Holiday Traditions
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Holiday Traditions
My father insists on watching the old scrooge musical with Albet Finney. my mother and I like to wake up at 5 am and drink coffee. Small and simple traditions are the joys of these days. This year I work christmas day but it should still be all the usual joy. What is your holiday family tradition?
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We travel to hot places and forget Christmas is a thing. It's my favourite tradition
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Church, and then eat and drink as if we forgot what is included in the 7 deadly sins.
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Always a holy walk in the days before to get some for the house, with a sprig dropped from a river bridge for those no longer with us. Christmas Day itself is prezzies, dinner and games, with a 3 o'clock toast to absent friends. All the family does that regardless where they are, which I've always liked :). That's about it, really. Simple things.
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We usually end up doing things throughout the season... we had 'first Christmas' when we could all get together the day after Thanksgiving. And since then we do something (watch a stupid movie... drink eggnog... sing Christmasy things) most days. Christmas Eve we have church, and then in the morning we'll do the materialistic yet fun pressie thing. Stockings last (filled with choco, jelly bellies, writing implements, and post-it notes.) We read that Santa Clause Poem, and Olive the Other Reindeer. Christmas Day spent watching Christmas trash, probably going to a movie (Aquaman or Mary, Queen of Scots this year) and eating, eating, eating. Boxing Day we go buy stuff at the sales.
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dargorygel wrote: ↑Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:19 amWe usually end up doing things throughout the season... we had 'first Christmas' when we could all get together the day after Thanksgiving. And since then we do something (watch a stupid movie... drink eggnog... sing Christmasy things) most days. Christmas Eve we have church, and then in the morning we'll do the materialistic yet fun pressie thing. Stockings last (filled with choco, jelly bellies, writing implements, and post-it notes.) We read that Santa Clause Poem, and Olive the Other Reindeer. Christmas Day spent watching Christmas trash, probably going to a movie (Aquaman or Mary, Queen of Scots this year) and eating, eating, eating. Boxing Day we go buy stuff at the sales.
He forgot to mention watching the hell out of Notre Dame v Clemson
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"He forgot to mention watching the hell out of Notre Dame v Clemson"
post-Christmas, man...
post-Christmas, man...
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Couple of Christmas I have nevers.
Never drunk eggnog
Never watched It's a Wonderful Life
Never drunk eggnog
Never watched It's a Wonderful Life
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Become ill in some fashion, ranging anywhere from a mild cold to sudden and explosive vomiting.
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The church here is early in the morning, leaving this apart, more or less we do what all people do with food and gifts.
What you may find unusual is that by tradition we don't decorate a tree but a boat (the country being sea-faring from ancient times) the tree became part of the Christmas culture from the 18th century's half and after.
What you may find unusual is that by tradition we don't decorate a tree but a boat (the country being sea-faring from ancient times) the tree became part of the Christmas culture from the 18th century's half and after.
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Some new traditions are welcome, others less so. 150 years ago America began to adopt the English tradition of "tipping", which was considered a loathsome and corrupt form of roguery that reinforced the class system and threatened to turn the land of the free into the land of the fee.
Sadly, it did.
On a similar theme I'm reading a 19th century novel by a British upper class chap in which he writes about the impossibility of someone born to a family of high social status winning an election as the Americans would vote always for the common man. Funny how things change.
Sadly, it did.
On a similar theme I'm reading a 19th century novel by a British upper class chap in which he writes about the impossibility of someone born to a family of high social status winning an election as the Americans would vote always for the common man. Funny how things change.
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