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[Brittany Murphy]

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Does your household have any? Certain foods? Certain times to open presents? Do you all throw away gift bags? Keep them? Are you a messy package unwrapper or a neat one?

We always eat a non-traditional food on Christmas. This year is lasagna. We usually have everyone over to the house and we eat breakfast (waffles this year) and open presents. Then everyone goes home to nap. Then we do dinner at 4-5.

We keep gift bags and reuse them over and over. And I think most of the people in our house are pretty neat unwrappers but most of us are adults so...

We're having lasagna too! I went vegetarian this year and veggie lasagna was the only meal my mother could think of... :'D I like doing non-traditional things.

It is such a delicious food. I hope yours turns out great!

My sister and I also tend to watch horror movies on Christmas as well.

Heh, we don't do that but... I'm going to try to get my parents into Hamilton

We always go to Christmas Eve service where my dad sings O Holy Night. Then we go home and make a meal out of a bunch of hors d'oeuvres and open presents with my immediate family.

Christmas day, we host my dad's family where we have lasagna, ham, cheesy potatoes, and other odds and ends. Way back when, we used to do games too but there are too many to do that now.

Then at some other point (usually New Year's day), we have a party with my mom's family where we usually have tacos and do a white elephant game.

For presents, I always pick one wrapping paper per person so you can tell at a glance which presents go to whom. We tend to lose our gifts because we have to put them away for the Christmas party the next day and we don't remember where they went. I guess the only other tradition is my dad has to sniff his gifts and take forever guessing what he's getting before actually opening them. And, I have a thing with tape where my OCD wants every seam on a present taped down. My brother usually brings a knife to get into his gifts and makes a game to see if I missed a spot.

We usually have a dinner at my grandparents', then back home we hand out and open gifts. Nothing really exciting in my family, we haven't even had a Santa over in years. just some quality times with family.

We always keep our gift bags, keep them in storage in the attic and re-use them when neccesary (since they're also relevant for birthdays and other occasions). So obviously, everyone's a neat unwrapper. Except for the dog.

I'm a much earlier riser than my parents, so I get up early, look through my stocking, and then try to find a way to occupy the hours til they wake up and we can open presents.

We usually spend the day watching the movies we gave each other for presents. Movies are really big in my family.

We put candles in our Christmas tree! That's a family tradition that's gone back quite a ways, supposedly 500 years.

Then, our family has, more recently, taken to having bagels+cream cheese+salmon for breakfast. I don't remember when it started, but my Mum splurges on the nice salmon, and it's a fun treat. :D

Oh man, good smoked salmon is a treasure worth every penny.

It really is!

I always put my tree up Thanksgiving weekend. I like to get an Advent calendar every year, the kind with little chocolate candies behind each day. On Christmas Eve we open presents and watch "A Christmas Story" on TV and drink champagne. Christmas morning we do stockings and kind of lay around doing whatever until brunch. I make a nice brunch, it's usually good bacon and eggs, and I make eggnog French toast. In the afternoon we visit relatives, and Christmas dinner is served that night. This year I'm making Black Forest ham, sauteed Brussels sprouts, homemade mac and cheese and a bottle of wine. The day after Christmas is usually pretty quiet, everyone winds down from the festivities and movies are watched, leftovers are consumed, and naps are taken, lol. It's actually a pretty good time.

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We save all gift bags that are in "like new" condition, otherwise they go in the recycle bin.

The only kind of tradition we have is watching one of the movies that someone gets in the evening on Christmas day, otherwise everyone just does whatever they want tbh.

We have fondue for Christmas dinner, none of us like turkey.

And always have a big breakfast (sausage, eggs, bacon, english muffins, etc) after opening gifts.

We keep giftbags, giftboxes, and tissue paper if it's in good and reusable condition.

We also never write names on gifts. Always a clue to the gift/giftee, like if it were a puzzle, maybe something like 'Puzzle over this'.

