours and friends and random people. The parents would put presents for kids in a sack at our front door, and everyone would sit in the back yard on a picnic rug with dinner they had brought. We had these tins with holes pocked through them and little candles inside for lanterns for the kids. At the end of the night, some guy dressed up as santa and handed out all the presents for the kids. One time it was a teacher from my preschool. Good times. It kinda stopped after we got our pool. And then we moved. So, you know.
Author:  PieMax [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:15 am ]
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My family is very non-religious, so they celebrate christmas for the whole gift giving thing, which totally misses the meaning of christmas.
But we usually have a nice home-cooked meal on Christmas Eve.
No taco bell or palermos.
Then we open our presents after dinner.
Then we all play our video games.
I usually go to the 11pm candlelight service at church.
I always invite my family, but they won't ever go with me.

This year for christmas, along with whatever I'm getting each person in my family, I got a bible to give to them as well.
I'm gonna try again to get my mom to start coming to church with me.

I have my own tradition of watching A Christmas Story, or have it playing in at least one room in the house, all 24 hours that it's on.
Author:  Schmelen [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:01 pm ]
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PieMax wrote:
My family is very non-religious, so they celebrate christmas for the whole gift giving thing, which totally misses the meaning of christmas.


I dunno. Gift giving is supposed to show that you care about one another, and that sounds pretty Christmasy to me. Unless you get like, a toaster. Does nobody know what people really want anymore? This was why wish lists were invented.

I forgot to mention, we have a homemade advent calender, and my mum makes little chocolates out of cooking chocolate, she has these special molds. It doesn't sound all that great, but it totally is.
Author:  StrongRad [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:34 pm ]
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Schmelen wrote:
I forgot to mention, we have a homemade advent calender, and my mum makes little chocolates out of cooking chocolate, she has these special molds. It doesn't sound all that great, but it totally is.

Cooking chocolate DOESN'T sound that good, but I suppose it's better than something like an Aspirin.
Eh, "They can't all be winners, kid." :p
Author:  Stinko girl 20x6 [ Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:55 pm ]
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Depends which year it is.

This year, we're going to wake up.
Go downstairs
Look at what SantyClaws has bought from Woolworths.
Get dressed in our new christmas clo'es.
Go to dad's house.
Give dad presents
Get presents from dad
Eat some food
Go back to mum's
Mope about for the rest of the day.

i can't wait
Author:  Cybernetic Teenybopper [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:34 am ]
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-Potato cheese soup is a traditional Christmas meal in my family. It's delicious.

-I have a personal tradition of always playing the snow levels in Diddy Kong racing around Christmas time. Usually my sister plays with me. I don't know why, but Christmas always makes me want to play them.

-The sock thing comes from something my grandparents do to me and my sister. Every year, they wrap one of our presents up in socks, or, occasionally, underwear. It came from one year when I wanted a Game Boy for Christmas, and they said, "Oh, we'll get you socks, don't worry." And they wrapped my Game Boy in socks. Now they do it every year. XD
Author:  ready for prime time [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:43 am ]
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my tradition is to sneak down to the tree and take the smallest present i can find that is mine. then i shake it, and then put it back.

this year, the tree is conveniently close to me bedroom door. i can grab presents without leaving my room.
Author:  PieMax [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:03 am ]
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Schmelen wrote:
PieMax wrote:
My family is very non-religious, so they celebrate christmas for the whole gift giving thing, which totally misses the meaning of christmas.

I dunno. Gift giving is supposed to show that you care about one another, and that sounds pretty Christmasy to me. Unless you get like, a toaster. Does nobody know what people really want anymore? This was why wish lists were invented.


Christmas isn't about giving people stuff.
It's about celebrating the birth of Christ. Christmas.
Author:  Einoo T. Spork [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:41 am ]
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Author:  Droideka [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:44 am ]
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Not much, Church in the morning (or the Eve of), sometimes go to relatives (like this year)... Not much else...
Author:  The Experimental Film [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:54 am ]
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Einoo T. Spork wrote:
Image

Uh.

Yes.

Yes, really.
Author:  Schmelen [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:06 am ]
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PieMax wrote:
Christmas isn't about giving people stuff.
It's about celebrating the birth of Christ. Christmas.


