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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyanobyte View Post
    My husband and I have a few small ones! The 23rd is baking day, we will hang out in the kitchen and get some baking done. Usually he makes his grandmas sugar cookie recipe and handles the chocolate chip cookies. I'll make the snowball cookies and some gingersnaps/gingerbreads. This is also typically the night we'll go drive around and look at the rich neighborhoods Christmas lights lol. The 24th is themed movies (National Lampoons, Elf, The Santa Claus etc) and I'll cook stuffed shells for dinner. One Christmas itself is the typical present exchange and I make candied bacon for breakfast! A Christmas Story gets put on and will run pretty much on loop all day! Thats about it, nothing fancy but its ours!
    You say "that's about it" but sounds like a lot, sounds so lovely, tbh!



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    Quote Originally Posted by RicoBandito View Post
    I don’t have many, but every year we watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and hang a pickle ornament on the tree. Whoever finds it first gets a small prize. Used to bake cookies for friends but with Covid we haven’t for a few years.

    Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas CK
    Ahhh yes Christmas Vacation is also a staple in our home!

    You're the 2nd person I heard who has a "Christmas Pickle" tradition. I first heard of it from a friend whose family also hid a pickle ornament to find.
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    We go to other familys houses on christmas eve and christmas day we have dinner and stay in

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyanobyte View Post
    My husband and I have a few small ones! The 23rd is baking day, we will hang out in the kitchen and get some baking done. Usually he makes his grandmas sugar cookie recipe and handles the chocolate chip cookies. I'll make the snowball cookies and some gingersnaps/gingerbreads. This is also typically the night we'll go drive around and look at the rich neighborhoods Christmas lights lol. The 24th is themed movies (National Lampoons, Elf, The Santa Claus etc) and I'll cook stuffed shells for dinner. One Christmas itself is the typical present exchange and I make candied bacon for breakfast! A Christmas Story gets put on and will run pretty much on loop all day! Thats about it, nothing fancy but its ours!
    That sounds so nice!
    I haven't made any traditions with my partner yet. We both don't usually fly home for Christmas as we live super far from our families and it gets expensive, so we mostly spend the time with other friends who are "orphaned."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Double.Trouble View Post
    That sounds so nice!
    I haven't made any traditions with my partner yet. We both don't usually fly home for Christmas as we live super far from our families and it gets expensive, so we mostly spend the time with other friends who are "orphaned."
    I feel this so much with you, we also don't go home for the holidays due to our families being far away - which is what led to us having this collection of made up traditions to kind of fill that gap. Im glad that you have your partner and friends to lean on over the holidays! That sounds really lovely ^-^
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    Quote Originally Posted by Double.Trouble View Post
    That sounds fun!
    We did some board games with our grandma one year. She got drunk and started playing Yahtzee by herself.

    AND LOL Rip grandma
    That sounds fun. We should try board games this year. I love monopoly

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    My mom loves to make us decorate the tree - so she can rearrange it each time.

    But my parents also do Christmas flamingos and we do Christmas casserole breakfast

    Other than that - we just like to spend the time together tbh
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    My family tends to have some pretty interesting traditions. I always enjoy them until aunt glenda has be dramatic(lol...):
    -> Yankee swap with more chaotic rules(aka, getting a number doesn't mean you have more power). The gifts are usually kept under 20 since it's meant for fun over dazzle factor.

    -> Hidden Santa's - My grandfather would always hide between 5 and 10 santa's in the house for the kids(and adults to find). It was a fun little thing to keep everyone busy while dinner was being finished.

    -> My personal favorite, the anti-holiday holiday party. Yes, the title makes no sense. Each year someone in my family hosts this party and the rules are simple: do not say any holiday words. Everyone is given 10-20 popsicle sticks and the goal is to accumulate as many as possible before the party ends. Every time you hear someone say a holiday word(eg Santa, presents, Christmas, Hanukkah), you take a stick. The person who has the most sticks by the end of the evening wins. Basically by the middle of the evening it turns into a blood bath of people baiting others to say words. Or couples working together to strategically gain sticks. Always fun.

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    We grew up poor.

    So when I started working I would just buy whatever I wanted.
    If my siblings wanted something I'd get it for them.

    It's carried over into my marriage where we both don't really celebrate Christmas but we love to decorate for it.

    When ever we want something we get it for each other through out the year.

    Our families are spread out. So getting together for a dinner isn't realistic...
    This year I'll be working 16 hours of Christmas any ways. Double pay for the holiday.
    Same with new years.


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    I go to my in-laws place and we all have menudo/pozole with tamales. She'll set the soup and stuff to cook overnight so when we wake up Christmas morning that's the first thing we eat. The house is always so warm and cozy and we're all at the table eating together. I never had anything nice like that growing up so the togetherness coupled with having a nice hot meal with the family is really comforting and I look forward to it every year.

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