Makes for some interesting, "WAIT NO THAT'S FOR MOM SORRY!" halfway through unwrapping because none of us can remember what the hell the gift was after we've wrapped it. XD

Open presents christmas even and buy a lotto ticket.

Christmas Eve is usually something tasty and simple. This year it's going to be crackers with dip and cheese. I honestly don't know if I am going to be awake for the Christmas Carols on TV, my sleep pattern of late has had me crashing late afternoon.

Mum is in the process of making the Christmas fruitcake. It involves putting a pile of dried fruit and crushed pineapple on the stove to simmer. I presume there's sugar, maybe butter, and the liquid out of the pineapple can in there.

Presents are usually first thing, though as I have gotten older I'm a bit more laid-back about it. Enthusiasm is for kids in this case. Besides I know what practically everything in the present pile is anyway.

Mum likes having pancakes for breakfast on Xmas morning. She decided this year she'd make her own, which is probably a good thing so she isn't running to the bathroom all day because she ate gluten.

Despite it being summer, we always do the complete roast dinner thing, though our turkey is usually boned frozen roasts. We have done the full roast bird before, but that is fiddly and awkward and there's always a spot that doesn't cook right.

Also, dessert usually ends up being a separate meal because lunch turns out so big. Though for me, it's more like big lunch, maybe a small serve of dessert, then more turkey and roast potatoes later.

Your Christmas sounds shockingly like my Christmas, right down to the pineapple fruitcake and the gluten intolerant mother :D

Our habits used to be a fair bit more complex, but that was in times we were more likely to have more family around. Most of our close family is 1000km south and it's only Mum and I, so a lot of the complexities have fallen out - sometime we don't even put up a tree.

We technically celebrate Christmas Eve more (though, we usually will still have Christmas lunch on the 25th).

We will have several courses, but in those two days we'll have fish at least once (should be karp, but any white fish really), and svíčková.

There's also baking Christmas cookies, and my mom has a specific dessert she makes.

So so many. My mom adores Christmas. Oh where do I start.

When we were younger Christmas was a family affair among my mom's family. Her and her two sisters took turns with whom we celebrated Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years with. No matter whose house we went to Mom always gave Christmas Eve pajamas to all us kids (my siblings and I, and my cousin). We at a big meal for Christmas Eve and ended the night with a movie before bed. Then on Christmas day, when I was REAL little we went to our grandmas then as we got older we went to another one of my aunt's and exchanged family gifts and had more food. Oh and we used to make a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas day.

Nowadays though we just stick to the immediate family (and as of this year, my sister's new husbando joins.) We have go to Christmas Eve service, then come home and have a buffet like Christmas Eve feast, we open our Christmas Eve pajamas, take a few pictures, then watch the Nativity Story, and then head to bed. On Christmas we sleep in as long as we can (or my folks do) and often my siblings and I get together and hang out waiting to open presents (tho as we get older its more out of tradition) We open gifts with the fam. We have a rotation system so mom and dad get to enjoy and make it last. We eat breakfast, pretty much have a lazy day all day, We eat leftovers from last night.

Christmas is awesome.

We spend xmas eve day at my parents--having something special for supper. This year it's homemade pizza, last year, we did Chinese. I live with my sister, so we'll come back home (not enough space for all three of us kids to stay overnight at the 'rents--and we don't live that far away). Sis and I open our presents at our place in the morning, have brekkie, then go back down to our parents. Our parents give us money to buy our own gifts, but mum usually picks up some stocking stuffers, so we open those and my parents open their gifts. We have a turkey dinner for our midday meal.

Not a lot of stuff to unwrap, but I think we're mostly neat unwrappers and yes, gift bags that are in good condition will get re-used.

We always do stockings first when we're all up, then breakfast (usually coffee cake or stolen), then presents. One of us is santa, giving out all the gifts, and one of us has a bag to put all the wrapping paper in.

Masa Savada. A Portuguese sweet bread with anise. We always had it around Xmas, it was a big deal, a big treat. Now my brother makes the best loaves every year, and always sends us some.

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