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Post by tg11 on Oct 17, 2016 8:21:24 GMT -5
I know it is only October and it isn't even Christmas yet not even close
But I was just curious as to everyone's yearly traditions and just what it is that you guys all do for Christmas like for example what do you guys do on Christmas Eve (December 24th)? What do you guys do on Christmas Day (December 25th)?
I guess you can say I am in the Christmas spirit which is why I wanted to know just what it is you guys do with your families every year...call me a Christmas fanatic
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2016 8:54:55 GMT -5
A Christmas Story goes on December 24th at 8 pm and stays on until December 25th at 8 pm. Then on December 25th people give me stuff off of my Amazon wish list.
This repeats yearly and I'm very happy with it.
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Post by Mongo Bears on Oct 17, 2016 13:03:19 GMT -5
Traditionally I do Halloween first with my kids. Then I do thanksgiving with my family. And then I will allow Christmas thoughts.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Oct 18, 2016 14:36:07 GMT -5
I have other things I'd like to call you instead of a "Christmas Fanatic". I kid, I kid. I don't want to think about that holiday until December 1st. Let's celebrate candy and turkey.
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Post by T R W on Oct 18, 2016 14:37:28 GMT -5
We put up a tree, decorations, and give each other presents. Usually cook a nice meal.
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Post by Jack Specific on Oct 18, 2016 15:12:08 GMT -5
Chinese food for dinner on Christmas. We've done it every year since the kids we're little.
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Post by TheLastDude on Oct 18, 2016 15:13:22 GMT -5
We put up a tree, decorations, and give each other presents. Usually cook a nice meal. You know, if I didn't know any better...I'd say you just described Christmas.
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Oct 18, 2016 15:17:23 GMT -5
Christmas eve we have hors d'oeuvres, and we get to open one present. Christmas we have just a family day (no outside family memebers, just the imediate family). Besides having a couple presents ususally my parents will put money on the christmas tree and me and my brother have to find our money which is held on by a clothespin with our name on it. Weve done that for years, im 25 my brother is 23 and we still do it lol
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Post by T R W on Oct 18, 2016 16:04:31 GMT -5
We put up a tree, decorations, and give each other presents. Usually cook a nice meal. You know, if I didn't know any better...I'd say you just described Christmas. Someone figured me out.
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Post by TheLastDude on Oct 18, 2016 16:27:11 GMT -5
You know, if I didn't know any better...I'd say you just described Christmas. Someone figured me out.
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Post by Valbroski on Oct 18, 2016 20:15:19 GMT -5
not really. nobody is into it anymore. I think working retail for the past few years killed it for me. If I'm still at my current job within the next couple of months, I'm aiming for it to be my last christmas in retail.
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Post by Nivro™ on Oct 18, 2016 20:19:18 GMT -5
Ill let ya know after Halloween, Veterans Day, my birthday and Thanksgiving
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Post by tg11 on Oct 19, 2016 9:49:22 GMT -5
Christmas eve we have hors d'oeuvres, and we get to open one present. Christmas we have just a family day (no outside family memebers, just the imediate family). Besides having a couple presents ususally my parents will put money on the christmas tree and me and my brother have to find our money which is held on by a clothespin with our name on it. Weve done that for years, im 25 my brother is 23 and we still do it lol This is a tradition that really tugs at my heart
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Post by tg11 on Oct 19, 2016 9:50:30 GMT -5
For Christmas in my family:
- Christmas Eve (December 24th)- On Christmas Eve night, my brother, sister and myself we go off with our father since my parents are divorced so we go to my grandmother's house for the 24th. At my grandmother's house usually my whole entire family is there at the house extended family on my father's side that being aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws all on my father's side since I have a pretty huge family. There are a lot of us like I am talking a lot and the house is usually packed every year. We usually party on the 24th in terms of dancing to music, eating, drinking the whole nine yards and at this party there is usually a lot of food. There is usually a lot of alcohol by that I mean wine and beer specificially. Also at the house my cousins who I am close in age with and I we usually just watch TV downstairs in the basement while music plays down there. My little cousins my younger cousins generally create lots of mischief on Christmas Eve especially in my grandmother's house you know how little kids can be. We usually party until the wee hours of the morning until everyone goes home.
