Your Christmas Traditions...
Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:05 pm
#27398- KerzoR9
- Location : Scotland
Tis the season What makes christmas, well, christmas to you?
Couple of mine, ill post others later.
1 - I watch about 5 or 6 christmas films every year however, every year me and my brother watch alternate Home Alone films (1 & 2 only obv). This year its Home Alone 1.
2 - Order a christmas 'hamper' from the american soda shop online! Grape soda and coke vanillas all round! Along with other great american foods
3 - £45 Turkey for christmas dinner with roast potatos, potatoes, croquettes, gravy, pease & carrots etc.
4 - Feeling like a big kid when i see the coca cola adverts. Holy f*ck I love those trucks!
Whats some of yours guys?
Couple of mine, ill post others later.
1 - I watch about 5 or 6 christmas films every year however, every year me and my brother watch alternate Home Alone films (1 & 2 only obv). This year its Home Alone 1.
2 - Order a christmas 'hamper' from the american soda shop online! Grape soda and coke vanillas all round! Along with other great american foods
3 - £45 Turkey for christmas dinner with roast potatos, potatoes, croquettes, gravy, pease & carrots etc.
4 - Feeling like a big kid when i see the coca cola adverts. Holy f*ck I love those trucks!
Whats some of yours guys?
Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:12 pm
#27399- ChisaGod Of Boobs
- Location : Boston, MA
I'm forced to drive down to NY and stay at my in laws place on Christmas Eve. Since my wife has two sisters, they bring their children and take up the bedrooms, so we end up sleeping in the cold damp semi finished basement. It's a long arduous day of dealing with ill behaved children, blatant narcissism, complete boredom, all tempered by one or two decent conversations between my father in law and I over mass quantities of scotch.
It's a miserable 24 hours that ends Christmas morning when we're released back into the world and the drive back to Boston.
My wife loves the tradition, so I do it with a smile on my face and try and keep it light and funny.
and drunk
I honestly can't stand Christmas, the blatant selfish consumerism that is rampant, and the giant waste of money the whole ordeal ends up being.
It's why I love Thanksgiving, people just gather, enjoy each other's presence, and don't bother with ridiculous gift lists. Go buy that shit yourself.
(to be fair, I buy my wife things all year round, I buy my friends dinner and drinks most of the time we're out...it's not a cheap thing)
f**k Christmas
It's a miserable 24 hours that ends Christmas morning when we're released back into the world and the drive back to Boston.
My wife loves the tradition, so I do it with a smile on my face and try and keep it light and funny.
and drunk
I honestly can't stand Christmas, the blatant selfish consumerism that is rampant, and the giant waste of money the whole ordeal ends up being.
It's why I love Thanksgiving, people just gather, enjoy each other's presence, and don't bother with ridiculous gift lists. Go buy that shit yourself.
(to be fair, I buy my wife things all year round, I buy my friends dinner and drinks most of the time we're out...it's not a cheap thing)
f**k Christmas
Thu Dec 06, 2012 2:29 pm
#27400- KerzoR9
- Location : Scotland
pessimistic cunt lol
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:22 pm
#27403Chisa wrote:I'm forced to drive down to NY and stay at my in laws place on Christmas Eve. Since my wife has two sisters, they bring their children and take up the bedrooms, so we end up sleeping in the cold damp semi finished basement. It's a long arduous day of dealing with ill behaved children, blatant narcissism, complete boredom, all tempered by one or two decent conversations between my father in law and I over mass quantities of scotch.
It's a miserable 24 hours that ends Christmas morning when we're released back into the world and the drive back to Boston.
My wife loves the tradition, so I do it with a smile on my face and try and keep it light and funny.
and drunk
I honestly can't stand Christmas, the blatant selfish consumerism that is rampant, and the giant waste of money the whole ordeal ends up being.
It's why I love Thanksgiving, people just gather, enjoy each other's presence, and don't bother with ridiculous gift lists. Go buy that shit yourself.
(to be fair, I buy my wife things all year round, I buy my friends dinner and drinks most of the time we're out...it's not a cheap thing)
f**k Christmas
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Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:29 pm
#27406- o_homescrub_oMember
- Location : Wash DC
As a #1 dad, I left my kids pick what they want.
Under $20.
Under $20.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:37 pm
#27409- SyndromeAdmin
- Location : Ohio, USA
o_homescrub_o wrote:As a #1 dad, I left my kids pick what they want.
Under $20.
And on the Target clearance rack.
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I've come to realize all the traditions I had as a kid... are now gone.
I hate that life moves forward.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 3:37 pm
#27410- ChisaGod Of Boobs
- Location : Boston, MA
make new traditions Syn, do something different
Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:04 pm
#27411- o_homescrub_oMember
- Location : Wash DC
Syndrome wrote:o_homescrub_o wrote:As a #1 dad, I left my kids pick what they want.
Under $20.
And on the Target clearance rack.
