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Christmas Eve Traditions :-)
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Ah why not....:D
I have worked every Christmas eve for as long as I can remember. Load up all the presents into the car before heading to work. Try to get out the gap asap, usually not til around 5. Hit the road for home
Once home, spiced beef goes on the boil. (anyone from Cork will know that gorgeous smell around the house on Christmas eve). No television til later in the evening. Instead I have several classical Christmas cds which I have blaring throughout the house. No lights lighting either, just candles. Party snacks and mulled wine. We have a stove in the sitting room which proved very useful for keeping a teapot full of mulled wine hot last year.
Christmas pressies are opened after everyone gets home from Christmas eve mass. Few beers, throw the turkey in the oven and bed.
And lets not forget the After Hours Christmas eve drinking thread which definitely warrants a visit. 0 -
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For me it's watching polar express and the snowman on DVD on Christmas eve,always make time for them cause if they don't put you in the mood for Christmas nothing will, then of to the pub for a drink or 2 before heading home for a cuppa,Evan at 30 I still struggle to get to sleep:):) 0
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This is my first year spending Christmas Eve with my boyfriend instead of my family, but I want to keep the same traditions
I'll get up early, give the apartment one final clean for the big day, then I'll start prepping my food for the next day. Anything that can be done will be done the day before :P once all that is done, will be sitting down for dinner & a Christmas film, then into the good clothes for mass, then to the pub for a few, and home, into fresh pjs & sheets to wait for Santa :P0 -
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This isn't really a Christmas Eve tradition but a Christmas week one. I always back an 18 to 1 horse, inspired by the lyrics to Fairytale of New York... Haven't won anything yet though! Maybe this year...
Had you luck this year?
I walked in to a few bookies and put the question to each: any horse okay, on any day, in any race but with odds of 18:1 - anything at all like?
and nothing so far only some really funny replies! I'll keep trying until the 31st though. 0 -
This isn't really a Christmas Eve tradition but a Christmas week one. I always back an 18 to 1 horse, inspired by the lyrics to Fairytale of New York... Haven't won anything yet though! Maybe this year...
Thanks Deedsie, my horse came in today at 18 to 1. Thanks also to Emperor of Exmoor 0 -
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Fast forward a few years and Christmas Eve was invariably spent in bed with a thundering hangover from the college reunion we have every year on the 23rd – same pub without fail. We don’t even bother sending email reminders – we all just know to be there. It’s a tradition for the course I studied so you see people from their 20s up to their 60s and 70s out for the night.
As a result, Christmas Eve was always a write-off but thankfully I never had to buy any presents because I was always on top of that.
I'd just like to point out that, once again, I had my annual thundering Christmas Eve hangover last year. It was not pleasant.
I fully intend to have it again this year.
Kris Kindle is thankfully on the 22nd so I'm spared the indignity of moving my sorry ass from the couch this year. I'll be able to sit there in a miserable state and use that as an excuse to get my 18 month old daughter to sit with me and watch stuff like the Snowman and other Christmas TV.
Also, another tradition I've started recently is to watch an episode of the Box of Delights every week in the run-up to Christmas and then watch the final episode on Christmas Eve in the very same way I did when it was first shown in 1984.0 -
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Get up whenever I wake on the 24th. No alarm clock
Put fresh linen on the bed and make sure the house is as de-cluttered as this clutterer can manage.
Light the fire and turn on the oil heating (the 24th, 25th and 26th December are the only days I can afford to use the oil heating with abandon)
Head to Tipperary Town with whatever mates want to come. Have a walk around and hopefully buy myself a little token for the season and finish up with a bite to eat.
Come home to a toasty house, sort out my presents then head to my nephews until it's their bed-time. We watch movies and play games and generally wind ourselves up
Off to the pub then to meet all the faces. Call into Mam's on the way home to cadge a fresh ham sambo.
Home again, might have folks back after the pub. Couple of drinks then bed in the hope that Christmas Day is happy and healthy for all my loved ones.0 -
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mashedbanana wrote: »LOL......sssssSufferingsSSSSsuccotage! SSSSinging with a Lisssssssp. Could be worse, could have a stutter....hymns would never end then. Wouldnt even start!:eek:
It's maddening
It'ssss not jussssst the lissssspsh though - this one thinks she's the next big thing, she drowns out all the other singers, forgetting the concept of a choir, and if you're unlucky enought to be sitting beneath a speaker so help you God. As for her attempt at hitting the high note in Oh Holy Night..... We're like "Oh holy...sh1te!" - we just sit there squirming, wondering if this will be the year... :P 0 -
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We don't really do anything special.
