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12-24-2016, 03:35 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-24-2016, 03:43 AM by TheNewTeddy.)
What are your family christmas traditions?
Mine:
On xmas eve, people who were working would leave after work, people who were not would leave sometime after sunup, and all arrive at my grandmother's house.
After sundown, when everyone has arrived, we have Christmas Dinner. Usually turkey or something.
That evening we'd play a game, usually bingo, and when you win, you get to open a present! Everyone would win though, we'd keep playing till everyone won. The kids would also get to open another present or two. These are all "small presents", cheap stuff, candy, etc.
Christmas Day we'd all come down to the tree, and open our presents. As I grew older it became clear that adults would have 1, *maybe* 2 presents max, and usually knew what was in it. Each kid would take a turn grabbing a box, and read out the name, and hand it to the person to open. Sometimes grandma would tell the person picking to open a specific box.
After that we'd open our stocks fill of stuff like chips and cookies, and that was that!
Usually a few hours later everyone would start to go home.
I really have no idea what the adults ate for lunch and supper on xmas day as all us kids had enough candy to fill our bellies. By boxing day we usually felt sick of candy and had more normal meals, and usually we went out shopping for cheap stuff at some point on that day.
And that's christmas!
We also used a plastic tree.
Mine:
On xmas eve, people who were working would leave after work, people who were not would leave sometime after sunup, and all arrive at my grandmother's house.
After sundown, when everyone has arrived, we have Christmas Dinner. Usually turkey or something.
That evening we'd play a game, usually bingo, and when you win, you get to open a present! Everyone would win though, we'd keep playing till everyone won. The kids would also get to open another present or two. These are all "small presents", cheap stuff, candy, etc.
Christmas Day we'd all come down to the tree, and open our presents. As I grew older it became clear that adults would have 1, *maybe* 2 presents max, and usually knew what was in it. Each kid would take a turn grabbing a box, and read out the name, and hand it to the person to open. Sometimes grandma would tell the person picking to open a specific box.
After that we'd open our stocks fill of stuff like chips and cookies, and that was that!
Usually a few hours later everyone would start to go home.
I really have no idea what the adults ate for lunch and supper on xmas day as all us kids had enough candy to fill our bellies. By boxing day we usually felt sick of candy and had more normal meals, and usually we went out shopping for cheap stuff at some point on that day.
And that's christmas!
We also used a plastic tree.