17th shards christmas 17th Shard's Christmas: Christmas Stories/Traditions

[Experience he/him]

Here's the thread for any real life Christmas stories or traditions that you might have.

For me, my family has a pickle ornament that my grandparents hide somewhere in the house on Christmas eve, and on Christmas whoever finds it gets a special Pickle Present.

So, what are all your stories?

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Edited December 1, 2020 by Ookla the Shadowed

[Condensation she/her]

We go up into the mountains(with a permit) to sled, drink hot cocoa, have fun with family, and get our own live Christmas tree! Every Black Friday. Now we just have to put ours up.

[Hen she/her]

We always open one present on Christmas Eve, and its always a new set of pajamas 

[Chasmgoat he/him]

we always have cherry coffee cake for breakfast

[Vapor she/her]

Our family is pretty big, so we always draw sibling names out of a hat and give all the gifts we buy for siblings to them. It's a way to save money and get more valuable presents.

[Chasmgoat he/him]

Just now, Vapor said:

Our family is pretty big, so we always draw sibling names out of a hat and give all the gifts we buy for siblings to them. It's a way to save money and get more valuable presents.

we used to do that.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

We always watch A Charlie Brown Christmas, and we have tacos on Christmas Eve.

[LukeWasTaken he/him]

I stay home.

[Ghanderflaffle she/her]

We always play bingo on one side of the family and we bring a whole bunch of bingo prizes, and on the other side we have a soup supper.

[+Doomstick he/him]

2 hours ago, Ookla The Female Chicken said:

We always open one present on Christmas Eve, and its always a new set of pajamas 

 

we make an orange/chocolate yule log.

we celebrate saturnalia before it too, kinda

[FriarFritz]

3 hours ago, Vapor said:

Our family is pretty big, so we always draw sibling names out of a hat and give all the gifts we buy for siblings to them. It's a way to save money and get more valuable presents.

We do a similar thing, where everyone draws a name and gets a "full-sized" present for that person. We might still get presents for other siblings, but those will generally be lower-cost, little things.

[+Doomstick he/him]

Hehe, candy making is appreciated by all, and isn't *that* expensive (per person) and you get your own candy too! (This is why this will be the third year I will be making candy for Christmas presents.)

Edited December 1, 2020 by Ookla the Rhadamanthine

[Bearer of all agonies he/him]

9 hours ago, Ookla the Grammatical said:

We go up into the mountains(with a permit) to sled, drink hot cocoa, have fun with family, and get our own live Christmas tree! Every Black Friday. Now we just have to put ours up.

What? You need a permit to sled there?

[Experience he/him]

We are always forced to wait for a very long time upstairs until all the adults are ready. Then, it's picture time, which takes another hour. So it's usually about noon by the time we actually see the tree on Christmas.

[Chasmgoat he/him]

we always get a chocolate orange for Christmas in our stockings.

[Experience he/him]

Oh!! Also we always have eggnog, the best invention since sliced bread.

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

10 hours ago, Ookla the Sarcastic said:

We always play bingo on one side of the family and we bring a whole bunch of bingo prizes, and on the other side we have a soup supper.

@Ookla the Groovy and I have a pretty similar tradition, except it’s split between the kids and adults. The kids will usually buy $5-$10 bingo gifts, and we all play until everybody gets a gift. Afterwards comes the main event of the night: adult bingo. Same setup, slightly more expensive gifts, but there’s a catch/bonus. Our grandparents invest in a ridiculously expensive bingo gift (newest apple phone, an Apple Watch, a new tv, sometimes just straight up cash) and all the adults play one round of bingo to determine who the winner is. Things are pretty tense during that round, needless to say (luckily all my aunts and uncles are on great terms with one another so it’s not like a fight is going to break out or anything) and who ever is victorious usually celebrates for a solid 5 minutes. Oh and we also have a giant gift swap, once again divided by age. Am I missing anything AC?

[Vapor she/her]

1 hour ago, Ookla the Shadowed said:

We are always forced to wait for a very long time upstairs until all the adults are ready. Then, it's picture time, which takes another hour. So it's usually about noon by the time we actually see the tree on Christmas.

We do that too and it annoys me so much because one of my younger siblings makes it a sport to try to get down without them seeing, but every time my mom sees him we have to wait longer.

[Channelknight Fadran]

1 hour ago, Vapor said:

We do that too and it annoys me so much because one of my younger siblings makes it a sport to try to get down without them seeing, but every time my mom sees him we have to wait longer.

Fog, Vapor's not very happy with you...

[Vapor she/her]

4 minutes ago, Ookla the Channelknight said:

Fog, Vapor's not very happy with you...

How'd you know

Spoiler

oh shoot I put him

 

[Channelknight Fadran]

1 minute ago, Vapor said:

How'd you know

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oh shoot I put him

 

It actually had nothing to do with the pronoun (I kinda skimmed the sentence). I just know that Fog's a bigger troublemaker.

Let him know I said that. I want to know how he reacts.

[Vapor she/her]

Just now, Ookla the Channelknight said:

It actually had nothing to do with the pronoun (I kinda skimmed the sentence). I just know that Fog's a bigger troublemaker.

Let him know I said that. I want to know how he reacts.

He's at school. But I'll let him know when he gets home.

[Bearer of all agonies he/him]

Hmmmm. We usually wake up, go downstairs, and sit and eat breakfast on the couches around the tree. Then, when everyone is awake, we open presents and get to see our little cousins be happy.

[Rebecca she/her]

This isn’t on Christmas, but anytime from Thanksgiving to a week before Christmas, we do gingerbread houses! If we’re with my mom’s side of the family, it gets pretty intense. We have tables full of decorating candy and it usually takes the whole day to finish our houses. It’s super fun! It’s fun with just my family or my dad’s side too, but we pretty much just use the stuff in the kits haha.

[Rosharan A.C. he/him]

2 hours ago, Ookla the Steampunked said:

@Ookla the Groovy and I have a pretty similar tradition, except it’s split between the kids and adults. The kids will usually buy $5-$10 bingo gifts, and we all play until everybody gets a gift. Afterwards comes the main event of the night: adult bingo. Same setup, slightly more expensive gifts, but there’s a catch/bonus. Our grandparents invest in a ridiculously expensive bingo gift (newest apple phone, an Apple Watch, a new tv, sometimes just straight up cash) and all the adults play one round of bingo to determine who the winner is. Things are pretty tense during that round, needless to say (luckily all my aunts and uncles are on great terms with one another so it’s not like a fight is going to break out or anything) and who ever is victorious usually celebrates for a solid 5 minutes. Oh and we also have a giant gift swap, once again divided by age. Am I missing anything AC?

We also usually decorate our grandparents Christmas tree together. And I forget Truthless, do you all do Christmas traps?