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Or any weird ways you celebrate Christmas? My family's German heritage provides all sorts of strange practices.

1. We don't have "Santa presents", in an effort to bring the true meaning of the holiday and such back into Christmas. Instead, we celebrate a "St. Nicholas Day" on or near December 6th. Our celebration for this has constantly changed, but usually we just get a few presents, and a "group" present. Yo.

2. We open ALL (family) presents on December 24th, after evening church. None of this wake-up-in-the-morning-and-run-downstairs-for-Santa crap.

3. Stockings on the morning of December 25th. This tradition would be all well and good, except that my parents have a notorious history of making stockings SUCK. I have never gotten anything good in a stocking, 'cept for five dollars that one time.

So that's what we do. Wha' 'bout you guys?

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That's great! That's the original, Dutch tradition. We're all celebrating it like that over here. (well, it's getting less and less... but we still do it. I never got any presents for Christmas)

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In case you think this is interesting.

On the 23rd I watch every homestar runner decemberween ebisode.

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Usually on the 23rd or 24th Everyone in my family gets to open one of there presents.

Also, when I lived in NY the first six years of my life, we opened presents Christmas Eve.

I do that last thing on Christmas eve. Right now.

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Ok, this might seem stupid.
This was thought up by my older sister.
As well as putting out milk and cookies for Santa, we used to put out an icecream container filled with water and glitter (yes, glitter) for the reindeer.
She told us it helps them fly! [/whining]

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Guten tag, Johann, du riechst ganz richtig. Danke schon, Heidi. Und du auch. - A Bit of Fry and Laurie

My tradition for Krixmaz is to wake up at 6:00 on Krixmaz morning, before my parents are up, and drink a bottle of Wild Cherry Pepsi and read one of those old "Captain Underpants" books I've had since I was eight. Those books don't interest me anymore, but it's a tradition, so I have to keep it alive.

This year, however, my family's not really doing Krixmaz, because we're trying to save up for me to go to Australia in the summer, so to make up for my lack of Krixmaz this year, I'm going to stay up late tonight (Krixmaz Eve) and drink a bunch of soda and watch Simpsons DVD's and play Gamecube and stuff. Should be fun!


That's awesome! I gotta start doin' that!

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the only real christmas tradition my family has is that we allways Have Mexican For Diner Christmas Night. It rocks

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It's my band! please listen

I get up really early and just sit around, waiting for my parents to get up.

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Apparently, I'm not the only person who opens a present on Christmas Eve. I open ONE before Midnight Mass. Usually, I'm not allowed to open one from my parents, but this year I can for some reason.

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Well this aint really wierd, but every chritmas We watch the christmas story.

At some point during Yule I put on a purple cloak and dance around in my stone circle.

I had a picture of my stone circle here(has since been taken apart by my arrogant father and rebuilt by me using this photo, which was awkward since my Camera X-stretches everything and I didn't realise that until I noticed how I found rocks that looked like those but thinner):

http://www.deviantart.com/view/10509277/

This is me standing in the rebuilt one (sans cloak, unfortunately):

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So Your a wickan? just wondering.

It's spelled wiccan, but I'm a neo-pagan(slash theosophist but that doesn't come into Xmas celebrations). Technically I celebrate Yule.

Which brings me to correcting TEF:



Actually, "Santa presents" are very much the tradition of Christmas and part of it's "original true meaning", before it was called "Christmas". I know your person version of it has other meanings, but just so you know that people who do the presents thing are just as much embracing the "true meaning" as your own personal "True meaning".

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Sorry if I offended You.

Heh, we do the same (save for the mass; we don't go to church)... it's the Czech tradition, as well as the German (interestingly enough, I learned it was also the German tradition just a few minutes before I read your post, which would have told me the same o_0).

Christmas Pickle, yo. But we don't do no glass ornament. We put a real pickle in there.

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Nope you didn't.

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Whoa, my family used to do that, too! At our Christmas Eve party, we would take our pickle ornament, someone would hide it on the tree, and whoever found it got a prize! But then our pickle ornament broke...

Anyways, I'm just about to do another Krixmaz tradition, which is to go over to my grandparents' house on Krixmaz Eve and open the presents they got us!

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Does Hanukkah count? If so, I always save all the candles that burned out over the nights, totaling 44 candles, and I don't trash 'em until Hanukkah is over.

