what are some good Christmas traditions that everyone out there does every year?

Answer 1

1. Kissing the Spotted Dog
2. Secretly opening all of the gifts under the tree and skillfully rewrapping them.
3. Searching the house each time mom and dad leave around Christmas so you can find the stash of santa gifts
4. Shooting out the neighborhood Christmas lights with your pellet gun

Answer 2

I know this is not possible for people living in the city, but we have a family member with a farm in the country and every year we go on Christmas Eve and shoot fireworks. Sometimes we have 40 to 50 family members show up. We all try to outdo each other with the fireworks we bring. We have firecracker wars that get vicious (adults only). All our good Christmas stories seem to involve the fireworks event. Once after a particularly well fought firecracker battle between the men and women, my mother was taking her bra off to go to bed that night and she found a firecracker in between her breasts with the stem burnt almost to the end. Just a fraction of an inch more and she would have a major explosion in a bad place. And a cousin had all his firecrackers in a paper bag all seperated for battle when someone threw a lit firecracker into the bag and the entire bag of 100's of firecrackers went off at once. One year we set the pasture on fire with a bottle rocket and the water hose was frozen and so a couple of male cousins broke branches off a pine tree and beat the fire out with them. They burned the soles off their shoes in the process. Once someone creeped up behind a young cousin and set off a smoke bomb and he was enveloped in the smoke and could not see for a while. And one cousin shot off a roman candle in his eye one night and ended up in the ER on Christmas Eve getting the gunpowder scraped out of his eye.
So, you see some of the stories we tell every year and why we continue the tradition. Its still my favorite day of the entire year. Better than Christmas day. All the extended family there and so many memories. Thanks for letting me share it with you.

Answer 3

Every year, we hang stocking by the fireplace. Even when we lived in apartments without a fireplace, we hung stockings either on door knobs or off banisters. Christmas morning, we open our stockings as soon as we get up. After that, we eat breakfast (which my husband makes) and then celebrate our family's Christmas before celebrating with extended family. Another tradition in our family is to open one present on Christmas Eve. This started so that I wouldn't snoop through gifts....

Answer 4

I light a jar candle that I've had the past 5 Christmases and allow it to burn the entire day. At the end of the day, I replace the lid, so it captures the Christmas spirit. It's my version of a yule log, because I don't have a fireplace. I also hang stockings for my husband, pets, and myself and sneak downstairs early to fill them with stupid stuff like yo-yos and socks.

Answer 5

Clean out Paris Hilton's gynecological exam log book. All 5000 pages. And make snow flakes out of them and sprinkle over Christmas tree by NBC studio in New York.

Answer 6

I have this silly tradition of setting up a fake pine tree in my livingroom and stringing lights and ornaments all over the thing then planting brightly paper-covered boxes of over-priced, useless junk under the thing and telling my family some fat guy in a red suit who squeezes down the chimney (we dont have) brought them.
Silly, huh?
and somehow we keep dooooing it?

Answer 7

we make popcorns balls to hang on our tree, been doing it forever and each year my husband makes one popcorn ball the size of a volleyball..first year he did it to make our little one laugh because she was sick..the next year he just did it for a joke and the volleyball tradition was born...after Christmas he has to eat it all at one sitting, really funny..... silly I know, but we do it every year.