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Old 22-12-2016, 22:41
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On BBC Breakfast this Morning they where talking about certain Traditions at Christmas and ask for Viewers what Christmas Traditions do on Xmas Day morning or though out the day, so it got me thinking and possibly being noisy what is your Christmas Traditions?

Do you or your Family or even Friends have any that you stick by and do have any memories as a kid of Family Traditions and do you keep up with those today or has that stopped ?

I will start the first thing i do on Xmas morning around 7am before anyone is awake i go walk the dog(s) i have done since i was a kid
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Old 22-12-2016, 22:45
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The only 1 that I have stuck by is it's the only morning of the year where I get up and go down stairs without getting washed and dressed. I go down and do the gift opening thing then back up and get sorted.
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Old 22-12-2016, 22:58
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Yes, I have a special breakfast every year and have had it every year since I was a kid.

A more recent tradition is to get up and go out to a local walking spot with the dog at first light.
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Old 22-12-2016, 23:06
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My parents would put whisky in their morning tea (and mine when I was old enough) so now I usually put brandy in my xmas morning coffee. ☕

Even when I was a heavy drinker I only did that at xmas.
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Old 22-12-2016, 23:13
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A more recent tradition is to get up and go out to a local walking spot with the dog at first light.
Is that for Yuletide dogging?
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Old 22-12-2016, 23:41
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Cthulhu carols till the pub opens, Curry once it closes, port & cigars once the curry is finished, sleep once the port is finished

but then I'm a traditionalist
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Old 22-12-2016, 23:48
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I don't really have any but one that I've developed over the last 3 or 4 years is to have egg and chips for Christmas dinner with a few slices of buttered white sliced bread for chip butties and dunking in the egg yolks

It's a treat because I don't have chips or fried food much all year round so go a bit crazy at Christmas

Egg and chips has got to be best meal ever invented so why not have it on the big day ?

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Old 23-12-2016, 00:51
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While I am not in the festive spirit this year due to losing my Dad a few months ago, no doubt the regular stuff will happen.

Coffee & breakfast
Phone long distanced relatives to wish them a Happy Christmas
Exchange gifts with my partner & her relatives
Have a roast of some form
come back to mine and open remaining presents
Normally listen to some music until the battleaxe on TV has finished rambling on
Watch TV for the remainder of the day, with the usual stuffing of sandwiches, mince pies etc

Religiously avoid anything to do with religion throughout the entire day

Then on Boxing day, it is a case of buying next years Christmas Cards at a fraction of the price & then checking out the likes of Game & HMV to see what Boxing day deals they have on, along with any offerings from Amazon.
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Old 23-12-2016, 00:59
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Cthulhu carols till the pub opens, Curry once it closes, port & cigars once the curry is finished, sleep once the port is finished

but then I'm a traditionalist
That is simply wonderful and has made my night.

I will be listening to all those they are far more in keeping with my mood.

Cheers!
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Old 23-12-2016, 05:55
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planning lunch for 1pm - 2pm and actually sitting down at 5pm - 6pm.

my kids have picked up my christmas habits of their childhood and the adults are usually tipsy and giggling on home brew, sloe gin and baileys by midday.
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Old 23-12-2016, 05:56
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While I am not in the festive spirit this year due to losing my Dad a few months ago, no doubt the regular stuff will happen.

Coffee & breakfast
Phone long distanced relatives to wish them a Happy Christmas
Exchange gifts with my partner & her relatives
Have a roast of some form
come back to mine and open remaining presents
Normally listen to some music until the battleaxe on TV has finished rambling on
Watch TV for the remainder of the day, with the usual stuffing of sandwiches, mince pies etc

