Feddit.frWhat christmas tradition do you uphold?
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There’s nobody to give me presents anymore. I don’t have a family left to celebrate the holiday with, no friends either. I barely decorate.
But there’s still one thing from my childhood I still try to honor and that’s having a stocking of candy. If not, small gifts.
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Thank you for sharing. This is a tragic story.
I’m old fashioned I get myself an eight ball on Christmas Eve and one tall hooker dressed like Mrs. Claus and one short one dressed like an elf.
So traditional it’s like a Norman Rockwell painting.
I think that’s where I got it from.
Is it only a joke? I tried finding the painting and failed haha :)
I didn’t have a Christmas tradition, until now….
Forgetting to get groceries in time for when shops are closed for several days in a row.
We do the fun parts taken from Yule (trees/greenery/lights) and Saturnalia (feasting). I think at this point it’s more a celebration of managing to make it through another year than anything else.
I never get Christmas gifts either, not even cards.
I buy myself the same snacks and treats every Christmas, and cook a nice Christmas dinner. I then zone out in front of the TV.
It’s a nice tradition, very peaceful, unlike past Christmases with the now estranged family.
Make my own gluhwein alike drink. On 1dec i take a jar, and put in
Close lid, store dark and shake once a day. On christmas eve: filter out the solids an mix the vodka with a bottle of red wine. Serve warm
I refuse to engage with other people’s holiday shit until I have visual confirmation of Hans Grueber falling from the Nakatomi Plaza building.
That one started when I was like 10 and usually happens within a week of thanksgiving. I try to avoid other Xmas stuff whenever I can. It’s a rough holiday (season) for me, kinda always has been even as a kid, and I don’t have anyone to spend it with anyway.
I ignore Christmas and celebrate Shreksgiving. We invite friends over to get high, eat green tinted food, and watch the Shrek movies
Although this year I might switch to Ratatouille
We’ve got young kids and go all in with decorations. Another tradition, weirdly, is eggs Benedict and bucks fizz for breakfast. No idea why, but I’m down.
good god .. when I read bucks fizz I thought you were talking about buckfast. im relieved to learn its just another term for a mimosa
Orange cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning.
Sounds interesting. Do you have a recipe handy?
Oh, I just buy the Pillsbury orange cinnamon rolls in a can. 😅
Ah, not a thing here sadly. Maybe I’ll see if I can find a recipe myself. They sound interesting
Listening to the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron tape by The Royal Guardsmen while decorating the tree.
We decorate our house. My wife really does an incredible job of it and each year she changes it up and it always blows my mind what she does.
Well, I have kids so getting them gifts, and a nice dinner with them and their mom (she and I are still friends and good co-parents, just not good spouses to each other.)
Christmas tree and lights. Though the LED ones have ruined it for me, I can see the half wave rectified 60hz and it gives me a headache. That pisses me off so much because I was once super excited about LED Christmas lights consuming a fraction of the energy, but every company seems to think they can get away with literally just replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs without the proper circuitry to drive them which would have cost, what? A dollar more? Hell a full bridge rectifier probably costs literally a penny when bought in bulk and though it’s still not a “proper” LED driver, it would have doubled the frequency and most people wouldn’t see it anymore.
Does anyone know any Christmas lights with a proper power supply that drives them at low voltage DC? I imagine it would be a lot safer too wrapped around a flammable plastic tree.
This video from last year, may be just what you are looking for, regarding a quest for ‘LEDs that suck less’.
I always get my kid a gift my wife will hate. She’s still genuinely annoyed about the fart gun I got last year.
That and getting drunk.
I got my nephews one of those! It disappeared after a week, but what a week.
whats your address?
123 Fake St
Who knew inflammable ment flammable?
Nothing really. We appreciate the neighbors and sales.
only one I really care to do every year is watching The Hogfather. best christmas movie 10/10 no notes.
I only use black santas for decoration. I don’t buy into religion, but if I’m going to decorate my house with images of a saint I’m not going to let them white wash him. He was probably middle eastern, but it’s more likely he was black than he was a white dude.
Before Christmas occurs, I must listen to this several times.
It’s not only a tradition, it’s the law in Canada. If you don’t any presents will be forcibly confiscated the day after Christmas. Some people try to fight this, which is why it’s called Boxing Day.
Putting on the tree on th 8th and dismounting it at March
Playing the complete “Carpenters Christmas” album at least once.
Not really big tradition, but gifting is on the eve 24th. And its from baby Jesus or / and from the Angels and no santa included.
Celebrating on the 24th. It’s not even a long historical tradition in my own family or local culture, we adopted it after my grandparents celebrated a few Christmases with a Central European immigrant family in the neighborhood who start celebrating at midday 24th December and realized it enabled those of us who were married/etc to celebrate the next day with our other families. It’s much more relaxing like that, I’ve heard my friends complain after trying to fit in a breakfast, lunch and dinner at three different Christmas parties in one day to avoid offending anyone.
Opening presents after midnight on the 24th
I don’t really follow any holiday traditions anymore. My friends don’t get me stuff and I don’t get them stuff.
I even stay home for Thanksgiving and don’t go to watch fireworks on the 4th.
It’s not that I don’t get out, but more so that I avoid the calamity everyone else is in on those days. To me, it’s a day off work and some time to catch up on chores or projects.