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DAY 4 – 12 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS – 2025 – DAMAGED GODS

Welcome to my annual 12 DAYS OF GIVEAWAYS! 

If you’re new to this – here’s how it works:

1.   Each day from December 1 through December 12 I will put up a new giveaway HERE on my website with instructions on how to enter, a detailed description of the prize, and some stuff about the book or series. Each giveaway is different and each has ONE WINNER. MY GIVEAWAYS ARE ALWAYS OPEN INTERNATIONAL 

2.   Each giveaway runs UNTIL DECEMBER 13.

3.   Winners are CHOSEN and NOTIFIED on December 14. I will be notifying winners USING THE EMAIL USED TO COMMENT ON THIS BLOG – and all winners will BE LISTED AT THE TOP OF EACH GIVEAWAY POST HERE ON MY WEBSITE on December 14.

4.   Winners have 24 hours to respond, then another winner will be chosen.

5.   ALL PRIZES WILL BE MAILED ON DECEMBER 15.  If I’m waiting on a winner to respond and they miss the December 15 mail date, that prize will be mailed when I get around to it. I live in the middle of nowhere so a trip to the post office is a “thing” for me. 🙂 So make sure you’re checking for winners on the 14th.

6.   I will send newsletters announcing giveaways on December 1, December 6, December 12, and a Winner newsletter on December 14. I NEVER send this many newsletters in a month so sorry if that feels spammy. 

7.   You can also FOLLOW MY BLOG. I will also make a blog post HERE announcing ALL WINNERS on the 14th. If you want to follow this blog there will be a form at the bottom of each post to do that. Then you get an email when I POST HERE. I don’t do that often – December is the exception because of the 12 Days and my yearly “Wrap-up” post.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

THAT’S IT! I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY THIS!

All prizes this year are self-care book boxes filled with holiday and luxury items

NOW LET’S GET ON TO THE FIRST GIVEAWAY!

DID YOU MISS A GIVEAWAY? 

FIND THE OTHERS HERE

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GIVEAWAY 12 – https://wp.me/p2C2YB-3Kx

NOW LET’S GET ON TO THE NEXT GIVEAWAY!

IN EACH POST I WILL HIGHLIGHT A BOOK

TODAY’S BOOK HIGHLIGHT IS DAMAGED GODS

FUNNY, DARK, SPICY, MONSTER ROMANCE!

 

DESCRIPTION

When I answered an ad for a caretaker at Saint Mark’s Sanctuary I thought I’d be dusting chandeliers and polishing floors. I didn’t expect to be tricked into a curse, going in debt to a monster, and being forced to take a self-paced “Let’s Learn Magic” course so I can fix a two-thousand-year-old problem.

And that monster?

Not your ordinary, everyday beast.

He has hooves, and horns, and fur on his legs.

But ya know where he doesn’t have fur?

Yep. There.

Which is fine.

Except he doesn’t wear pants.

Nothing at Saint Mark’s is exactly what it seems.

The entire inside is magic, the hallways upstairs are nothing but parties from the past, and the super-hot guy who lives in the dungeon?

Yeah.

Not human.

My name is Pie and all I want is to be a normal girl with an average life.

I refuse to get stuck in this curse.

I refuse to learn magic to break it.

And there is no way in hell I will fall in love with a monster.

Famous.

Last.

Words.

 

THE MONSTERS OF SAINT MARK’S is a fun paranormal monster romance series about a girl named Pie who accidentally stumbles into a monster’s 2000-year-old curse only to find she’s exactly where she’s supposed to be.

Inside the pages you’ll find…

Enemies to Lovers
Grumpy/Sunshine
Monster Romance
Forced Proximity
Only One Bed
Curse/Contract Romance
He Falls First
Touch Her and Die
Possessive Hero
Found Family
Hidden Identity/Secret Magic
Beauty and the Beast

 

LISTEN TO THE DAMAGED GODS AUDIOBOOK TEASER!

NARRATED BY JASON CLARKE AND HATHAWAY LEE

(Almost 12 HOURS long! Definitely CREDIT WORTHY!)

FOUR BOOKS IN SERIES

FIND THE OTHER THREE BOOKS HERE

GIVEAWAY #4

DAMAGED GODS BOOK BOX

 

WHAT’S IN THE DAMAGED GODS GIFT SET!