Religiously avoid anything to do with religion throughout the entire day

Then on Boxing day, it is a case of buying next years Christmas Cards at a fraction of the price & then checking out the likes of Game & HMV to see what Boxing day deals they have on, along with any offerings from Amazon.
i am so, so sorry for your loss dark, you must miss him badly.
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Old 23-12-2016, 06:02
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I'm thinking of starting a Christmas tradition this year. We've made a Christmas pickle so we can play hide the pickle on Christmas Eve.
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Old 23-12-2016, 08:21
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Everyone gets to open a small gift on xmas eve.
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Old 23-12-2016, 08:29
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Is my family the only one that seems to exchange presents after lunch? Everyone else seems to do it in the morning. Its always been done that way in my family.
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Old 23-12-2016, 16:31
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Is my family the only one that seems to exchange presents after lunch? Everyone else seems to do it in the morning. Its always been done that way in my family.
My Husband is German and we often fly to his parents in SE Germany for Christmas, they open all their presents on Xmas Eve which kind of makes the day itself a non-event
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Old 23-12-2016, 16:34
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Is that for Yuletide dogging?
My god no, far too cold for that kind of malarky
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Old 23-12-2016, 18:07
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Xmas Eve - easily cooked meal - pie and peas this year then we're planning to see in our first Christmas at the coast by going for a walk along the sea front and being there at midnight, or on the Esplanade overlooking the harbour.

Xmas Day
Bacon sarnies for breakfast
Open our pressies
Phone relatives in Brum, Liverpool and London
Go for a walk - we walk a lot! - while the pork joint cooks
Home and cook the veggies
Eat lunch/dinner whenever it's ready
Late evening walk by the sea again
Sleep

Boxing Day
All new for us - go to watch the raft races in the harbour and the charity footie match between fishermen and firemen
Home to start eating up all the leftovers
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Old 23-12-2016, 18:32
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Boy wakes & finds stocking full on bed, goes and wakes sis and they bring them to our room and they go through their stockings on our bed. I make them pose for photos until I'm asked to stop. Politely. There are no attitudes on Xmas Day.

After the year Boy woke the house at 4am and then slept the whole day through the tradition ^^^ has been updated to specify - if clock indicates it is before 7am one must go back to sleep. Stockings must only be peeped in and family members woken after 7am, preferably 8am.


Once stockings are done we all go down together and wait at living door to make sure everyone there and no one goes in alone like a Xmas maverick.


Kids and dog open Santa stuff. I take photos until asked to stop... I try to find something Xmassy to put on TV in background but get distracted and we end up with random toot on until presents are done and husband asks why we're watching the shopping channel. Then I feel disappointed because IT'S NOT XMASSY!

Have breakfast (Kraves - son insists on Xmas Kraves) in living room and then we all open everything under the tree.

Someone has to remove stocking from dog's head where she inevitably gets herself stuck. Every year.

Someone will stick a sticky bow on dog's head and we laugh until she starts spinning round and then I take pity and say it's cruel.

Kids play/showering/dressing and in-laws arrive at some point for an hr or so to see what kids got.

Walk dog.

Off to my folks to open more presents & Xmas dinner.

We always plan to watch the Xmas movie after Queen's speech but we always miss it because there's so much going on.

Back home, sleepy and content, jimjams on and on sofa for Dr Who. Cold turkey, pickles, cheeses, crackers, chutney, ham & cold stuffing. Xmas cake. Xmas pudding and cream.

Play new board game with kids. Bed. It always goes so fast!




Every Xmas Eve kids get to open 2 presents - 1 from us that's always Christmas jammies to wear that night and one from a friend.



ETA: I'm aware that reads like a 'What we do at xmas' but those are our traditions. All of them. If those things didn't happen in that order we'd be all at sixes and sevens.
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Old 23-12-2016, 19:16
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My parents would put whisky in their morning tea (and mine when I was old enough) so now I usually put brandy in my xmas morning coffee. ☕

Even when I was a heavy drinker I only did that at xmas.
I was working in the US over one Christmas and one of my American colleagues didn't want me to be stuck in my hotel room over Xmas and invited me to their house for Xmas Eve Dinner

They were having pre-dinner coffee and I asked if I could have some brandy in my coffee which was a tradition at my house back in the UK

The Americans are very strange about their attitudes to alcohol and judging by their reactions to this request I think they thought I was an alcoholic who couldn't let a drink go by without taking the chance to add alcohol

I'm pretty sure I was served half measures of wine for the rest of the evening
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Old 23-12-2016, 20:12
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For the past three years I have always set my alarm for 7.15. Daughter gets up about 8.

I like to go downstairs, make a coffee and go into lounge. Then put Christmas tree lights on and sit in their light and the peace, calm and stillness of the house before the noise if the day takes over. Gives me time to wake up and think and reflect on things. Once I hear daughter wake up and husband get her out of bed I put the Christmas music on and start recording them as they walk into the room. The peace is over and Christmas Day begins. I will probably do the same this year as well so I guess this has become my tradition.
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