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Holiday Traditions
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:33 pm
by brainbomb
My father insists on watching the old scrooge musical with Albet Finney. my mother and I like to wake up at 5 am and drink coffee. Small and simple traditions are the joys of these days. This year I work christmas day but it should still be all the usual joy. What is your holiday family tradition?
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 9:39 pm
by Durga
We travel to hot places and forget Christmas is a thing. It's my favourite tradition
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 9:50 pm
by New England Fire Squad
Church, and then eat and drink as if we forgot what is included in the 7 deadly sins.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 10:49 pm
by Octavious
Always a holy walk in the days before to get some for the house, with a sprig dropped from a river bridge for those no longer with us. Christmas Day itself is prezzies, dinner and games, with a 3 o'clock toast to absent friends. All the family does that regardless where they are, which I've always liked :). That's about it, really. Simple things.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:19 am
by dargorygel
We usually end up doing things throughout the season... we had 'first Christmas' when we could all get together the day after Thanksgiving. And since then we do something (watch a stupid movie... drink eggnog... sing Christmasy things) most days. Christmas Eve we have church, and then in the morning we'll do the materialistic yet fun pressie thing. Stockings last (filled with choco, jelly bellies, writing implements, and post-it notes.) We read that Santa Clause Poem, and Olive the Other Reindeer. Christmas Day spent watching Christmas trash, probably going to a movie (Aquaman or Mary, Queen of Scots this year) and eating, eating, eating. Boxing Day we go buy stuff at the sales.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:19 am
by TrPrado
After a typical Christmas morning, my family goes out to watch a movie.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:56 am
by brainbomb
dargorygel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:19 am
We usually end up doing things throughout the season... we had 'first Christmas' when we could all get together the day after Thanksgiving. And since then we do something (watch a stupid movie... drink eggnog... sing Christmasy things) most days. Christmas Eve we have church, and then in the morning we'll do the materialistic yet fun pressie thing. Stockings last (filled with choco, jelly bellies, writing implements, and post-it notes.) We read that Santa Clause Poem, and Olive the Other Reindeer. Christmas Day spent watching Christmas trash, probably going to a movie (Aquaman or Mary, Queen of Scots this year) and eating, eating, eating. Boxing Day we go buy stuff at the sales.
He forgot to mention watching the hell out of Notre Dame v Clemson
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:07 pm
by dargorygel
"He forgot to mention watching the hell out of Notre Dame v Clemson"
post-Christmas, man...
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:11 pm
by Octavious
Couple of Christmas I have nevers.
Never drunk eggnog
Never watched It's a Wonderful Life
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:26 pm
by TrPrado
Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:11 pm
Couple of Christmas I have nevers.
Never drunk eggnog
Never watched It's a Wonderful Life
Same actually. And I just finished up a minor in film so that’s very fun.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:46 pm
by Yigg
Become ill in some fashion, ranging anywhere from a mild cold to sudden and explosive vomiting.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 6:43 pm
by PRINCE WILLIAM
The church here is early in the morning, leaving this apart, more or less we do what all people do with food and gifts.
What you may find unusual is that by tradition we don't decorate a tree but a boat (the country being sea-faring from ancient times) the tree became part of the Christmas culture from the 18th century's half and after.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 12:06 am
by Octavious
Some new traditions are welcome, others less so. 150 years ago America began to adopt the English tradition of "tipping", which was considered a loathsome and corrupt form of roguery that reinforced the class system and threatened to turn the land of the free into the land of the fee.
Sadly, it did.
On a similar theme I'm reading a 19th century novel by a British upper class chap in which he writes about the impossibility of someone born to a family of high social status winning an election as the Americans would vote always for the common man. Funny how things change.
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 1:11 am
by Durga
TrPrado wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 5:26 pm
Octavious wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:11 pm
Couple of Christmas I have nevers.
Never drunk eggnog
Never watched It's a Wonderful Life
Same actually. And I just finished up a minor in film so that’s very fun.
You FINISHED your minor? Jesus christ how long have I been on this website
Re: Holiday Traditions
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 2:43 am
by TrPrado
I’ve only got one more semester before I get my Bachelors degree :)