Define YOUR Christmas!

Mar Mar Marmalade · 17-12-2013 07:10PM #1

What makes Christmas, christmas for you? Watching a certain holiday movie? Late night mass on the Eve? Singing carols? Getting into some themed kinkyness? Collecting money for the poor? The list goes on and on..

I have this thing of watching this god-awful movie titled "Christmas & The Kranks". It's been a kind of ritual so to say for years. Not the greatest movie ever but couldn't imagine Christmas without it. Things like this are what make Christmas actually Christmas for me.

So what's yours?

17-12-2013 07:10PM

25th of December.

Manach · 17-12-2013 07:12PM

Christmas eve mass with carol songs. But not snow, never again snow.

Sir Arthur Daley · 17-12-2013 07:12PM

Snow, cant get enough of it.

FloatingVoter · 17-12-2013 07:13PM

About the 7th of January I start celebrating the festival of "11 months freedom from enforced gaiety". Yup, thats Christmas for me.

Gongoozler · 17-12-2013 07:14PM

Eating celebrations for breakfast. And snacking on pringles while waiting for dinner. Then just when you can't eat any more, even a couple of hours after dinner,getting a bowl of trifle, just cause, ya know, it's Christmas.

FatherLen · 17-12-2013 07:15PM

a month of gluttony.

Agricola · 17-12-2013 07:16PM

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping on your nose. Yuletide carols being sung by a choir, And folks dressed up like Eskimos.

LizT · 17-12-2013 07:18PM

Love doing the GOAL mile on Christmas Day, nice to get out of the house for a while.

thegreatgonzo · 17-12-2013 07:30PM

Watching the Muppet Family Christmas, it's where the Muppets meet the Sesame St gang AND the Fraggles. Just brilliant. Also midnight mass and carol services too. And I love dinner on St Stephens day, even though it's basically the leftovers from Christmas day mushed up a bit, it just tastes better. Oh and getting up early to watch old black and white films they show on RTE like when they do a series of Laurel and Hardy. I love Christmas!

17-12-2013 07:33PM

Having to see/make small talk with annoying relatives you see once a year.

Mar Mar Marmalade · 17-12-2013 07:33PM

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

Watching the Muppet Family Christmas.

The Muppets Christmas Carol is a new one for me. Not done it enough to call it anything but it's making 3 years in a row of being watched on Christmas Eve.

kneemos · 17-12-2013 07:38PM

Letting the Gimp out of his crate..

Raminahobbin · 17-12-2013 07:38PM

Our parents still wait until we are in bed to put presents under the tree (youngest is 21). We still get up stupidly early to open them. Then we eat chocolate santas and Capri Suns until we feel sick. Everybody disperses for a few hours, to sleep or to watch a box set of some sort (this year it'll be a season of the good Simpsons).

Dinner is early enough, 3 or 4pm, then board-games and wine or beer for the rest of the day- once the parents get bored and wander off it becomes Buckfast and drinking games.

It's the only time of year we all play them, but byjaysus Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in my house unless extensive board games were involved.

thegreatgonzo · 17-12-2013 07:40PM

Mar Mar Marmalade wrote: »

The Muppets Christmas Carol is a new one for me. Not done it enough to call it anything but it's making 3 years in a row of being watched on Christmas Eve.

Oh I watch that every year too. I prefer the Muppet family Christmas though. Animal meets the cookie monster, the Swedish chef tries to cook Big Bird and they all sing Christmas songs.

Hawkeye1 · 17-12-2013 07:47PM

Beer

SV · 17-12-2013 07:48PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

About the 7th of January I start celebrating the festival of "11 months freedom from enforced gaiety". Yup, thats Christmas for me.

Christmas for me is listening to he miserable shîtes complaining unfortunately

Vito Corleone · 17-12-2013 07:48PM

I eat so much food! 12 pound Turkey between 4 people, and so much more food. :cool: Home Alone the movie as well.

flas · 17-12-2013 07:48PM

the game frustration,and playin it with my uncles and brother and cousins for money over cans of coarse!

jantheman91 · 17-12-2013 07:49PM

Family.

MonstaMash · 17-12-2013 08:02PM

Get up, light the fire, fry-up on, barricade the front door, crack a beer, fire up the bong...chill until it's time for viddles & repeat

hynesie08 · 17-12-2013 08:11PM

Wake up, open beers, jingle all the way, shower, beers, breakfast, beers, Willy wonka, beers, beers with family, Santa Clause, beers, dinner, more family, go to bed with beers and roses.

Temptamperu · 17-12-2013 08:11PM

I like to drink all day and then lash out at people who care about me.

Courtesy Flush · 17-12-2013 08:13PM

Christmas means I can get the GOOD drunk

spankysue · 17-12-2013 08:16PM

Every Christmas Eve night for the last 13 years or so, after we've had tea with his family in his aunts house, my fiance and I watch the Muppets Christmas Carol with a few whiskeys and have a sing along with it.

Then out to the mammies Christmas day to witness the annual Christmas row between her and me dad, and out to the OH's sisters house on Stephens Day to witness my OH and his family rip the pi$$ out of their dad.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without any of these things

oldyouth · 17-12-2013 08:18PM

Christmas Eve
Mass (just because it is a family outing that we always did) followed by dropping in to our former childminder with the now 21 and 25 year olds she raised for us. Lots of laughs and a few scoops

Christmas Day
Family dinner and no on really stirs out. A great day when 4 busy people catch up and talk until we fall asleep

Stephens Day
Always go for early scoops with my mates and back to someone's house for sambos, beer and craic with wives, kids, pets etc

I hate all other aspects of Christmas but like those 48 hours

Call Me Jimmy · 17-12-2013 08:21PM

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Our parents still wait until we are in bed to put presents under the tree (youngest is 21). We still get up stupidly early to open them. Then we eat chocolate santas and Capri Suns until we feel sick. Everybody disperses for a few hours, to sleep or to watch a box set of some sort (this year it'll be a season of the good Simpsons).

Dinner is early enough, 3 or 4pm, then board-games and wine or beer for the rest of the day- once the parents get bored and wander off it becomes Buckfast and drinking games.

It's the only time of year we all play them, but byjaysus Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in my house unless extensive board games were involved.

My house to a tee. I was relieved to hear my friend (26) admit that him and siblings (youngest 22, oldest 30) get up early, together, the same way as they used to. I thought we might have been the only family who kept it up!

Riddle101 · 17-12-2013 08:25PM

Die Hard, what a great Christmas movie that is. Arguably the best action movie franchise of all time, although personally I prefer Terminator 1 & 2, when it comes to the best action movies.