  1. Signed paperback 
  2. Book Box with full-color printing inside and out!
  3. Pie’s Apothecary Tote Bag
  4. Damaged Gods Magnet
  5. Damaged Gods and Pie’s Apothecary Stickers
  6. Pie’s Apothecary Zipper Pouch
  7. Pie’s HEA Spelling
  8. Book Review Checklist Notepad
  9. Library of Flowers “Honeycomb” Salt Soak
  10. Tokyo Milk “Be Bold” Candle Tin
  11. Tokyo Milk “A Little Something for You” Soap
  12. Scrunchie!
  13. Shower Steamer!
  14. Fuzzy Socks!
  15. Organic Cotton Tea Towel
  16. 2026 JA Huss Swag Bag (Sticker Sheet, Sticker, Lip Balm, Pen, Drawstring Bag)

AND HERE’S HOW TO ENTER TO WIN TODAY’S GIFT SET!

ALL GIVEAWAYS ARE ALWAYS OPEN INTERNATIONAL!

(1) COMMENT HERE on the blog (below) and tell me –

What is your favorite ‘Holiday’ Tradition?

(Can be any holiday! Doesn’t have to be Christmas!)

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MY ANSWER

Christmas Cookies! It just never gets old! 

I’ve been making my Aunt Dorothy’s “Old Fashioned Cut-Out Cookies” since 1990. Wow. Thirty-Five years. That’s kinda crazy. But I still love them. My whole life I’ve been eating those cookies at Christmas. She used to make hem thin, but I’ve always made them thick. Sometimes, when the kids were small, I’d make huge ones. Every kid would get a huge iced cookie with their name on them. 

AND HERE is a sneak peek of tomorrow’s giveaway!

Make sure you stop by and enter!

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I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY AND NEW YEAR.

Stay calm, stay safe, and let’s have a great 2026!

WINNERS FOR ALL GIVEAWAYS will be chosen on December 14 and announced on my blog and in my newsletter. All gifts will be mailed on December 15th with priority mail, so hopefully you get them before the big day. ALL MY GIVEAWAYS ARE ALWAYS OPEN INTERNATIONAL.

792 Responses

  1. I am a lover of Halloween, I love dressing up and getting/giving candy! For Christmas, I just love time with family and playing games like bingo or UNO or even karaoke.

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    2. I love our family tradition on Christmas eve where we go to church, then come home and have hot chocolate and cookies and watch Christmas movies

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    3. My favourite tradition here in South Australia is watching the Chrastmas pagent on TV while putting up the christmas tree. I also love to watch most of the christmas movies on Netflix by christmas eve. 🎄

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  3. My Mama, my doggo and I curl up every Christmas and watch the entire Harry Potter series in order and it’s honestly my favorite thing to do!

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  4. There are so many but one of my favorites is taking my dog to look at lights. He stares out the window like the angel baby he is. Begs for treats and gives all the happy wags.

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  7. Making gingerbread houses! We did this when I was a kid and now that I have one of my own I love carrying on the tradition!!

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    1. Our holiday traditions have always been cookie baking all our ethnic ones and then the classics. We also decorate the tree as a family, but my favorite is getting a new ornament each year to place on the tree. When my children moved out they had a starter box all from there childhood that they got each year growing up.

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  8. Honestly I just love getting together with my family and friends and spending time together. And bonus if there is good food 🙂

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  10. My favorite holiday tradition is driving around looking at all the beautiful decorations and enjoying hot chocolate, cookies and cuddles at home afterwards.

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  18. It’s kind of a new tradition but I love to wear Christmas jammies while me and the family drive around looking at the pretty lights

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    1. Every year we go to my Aunts house on Christmas Tree Lane to watch the parade. We drink hot cocoa, eat chicken posole and have snacks in the garage. Then we sit around the fire pit and visit and people watch. Then we all walk down Christmas Tree lane together.

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  19. My favorite tradition is matching Christmas Jammie’s!! We did it when I was a girl, not matching, but then I have done it with my girls!! This year will be epic! I have a brand new granddaughter and the whole family will be matching!!!!!

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  20. My favourite tradition on Christmas morning is watching «Tre nøtter til askepott» (three wishes for cinderella) in our pyjamas while drinking hot chocolate with wipped cream!

