Some people have some pretty strange Christmas Traditions. I had friends who could open the gifts right at 12AM. I had friends who were allowed to open a gift ever sunday in december before Christmas and other strange things like that.

My house is pretty tame.

On Christmas eve (between the ages of 1-14) my whole family would go out and secretly deliver Gift Boxes for families in my church who were having some hard times financially. Not really "poor" people, just friends of my parents who maybe lost a job, or had someone die recently. People who for some reason or another wouldnt have had a very good christmas. We use to make really nice gift boxes with a gift for each family member and some other nice christmas crap. My parents did this so we grew up knowing that Christmas was more about kindness and giving.

We were also allowed on christmas eve to open one gift from a brother or sister.

On Chrismas morning we were not allowed to go downstairs and see the christmas tree. There was nothing ever stopping us. We were trusted by our parents to not go down and look. My parents always said that christmas for them was seeing how excited we got seeing the tree for the first time. We always respected this, but since we were kids we did bend the rules lol. We would send one person down. Normally it would be one of my older sisters. This person could look at the tree for no more than a few miniutes (we always tried to do it under a minute). When that person came back they would have to draw a picture of what it looked like and we would have to answer questions for the next hour.

Our stockings were always moved from the fireplace (where we hung them before we went to bed) to the end of our beds. This was always done in our sleep. Our stockings always had stuff to keep us busy while our parents slept in the morning.

Having 5 kids ment my parents had a WICKED ton of wrapping to do. My parents always joke about how when me and my brothers were into ninja turtles they were wrapping gifts on christmas eve until like 4AM.


Anyway, nothing really strange with my family. Atleast it doesnt seem that way to me.

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We took a page from Christmas Story and ate christmas dinner at a local chinese restaurant for about 15 straight years.

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ajahahahahahhahah!

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lol Chinese food on Christmas Eve?

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lmao Deck the Harrs with bows of horry fa-ra-ra-ra-ra---ra-ra-ra-raaaa

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We bought "The Leg Lamp" from that movie this year lol.

Our tradition is getting up early and opening presents, then get with the rest of the family and have lunch or dinner, then something upsetting my mom and having her be drink the rest of the day.

The last few years we've had 1 really nice present, then maybe $20 worth of small crap trinkets that break if you look at them funny.

I really quit caring about Christmas because my mom has horrible money management job abilities.

Christmas day. lol

Christmas eve is a veritable buffet of cheeses, meats, crackers, and wines.

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and home-baked cookies!

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We open presents fairly early (it's been getting much later every year). Then we go to my grandparent's house with relatives and all that. I usually get about 10 gifts and about 400 dollars from various relatives

My sister and I were allowed to open the gift to each other on Christmas Eve. I always watch Charlie Brown Christmas about 5 times each December. On Christmas Day, my sister usually wakes me up and we meet my parents downstairs, and sometimes my grandma stays with us, so she's up as well. My dad is always up super early because he puts the turkey in the oven at 5am. I swear he loves Christmas as much as I do or a little bit more. We open our gifts and then cook all day long until the rest of my family comes over for Christmas dinner. We open presents with them and then eat. It's always a good time!

This year Yarr and I are living in our own place, so I guess we're starting our own little traditions. We have a Christmas tree and made a gingerbread house. I love Christmas and it's funny getting Yarr into it. He carried the Christmas tree up the stairs to our apartment last night. lol It was awesome!!!!!

[Edit:Sunshine, I'll crop them tonight and repost them -Super Yarrio]

Sorry these are so big...lol I don't have a program to crop them down. I'll delete them after a while!

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Yeah I carried that god damn tree up the stairs to our fourth floor apartment.


Its a nice tree though and the apartment smells reall good (not that it smelt bad before). I really dont care too much about decorating and all that crap. Thats Sunsines job, but Im way too much of a perfectionist to not sit and fuss with how everything looks.

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I guess another tradition was trying to wait up for Santa (whos not real). I hated being a little kid and waking up early then having to wait for my dad to get up 5 hours later to open presents.

I think this year I'm gonna make him wait for me.

On christmas eve we always go over to my friend, Andrew's house. All the parents stay down stairs and drink wine and do w/e parents do. All the kids go up stairs and we normally watch A Christmas Story, which is replayed for 24hrs on I think TNT? Then we normally watch w/e movies we want, which usually ends up being some xmas movie then a ton of MST3Ks.
On xmas day me and my sister always woke up with our stokens at the end of the bed. We would go wake my parents up at way too early in the morning, and they would sit there and act surprised as we opened what was in the stokings. Then we would have to wait forever for my parents to get up, takes showers and all that before we got to open what was under the tree. While waiting we're usually poking a proding the presents trying to guess whats in them.

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I swear we had this same thread last year lol

from age
1-5 we opened gifts on christmas
6-10 we opened gifts early december
11-15 we opened gifts in november
16+ we opened gifts in october
this year my bro got me ff12 in october and my dad sent me a $300 check like september lol

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lol, I guess they're not even Christmas gifts anymore. Just "here's your yearly gift."

Does anyone have someone in their family that is staunchly "anti-Christmas"? My brother has the illusion that he doesn't care about material possessions and has taken it upon himself as an act of rebellion to more or less "boycott" Christmas. I honestly had to tell him to suck it up and go out there and RECEIVE GIFTS. My brother has never volunteered for anything for the record; he just likes to bitch.

Does he wear girl pants and comb his hair into his face too?

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Emo kids are the most pathetically superficial, vain, materialistic people on the planet, man. No my brother has long hair and looks basically like a hippie. He's not so much a hippie anymore; he was a huge one in high school but now he's got to look presentable and he's a lot less of a bastard now. In high school he was a tool though.

My mom has a Charlie Brown theme tree. WTF is up with u women...

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Charlie Brown is a Christmas staple dammit!

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oh man, and I thought Talisin was annoying. Ponuh wins the sassy brother award.

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i have a feeling i'd get along with ponuh's brother

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I hate Charlie Brown. My aunt is obsessed with him, and all we do is watch Charlie Brown this or that on every holiday. It wouldn't be so bad if they were different each year, but its always the same stupid things.

this is probably gonna be my worst christmas...


And I freaken love christmas lol. But this year it was just be a day that goes by for me.

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