when do you open your presents with your immediate family??
do you buy for everyone in your family or draw names??
do you tell your kids there is a Santa??
as for me... within my own home, we open presents Christmas presents Christmas morning... (and extended family presents on the eve and in the afternoon of Christmas day)
we buy for everyone (wish we would just buy for all the kids and draw names for adults tho and make those gag gfits at that) lol
as for "santa" at my house... like everything else, i say "if you believe in the "magic" of Christmas, it surely will exist"
ho ho ho!!! =)
2007-11-11 13:01:58 · 17 answers · asked by lifesaclassroom 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
do a white elephant gift exchange for adults. its a real hoot. we have been doing it every year for 4 years. look up party game central they have the best version. and you have a good idea. gift exchange for adults but everybody can buy the kids something.
2007-11-11 13:25:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my family, we stay up all night on Christmas Eve, and when it strikes midnight, we all open our presents. We usually have a Christmas party at Christmas Eve night with our neighbours, all until Christmas morning.
My parents buy for everyone and during the party, we buy extra presents within a budget (e.g. $10) and we exchange presents. We write a number on the gifts (wrapper, of course) and we draw lots to see who gets which present. This is very common in the Philippines, but it is also common elsewhere.
I do not have kids (I'm just 13 going on 14) but I am a Christian and I will never tell anyone there's a Santa Claus, because I believe that there's no such Santa Claus who gives everyone presents. However, I believe that there are many good people who do things for the cause of charity.
Just some extra info, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ into Earth in a physical body, but he was not born on Dec 25. He was born in Bethlehem, Israel. According to the Bible, when Jesus was born, there were shepherds outside tending to their sheep/animals. If it were Dec.25 then, the animals and the shepherds would have frozen to death if they were outside. Everyone would have stayed indoors. Therefore, Christmas must have been at around October or some other date. It is celebrated now at Dec25 because of the Romans. Long time ago, before the Romans converted to Christianity, they had many festivals. When they converted, they did not want to stop celebrating these, and so, they gave them other names in celebration with events in the Bible, for example, Christmas, Easter and many others.
Merry Christmas to you and to all! And God bless all of us!
2007-11-11 21:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by PMJ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I open presents with my immediate family or my boyfriend's, depending on where we are. We buy for everyone in our family. I have a list of like 30 people I have to buy for, but I love giving Christmas presents, especially when I can be there to watch them open the presents. And I don't have kids, but when I do, I plan on telling them Santa is real.
2007-11-11 21:05:36 · answer #3 · answered by cheezee02 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I open presents from my siblings on Christmas Eve, but open presents from "Santa" on Christmas morning. As for buying presents, the five kids, including me, buy for my parents and 1 other sibling which we pick from a hat. We used to buy for everyone, but thought it was expensive buying 6 presents instead of 3. My parents told me there was a Santa and I will probably tell my kids there is a Santa when I have children too. Hope I helped! Merry Early Christmas!
2007-11-11 21:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by hi :) 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that's is how we do christmas in my family go to one side of the family the night before christmas then christmas morning open presents with intermediate family and that afternoon go to the other sides family get togeather. yes all the kids believe in santa and get presents from santa and the parents. we draw names because theres five kids so us being younger we have to buy for all four of our siblings. I love Christmas it's the most magical time of the year being with family, christmas music, carols, christmas trees decorations, hot cocoa , family getting togeather nothing is better than that nothing!!!!!!11
2007-11-11 21:06:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We open one present on Christmas Eve and then open the rest on Christmas morning. Everyone buys for everyone...no name drawing or anything. I have no kids haha =)
ho ho ho to you too! =)
2007-11-11 21:04:46 · answer #6 · answered by Yanks4Life23519 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here is the letter we sent in December 2005. Since then, many of the recipients have done the same.
Dear Family, Friends and Co-workers (who, of course, are also Friends),
You are receiving this message because we have regularly or occasionally exchanged holiday or seasonal gifts. This past year has been exceptionally horrendous for so many people in our community, our country and our world. Lives have been devastated by hurricanes, tsunami and earthquake. Heating costs have tripled. Prescription prices are obscene. Gas and grocery prices are eating people alive, even those whose salaries were adequate (if barely) only a couple years ago. When you’re on a low or fixed income, how do you decide whether to feed your family, buy medicine or heat your home?
We realize that we cannot solve all of these problems, but it feels wrong to exchange gifts, however loving and thoughtful, that are not needed. We have decided to use the money we would have spent on holiday presents to do what we can to help where it is truly needed. We will be thinking of every one of you as we do so.
Our giving this year will be to the UU Service Committee and the Red Cross to determine where they most need it, as well as to local agencies, such as Church Community Services and the Salvation Army to help ease hunger and want in our community. (We learned just this morning that the Salvation Army has already run out of funds to help with home heating costs.)
Not that we assume you were planning to give us anything, but if you were, please do so by contributing, in any way that feels right to you, to help someone who truly needs what you can give.
For us, this is the beginning of a tradition that we intend to honor from this year forward. We wish you the gift of warmth and health this holiday season and in the coming year.
Love,
Y & Zee
2007-11-11 21:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by Zee 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who ever wakes up first jumps on everyones bed, we wake up and cant go down stairs tell everyone is awake. Then we go open the presentss! normally at 8 but it could be earlier.
We buy everyone a gift.
My sibilings and I found out by ourselves there isnt a santa
2007-11-11 21:05:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
WE have the normal famly christmas. the kind where you wake up early and get a cup of hot chocolate then you set down on the couch... and without warning a couple hundred presents land on your lap out of nowere. then we go to the church and sing hymes. as for santa... well I beleave that every thing is real untill it's proven that it's not.
2007-11-11 21:10:33 · answer #9 · answered by Auron P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i open presents when as soons as they make contact with my hands but back in nam we didnt have presents
2007-11-11 21:23:46 · answer #10 · answered by Malificous K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