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  21. My favorite holiday is Christmas and as for traditions, I would say just to take some time off of work during the season is my favorite part. Kids are out of school and we just make memories together. Never go on vacation, but just spend time together. Now that my kids are older, it’s nice to have them home for the holidays, even if just for half a day.

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  23. Every year since I was a baby, we go over to my grandparents (now just my grandpa and uncles house) for homemade spaghetti and meatballs on Christmas Eve. Then we take an extra long way home to look at Christmas lights.
    Once we got home, we’d have a big present waiting under the tree for each of us (my sister and me) that had a new stuffed animal or doll, and a new pair of Christmas pajamas. We’d put them on, and spend the rest of the night before bed drinking Coco, eating cookies and popcorn while watching all the classic Christmas cartoons and movies.
    I’m 33 now, and I still do this, but it’s with my own 3 kids- they get the Jammie’s and toy. I get the memories.

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    1. Again with the reply, but here I am!

      Anyway, every year we do a family box with new Pj’s, popcorn, snacks, blankets, socks, hot cocoa and a movie. On Christmas Eve we open it an watch the movie as a family. This year will be a little different, due to unexpected things, but I will still keep the tradition alive in a smaller way!

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  24. May not count to most but for me I don’t count it the Christmas holiday season till I start rewatching Gilmore Girls in December.

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  26. I didn’t grow up with any traditions and never created my own. I just do whatever I can do to be festive for that holiday.

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  27. Any holiday will fit my favorite tradition and thats making deserts. I replicate a pie or cake my mom used to make on diffetent holidays

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  28. The first thing we do for the holiday season…go to Bronner’s in Frankenmuth, MI and pick out our annual family Christmas ornament!

    Happy holidays 🎄❤️🎄

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  29. I love the lights, going up into the mountains to get a tree, and all of the simple/traditional decorations that can be done with a low budget. The cookies are a huge bonus 😋

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  30. Our Boxing Day family party, we go out for lunch and then all, up to 25 of us to one house and party until we drop ❤️

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  31. One tradition my family and I have during this season is making a new ornament for the tree. Every year since my oldest was born we have made ornaments from scratch for the tree. I love seeing how much better each child gets every year with making them. I grew up in a house that didn’t have any family traditions and when my oldest was born we didn’t have a lot of money to buy enough ornaments for the tree. But I did have enough stuff to make salt dough ornaments so we did that. And now we’ve done it for 10 Christmas’. My kids look forward to it and so does my husband. I’ve even got my sister in law into making and sending us salt dough ornaments my nephew made since we all live in different parts of the world now.

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  32. I put my lights up Thanksgiving evening and then we make cookies, cookies, and more cookies. I love lights and continually buy them and my husband will put them up, but I got told this year, no more lights that have to be unwound and untangled! lol

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  34. My daughter and I always make homemade cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. None of us liked the canned jelly stuff so we decided to try and make our own. It even tastes good in some ginger ale mixed with orange juice. Delish!

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  36. My favourite Christmas tradition is one that my parents dud for us, that I did with my children, who now do it with my grandchildren..going downstairs to make sure Father Christmas has been. I can remember the sheer delight and anticipation of my dad saying, yes, he’s been and similarly, my kids’ reactions..it’s a moment of joy 😊

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  37. Waffles for breakfast on Christmas morning. I started this when my kids were small, it’s a fun breakfast that’s easy to do amongst all the Christmas chaos.

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  38. Making cookies!! I do big cookie platters with like 6-8 different cookies types. For about 10 people. My kids 19 & 15 still love to help. I’ve been doing it for about 12yrs. A few days of baking and audiobooks is my most relaxing laid back thing and I absolutely love making the treats and even trying new cookie recipes and giving them out to family and friends.

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  39. I use to live out of town, but always had to work the day after the holiday (retail). So I would come home to visit on eve and we would do a small meal and open gifts with immediate family only, right at midnight. This way, I could spend breakfast with my mom before heading home. My actual holiday was spent peacefully at home enjoying Chinese food. No longer how its done since I moved back home to help with family, but it was one tradition I loved and miss. Still got to see my immediate family, some mother daughter time, and not deal with the over the top hecticness that is the holiday.

