[Sly Fox]

I wish everyone the best this Christmas. I think it'd be fun to list our favorite family traditions for the holiday. Everybody has them. Some are quirky and others are flat out awesome and worthy of stealing and incorporating into our own families.

So how do you celebrate?

[DB89]

Merry Christmas to all FF and your families!

[ATrain]

Merry Christmas everyone.

Celebrated with dad's side last night, mom's side tonight.

[Schfourteenteen]

On my mom's side our family does a regifter party the day after Christmas. Around 15 years ago my mom & her sisters decided that telling everyone about their terrible gifts was no longer enough. Now, about 12 of us take our 5 worst unused gifts, re-wrap them and assign them numbers.

Everyone takes turns pulling a number, and assuming the gift falls in your gender(we have neutral gifts as well) you are stuck with it. It's always hilarious to see someone get a regifter they themselves purchased as a gift to someone else.

This also serves as a great initiation for future in-laws, as they usually bring nice gifts like wine & chocolate and end up leaving with horrifying sweaters, movies(Google "The Mini's"), or a hanger with an elephant tusk. A newcomer completely solidifies their status in the family based on the way they handle the regifter party.

EDIT - there are always gifts that get recycled back into the fold. The elephant hanger lasted about 8 years until a boring in-law got it and threw it out. We're probably going to have to make a rule to keep an influx of new gifts, as after 15 years the trend is slowly moving toward taking the ones you got last year and putting them back in the bag for next year.

[Sly Fox]

Now that's what I'm talking about ... Jersey-style.

[thepostman]

Merry Christmas!!

Nothing too crazy. We use to sometimes open up a gift on Christmas Eve but only when our Dad felt generous, haha.

This year we are still awaiting our baby so I am sure she will add to our family traditions.

[NG33]

I hope that God blesses all of you this Christmas.


For the past 5 years on December 26th, My friends and I take the subway into Boston and spend the day walking around the Commons, going to Mike's Pastries and looking for good deals on Newbury Street. There are actually a tremendous amount of sales the day after Christmas so we all end up returning with some awesome stuff.

[Purple Haize]

Bah Freakin Humbig! I am not a fan of Christmas. And those stupid Lexus Commercials help cement it!
But, I'm recovered enough that we will go to the in laws and then probably a movie. I'm thinking War Horse.

[Cider Jim]

The week before Christmas, we join some friends from church at Yellow Sub for a game of Dirty Santa. And Christmas Eve morning before sun up, I usually grocery shop for the Christmas dinner.

Mrs. Cider and I usually do some light Christmas shopping on Chrismas Eve afternoon (her idea). Then we attend a Celtic Christmas Eve Service at my church, Rivermont Ave. Baptist: services at 7:00 & 9:00 tonight. For Christmas breakfast, I fry some country ham and eggs and make some sausage gravy and biscuits, and then we usually go to Peaks of Otter for Christmas dinner.

[PAmedic]

I have dayworks today thru Wednesday, so.... yeahhhhhhhhhhh

tradition usually consists of my kids getting so much crap you can't see the floor for the trash, they appreciate little to none of it, then get overstimulated and everyone fights. The end.

Merry Christmas to everyone and please be safe.

Oh, and the eggnog.

[bluedevilflame]

Working all day and half the night on Christmas, so this will be fun. I am very thankful for my family and friends for God giving me another year with them (even if I am working ).

Hope everyone here has a very, very Merry Christmas!

[phoenix]

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Our traditions really depend on where we are for Christmas. This year, it's Christmas at home with my wife's side of the family. Tonight we head over to her cousin's house for a gift exchange with them, then it's back home to open family presents here. Tomorrow morning is the kids' show with their Santa stuff, then off to church. Monday it's off to Florida for a week with my mom and sister to celebrate with them.

NEXT year, we head to Florida for Christmas Eve. Everyone opens ONE gift on Christmas Eve, then we do the rest on Christmas morning. Then we head back North (usually on the 27th) and have Christmas with my inlaws. Usually we have everyone over here for dinner and then open gifts, since they've already done the Christmas Eve thing.

[LUminary]

tradition usually consists of my kids getting so much crap you can't see the floor for the trash, they appreciate little to none of it, then get overstimulated and everyone fights. The end.

My kids are grown (sort of) and that still happens. LOL. It's great.
Merry Christmas to all!

[BJWilliams]

Our tradition is that on Christmas day, we give everyone their gifts for that person from everyone in the family and they open them until everybody has opened their gifts, then we all gather in the kitchen and enjoy a Christmas brunch made by my mom (and sometimes the other women in the family)

[Flame Convert]

Merry Christmas to all.

[Flame Convert]

Merry Christmas to all.

Since we moved to Lynchburg 3 years ago our family attends the Celtic Christmas Eve Service at Rivermont Ave Baptist Church, the church home of Cider Jim.
Christmas day we will have dinner with my wife's brother in law who usually ends up passing gas all day and being proud of it ( maybe Santa will bring us some Febreeze , Lysol and a dose patience)

[Purple Haize]

Bean-o also works.

[flamesfilmguy]

Celebrated with the Gf's family tonight and Hanging with my family tomorrow. We always go see a movie on christmas day. This year... The muppets. I'm excited. Mom always makes Buckeye balls and Chocolate dipped pretzels too.
Hope you guys all have a merry Christmas!

[rogers3]

Just set out some broken cookies and a mostly empty cup of milk by the fireplace. My 6 yr old son still believes and since we have a 1 year old, I'll keep up the act for a while. Christmas Eve is always a late night for me. Merry Christmas to all.

[Purple Haize]

I'm also going to try to set the record for most posts by an individual on FF during Christmas!
You are right. We don't have any kids! But apparently War Horse is 2 hr 20 min so if we do go after the inlaws I may be pushing it!
Btw, does frost on the ground count as a White Christmas?

[Cider Jim]

No kids either, Haize, but I've got a beef roast in the crockpot for later tonight! We may catch a movie today, too, maybe We Bought a Zoo (nobody loves animals like Mrs. Cider does).

[LUconn]

My mother-in-law frames and wraps the Falwell family Christmas picture she gets in the mail every December and gives it to me. Somehow I manage to fall for it every time. This time it was just Jr's family.

[JK37]

Most of my family's memories revolve around where wenwere a particular year for Christmas. Dad's job while I was growing up was in collegiate athletics, and he was a part of the football team's travel party. We always traveled as a family on bowl trips. We've opened gifts in Jacksonville (Gator Bowl), Tucson (Insight.com Bowl), Phoenix (Fiesta Bowl), Fort Lauderdale (Carquest Bowl), and others.

We always read Luke 2 and pray before opening gifts.

We open baskets instead of stockings. That came from my mom's side. I don't mind the aberration of tradition, because the baskets hold more loot!

Mom's side also used to do an oyster stew on Christmas Day. Thankfully that went by the wayside years ago. Blech!

Now, we do a Dirty Santa on Christmas Eve with mom's whole side of the family. Kids open, then adults get angry and nasty in Dirty Santa!

[phoenix]

Merry Christmas to all.

Since we moved to Lynchburg 3 years ago our family attends the Celtic Christmas Eve Service at Rivermont Ave Baptist Church, the church home of Cider Jim.
Christmas day we will have dinner with my wife's brother in law who usually ends up passing gas all day and being proud of it ( maybe Santa will bring us some Febreeze , Lysol and a dose patience)

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[bluedevilflame]

My mother-in-law frames and wraps the Falwell family Christmas picture she gets in the mail every December and gives it to me. Somehow I manage to fall for it every time. This time it was just Jr's family.

you mean they send those to everyone!! I no longer feel special!