- Christmas Day (December 25th)- On Christmas Day morning since I live with my mom, my brother, sister and myself along with my mother and grandmother my mother's mother we open gifts on Christmas Day morning downstairs. We also have breakfast with each other basically just spending time together as a family and my mother basically cooks up a storm on Christmas especially for us kids but also for my grandmother too she also helps my mother in the cooking. Meanwhile my little brother and I are generally competitive with each other in terms of playing video games with each other but also we spend the day watching NBA basketball before we have lunch with my sister, mother and grandmother. Then my brother, sister and myself spend time getting ready to go out with my father who basically comes to pick us up to go to my uncle my dad's brother's house for Christmas Day. Then when we do get to my uncle's on Christmas Day my whole entire extended family is at my uncle's house like I am talking my whole entire family again. My cousins and I then are in the living room as we all watch NBA basketball on a huge screen as we all go crazy. Meanwhile my aunts and uncles are basically dancing to music while everyone is eating Christmas dinner and my grandmother is also there too right in the thick of it.
- Boxing Day (December 26th)- Basically what goes on on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in my family basically it is a repeat again but we spend the day of the 26th at my aunt's house like think of a Christmas after party
- New Years Eve (December 31st)- As for New Years Eve my whole entire family and myself we spend it at any one of my aunts or uncles' houses it generally changes each and every year as far as whose house we celebrate it at but as for New Years we all basically just spend it counting down the hours to the New Year while we reflect on everything that has happened the past year and how we will make the New Year so much better than the last year. We generally hold hands while we do it and we basically pray too. After the New Year as soon as it is a reality we basically celebrate hugging one another and then we just go on about partying until the wee hours of the morning.
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Post by tg11 on Oct 19, 2016 9:51:18 GMT -5
I too watch Christmas movies but the movies I watch before I visit family on the 24th and 25th movies are ranked like this:
24th
5) Elf (2003) 4) A Christmas Story (1983) 3) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) 2) Lethal Weapon (1987) 1) Die Hard (1988)
25th
5) The Ref (1994) 4) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) 3) The Santa Clause (1994) 2) The Santa Clause 2 (2002) 1) Jack Frost (1998)
But I also watch NBA games yearly too as tradition on Christmas as well especially when we go to my aunt and uncle's house on the 25th like how I displayed in my earlier post
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Post by J'Dinkalage Morgoone on Oct 19, 2016 11:25:23 GMT -5
Christmas eve we have hors d'oeuvres, and we get to open one present. Christmas we have just a family day (no outside family memebers, just the imediate family). Besides having a couple presents ususally my parents will put money on the christmas tree and me and my brother have to find our money which is held on by a clothespin with our name on it. Weve done that for years, im 25 my brother is 23 and we still do it lol This is a tradition that really tugs at my heart whys that bud
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Post by bad guy™ on Oct 19, 2016 11:26:22 GMT -5
None really anymore. Presents between my mother and myself, a couple of presents for the kitty cat and watch sports all day if I'm not working. The job I go to when I'm not in school takes me back for the holidays and summer every year and the new manager said she wants to break shifts into four hours instead of everyone getting stuck with eight-ten hour work days on the holidays which would be nice but I'm not holding my breath though.
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Oct 19, 2016 11:47:02 GMT -5
For me, we have a good old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm, A little over-eating never did you any harm, Let's open up the presents, Eat a turkey or two, It's a good old-fashioned Christmas, Yodle-lay-hoo, It's a good old-fashioned Christmas down on the farm, Let's stoke up the fire to keep our tootsies warm, Let's kick off the rooftop, And sing a song or two, Let's do this again next year, Yodle-lay-hoo.
Then after all that, Dad would chop down the tree, Chores! While Mom would fix up a meal, Work! Doc Boy would get in the way, Fighting! Big, fat hairy deal, Decorating the tree, Gardening! Wiring all of the lights, Electrical contracting! Wrapping boxes and writing out cards, Office work, Out of sight! Then we'd take those presents and pile them under the tree, We'd barely get a wink of sleep wondering what they could be, The special gifts of Christmas, Christmas! That really make it great, It's so great! Are the insomnia and the anxiety, Kids get from having to wait, Can't wait till Christmas, There's so much to do, Can't wait till Christmas, Wake me when it's through.
That's pretty much my Christmas.
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Post by Y3RP: LA MARAVILLA!!! on Oct 19, 2016 13:20:11 GMT -5
A Christmas Story goes on December 24th at 8 pm and stays on until December 25th at 8 pm. Then on December 25th people give me stuff off of my Amazon wish list. This repeats yearly and I'm very happy with it. pretty much sums my day as well.
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Post by snatch on Oct 19, 2016 13:47:54 GMT -5
Christmas Eve I'll be going to the Pats/Jets game. Quickly wrap some gifts at night.
Christmas Day I'll wake up exchange gifts with the gf (if I'm not single by then). Afterward I go to my grandparents. They make a turkey and spiral ham along with all kinds of sides and of course desserts. The 1st meal starts around 1pm, after that the whole fam exchanges gifts. Second meal starts 6ish. Later that night I usually go to a few bars.
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