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  40. Easter brunch is my favorite. My mom made the absolute best brunch and since she passed I have kept it up. Babci scrambled eggs are something my sim longs and my kids all can’t wait for. Hopefully my granddaughter will love them too

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  41. I can’t say it’s my favorite but it’s the most important we as a family (and my girls are 28 and 26) pick a new angel ornament in memory of my oldest daughter we have done this to bring her home since 2001 the first year without her

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  42. I love everything about the holidays! The cookies to the family meals to sitting and drinking coffee on Christmas morning. I love the music and the Christmas Eve midnight service.

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  43. My favorite ‘Holiday’ Tradition I love going and seeing the Christmas lights with the grandkids this Sunday I’m going down to see them and we are doing a Christmas Parade it a new thing for all of us but I’m excited!

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  44. I love the Christmas lights and baking cookies with my son. I use to bake cookies with my aunt and grandma. They are no longer with us but when I bake it always reminds me of those beautiful memories.

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  47. I love Thanksgiving, just being with family and friends with all the delicious food. Also, sometimes my bday is on Thanksgiving (like this year, I turned 40) so it makes it extra special. I also love our tradition of Christmas Eve at my mom’s and then I love waking up Christmas day seeing how excited and happy my 3 girls are.

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  48. My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the house. It’s something my parents didn’t do while I was growing up, so I take decorating pretty seriously. No one comes to see my house over the holidays, our family gatherings are all down South at their houses. But I enjoy the softness and coziness of my house so much when it’s decorated for Christmas. 🎄🎄

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  50. Driving around looking at Christmas lights with my family. This tradition started in the 60’s. My dad would bundle us kids in the car to look at the lights on Christmas eve and while we were gone Santa would have miraculously arrived

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  52. My favorite part of Christmas is actually putting up the Christmas tree.
    For halloween, it would be going to haunted houses with my daughter and handing out candy and watching horror movies all night with both kids.
    I also put together movie night boxes for my kids to open on Christmas eve. Pajamas, a bag of popcorn, a couple snacks, hot coca, a soft cuddly blanket and a new movie, we spend Christmas eve watching the movies before bed.

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  54. Our family tradition is to make cookies and give out as gifts. I have so many memories of my grandmother, mom and I in the kitchen together.

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  55. My grandmother’s birthday was on December 7th day before mine so my tradition is to always put up my tree on her birthday. And when she was in hospital I bought her an hummingbird ornament that now goes first on my tree at the top every year and my three boys first ornaments go on second.

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  56. I love lighting the candles on the menorah for Hanukkah, especially when it includes other people. There’s something special about that small action and moment that goes back so many generations. It’s my quiet in a loud world.

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  57. I don’t really have any except decorating and my Christmas village. I work right up to Christmas to make everyone’s dogs beautiful. I do usually go the day after Christmas and see if there’s any Christmas village stuff or blow ups for outside that are 50% off that I need for the next year

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  60. I too am a huge baker and enjoy making cookies presents for my friends this is a great personal gift when prices are so high.

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  63. I love opening cozy PJs on Christmas Eve. When I was a kid we used to open the jammies and then my Dad would read the Night Before Christmas to my sister and I. My husband and I have continued the tradition with my kids, and if my dad happens to be visiting he does the Night Before Christmas reading 🙂

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  64. My favorite holiday tradition was always dinner with my grandparents and extended family. My grandparents would make a HUGE dinner for Thanksgiving and Christmas and invite the whole extended family (10-12 people). When you finished your plate my grandma had tapped a scratch off ticket to the bottom of the plate (the 1st year she did it I accidentally put it in the skin because I didn’t know). Then we would do dessert, Christmas stockings (grandma always did practical gifts like socks, shavers, lip balm, roll of quarters) and then gifts. Followed it up with laughs and competitive card games. I miss those days.

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  65. I would love to see a picture of your aunt’s cookies if you ever feel like sharing!

    A tradition we have is opening up a new pair of pajamas on Christmas eve.

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  68. My favorite holiday tradition is gumbo with the family on Christmas eve. Christmas eve was my grandmother’s birthday so it was alway birthday celebrations not Christmas. Something about has always been so special to me, even though my grandmother has passed, we still celebrate her birthday and have gumbo on Christmas eve, leaving Christmas celebrations for Christmas day ❤️💚🎄

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  70. My favorite is decorating the Christmas tree, I find that it’s just beautiful to stare at all the time when I’m done. Another one is just sitting around on Christmas Day with my family and just enjoying each other’s company, we laugh a lot!! We are a bunch of smartasses so it gets crazy and wonderful and awesome all at the same time! Good food. Good family. Good day!!