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I've come to realize all the traditions I had as a kid... are now gone.
I hate that life moves forward.
nigga you ain't lyin.
Clear that rack up for under $20.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:18 pm
#27415- SyndromeAdmin
- Location : Ohio, USA
Chisa wrote:make new traditions Syn, do something different
I guess im inbetween traditions?
No woman to tie me down doing anything (I dont mean that to sound like a bad thing), and not young enough to follow through with any of the stuff that happened yester-years.
I usually just end up spending time with my nieces sister godz and my mom. Doing the gift thing. Its fun watching the little ones open gifts.
:/
Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:37 pm
#27427- moosedawg06Member
- Location : Georgia
We have 30 people on my dads side of the family (cousins, aunts, uncles) and we always have lunch and dinner at my grandparents house. We have 6 kids in the family under 6 years old, so it's fun to watch them open their stuff. As for the rest of us, we draw names out of a hat at Thanksgiving to determine who buys gifts. Everyone buys the kids under 18 a gift, and everyone older than 18 gets one from whoever drew their name. It used to not be like that and opening presents turned into a 3 hour marathon in my granny's living room. I love Christmas due to the sole fact that I get to spend it with my family. Family is everything to me.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:28 pm
#27441- zcsmanMember
- Location : Massachusetts
Go over the grandparents house w/ the rest of the family/relatives. Woo!
Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:33 pm
#27443We have 16 people in our house alone including my foster and adopted brothers and sisters. So everyone comes to our house and it's pretty much a second Thanksgiving. For me, it's all about making others happy.
I love getting gifts for everyone in my family and not something you just go out and buy at Target.. even though I have nothing against that. I don't think there is any problem with the consumerism and people buying gifts for each other but people should realize that you don't have to delegate that for one day out of an entire year.
I love getting gifts for everyone in my family and not something you just go out and buy at Target.. even though I have nothing against that. I don't think there is any problem with the consumerism and people buying gifts for each other but people should realize that you don't have to delegate that for one day out of an entire year.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:16 pm
#27457- Kaz--MoneyMember
- Location : Calgary, AB, Canada
Fambly. Christmas is about fambly.
See as many of 'em for as long as I can.
See as many of 'em for as long as I can.
Thu Dec 06, 2012 8:37 pm
#27459- Mick281Member
- Location : TX
We usually have it here at the house or at my uncles. We usually cook carnitas (pork) and Tamales. The pit will be going and will have Fajitas and Chicken. Also, of course there will be a shit ton a beer. I have a very large family on both sides and most live within the city.
Fri Dec 07, 2012 6:58 am
#27488- goh13Member
I know when I am not welcomed in a place........
Fri Dec 07, 2012 8:23 am
#27492- RickMember
Syndrome wrote:I've come to realize all the traditions I had as a kid... are now gone.
I hate that life moves forward.
You can still either create your own or recapture at least some of what you used to do.
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My holiday traditions (not sure how long it has to be done for it to be a tradition) include:
- I will drive up around Lake Tahoe and go hiking the weekend before Christmas. Been doing this since I have lived in California. But have done it in every state around various mountain ranges.
- I will watch Aliens and Aliens 2 whilst making holiday dinner. Been doing this for as long as I can remember or as long at least as I have been making holiday dinner.
- I make a huge, I am talking HUGE holiday spread. I do this expecting my brother and some of the guys he works with to be home but more often than not I get stuck eating it alone.
- I go watch a movie in a theater. Usually xmas day or the night before. You would think they would be closed but it is actually a pretty busy night for theaters. Not sure of the title this year I have not looked.
- I get a Holiday card picture taken, with my dog. That might seem strange to some of you but she is my best friend.
- I go to San Francisco and watch the Nutcracker Ballet in the War Memorial Opera House. Been doing this every single year. Have only missed 7 I think.
- Myself and a friend (sometimes my brother) will go to the mall and watch people. We will sit across from each other and take a pad of drawing paper and colored pens and draw a picture of someone in the crowd that the other person has to guess which person it is. Like I will draw a Christmas tree and the other person picks out the person in the crowd who is wearing a green shirt and brown pants.
It might sound stupid but it is fun.
My brother and I have a lot of friends that have died as the result of war. We used to visit their graves but out of practicality we decided that we should pick one place and then just read their names out loud, reminisce about them. I visited the Arlington National Cemetery last year and this is something I am making into a tradition, I will either visit the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia or I visit the National Cemetery located at the Presidio of San Francisco.
Well I think that is it. I might think of some more things that I have done but up until now I have not seen a pattern.
Sun Dec 09, 2012 2:03 pm
#27664- sharpPUSB
- Location : City of Dreams, England
Christmas started 1hr 3 mins ago when elf started!
off to the German christmas market tomorrow too
off to the German christmas market tomorrow too
Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:35 am
#27720- vnzuelan dudeMember
Visiting family an ocean away.
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