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I know most of you guys won't be done before tomorrow, but as us Norwegians open our gifts in the evening the 24th, I am officially done with gifts and Christmas dinner.

It was nice, well minus the part where I lost half a tooth, got some awesome gifts and ate too much food.

Anyway I guess this is a thread to talk about your Christmas traditions? If anyone is interested at all I can talk about mine?

But what do you do on Christmas day if you do everything on Christmas eve?

Nothing, well the (social) rule is you can only visit family also everything is closed so... My family goes to my grandparents an hour away to eat exactly the same food we ate today. Others just stay at home having a quiet day in, the children play with their new toys, us adult play with the stuff we get. Some might play board games.

We celebrate some on the 23d tho.

Mine are generally the normal American stuff, sans huge family get together. So basically, special[ish] breakfast, opening gifts, and a big dinner. Otherwise it's a normal day.

You?

Look further down and I explained!

First off, how did you lose half a tooth? Was it during the Feats of Strength?

My family don't have any very unique traditions. We set up the (artificial) tree and decorate it, listen to Nat King Cole's Christmas album, drive around looking at lights, open presents on Christmas morning, then have a big dinner in the afternoon.

I have no fucking idea how my tooth fell off... It wasn't like I bit into some bone or anything... let us say it was during some kind of old sacred Viking tradition and I fought a polar bear

~~Ohh we have an artificial tree too! It sounds nice tho, just spending some time with family? Oh when do you guys normally eat dinner? And is it like the same time a day for everyone?~~

Are you going to put your half tooth in a little paper boat and set it on fire in the bathtub?

Re: Happy Christmas/Holidays!

making_excuses - 2013-12-25 01:38 (UTC) - Expand

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chardmonster - 2013-12-25 01:44 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Happy Christmas/Holidays!

making_excuses - 2013-12-25 11:11 (UTC) - Expand

Wow, you fought a polar bear as part of your ancient Viking traditions and got away with only a chipped tooth?? Awesome.

I love our artificial tree. It's twenty years old and still looks great. Yes, it's just me and my parents. We visited my sister ten hours away over the weekend, but she's working Christmas Eve and Day. Christmas dinner is a lot like Thanksgiving dinner for my family, we tend to eat really early, around two or three. From what I've seen, eating Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner that early is common in America, but only for those big feast days.

Re: Happy Christmas/Holidays!

making_excuses - 2013-12-25 11:14 (UTC) - Expand

How the heck did you lose a tooth?!? :(

It's kind of the end of an era for our traditions. We used to go to my grandparents house and open presents from extended family on Christmas Eve and then do Christmas with immediate family on the 25th. I don't remember what we did after my parents got divorced? I my brothers and I went to my grandparents with my mom since they're her parents, then spent the 25th with my dad since selfies either him. Still tried do Christmas Eve with mom/grandparents, Christmas Day with dad after I moved out, but I was usually working. I'm working tonight, which is for the best really.

Talk about yours!

I have no freaking idea... Suddenly I just felt something weird and thought something was stuck from dinner, so went to get it out with a tooth pick... Apparently it wasn't something stuck it was something lost.

Oh? I wouldn't mind working during Christmas really. I am not a Christmassy person...

Edit: Also look down for mine.

Edited 2013-12-25 02:03 (UTC)

Letsee family traditions.

We open gifts on christmas eve, christmas day we have christmas lunch with granparents then christmas dinner for friends/family at ours.

There's a tree.

Uh, some of the family goes to church.

food is things like cold ham, cold turkey, salads, bbq, pasta salad/potato salad

Might go to the beach.

...the traditions are not strong in me >_>;; I normally work too, this will probably be my last christmas shift though. I'm looking forward to making my own traditions!

Going to the beach on Christmas sounds fun! Darn you, Southern Hemisphere-ers... How do they make potato salad in Australia? With mustard? I like mine with mustard.

Never have I ever put mustard in a potato salad! Is it good?

Normally it's just potatos, eggs, salad mayo, herbs that I feel like on the day, bacon, shallots or onion. Normally I buy it, I've only made it from scratch a couple of times XD

Re: Happy Christmas/Holidays!

fingalsanteater - 2013-12-25 02:24 (UTC) - Expand

The beach? Damn you! We have ice, all around us it is slippery and just a danger to everything!

One does not need to have manny traditions tho, your Christmas seems nice!

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(Anonymous) - 2013-12-25 02:12 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2013-12-25 02:14 (UTC) - Expand

This is what my family does, some details may vary from family to family, but it is pretty much the same everywhere...

23d of December, which is called "Little Christmas Eve", or "The Night Before The Night" in Norwegian:

- We decorate for Christmas (Minus the lights in the windows and advent lights, which are put out on the first Sunday in Advent or 1st of December)
- Put up the Christmas tree (which is plastic in our house)
- Make half the food
- Watch Dinner for One (This is something mostly every Norwegian does, at 20.00ish every
- Then just general get ready for tomorrow stuff.
- In my house we also clean most of the house, as I don't get home before the 22nd to help out.

