I just wanted to wish you a Happy Holidays.

If you have something cheerful to say and would like to wish well please do.

I'm interested in your Holiday traditions whatever they may be.

I'm absolutely fascinated by traditions outside of USA,

Just give me a glimpse of what it's like around your place this time of year.

My family eats Chilie and Clam Chowder Christmas Eve. Santa Claus still visits. We watch a lot of Christmas movies. I have a big VHS collection. Tonight we're watching The Polar Express. Watched Elf last night.

Today is the start of our vacation we're just going to stay in town, Maybe we'll see the new Hobbit movie before they go back to work and school.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I eat a lot of food. We're getting ready at the Tallest household. We're having a bunch of relatives over Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day we'll be going over to my wife's cousin's house. We usually play a game at her relative's house where they wrap up gag gifts then you get playing cards and as your number is called you get to pick and unwrap a gift. If you like it you can keep it but someone can steal it from you. Last year we ended up with a goofy plate brand new in the box that we never opened. It's going back this year. I personally think the game is stupid as all it is seems to be junk and garbage that should be thrown out that they just pawn off on each other. But my wife enjoys playing it and it's one of her families traditions. As for my side, we don't really have any traditions other than all getting together on Christmas Eve to hang out, drink and eat food.

I'm old and never married, so I sit at home, alone. Christmas evening we gather at the folk's house for the traditional ham sandwiches and cheesy hashbrowns. This is just immediate family, and the 2 "kids" are in their 20's, so presents are few, quick, and fairly quitet. It starts at 5 and I'm heading home by 8. I'll be eating ham for a week (I supplied it, I get most of the leftovers).

When I was younger, we alternated Christmas Eve at the 2 sets of grandparents. On Dad's side they had a running joke of someone getting a present from Baby (a dog they had when my dad was young). This was the ridiculous gag gift that no one wanted and tended to be regifted in later years. I still remember the electric corn cob for visiting the outhouse on cold winter nights.

What's an electric corn cob Old timer? I have to know .

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Go to whatever aunt's house that's hosting (big family, 8 aunts in all) on the 24th. advlts get [censored]-faced while the kids run around until midnight when everybody opens presents. Then we resume the drinking and kids continue the running around until everyone passes out 'till the next day.

I don't even celebrate Christmas anymore, but it's family tradition so whatever.

Happy Holidays people!

That does not look very comfortable for wiping----I'll stick to toilet paper . Anyway Happy Holidays everyone .

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

The traditions, when I was a child, was fun. Christmas Eve we would eat Oyster Stew for dinner. (I never did get a liking for it, so I had tomato soup ) After that, we would decorate the Christmas Tree. Yup, Christmas Eve we decorated our tree Then we'd go to church at 10:00PM for the Christmas Eve service. When we got home, we'd sit around the tree and sing Christmas Hymns, there were 8 of us - 6 kids and my folks.

After a restless night, we'd get up and wait at the top of the stairs (we all slept upstairs) for Mom and Dad to wake. When got downstairs, our first stop was to the dining room table where had set decorated shoeboxes in our places. Santa would fill those up with candy, nuts, and an orange. He would also leave our Santa gifts in our place, unwrapped. After Mom made toasted cheese and cracker for breakfast, we adjourned to the Living Room where our tree was. We would all wait patiently as Dad handed out each individual present to each recipient, watching them unwrap their gifts. Opening presents lasted throughout the morning with 8 people to take care of It was great fun watching everyone open their gifts and Mom would write down who got what and from Whom in a little notebook.

Ahhh... memories. These days, I am a divorced Father of an advlt son, so I just amuse myself on Christmas

That's really CoRnY !!!

Merry Christmas, or "God jul" as we say as we say here. Jul is a time to spend with your family, feast on food and give presents. In Norway I'd say the two most common meals on the 24th are "juleribbe" (pork ribs) and "pinnekj?tt" (sheep stuff) and we usually eat those along with mashed rutabaga and potatoes, among other things. What dish we have usually depends on the family's traditions, and in my case we eat juleribbe. Later after Christmas we have an additional evenings where we visit other relatives and feast even more (because feasts are great) and then we chill until New Years Eve. A common saying here is that "Julen varer helt til p?ske!" "The Christmas lasts all the way to Easter!" and to some extent it's true to us.

Merry Christmas all.

After moving, I really just end up going down to my family (aunts/uncles/cousins/grandparents) and having Christmas dinner there. If I'm in Europe, we celebrate on Christmas Eve and go to festivals/parties and whatnot. Drinking is key wherever we end up.

I'll never understand the 'traditions' American families have where they make up games and the like, we just... do it here. But we'll be seeing plenty of family over the holidays and tomorrow I'm off to town for some last-minute shopping with my friends. But this one girl's going which I used to like, and she's real flirty and naive and just attached to my best friend (which led him on so she had to have a 'talk about it') and now it's all a little awkward/tense.

Yes, I just managed to shoehorn a JAHO post into a Holidays thread. I AM THE FORUM GOD.

Srysly tho, Happy-whatever-makes-you-happy!