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  71. On Christmas Eve, whatever family is in town, all gets together and goes to our favorite Mexican Restaurant. We started this tradition over 25 years ago? Back then, the kids were all small but now they’re grown with kids of their own. The owners expect us every year and it’s gotten to where they put us in a separate room now because there’s so many. We look forward to this all year!

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  72. I love getting together with my whole family and decorating the tree, I also love opening a gift in Christmas Eve. 💚❤️

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  73. My favorite tradition is having my family over for Thanksgiving. I took over hosting when my mom passed and I have truly come to love having my family come to our house for turkey and family time.

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  75. My family doesn’t tend to have any sort of tradition, but we all at christmas time eat our dinner and after we all sit around and lough with eachother about memories whilst we open our other christmas presents.

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  78. Food! For every holiday there is a special dish that is made. Heaven forbid if there are no deviled eggs for Easter, no lemon meringue pie for my birthday, no honey baked ham for Thanksgiving and no pecan sweet potato casserole for Christmas.

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    1. My favorite Christmas tradition is cooking breakfast for our kids after opening the gifts and then we would go to the movies in our Christmas PJ’s. Now that they are adults not all of them can visit my husband and I during Christmas but when they do I love doing it. The most heartwarming thing is hearing them tell their friends how they love the traditions I created for them when they were little and how they miss them.

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  81. I love to take my kids for a drive an and look at the Christmas lights each year. It’s just so magical and beautiful. Even though the kids are getting older we still love it.

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  83. My favorite Holiday tradition is taking my family up to the woods to cut down our Christmas tree. We make fried chicken, potato salad, cookies and hot chocolate, spiked for the adults of course. Then we spend the day hunting down the best tree, lots of laughing and my favorite time with my kids.

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  84. Baking cookies with my husband for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas. We’ll have music playing, a game of dominoes with our boys going and some adult drinks flowing lol

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  85. My favorite holiday traditions…
    First The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (original with Boris Karloff) is a must!
    Then watching It’s a Wonderful Life (b/w version) with a nice drink Christmas Eve.

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  86. Spend it with my family, it hasn’t been the same since my mom passing. We make the best of it. This year I have a blessing that came into my life this year. My boyfriend has been amazing with me and my family. His my light in my darkness. Can’t wait for many more Xmas with him and my family.

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    1. My favorite holiday tradition is cooking for my family and then sitting down to a meal to spend time with one another. Since I am the cook, I ask each for a dish they would like and do my best to have it made. Makes me happy to see family and or freinds enjoy what I cook for them. Yes this includes desert.

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  89. My favorite holiday tradition is driving around and looking at all of the Holiday decorations. I did it with my family as a kid, I did it with my kids, and now do it with my granddaughter.

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  91. I am so boring. I don’t really have any traditions. I leave everything to the last minute every single year and it drives me insane 😅

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  92. I love Halloween!! Taking my kids out trick or treating. And looking at all the Halloween decorations!! 🖤🧡

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  95. My favorite tradition like yours is making cookies. I wait all year to make Christmas cookies with my sister, nephew, neice, her husband and now her 6 month old baby. My favorite cookies are my mom’s Italian Chocolate Cookies and our almond cutouts. Thank you again for the opportunity to win.

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  96. Christmas means so many things. I’ve been making my Granny’s Christmas cookies (Anise and Old fashion tea cakes) for 12 years now. A few years ago, my husband acquired his first train set for Christmas. This has been a massive change in our lives because now from August until January, we have a train layout in our dining room. It’s huge and we all love it.

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  97. I don’t do much for Christmas but I do a few things for new year. I clean my apt, I set the dining table with a plate with fruits and a plate with grains, I set seven candles (blue, yellow, green, orange, pink, white, purple) and invite the angels. Then I make little papers and write all the things I didn’t like or want for the past year. At midnight I burn those papers burning the bad things, I ate 12 grapes and make twelve wishes and to end I go around the block with a back pack so I will travel in the new year 😁
    🤷🏽‍♀️🤣🤷🏽‍♀️

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  99. One of my favorite holiday traditions is that me and my 2 kids save 1 ornament each to put up on the tree On Christmas Eve no matter when we had already put the tree up

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  100. Honestly I love most of it 🥰 Making scramble & cookies from scratch, doing different Advent Calenders with my kid, watching Christmas movies/ cartoons, giving gifts to loved ones, visiting family, decorating the tree, and most of all, seeing joy on the faces of kids.

