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Its christmas time. What are your weird traditions that, while you love, are really weird?
Mine are Christmas themed Horror Movies.
Im watching the Jack Frost movies. Who doesnt love movies about a snowman with the soul of a deranged serial killer?
Also, Holiday Riffs. I love Rifftrax.

We celebrate Christmas on 7 january rather than 25 december.
Our family observes Eastern Orthodox traditions, which is really weird since we are supposed to be Protestants

Apart from that, I just love to stay in bed with somehot chocolate and watch Christmas movies.

Is drinking myself into oblivion a weird tradition? If so, that's my weird tradition. If not? It's just my tradition.

I have a couple in my family.

*You always get a pack of socks and underwear in your stocking
*You always get an orange or a potato in your stocking depending how good you were for the year (even as an adult, though it almost always is a potato after age 12, or so)
*You always eat sweet rolls with coffee while opening presents


I am looking forward to my potato this year!

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I am looking forward to my potato this year!

Is that from the Irish side of your family?

Lasagna dinner

Christmas eve my cousins and I go down the cellar and put on hockey and football gear and beat the crap out of each other.

My family has a tradition of sticking a (fake) pickle in the Christmas tree, and whoever then finds it gets an extra present. Not sure how unusual that is, seeing as how some local stores will have a pickle specifically for this purpose along with other miscellaneous Christmas merchandise.

Our Christmas is pretty standard.Go to my parents house and we all drink a ton of margarita and whiskey. New years we break open a Watermelon with a bat to "break in the new year" and mom makes beans and cornbread.

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I have a couple in my family.

*You always get an orange or a potato in your stocking depending how good you were for the year (even as an adult, though it almost always is a potato after age 12, or so)

I am looking forward to my potato this year!

We do a similar thing, but you just get an orange. Out of interest, what area's are your ancestors from, it may be a cultural thing?


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I just remebered one, my family always waits until Dec 15th to get the tree, as my brother has his birthday on the 14th.

And we always have ebelskiver for breakfast christmas day, or as my swedish great grandmother (mor-mor) called it, munker (that's the Norwegian name, IIRC). Her husband was danish, so that's probably where it's from.

Lucky Charms. They weren't much more expensive than other cereals that were bad for you, but generally we just ate our bootstraps, so it was a special celebration for us to have something else.

We celebrate Christmas twice. First time is the weekend before Christmas with the Dutch side of my family (I've been told it's something to do with tradition in Holland, but I haven't been interested enough to investigate) and on Christmas Day with the English side.

As a kid it was a great because I got gak loads of presents. As an adult it's great because my family is enormous now with newly acquired wives, husbands and children, and it's a bit exhausting at both of them. Together it would be a nightmare.

Also, watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation on Christmas Eve after dinner. That's one my fiancee and I have.

We celebrate Hanukah and Christmas, but only the soulless gimme-gimme-gimme versions. Also, at least 1.5 viewings of A Christmas Story in a row. We also give the dog a ridiculously oversized toy, the kind the clerk at the pet store warns us about.

My parents and I make many batches of Kołaczki, usually totaling around 500 cookies. This takes the 3 of us at least 2 days and has become expected by all our relatives, friends, and co-workers. The plus side of this is that anyone I feel like I need to give a gift to, but don't know what to give, is handled by way of homemade cookies. Also I can be passive-aggressive and give all the people I don't like, but need to be nice to, the prune and poppy ones.

Other than that, Die Hard 2 on Christmas Eve and McLintock! on Christmas Day.

The wife and I hang out with friends and try to avoid family for a week (that part isn't hard, though - they live in a different city from me.)

I've been doing it for almost 30 years, so it's kind of a tradition for me.

We have two Christmas days. One vegetarian and one not.
Bear with me. Back home our neighbours used to be a pair of sisters who'd lived together their whole lives and then back together again from about their mid 30s. About a decade ago, the older sister died.
My parents couldn't bear the thought of the remaining sister spending the day alone, so she's now part of our family, comes over all day. On Christmas Day, we have vegetables, nut roast, cinnamon and raisin stuffed apples, and everything but the meat. Boxing Day, we have a Christmas dinner with meats.
She never asked for this, it's just a decision my folks made.

The night before Christmas Eve, we have a large Irish music party that takes over the entire house. Apart from the bedrooms now that the children are older. Every room, the hallway, kitchen, garage, all full of music and people playing music, laughing, talking. We have to take the doors off the hinges downstairs so that the music isn't truncated by them. It started the year I was born, and we've never missed one since, come hell or high water.

