Silly Christmas Traditions

Lust4Life · 09-12-2006 02:24PM #1

I was having a conversation with my friend Eric the other day, discussing Christmas and things you can count on families / family members do every single year.

For me, it would be consuming large quantities of Eggnog on Christmas Day.
Oh how I adore Eggnog!

For my friend Eric, it has been tradition since he was like 14 to rearrange his Mother's Nativity Set so that the 3 wisemen are all in a comprimising position when she is not looking.

So what silly traditions do you / your family members do each year at Christmas that complete the whole experience for you?

rugbug86 · 09-12-2006 02:33PM

go to america the day after for the sales!!

ehm, waking up, opening presents, having brekkie, uncle coming down and eating spiced beef, neighbours coming in, dinner, die of over consumption.

thats pretty much my christmas (missing a few details!)

but for me, christmas starts on christmas eve, when me and my mam throw everyone else out and prep all the food and stuff for the next day, then wrap the presents and then have the first christmas drink. its lovely!

Terry · 09-12-2006 02:41PM

i like to make threads about how christmas was originally a pagan feast day and that the bastard christians usurped it for their own greedy purposes and then bitch and moan about how the spirit of christmas has been lost and it is no longer about celebrating our lord and saviour, but rather about consumerism.
then get drunk.

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Pazaz 21 · 09-12-2006 03:29PM

Get up, open presents that you already know what they are, complain that christmas is no fun once you don't belive in santa clause, have dinner, sit around playing board games, watch "The Great Escape", again, drink, have supper of left overs, drink, eat mountains of chocolate, watch tv, drink, sleep.

:| · 09-12-2006 04:20PM

Every christmas eve my family go to graham o sullivans for our breakfast. It used to be so my dad could sneak the santa presents into the house but now its just something we have to do

bluto63 · 09-12-2006 04:25PM

Get up, open some presents, over to the nieghbours for drinks, back home for dinner then the rest of the presents.

I love Christmas. I can't wait for it.:)

wheres me jumpa · 09-12-2006 05:32PM

My day will consist of:

Get up.
Dish out pressies.
Get in my car and drive to various houses where at each I will have "just the one please, Im driving".
Come home.
Get dinner.
Open the Roses.
Watch a dvd/play a game somebody gave me.
Watch a dvd with the entire family. More often than not a comedian, e.g. Brendan Grace.
Make some turkey and stuffing sandwiches.
Finish off the Roses.
Bed.

fade2black · 09-12-2006 05:34PM

Is Eggnog a part of any Irish person's Xmas tradition?

wheres me jumpa · 09-12-2006 05:37PM

fade2black wrote:

Is Eggnog a part of any Irish person's Xmas tradition?

Nope! Never had it!

Hagar · 09-12-2006 05:38PM

On Christmas Eve, dress up as a homeless person and knock at the door of the house with the nicest decorations and ask for a room for the night. See how much Christian spirit is shown. You will probably be threatened with the Gardaí or they will set the dog on you.

Ruu_Old · 09-12-2006 05:41PM

Christmas Day is not complete without Home Alone, Its a Wonderful Life or A Charlie Brown Christmas. Forget about everything else.

Alter-Ego · 09-12-2006 06:04PM

Get up, Hangover, Presents, Breakfast, Bad TV, Visit Brothers Grave, Visit Grandparents Grave, Dinner, Booze, Relatives come over, More presents, More Booze, Bed/Sofa.

Kojak · 09-12-2006 06:20PM

Usually our Christmas Day involves getting up, presents being exchanged, go to mass, have relations for Christmas dinner (longest part of the day - nothing but sh1te talk) rest after all the heavy eating, get loads of drink and basically complain that there's nothing good on TV on Christmas day.

BlueSpiral · 09-12-2006 06:29PM

Celebrate my birthday.
Sleep for 12 hours.
Celebrate Christmas Day, where we'll all eat the dinner round the table without any of us wanting to escape, then turn on Rte for the Christmas day movie.

the Shades · 09-12-2006 06:47PM

I usually end up wrapping presents for my mother on Christmas Eve. After that it's the post midnight mass drink of tea nad biccies that really reminds me of Christmas as a kid, my Dad is increasingly trying to turn ,y tea into something alcoholic but I'm having none of it. He gets me with at about 2pm the next day and well the drinking stops sometime late in the evening long after dinner and a lot of consumption of various kinds.

bluto63 · 09-12-2006 07:15PM

Ruu wrote:

Christmas Day is not complete without Home Alone, Its a Wonderful Life or A Charlie Brown Christmas. Forget about everything else.

And Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

09-12-2006 07:23PM

The unfit fat guy in the red outfit myth.

Terry · 09-12-2006 07:33PM

Hagar wrote:

On Christmas Eve, dress up as a homeless person and knock at the door of the house with the nicest decorations and ask for a room for the night. See how much Christian spirit is shown. You will probably be threatened with the Gardaí or they will set the dog on you.

best idea ever.

DublinWriter · 09-12-2006 08:37PM

BlueSpiral wrote:

Celebrate my birthday.

Are you Jesus?

DublinWriter · 09-12-2006 08:43PM

My Mum is sick and will probably be stuck up in Beaumont Hospital for the festive.

I'll probably do something like bring the nurses up a crate of Bicardi as they've been absolute stars, but a lot of them are Indian/Phillipino and might be a wee bit offended by the gesture, so I'm open to ideas for gifts of a more non-Irish (i.e. alcoholic) nature...a half-dozen boxes of Butlers Irish chocolates maybe?

BlueSpiral · 09-12-2006 08:47PM

DublinWriter wrote:

Are you Jesus?

No but everyone celebrates christmas because it's my birthday, well Christmas Eve as well. Jesus just had the sheer ignorant, and wanted all my glory by being born nearly 2000 years before me.
It was just coincidence that damn star shone that night aswell. >_>

feylya · 09-12-2006 08:54PM

BlueSpiral wrote:

No but everyone celebrates christmas because it's my birthday, well Christmas Eve as well. Jesus just had the sheer ignorant, and wanted all my glory by being born nearly 2000 years before me.
It was just coincidence that damn star shone that night aswell. >_>

Pfft, Christmas Eve blows. Christmas Day is when you need to be born. Then you could be Jesus, just like me. Long hair and all

Terry · 09-12-2006 08:56PM

feylya wrote:

Pfft, Christmas Eve blows. Christmas Day is when you need to be born. Then you could be Jesus, just like me. Long hair and all

are you jewish?

feylya · 09-12-2006 08:57PM

Not the last time I checked

Terry · 09-12-2006 08:59PM

then there is no way you could be jesus.
i could make you look a bit more like him if you're willing to undergo a circumcision.

BlueSpiral · 09-12-2006 09:00PM

feylya wrote:

Pfft, Christmas Eve blows. Christmas Day is when you need to be born. Then you could be Jesus, just like me. Long hair and all

I was born on Christmas day SOMEWHERE.

If we're thinking like that, then Jesus was also born on christmas eve in Ireland.
Don't make me want to turn you into chocolate and throw you to the lesbians.

feylya · 09-12-2006 09:00PM

Touché. Na, I'll pass on the knob chop, thanks.

Sleepy · 09-12-2006 09:09PM

Have quite a few traditions at this stage:

the row about me not going to midnight mass even though neither I nor the rest of my family have been Catholics in over 20 years :rolleyes:

eventually going to midnight mass pissed as a coot for the sake of getting the mother to shut the fcuk up and laughing inappropriately during the ceremony

having grapefruit for breakfast on Christmas morning

Swapping presents with my little brother doing the 'dishing out the presents from under the tree' role that he's had since he was 2/3.

Watching 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

The Christmas dinner with a nice bottle of wine

Reading on the couch, stuffed as the turkey was only an hour earlier, sipping on a glass of my sisters West Coast Cooler and knowing the lads would rip the piss if they saw me with a glass of the stuff!

Munching on Double Centres and selection boxes for the afternoon/evening.

Calling around to one of my friend's houses where we start "the twelve drinks of Christmas", having a drink in each of the lad's houses with their families before ending back in my house at about 1am where the beers flow, the guitars are taken out and an all-night session kicks in

Terry · 09-12-2006 09:14PM

meh. i suppose i'll post on topic.
i meet up with all my friends in my local on christmas eve (the ones who are in the country anyway).
christmas morning is spent with my extended family where we all go to one of my cousins houses for breeakfast. sometimes i have a drink, sometimes i don't. depends on my mood. then to a cousins house for dinner and that night is spent in a friends house at a party.
then toi the pub on stephens day with my friends or family or both.

CathyMoran · 09-12-2006 09:35PM

We used to go to see my gran, sadly she passed away this year

This year will be special but tough as I am very ill and it may be my last Christmas (though hopefully not), we will spend it in a hotel, have a wonderful Christmas lunch, then dad and I will go for a walk, will be my first Christmas with Shane

Silly Christmas Traditions

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