The holidays are coming up as 2022 comes to an end, slowly but surely. Everyone at least has a holiday tradition that just ends up becoming the normal thing to do every year, besides listening to Christmas music in July.
This is what people do during the holidays.
#21
When I was living with my parents we celebrated Christmas, then went to my aunt's (8 hours away) for New Year's Eve. Then I got my own family and I don't really believe in Christmas so we didn't celebrate - we still don't. But we do get together for a simple meal, mostly pot-lucks. My youngest son is now married and his MIL has first choice for dates since she celebrates Christmas full-on, then work schedules, then family. My daughter and I usually make ~6 dozens cookies, which we then give out to our neighbors and friends. This year (2022), she's pregnant and can't take the heat or the smell so I'll be on my own to bake. I'm looking forward to see everyone, except my oldest son & GF won't be there as he's now in PEI and it's too far to drive over (the irony is that he's an aerospatiale mechanic and won't take the plane!). We don't have turkey as I'm the only one who likes turkey - I get my fix at Swiss Chalet.
4points
#22
Boxing Day (26th of December) at the movies… usually buying one ticket and sneaking into several sessions…
This accomplishes several things…
1) gave time for the parents to recover from the day before.
2) got the kids out of the house
3) luxuriating in air conditioned glory (I live in Australia and Christmas/Boxing day can be staggeringly hot
4) Dad could watch the Boxing Day Test Match (Cricket) in peace
1) gave time for the parents to recover from the day before.
2) got the kids out of the house
3) luxuriating in air conditioned glory (I live in Australia and Christmas/Boxing day can be staggeringly hot
4) Dad could watch the Boxing Day Test Match (Cricket) in peace
4points
#23
My cats get a steak for Christmas Dinner. I've always had cats as an adult (ranging between 1 and 4 over the years) so I do them a blue steak for dinner, one steak per cat. It usually lasts for both lunch and dinner, although my current cat is perfectly capable of eating the whole thing at once (and then lies in a meat coma for the rest of the day)
4points
#24
every year we go to a christmas tree farm and get a real tree, and then decorate it without the ornaments and in the days leading up to christmas, each family member gets to put two ornaments on the tree every night.
4points
#25
Loony Tunes Thanksgiving. Screw turkey, we have Duck, Rabbit and Pork Ribs!
4points
#26
Not put up a tree because if it's real, it'll drive my wife's allergies crazy and if it's fake, we'll forget when to take it down until about April. Either way, our cat will be knocking all of the ormanents off of it constantly...
4points
#27
I sit around and wait for it all to be over.
4points
#28
I have some wooden Easter Bunnys from my grandmother. They are almost as old as her(from the 1920s) and she had them since her childhood. She passed away about 20 Years ago, but I still use them as decoration every easter. It's the only holiday tradishion I have(except from watching 'over the garden wall' on Halloween) so this ist something special.
3points
#29
Every year, we bake christmas cookies. By 'we' i mean my sister and i. What usually happens is our father sneaks into the kitchen early and makes off with some of the cookies before we wake up XD
3points
#30
From my first Christmas my parents would buy me a snow globe. I have discolored plastic ones from 70s and 80s, musical ones, large ones etc. I stopped the tradition after I had lost both my parents.
3points
#31
My Great Grandmother sent oranges from Florida every year packed in this amazing box. (We were pen pals and very close, she passed when I was 24.) The last year she was able to send them, my mother kept the box and used it to store ornaments. I was gifted this box which had ornaments from my mother's childhood and mine as well. We have ever since pulled it out to decorate, sharing stories that have been passed down and our own as we decorate the tree, keeping our Christmas memories alive every year!
3points
#32
My husband and I have Christmas eve with my family (eating dinner together and opening presents) but on Christmas Day, we don't get out of our pajamas and drink good wine and eat snacks and cheesecake. We then open our presents from one another and give the dog his gifts.
3points
#33
Christmas dinner. Each member of the family chooses a favourite dish and that's what I make for Christmas dinner. For example one year we had lasagna, quiche, donuts and cheesecake.
3points
#34
Celebrating a couple days of Hannukah without my mom explaining why we're doing this, seeing as we're not Jewish, as far as I know.
2points
#35
Every year my uncles read us the night before Christmas and to finish of Christmas Eve we all sing the Canadian version of the twelve days of Christmas.On New Year’s Eve we have a “galette des rois” in which there is a figurine, winner gets bragging rights…
2points
#36
Christmas Eve tacos. Why? Because tacos are the best with homemade cocoa and presents.
2points
#37
I sit around and wait for it all to be over.
2points
#38
Starting at about 8:00pm Christmas Eve through at least noon on Christmas Day we watch the marathon of "A Christmas Story" as a family.
1point
#39
Our holiday tradition every year is...
On Thanksgiving we as a family set up the Christmas Tree.
Christmas Eve we let the kids open one gift and state that Santa is going around other parts of the world, and dropped one off for them.
Christmas Day kids open gifts, leave the mess for me (mom) to clean up...dads job is to add batteries to all new toys, set up racing strips.
On Thanksgiving we as a family set up the Christmas Tree.
Christmas Eve we let the kids open one gift and state that Santa is going around other parts of the world, and dropped one off for them.
Christmas Day kids open gifts, leave the mess for me (mom) to clean up...dads job is to add batteries to all new toys, set up racing strips.
1point
#40
I eat Marie Callender's frozen turkey dinners at each holiday, alone, and have done so for 34 years. I'm 80.
1point