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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2022 0:39:24 GMT -5
Due to travel plans changing because of the downfall in Illinois we have decided to try moving the present day up to Christmas Eve and were just curious how common the ceremony being on xmas eve was in other households here.
We have 3 adolescent children and the idea of Santa is still very much fresh so it's actually been a bit of a discussion point regarding how much credit he deserves...The stocking? Split the presents?
If your family opened the gifts that were given the day before did that affect your Christmas Day and maybe deem it lackluster? (spoiled brats right? haha)
Just snowed in curious banter. Happy Holidays everyone
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 24, 2022 0:50:56 GMT -5
Back when I was a kid my siblings and I would get one present to open on Christmas Eve..
It was like a teaser trailer.
Usually something cheap to keep us entertained til bedtime.
One time it was a bath toy (an inflatable whale that changed colour in warm water) …. It was deception by our parents cause they wanted to give us a bath that night… we were at that age when baths were the worst.
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Post by J. Hova on Dec 24, 2022 2:26:38 GMT -5
Once the Santa hoax was exposed (spoiler alert), we always opened presents on Christmas Eve as that was the time when extended family could make it and Christmas day was just a time to chill out and do nothing.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 24, 2022 3:38:17 GMT -5
Well, several years ago I had Christmas in Germany and over there they open presents on Christmas Eve.
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Post by pinja on Dec 24, 2022 4:25:27 GMT -5
Well, several years ago I had Christmas in Germany and over there they open presents on Christmas Eve. My aunt and uncle have it on the first christmas day and I never liked the thought. Opening presents in the evening has more magic to me. Plus it opens the next day for visiting grandparents to get more presents and mourn that you can't use them right away. |
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Dec 24, 2022 4:38:46 GMT -5
Born and raised Jewish. My mom converted, so we would always go to her family for Christmas.
Presents were opened on Christmas Eve and then everyone went home. Not a very religious family though, dunno if that makes it atypical?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Dec 24, 2022 4:42:45 GMT -5
Back when I was like 4, the teacher hauled my mother in to tell her what a terrible liar I was. Mom said "His father and I both work shift work. The Easter Bunny comes when we tell him comes" That was the end of the meeting.
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 24, 2022 5:31:45 GMT -5
We always did it when i was a kid, then sometimes keep one big gift to open on Christmas Day. Usually was easier to do the family meal and everything else on Eve, then have Day to be lazy and just relax.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Dec 24, 2022 6:05:51 GMT -5
The best part of being Norwegian is getting to open presents on Christmas Eve.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Dec 24, 2022 9:14:48 GMT -5
It took years for us to get my parents to let us open one present on Christmas.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 24, 2022 10:02:52 GMT -5
We're gonna open the presents now. Not on Christmas,now. You wanna know why? Because we're adult and we can do WHATEVER WE WANT!
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 24, 2022 10:04:17 GMT -5
The best part of being Norwegian is getting to open presents on Christmas Eve. Sorry to double post after my Ref reference but yeah, my family is of Swedish decent so we do the presents on Christmas Eve thing as well. |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 24, 2022 11:30:40 GMT -5
I learned about there being no Santa when I was 5.
So from then on
Xmas eve was goto dad's mom's and open presents from that side. Then we left there around 9pm to goto some friends of the family. Got home close to 1am.
Xmas day get up open presents from Parents. then after lunch head to mom's side to open gifts.
Last 6 years it has been 23rd exchange gifts with my parents,they were normally on the coast for Xmas,then Xmas eve was gifts between my lady and i. Xmas day wass spent with her family.
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Post by Fade on Dec 24, 2022 11:33:16 GMT -5
Hispanic so, Christmas Eve to me is just Christmas.
Christmas Day has always been a non-thing for me. Like the hangover after a party.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 24, 2022 14:08:34 GMT -5
dammit why can't you wake up at four in the morning like everyone else!!!   and well ... i GUESS scandinavia is closer ...  |
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Post by schma on Dec 24, 2022 14:23:14 GMT -5
We were always allowed to open one gift Christmas night.
Later on, once my brother divorced, his ex always insisted on doing Christmas morning with their son. My brother would show up around supper time on Christmas day (we would normally do supper with extended family). So it became that Christmas supper was with extended family, my brother makes the rounds, then we head to my mom's places and open our gifts and stockings with the immediate family Christmas dinner coming the next night on Boxing day.
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Post by Big BosskMan on Dec 24, 2022 14:25:00 GMT -5
Christmas morning for us.
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Post by Cyno on Dec 24, 2022 15:04:40 GMT -5
My neighbors do a lot of gift opening on Christmas Eve. They're an Italian American Catholic family, so I wonder if that's a tradition from whatever part of Italy their heritage can be traced from. Or if it's a more common practice in Catholic families than protestant.
Going over to their place on Christmas Eve was the only time I'd come close to observing Christmas because I'm Jewish (and religiously agnostic) and don't have any Christian family I'm close to.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 24, 2022 17:53:54 GMT -5
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 24, 2022 18:21:29 GMT -5
My neighbors do a lot of gift opening on Christmas Eve. They're an Italian American Catholic family, so I wonder if that's a tradition from whatever part of Italy their heritage can be traced from. Or if it's a more common practice in Catholic families than protestant. Going over to their place on Christmas Eve was the only time I'd come close to observing Christmas because I'm Jewish (and religiously agnostic) and don't have any Christian family I'm close to. Mom's side of the family is almost all Catholic and some open on Xmas Eve and some wait to Xmas day. We just did gifts with my parents and my one aunt left on mom's side. Nothing majorly mindblowing but some nice gifts. Thankfully Dad and Mom enjoyed what I got them. hard to by the two that are pushing 80 and when they want something they just go buy it. Got in That 3 Disc WWE Macho Man dvd set-from aunt Ren&Stimpy Lost episodes-Aunt HalloweenFest Afterlife with Archie issue-Aunt Asteritx FCBD issue-From Aunt Mini Snow Globe with my name on it-Aunt Parents took me out to eat the other night. And gave me some books,mostly on subjects we can't discuss here(well just one of those topics the one with Gods and stuff) and money to go towards the Gallos needs to Gallos-mobile fixed fund. Dog loved pulling her presents out of her stocking. For years after I quit going to the coast Xmas day evening,llike say 5 or 6pm,we would have friends over to my place. Everyone bring something to eat. And just relax. Be the first year we haven't done it in a long time. |
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