Presents from Santa. I'm 24 and Christmas at the parent's STILL has presents from Santa. Me and both my parents get one and it's an excuse for the big ticket gift. The thing that costs way too much, but since it's from Santa, there's no complaining allowed about the giver spending too much on it.

Watching all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Its christmas time. What are your weird traditions that, while you love, are really weird?
Mine are Christmas themed Horror Movies.
Im watching the Jack Frost movies. Who doesnt love movies about a snowman with the soul of a deranged serial killer?
Also, Holiday Riffs. I love Rifftrax.

We have the annual self control and morality exercise where I try not to beat my brother in law's brains in with a baseball bat when he starts another one of his rants.

I have been getting Looney Tunes socks for two decades now. As a 31 year old, I love it

 whembly wrote:
Watching all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies.

Ohh yeah, I definitely binge watch the Die Hard franchise, though usually not on Christmas day itself.


Not all that weird at all, but it's become tradition (2nd year now) that when we get home from thanksgiving, I pull out the fake tree and set it up with the kids' "help" while the wife does laundry and whatever. This next weekend will probably be some exterior decorations.... depending on the weather and my mood. (More than likely, due to school work obligations, I'm gonna set up the inflatable r2 and 3PO and call it about good.)

Watch BBC Christmas things I like.

Yep.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I am looking forward to my potato this year!

Is that from the Irish side of your family?

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 DarkTraveler777 wrote:
I have a couple in my family.

*You always get an orange or a potato in your stocking depending how good you were for the year (even as an adult, though it almost always is a potato after age 12, or so)

I am looking forward to my potato this year!

We do a similar thing, but you just get an orange. Out of interest, what area's are your ancestors from, it may be a cultural thing?

Hey! Glad the potato thing resonates with people.

Yeah, I don't know know where the tradition started to be honest. I have a feeling it started with my grandmother, since she was kinda spikey at times and liked to be mean on special occasions (if she gave you a potato, it may have been because she was holding a grudge against you from earlier in the year).

My family originally settled in Illinois before moving out to Southern California in the 50's. I know we have some Irish and probably half of Europe as well mixing around in our gene pool, so who knows if this was a tradition passed from "the old country" or if it was just something my grandma came up with on whim.

In the UK it's traditional to put an orange or satsuma in the stocking, as they used to be a treat in the winter months. Now it's carried on and nobody's entirely sure why.

My mom still does the stocking thing(and I am 39) for myself and my wife when we go up there.

I still force everyone to wake up at 7am(used to be 6am) to open presents.

If my brother is there, my mom, him and I get snockered on egg nogg while my dad and wife roll their eyes.

We occasionally go hunting in the evening depending on the weather and if the hen season was extended. (provided we aren't snockered on rum/eggnog). If the weather is nice we might go out in the boat to an offshore island and do some shooting.

My mom always makes that weird cranberry crap and traditionally everyone but her says no.

Prawn cocktail for the first course of the Christmas dinner.

Every year.

Always.

My partner's family had a tradition that his mother would make the rum sauce for the Christmas pudding, and before pouring it, taste it and decide if the rum content was sufficient.
It wouldn't be, and then she would add enough rum to usually turn it brown and cold (rum sauce is traditionally white and hot), and then pour more rum over the pudding on her plate.
I was only there for this once, and as the new initiate, fell victim to the sauce. The rest of the family grinned like cats whilst I ended up with far too much alcohol.

Sadly last year she was in final stages of dementia, so didn't get to make the sauce. She did get to taste it, and pass judgement ("not enough rum"), and I insisted on playing a very cheesy Christmas music CD all day, so she definitely knew it was Christmas Day when drifting in and out.

Sadly last year she was in final stages of dementia, so didn't get to make the sauce. She did get to taste it, and pass judgement ("not enough rum"), and I insisted on playing a very cheesy Christmas music CD all day, so she definitely knew it was Christmas Day when drifting in and out.

Good for you young man. Good for you.

Me and my da go to the forest to steal a tree. Only a stolen Christmas tree is a good Christmas tree.

These days we actually have a piece of land planted with a bunch of pine and spruce so we effectively steal from ourselves, but the cursing and cold and shouts of "Watch what you're doing with that axe!" are still part of the ritual.

I go for a jog on Christmas Day, in the early evening.