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What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
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my fav xmas tradition is giving presents. not getting presents, giving them. esp to the kids.
The tradition that I follow to make people happy and brining smile on their faces by gifting them something when they're not expecting anything. It's an opportunity for us to give back to people in this great festival ocassion and I try to make the most of it.
One of my favorite traditions is that before we open gifts we read Christmas stories aloud, a couple of pages from The Christmas Carol, or The Night Before Christmas and then we all sing Christmas songs together.
Same here. If we can't be together, we read The Night Before Christmas over FaceTime.
my fav xmas tradition is giving presents. not getting, giving.
We almost lost the tradition that goes back far longer then I can remember. Xmas dinner with my Mom's side of the Family is a big deal and family comes from not only around the country, but one even from Sweden. We are talking 4 generations and no less then 40 people at one house. Up until a couple years ago my Grandparents hosted it, but they had to go into a nursing home so someone had to step up. My Uncle was willing and able to fit that many people in his home for a meal so it continues.
I can remember spending almost all day with my cousins when I was a kid and now my kids do the same. My oldest actually made "Crazy Cousin Crew" tshirts to give out. They are just silly together and no matter how long it's been since they see each other they pick up just like old friends...it's great.
We eat, we play cards and argue about who won last year, and catch up on everyone's lives. There are some gifts, but not much as that isn't what it's about. The whole night is about spending time together...not who got what and I love that.
You can keep all the stupid gifts..I need nothing that money can buy. But spending time with the family is all that really matters.
My extended family hangs out all day playing cards and catching up too. Does anyone else play Euchre? Always a lot of laughs and so much fun. π±
My favorite Christmas tradition is that the children of the house helped by some elder are those who put the star at the tip of the tree. Also that every year after dinner we wait to open the gifts next to the candy table.
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Growing up, my grandmother used to have 7 matching stockings hanging on the banister of her steps filled with fun and funny goodies for each cousin. The stockings were opened first and it was the most anticipated event of the day. For my little family's first Christmas with kids old enough to enjoy it, we started the tradition of having only 1 stocking for the family instead of 1 for each person. Santa fills this stocking with unique fruit, a little good chocolate, and often a fun family game or activity. My seedlings spend weeks before Christmas guessing what type of fruit will be in the stocking. This year Santa is bringing persimmons and figs. π±
Oh! I love that! When my kids were growing up stockings were their favorite part of Christmas.
Stockings are still my favorite part of Christmas!
Eat as much as I can π
Hahaha
That's for sure
My favorite Cristmas tradition, is to fuck up Christmas traditions.
E.g. You wanna bake cookie for everybody? Nope, lets make one GIANT cookie so we can share!
Decorating the tree with normal stuff? I wanna glue something on the tree upsidd down!
Going to the beach lol since itβs hot as balls during Christmas in South Africa
We play Newmarket at Christmas. It's a sort of gambling card game that we play for sweets. The kids love it. Of course we watch TV, but sometimes you want to turn it off and do other things.
Where I come from (south east of Nigeria) we play Christmas football leagues where every sub-communities bring out at least 15 players for the competition.
I've been part of this very competition for over 10 years and as a committee member.
As a member of the committee, I invest as much as I can so as to encourage other people to take part in this football competition.
After that, we share at most 70% of the money invested in the competition to winners (first, second and third positions) and also use the remaining to sponsor their football careers.
Our Christmas tradition starts at Thanksgiving, and goes back maybe 25 or 30 years. Before that we should all go out feel stressed have to buy gifts for everyone in the family. One person might get a lot one person might not get anything.
The correct this, on Thanksgiving everyone puts their name into a big hat and the youngest member of the family drawers names for everybody. No one's allowed to see the names. But this person is your Secret Santa that you have to buy a gift for that is valued at $50 or less.
LOL my sisters and I used to have a fun time trying to figure out who had who in the days and weeks leading up to Christmas. Sometimes you think it was right sometimes not. But Christmas morning was fun nonetheless. Going down stairs early in the morning and opening presents and finding out who was your Secret Santa what's one of the best gifts you can get.
this year I got my older sister in the name drawing. she is a artist. So I got some of her artwork printed on giant all over throw blankets. I hope she will love it. :D
My favorite Christmas tradition is gathering with a whole family, and sharing the warm and love with your lovely people!π₯°
My favorite tradition is filling the Christmas stockings of my family with little things that wouldn't necessarily make a gift on their own, but end up being the best part of Christmas...a favorite candy bar, lottery scratchers, warm socks :-)
..we have a lot of Xmas traditions..here my favorite:..baking Xmas cookies all together...decorating the Xmas tree..put lights and candles everywhere..house is open for (almost) everyone..on 24th at night trying to go to church..eating and drinking yummy stuff...playing cards for little money (typical Italian tradition, but only until Xmas..)..guess thatβs it..at the end my highlight is 3 days of relaxing and chilling..most important is having a great time...
It's all about the Christmas carols for me. As soon as I hear them when I am out and about, it gets me into the good mood of the season. I love to hear the oldies and discover the new ones each year. Sometimes one or the other gets into my head for a while and I am completely fine with that!
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my brothers and cousins for a Christmas cookie baking day a couple days before Christmas every year. Itβs usually a crazy time, and the cookies are always funny or interesting. Even though we are all getting old and starting families of our own, we still get together for it, even my cousins that live on the other side of the country. Hereβs a post I made about the tradition 2 years ago.... that year I made some STEEM cookies :)
https://steemit.com/christmas/@jeffjagoe/crypto-christmas-cookies-annual-cookie-baking-day-beautifulsunday
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I married into a large family with 7 bother & sisters-in-laws, 16 nieces and nephews & counting! So as not to break the bank, getting gifts for the entire family, we do something called KK.
Each person picks out of the bag one other adultβs name and a child & keeps it a secret. The mystery/surprise of who-got-who & all the creative bluffing and misleading clues we give to one another, building up to the gift reveal just add to the holiday season fun :)
Sometimes, less is more!
Decoration on the basis of Christmas is my favourite tradition.