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Kieren wrote:

Well, recently moving 3600km away from home permanently and basically starting a new life,
and with it being around Christmas time has had me thinking about my Christmas traditions,
and some things i'll very much miss this year.

Every Christmas eve my parents and I would go over to our family friends Christmas Eve party about 3 streets away,
i'd hanging out my brother and his friends, some years just his friends,
we'd all sit around consuming some adult beverages playing super smash bros and playing pool until midnight,
when we would watch the Trailor Park Boys Christmas Special.
Same one every year and I loved it.
Also watching The Nightmare Before Christmas sometime during Christmas eve.

Also my grandmas homemade coffee cake ever Christmas morning. <3

unfortunately the relatives i'm living with would never watch something like trailor park boy's.
so i'll either be watching it alone or not at all. :/

So y'all please tell me,
What are your yearly Christmas traditions?????
What makes it Christmas for you?

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Kieren wrote:

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Kieren wrote:
Y'all don't have any traditions?!?!?!
How boring. 🙄

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Radveins wrote:
celebrating Christmas Eve, 12 dishes, eating carp, no meat, borsch, dumplings and lots of mandarines.

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ThugWorkout wrote:
Christmas has changed a lot over the past few year for me. My sister passed away Christmas Day 8 years ago so that changed things, and now I have a boyfriend and so I tend to go to his for Christmas Day now. But I still have my Christmas Eve tradition of opening one present, which is always pyjamas. And we always go out for a meal in Christmas Eve because it's my boyfriends brothers birthday that day.

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Kieren wrote:

ThugWorkout wrote:
Christmas has changed a lot over the past few year for me. My sister passed away Christmas Day 8 years ago so that changed things, and now I have a boyfriend and so I tend to go to his for Christmas Day now. But I still have my Christmas Eve tradition of opening one present, which is always pyjamas. And we always go out for a meal in Christmas Eve because it's my boyfriends brothers birthday that day.

i'm so sorry, thats awful.
I hope you still make the most of Christmas.
Sounds like theres a good thing going with your boyfriend and his family.

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Brynhild wrote:
I do not really like Christmas since my father died, even if it's been a few years, it's still a complicated period that I have trouble appreciating. This year is the first time in many years that I will do something with my mother for the occasion!

We have recently taken up a tradition that we done before. Every year, we buy a new ball for the christmas tree (this year it's my mother who offered it to me!). We buy JUST ONE, so we must choose it well! This keeps a memory every year and permite us to have a tree that reminds many good times (it's far from being a "trend" christmas tree, but I love to find back the balls of the past years and of when I was a kid).

When I was little, we also had the tradition of the day nursery (I'm not sure of the translation, sorry, I'm speaking of the little wooden house with religious characters). It's a religious tradition. It's all about putting Jesus in the nursery on the morning of the 25th. I'm not particularly religious. But I don't know why, I've always loved it, especially when I was little. I was looking forward to this moment!

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MasileinDE wrote:
We used to have the tradition, that the whole family comes to us (we would be visiting them on easter). But lately it just turned way too stressfull.
My uncle and my grandma were kind of testing who of them could get drunkest, my aunt was just vile towards anyone, my cousin would get hysterical over everything, especially when her boyfriend couldn't come along and so he was celebrating with his family. Plus the whole stress of making the food and all of the other preparations like cleaning.
So since last year, my immediate family (parents, brothers) come visit me in Hamburg, 680km from home. It's way funnier, because we can spend time together and don't need to live with the whole stress.