What is your holiday and/or traditions?

[TBD 17,254]

Today it the first day of December and we know that the  holidays is coming and everyone have their own based where they come from and their culture(s). So what kind holidays and  traditions do you guys celebrate in this time of year of December? And if it's not in December,  feel free to share it too. If you guys don't celebrate holiday, do you have other activity that related to spending quality time with yourself (gonna spoiled yourself am I right?), friends and/or family? 

 

For me we celebrate xmas and just spending time together with pictures. Then afterward, me and some my older siblings would  watch horror xmas movies. Which is the best part. 

Edited December 1, 2017 by TBD

[Sparklefan1234 169,802]

I celebrate by watching Christmas movies like, "Miracle on 34th Street" & the many adaptations of "A Christmas Carol".

As well as holiday specials like, "A Charlie Brown Christmas". 

Edited December 1, 2017 by Sparklefan1234

[StrawCherry 1,673]

We celebrate Christmas but not like some others. We aren’t overly religious and we don’t celebrate the birth of a certain someone. We just celebrate by being together and try to have a fun time which is difficult in this house. But positivity.

[Guest]

Every week I take a fresh dozen oranges and poke cloves and cinnamon into them to use as potpourri around the house and there's always music playing in my bar and living room. ^ ^

[Twisted Cyclone 🚓 6,259]

My family and I watch "A Christmas Story" and eat Chinese food each Christmas.

[luftschloss 831]

We just celebrate Christmas, but we also have a menorah that we light in honor of Jewish ancestors (my family is Jewish by heritage). In terms of other traditions, we mostly just watch awful Christmas movies and sit together. It's a lot of fun. We also do the oranges-and-cloves thing, and we make these cookies that are basically long white chocolate sticks with raspberry jam.

Edited December 1, 2017 by luftschloss

[King of Canterlot 9,603]

Usually my mom will take me and brother to a Christmas eve mass, and then the next morning open our presents before driving down to my grandparents house to open even more presents with the rest of our family. That same day then we have a big family meal and I hang out with my cousin. These things aren't really "Traditions" per say, but it's something that me and family always do every Christmas.  

[The Silver Cheese 22]

In my family, we have a lot of traditions, especially for Christmas Eve and because we are christians:

1) leaving one place at the table for an unexpected guest (never happend in my life xD);

2) preparing out traditional dishes for Christmas Eve supper - beetroot soup, carp, poppy-seed dessert or our regional dessert "moczka" (combination of delicacies, chocolate and fruits like gooseberry and also we add walnuts. It looks like darks slush from swamp but it is very tasty for me and my family members ;

3) sharing the wafer and greeting others the best for a next year;

4) emm "watching" every Christmas "Home Alone" because most of Polish people love that movie xD;

5) After supper we are sitting together, watching TV, listening carols and sharing presents; 

There is much more of it, but i only mentioned those i practise every year. It is one of those days i am really overjoyed - there is some magic during that time .  

[Envy 6,144]

My family celebrates Christmas, but I - in contrast with the rest of my family - am a nonbeliever, so I celebrate the Winter Solstice. I don't tell my family that, and it's pretty much a minor detail at the end of the day since most "Christmas" decorations and the like are secular winter concepts. So I like putting up lights and decorated trees. Decorated trees everywhere! Last year I had four up! Lol

[CheeryFox 23,821]

Food 'n Xmas stuff.

At a workshop [some years].

Speedruns.

Homeless donations.

Insanity. 

[BritishBrony2012 795]

We do celebrate Christmas, we telly all day, include Queen's speech and Doctor Who. And have Christmas with Turkey.

[Narcissus 354]

I actually used to go caroling at Christmas where I used to live. There was a small group of singers I used to go with. I recently relocated to a new city so I don't have anything like that yet, but I'll fix that. Singing is one of my favorite things and I'm not going to go without it.

[GeekySonic 1,150]

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[碇 シンジン 27,431]

Sit in my room at computer I tried to be with my family couple times but it didn't feel very natural to me to be with them like that 

[Thuja 3,659]

I celebrate Yule, which is on the 21st for me.  I don't really have any traditions, maybe it was time I made some.  I mostly just sit around, play video games.  Holidays, for the most part, seem like things that are just another day, they don't really have much meaning to me.  I'm trying to change that though, get out of that thinking.

[Dreambiscuit 9,623]

I'll have to trim this down, but here are a few of my favorite things:

Watching Christmas movies (one or two a day) plus specials and documentaries. Making creative (absurd) gift wrap that offers clues to the keen-minded. Doing volunteer work (Toys for Tots kind of thing) from November to mid December. Decorating the apartment, car and even clothes (don't ask). Making the most ridiculous (and disgusting) cookies and defying others to eat them, which stems from another tradition of finding the worse boxed candies available, which gets trickier every year. Playing self-invented games by the Christmas tree. Getting the tree itself, which often means several hours of driving to find a u-cut one. And best of all, staying up all night from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, watching the Vatican Mass at midnight on TV, listening to CDs and exchanging special gifts, as per tradition, with my brother before the sun comes up. By Christmas Day, after all the other presents have been opened, exhaustion sets in, but it's the best possible kind.  

[BlueStreak98 828]

Watching mass from the Vatican, I guess. Our dog always used to wear a bowtie for the day, but my parents don't even have a dog anymore.

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

Once a year, my friends and I gather and watch the first five pokemon movies.

 

Don't judge me.

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

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[PinkieShadow 4,056]

Started to celebrate Heartswarming last year the pony way, that is way more fun. Even my family accepted that and we watched "A very minty Christmas" for some years back too together. And Nightmaremoon is a tradition now days of course.

[Buttonmash1973 1,026]

Me and my family lived in a village where we went to the church every Christmas Eve since the end of the 1970's when I was a kid. We also had a homemade song we sang every Christmas Eve as the three was being lighten up.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,988]

Wake up at like 5am then unwrap my prezzies, then usually skip breakfast and use the stuff I got Hearts Warming then go to my Granny's house for Christmas Dinner.

[EpicEnergy 23,176]

Me and my family usually go to see a place that has a bunch of Christmas lights as a tradition in December. Also, we celebrate Christmas with other family members at a traditional family gathering.