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Unusual holiday traditions?
Does your family celebrate the holidays with any funny or unusual traditions?
Re: Unusual holiday traditions?
We each get to open one gift on 12/23 (my brother is impatient and persuasive)
We have the same menu every year while opening presents on Christmas Eve
We have to open present in an order we determine at the beginning of the evening (when everyone's together, this means a 3-hour gift exchange extravaganza)
My mother puts bows from the gifts in her hair
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
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That's so funny! My mom tries to stick them on the cat. It usually doesn't go over well.
My family has passed around an Old Spice soap-on-the-rope for years as a gag gift. It is often disguised by being wrapped in a larger box. The only person who isn't allowed to receive it is Grandpa, because he's always said he'll use it!
Apparently these are collector's items now...$45 on eBay!
ETA: I guess I should clarify that using the soap is not acceptable....just store it and pass it on the next year.
My cousins and I will inevitably start singing Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song" and Kyle's "I'm a Jew on Xmas" from South Park (we just don't have a lot of songs choose from).
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My dad has a soltice party every year (not always on solstice day- but around the 22/23rd).
He burns the previous years xmas tree in the yard, and waves burning herbs around (some kind of incense thing??), and acts out a hilarious play. It is quite a riot.
Then we have wassail and go inside and hang out playing games, etc for the rest of the night. Usually his wassail is awful- my mom always has back-up apple cider.
We have a pickle ornament that my grandmother hid in the tree and we had to look for it. Whoever finds it gets a prize (usually 5.00)
As kids, my sister and I used to sleep in the same room every Christmas eve. We'd stay up the better part of the night giggling and being goofs then sneak up really early in the morning to open our stockings together. We're both grown and gone from home now, but it's the one tradition I miss the most. I hope my kids want to carry on the tradition when they're old enough.
My mom saved all of our homemade decorations from grade school and still puts them up on the tree, even the ones missing all the sparkles and pieces, she says she'll never get rid of them.
On Christmas Eve with Dh's family, we follow a Slovak tradition. We have a big meal with the family that has to have 12 different foods and no meat. We can't get 12 full meals, so we count specific food, so the salad counts as 5 if you eat everything in it.
We have to open one present on Chirstmas Eve. And on Christmas evening, my mom always saves one gift for us to open.
We open one gift on Christmas Eve, and it is always pajamas. Sometimes they are holiday designs, and sometimes not. If we have non family guests for the holiday, they get pj's (and stockings), too.
My grown daughter's still expect their Christmas pj's,even if they aren't spending Christmas with us. We have to make sure that the packages are marked differently so they know which present is 'the one'.lol And I'm the one who gets the grandkids their christmas pj's.
when we were living in pittsburgh, pa, we would go to the zoo on xmas day. it's a lot colder than houston but it's still fun!
Oh this makes me excited. The H and I were on our Honeymoon for our first Christmas last year and I thought it would be fun to have a new set of pj's to wear just on Christmas Eve each year and this year he hasnt forgot and has been shopping for about a month now. I hope to keep this going until we have grandchildren.
Also on Christmas Eve we drive around the surrounding towns and look at Chritmas lights. We have been doing this since we first got our drivers license, so this we will always do.
I want to start some more traditions since this will be our first Christmas together at home (im open for any suggestions). I thinking of making stuffed apples and fruity pebble treats (like rice krispy treats) on Christmas Eve.