It's normally the night we open the Roses (I know-hardly exciting but I guess that's *our* little tradition...we don't eat Roses or any other tinned sweets at any other time before Christmas so Christmas Eve is the night).
We also will have a nice dinner, maybe a home-made curry or a takeaway for a special treat, followed by a few glasses of wine and we watch a festive film. 0 -
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OldNotWIse wrote: ».....Joseph?
Damn, worth a shot anyway.
I'm telling you, one day I'm going to be right!0 -
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Town for frantic last minute shopping with the family, pints in doheny and nesbitts, back to parents for dinner, movie, too much chocolate and wine, then to bed awaiting Santa. The eldest in our house is 34 and 4 of us are married but we still do Santa for the 18 year old
Baba with us this year and two with bumps.... Cannot wait I love Christmas Eve!!0 -
Town for frantic last minute shopping with the family, pints in doheny and nesbitts, back to parents for dinner, movie, too much chocolate and wine, then to bed awaiting Santa. The eldest in our house is 34 and 4 of us are married but we still do Santa for the 18 year old
Baba with us this year and two with bumps.... Cannot wait I love Christmas Eve!!
Christmas Eve, for me, is more special than Christmas Day: I think it's the anticipation and the wonder and the unknown. D'ya know what I mean?0 -
fussyonion wrote: »Christmas Eve, for me, is more special than Christmas Day: I think it's the anticipation and the wonder and the unknown. D'ya know what I mean?
Completely agree! Kind of goes back to when we were kids and were convinced we could see Santa's sleigh in the sky....... Something so magical about Christmas Eve 0 -
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Completely agree! Kind of goes back to when we were kids and were convinced we could see Santa's sleigh in the sky....... Something so magical about Christmas Eve
yes here, here. I think people in towns seem to have more social traditions than the country, because you cant just tip into the pub and have a few pints without a rigmarole of cabs, so I usually don't go near the pub Christmas eve. living and working on a farm , xmas eve is treated just the same as any other day, plenty of years I actually forgot it was xmas eve, then u remember again and a lil smile creeps over the face.
we don't really have a tradition, just put a candle or two in the window upstairs, then watch the telly, pretty much same as any other night.! just before I head to bed though I like to open the window and just listen with the light off, I dunno but theres just something magic and different about that night, u should try it this year.
up until 4 years ago there were no little ones in the family and we were all late 20s early 30s living seperatly. Have to say for 4 r 4 years xmas nearly died out completely, no tree up til 23rd and we just got presents for the parents not for each other, recession and all! basically xmas was just one day or half day them year. then the next generation came and they literally saved xmas, great excitement again.!
However I live with the parents and find with no children in the house its hard to get too excited about it. I like it for the tv and drinking and food alright but I don't generally get too worked up. Usally put up the tree around the 22nd December and that's about it really. Although th benefit of this is I never suffer January blues because its just business as usual only I like jan because you can see a good stretch in the eveings around mid January and you are on the right side of winter!0 -
yes here, here. I think people in towns seem to have more social traditions than the country, because you cant just tip into the pub and have a few pints without a rigmarole of cabs, so I usually don't go near the pub Christmas eve. living and working on a farm , xmas eve is treated just the same as any other day, plenty of years I actually forgot it was xmas eve, then u remember again and a lil smile creeps over the face.
we don't really have a tradition, just put a candle or two in the window upstairs, then watch the telly, pretty much same as any other night.! just before I head to bed though I like to open the window and just listen with the light off, I dunno but theres just something magic and different about that night, u should try it this year.
up until 4 years ago there were no little ones in the family and we were all late 20s early 30s living seperatly. Have to say for 4 r 4 years xmas nearly died out completely, no tree up til 23rd and we just got presents for the parents not for each other, recession and all! basically xmas was just one day or half day them year. then the next generation came and they literally saved xmas, great excitement again.!
However I live with the parents and find with no children in the house its hard to get too excited about it. I like it for the tv and drinking and food alright but I don't generally get too worked up. Usally put up the tree around the 22nd December and that's about it really. Although th benefit of this is I never suffer January blues because its just business as usual only I like jan because you can see a good stretch in the eveings around mid January and you are on the right side of winter!
I think its really important to take this time of the year to spend some quality time with your family. Spoil each other a bit. Gives you a good boost to the start of the new year 0 -
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