Yes, I understand that, but Christmas is also about showing people you love them, right? All I'm saying is, you don't just spend christmas furiously thanking God for his gift of whatever. Well, I think so.

And Strongrad, cooking chocolate is just dark chocolate. And dark chocolate is good.
Author:  PieMax [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:57 am ]
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Schmelen wrote:
PieMax wrote:
Christmas isn't about giving people stuff.
It's about celebrating the birth of Christ. Christmas.


Yes, I understand that, but Christmas is also about showing people you love them, right? All I'm saying is, you don't just spend christmas furiously thanking God for his gift of whatever. Well, I think so.


You don't show people you love them by buying them silly gifts.
And we should be showing people we love them all the time.
It's not right to just go around being a grumpy person, then be nice on christmas because you're "supposed to" and then go around being grumpy again.
Most people give gifts because they're supposed to, not because they really love them.

I don't think I'm getting anyone any gifts this year.
I'm giving my family a bible.
That's pretty much it.
I'm probably giving out cards with a bible verse in them.
Perhaps chocolate too. Cuz what's more loving than chocolate?
Author:  ramrod [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:04 am ]
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PieMax wrote:
Perhaps chocolate too. Cuz what's more loving than chocolate?
Your boyfriend that brings you the chocolate?
Author:  PieMax [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:45 pm ]
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ramrod wrote:
PieMax wrote:
Perhaps chocolate too. Cuz what's more loving than chocolate?
Your boyfriend that brings you the chocolate?

he doesn't bring me chocolate.
I'm bringing him Mountain Dew today, though.
Author:  StrongRad [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:01 pm ]
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PieMax wrote:
I'm bringing him Mountain Dew today, though.

I want to be your boyfriend... or at least the recipient of some of this Mountain Dew.
Author:  Inverse Tiger [ Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:33 pm ]
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^Ugh. I'll take the crab juice.

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Our Christmas tradition seems to be never to do it the same way twice. This isn't a rule... I just can't think of anything we've done the same from year to year. The only constant seems to be less each year. My mom and I seemed to come to an unspoken agreement over time that the whole thing was just getting stupid and we weren't gonna lift a finger for Christmas anymore. My dad eventually went along with this because being the only one to do all the holiday stuff is probably like banging your head on a wall. So now no one decorates and gifts are usually just things people need, which we get each other throughout the year anyway. So it's like this: everyone enjoys the time off work, those who are religious go to church for an hour or two. The end!

Last year, though, we went to midnight Mass at this monastery, and that was amazing. I wouldn't mind doing that every year. This year we're visiting relatives though so we can't do that.
Author:  The Zephyr Song [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:05 am ]
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For lack of something better to be doing (read: i should be cleaning my room but i don't wanna)...I'll throw in my two cents.

My family has never been particularly religious, so we don't go to church on Christmas. Instead, we generally celebrate with family and presents.

We do St Nick Night, just to bring a steady supply of candy into the house until baking day. We've given up on the Santa tradition, so we head off to the mall and pair off, buying gifts for whoever we're not currently shopping with. And then my sister and I torment each other with the knowledge of what the other's getting for Christmas and see which one of us will crack and spill first. That last tradition drives my parents nuts. This year we're going over to my neighbor's son's house for Christmas Eve dinner and a little party. Should be fun. o_O

Then, aside from the actual Christmas event, there's a whole slew of Christmas parties. I have one tomorrow night and one Friday afternoon - the first is a GS party, and the second is a Spanish/German club party. I made little chocolate mice with candy sombreros because estoy en el club de español :D the mice are made of chocolate-dipped stemmed maraschino cherries and Hershey's kisses. Usually they have sliced almonds for ears but 1) we couldn't find any and 2) the hats made the ears unnecessary. The hats are made of Necco wafers and Kissables™. They're adorable little things :D
Author:  PieMax [ Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:37 am ]
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StrongRad wrote:
PieMax wrote:
I'm bringing him Mountain Dew today, though.

I want to be your boyfriend... or at least the recipient of some of this Mountain Dew.


Heh. Yeah. I'm a pretty amazing girlfriend.
It's diet mountain dew though.
the real stuff makes me sick.
too much suga.

I kick him a lot though.
I kicked him today because me made me drop the 12-pack of mountain dew.
cuz he wouldn't move his fat butt out of the kitchen.
ugh.
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