Christmas Traditions

Postby Jay Feely » Thu Dec 02, 2010 1:26 pm

What are your Christmas Traditions?

These are mine:

1. White Elephant Gift Exchange
2. Within the Family opening presents
3. Holiday Dinner Party at my house
4. Decorating the lights/tree
5. Going Christmas Caroling with friends to a random neighborhood
6. Having and hosting a small group bible study for celebration of Jesus Birthday
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Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby xtc » Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:42 pm

Not Christmas but Yule and, specificaly, Sostlstice:
Hospitality:Feast with friends
Recognition of the Ancestors: performances of local Mummers' Plays
Tree, lights, decorations (some from the 50's)
Making any visiting carol singers enter the house and sing an entire carol before rewarding them well (or giving them the bum's rush if they can't do it).
Much greenery.
A goose stuffed wth apples & forcemeat at one end and prunes soaked in armanac at the other.
Christmas pudding that must be at least a year od.
Food forraged from the hedegrows - crab appe sorbet, sloe gin, wild mushroom "preparations", rowan jelly,etc
Surprise gifts (often seemingy trivial) for friends.
Refusing to swear as I do my last minute tour of Tesco (If I do it, there is less chance of the wife being arraigned for murder.)
(I still miss the red jumper that a friend knitted for me with "snow"-tipped back lettering anouncing: EAT REINDEER MEAT)
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Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby Nuclearo » Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:45 pm

Say "Wait it was Christmas yesterday?"
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Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby Reidy » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:01 pm

Christmas is becoming more of a non event with each passing year. The highlight of my Christmas will no doubt be the Doctor Who special on Christmas day.

Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri Dec 03, 2010 1:22 pm

Drawing and writing on my computer, the same as on any other day.
With no friends or relatives living near me anymore, Christmas has lost all special meaning for me.
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Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby Boundgal08 » Fri Dec 03, 2010 3:19 pm

my traditions

1. xmas eve... get drunk :D
2. xmas day, wake up with hangover about 1pm open presents
3. eat xmas dinner, turkey yum yum
4. boxing day pig out on all the chocolates and enjoy time with my family
5. roll on new years eve :D
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Re: Christmas Traditions

Postby Kyle » Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:35 pm

Now that I'm getting older and out on my own it's hard to say I really have traditions now. Growing up we had a pretty set order of things:

-Visiting the relatives in another state on the weekend nearest Christmas. When I was younger it was usually on the weekend before Christmas, but as I got older, and now, it's usually the weekend after. This is one tradition my family still holds, and I'll take the trip there with my parents the same as I always have.
-I used to have this Bible picture story thing where you had 24 ornaments, one for each day of December up to Christmas Eve. They had little short snippets about the story of the events leading to and including the birth of Jesus. You read it on the day and then hang it on the tree, basically. My parents probably still have it somewhere.
-We usually put the tree up sometime between Thanksgiving and the Sunday after.
-We opened some presents on Christmas Eve. For the years we did the Santa thing the bigger presents for me usually came on Christmas Day. I think we did Santa all the way into college.

The only thing I've really done so far is help my dad put the lights up on my parents' house and put up a tree of my own, with pretty plain ornaments. The cool ones are still with my parents.

I've sometimes gone to the church's Christmas Eve service, but not always, especially if Christmas falls around the weekend which typically is when I'm out of town. That will be a problem this year and I probably won't be going to the Christmas Eve service. Now that I think about it I don't think I've been in 2 or 3 years.

Christmas isn't as big an event as it used to be for me. I've treated it more like the celebration of Jesus it started out as more than the commercial holiday it's become. I like getting and giving presents as much as anyone, still, but it can be a hassle and I don't like it to become a big production.