Great Googly-Moogly! How wacky!

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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell?

My family always makes tamales for Christmas. and every year on Christmas, someone get's sick, so it seems like a tradition. My sister just got strep throught.

True meaning. As in, "Jesus".

Something tells me that in MY OWN RELIGION, I usually know what is more important than other things.

Jesus > Santa.

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well, christmas eve:
we each put a sock on a chair.
we go to bed. i dont sleep- i play pokemon emerald or whatever.
i fall asleep at 2.

Christmas day:
i am woken by Michael at something to seven.
i try to regain my lost sleep, but i cant be bothered,
so i see what *santy clause has got me!
Yay! i love Decemberween!
around 10 o'clock i go to ma daddy's house for his expensive presents (because he feels guilty that he hardly ever sees us and he spends all his time with his girlfriend )(Ppft)
then we come back home and open our presents from eachother!


* Mum

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But you said the true meaning of Christmas, whose origins are not Christian, and not of "your own religion". Exchanging presents in and around the 25th of December way predates jesus. I don't really think you read a word I said past a certain point, but if you did you're becoming very pushy.

The true meaning of Christmas is most certainly not Jesus on the global scale of things, only the meaning your religion gives it. The original "Christ" (meaning Messiah, and by extension a number of things) in Christmas, not literally speaking of course, was the Sun God who was "reborn" as the Sun started to rear it's head again. "Christmas" is the name that is most associated with this holiday today, but it does not mean that the "True meaning" of it is to celebrate the birth of Jesus when the holiday existed under different names where it's original true meaning was to do with celebrating the "return" of the sun; exchanging gifts and having festivals.

Most Christmas traditions have pre-christian and even pre-judaist origin. I'm just tired of people saying the true meaning of Christmas is Christianity.
I mean, it's pretty much the same blasted holiday across nearly all religions and cultures in this modern day and age, it's for everyone and that's how we still celebrate it in Ireland.

So please don't claim any one secular thing as the "true meaning" of Christmas. It means something different for everyone. Santa Claus, on a grand scale of things, does mean more to people than Jesus as Christmas. Despite the fact that he had somewhat Christian origins, the actual character doesn't really have any notable features that can be attributed to any particular religion.

So Jesus !> Santa.

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Now, now, children, let's not argue about Christmas on Christmas. Pick your battles.

Toastpaint.

I've got relatively convoluted Christmas traditions. On Christmas Eve, my uncle and aunt and my grandfather come over for dinner. I'm not sure why, but we don't eat meat on Christmas Eve in my family, so dinner generally consists of fish and shrimp, and the excellent mushroom soup and bobalki that my dad makes. Bobalki is basically little hunks of bread with sauerkraut and/or poppy seeds. It's surprisingly good. Anyway, after dinner, we exchange presents with my uncle and aunt and grandfather. That's the first part of Christmas for me.

Then they leave and we go to sleep.

The next morning, we open the presents under the tree, stockings, all that fun stuff. Eventually we head off to my other uncle and aunt's house, where we eat Christmas dinner, which is a little more traditional than Christmas Eve dinner. Then we exchange gifts with all those people, head home, and that's Christmas.

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Lesee...

I think this year is the beginning of a new tradition...

NO TREE!

How zany. --

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Sorry, had a sucky Xmas :/

But yeah as a pagan at Xmas time it does get annoying when you get that "Why are you celebrating christmas if you're a pagan" sort of look that even some pagans have.

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Rosalie, I really don't see your goal in telling me that my thoughts on the meaning of Christmas is wrong. To put it simply, it's rather rude and completely unnecessary. Am I calling you uninformed and wrong just because I think it's stupid to dance around a stone circle this time of year? Your complaints are badly timed and thoroughly pointless.

IN MY RELIGION, the true meaning of Christmas is Jesus's birth. I frankly don't give a care that pagans did some kind of thing thousands of years ago. We adapted it differently. I don't want to argue about something based purely on opinions.

So please, stop.

EDIT: And no, I didn't read through your first post. But I did read all of your second one.

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Well, we have another one--gingerbread waffles in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head for breakfast. It started years ago when Daddy got a Mickey Mouse waffle iron for Christmas, and there was a recipe included with it for gingerbread waffles. Daddy made them, and we loved them so much that we have them every Christmas.

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