24th of December:
- 10ish in the morning Get up, find candy Santa left (I am the youngest in our house at 23, Santa still leaves candy, tho now Christmas sock thingy)
- Children tend to get to open one gift in the mornings.
- Watch lots of television, mostly badly dubbed old stuff.
- 12 - 2ish: Eat rice porridge, and find the almond in it to get the small gift. (which we didn't do this year, instead we had a nice lunch)
- Clean up from that and start Christmas dinner.
- Watch some more television, still mostly badly dubbed stuff, but also the broadcasts from different Churches goes out, mostly singing, and interviews and stuff.
- Change into dressy clothes also last minute decorating
- at 5 in the evening Christmas is officially started! Kids usually get to open presents then, but usually you have to finish dinner first.
- This is also the time we usually have dinner, but we have to wait for my step brother to get back from Church first. We also go to the graveyard to light candles on the graves of family members.
- 7-8ish: Opening gifts and coffee.
- 9ish: desert then play boardgames, usually whichever we got as a Christmas gift.
- and now at 2.48 at night I am still up.

25th: "First day of Christmas" in Norwegian
- 10ish eat nice breakfast
- 2ish go to my grandparents
- 5ish eat same food as we ate yesterday, just in a different house

Aaand that is it Christmas stuff is mostly done!

Also here is some links to some tumblr posts I mad today with pictures:

Food: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71013576934/food-mostly-done-just-vegetables-and-some-other
Table: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71008903286/and-for-my-really-observant-followers-we-forgot
Singing Christmas in at 5 on the television: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71014731759/aaand-s-lvguttene-sings-christmas-in-this-year
Also Santa!: http://making-excuses.tumblr.com/post/71035959244/santa-came

~~as usual if you want details or something clarify just ask~~

That's funny - Dinner for One is here (in Germany) a New Year's Eve classic and will be played on numerous tv stations on the 31st December. :)

Otherwise it's pretty similar: gift opening in the evening of the 24th December, etc.

Re: Look here for my Christmas traditions:

inkdust - 2013-12-25 03:11 (UTC) - Expand

That sounds like a lot of fun. What kind of candy? Do you celebrate the first day with mostly immediate family, or with aunts/uncles/cousins, too?

Re: Look here for my Christmas traditions:

making_excuses - 2013-12-25 02:20 (UTC) - Expand

We cook the exact same foods that we cooked a month ago for Thanksgiving, open presents, and then eat the food, and then we ignore each other. We used to put up a (fake) tree, but that's too much effort now I guess. I wish we had fun traditions.

It may technically be the 25th atm but we're not allowed to open gifts till a sensible time in the morning on Christmas day, then it's opening gifts time and then helping my mum cook our roast Turkey(I say help I tend to chop the vegetables while she does the proper cooking).

We do Christmas Eve dinner with my mom's parents, with Slovak mushroom soup and pierogi and Christmas wafers, and open those presents there. Then back at home the next morning we do immediate family presents and then go to my dad's family for lunch and do those presents. Then Christmas Day dinner is usually just my parents and me scrounging for whatever we have the energy to make :)

Wha? Really? Christmas-tooth-losing-five!

My family gives only something like 2.5 fucks about Christmas gifts, we have nothing but polite disdain for both sides of our extended families, and all our friends are as low-key as we are, so we never, ever have any Christmas stress at all. Also, we celebrate Christmas for all twelve days, just for the hell of it.

*grins smugly and doucheyly and waits to have another tooth broken by an irritated someone, like I did last Twelfth Night/my 21st birthday*

Why is that a douchey thing?

Re: Happy Christmas/Holidays!

intrigueing - 2013-12-25 05:14 (UTC) - Expand

Happy holidays, everyone, and sorry about your tooth,

making_excuses! That sounds really painful, but I hope it's not.

Back when my mom's parents were alive and her brother was still married to his second wife (she organized almost everything), we used to have a holiday tradition of playing Dirty Santa. Everybody would bring a wrapped $20 gift and put it into a pile, and we'd draw numbers to determine the order in which we'd pick a gift. Once your number came up, you could either pick a gift from the pile or steal one from someone who went before you, at which time the person who was robbed either got to pick another or steal another (no steal-backs were allowed, and once a gift had been stolen twice it couldn't be stolen again) and so on. It could get very vicious, as our family is very, very competitive and capable of super villain-level craftness, but there was a surprising amount of teamwork involved as well. The best example is when my grandmother offered the last blanket she would ever knit as her gift, and everyone wanted it so badly, but my mom and I successfully worked together to win it. I still have that blanket, and I miss my grandmother every time I use it. I hope that maybe next year we can revive the tradition.

Thank you! It will only hurt my wallet...

Ohh we do something similar on New Years! Just with two dices and it is just tiny things that we mostly don't know what is, and some of it is usually gifts we got for Christmas but want to get rid of.

It is nice that you won the blanket! Always good to have memories of people that you can actually hold in your hands.

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