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  101. My favorite tradition is decorating the house the day after Thanksgiving. There is something neat about having the house lit up with Christmas lights and music. Sometimes my kids help but there is always classic Christmas music playing while I decorate. I mean classic as in Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, etc. I love opening each ornament and placing it on the tree. I really enjoy putting the homemade ornaments on the tree.

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  102. As a child, this tradition would be torture. But as an adult, I find it quite nice. We wait till after lunch to open our gifts. I find it good cos then I don’t have to rush to get up in the morning, lol 😆

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  103. 4th of July, all of the family my parents, siblings, siblings in law and all the kids go on vacation and spend the week together

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  104. Every year me and my sister and our kids go to my mom’s and we all make cookies together and get pictures.

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  105. We always drink eggnog for the first time each year while decorating the tree. My kids always want it early but I need a tree to drink it with! haha
    I love baking cookies for Santa also! I let each of my 4 kids pick what cookie to bake and we spend the day in the kitchen together. Santa gets 4 kinds of cookies at our house every year!

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  106. Now that I am a mom, my favorite holiday tradition is watching my kids open their gifts on Christmas morning

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  107. I have two. One has become a cherished tradition. My grandmother’s prayer. Either I say it or we all say it together.
    “God is good.
    God is great.
    Let us thank him for our family, our friends, our food and our freedom.
    And we pray for all the soldiers who are away from their families.”
    Short and oh so sweet.

    Then there is the fudge!! She taught us how to make fudge so I always make peanut butter (my fav!!) and chocolate from scratch! My 13 year old has begun learning how to make it too!

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    1. Christmas Eve nativity at our local church. It’s exactly the same every year, with children from the local primary school acting out parts,and I love the carols!

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  109. Mine would be going to see the Christmas lights with my little ones in our Christmas pjs and getting hot cocoa ❤️

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  111. We all get together to decorate. As we’re decorating we have Christmas movies playing in the background and treats spread out. We also pick a night where we go out and look at all the Christmas lights and decorations. It’s all so much fun! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 🎄🎉🎄🎉🎄🎉🎄

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  113. I’m originally from Puerto Rico and there are so many beautiful traditions in the island. My favorite one is the celebration of the epiphany, the night before the Three Wise Men visit, kids gather grass and water for the camels. They place it under the bed and the next day it’s gone and the presents are there!

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  115. Christmas season!🍬🍪🍒🍫🧁🫘

    Since I was a child my mother ALWAYS made cookies, candies, cakes and breads. And would make little assortment tins. My sisters and I would given them to our teachers, neighbors, and we even went to our pastors house every yr.

    I did it every year with my 2 daughters. And they gave them out.

    Now my daughters each have daughters that have started making all the same recipes I made as a little girl. Still use the same recipes as my mom did.
    Heck I just bought the items needed to make treats last wk.

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  116. Starting the week before thanksgiving and going until by birthday at the end of January I make homemade angel food cakes and give them away last year I gave away over 250. I do it past Christmas just because I love to make the start of the year great.

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  117. favorite holiday tradition is our present exchange party… We do it like a generic secret santa, with a cash value, and wrapped with no name. pull numbers out of a hat…when it is your turn, you can steal someones opened package or take a new one. People get sneaky and make deals with others, etc. It usually gets pretty hilarious.

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  118. watching the scrooge version of that year on the tv. Its not Christmas if you didnt see any version of scrooge

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  119. My favorite traditions are decorating the tree together, Christmas cookies, and Christmas Eve movie nights with popcorn and Christmas movies and games!

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  124. Christmas Eve is big for us. We play games, bake, have fun, and end it with new pajamas and reading The Night Before Christmas. It was my Dad reading it to us growing up and was a big moment when that torch was passed to my husband for our kids.

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  125. Our Christmas Eve games day with the kids and grands. We have snacks and crazy games with prizes then of course we open presents. My favorite tradition from my childhood was making Christmas candy.

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  126. New pajamas for the kids every Christmas, they get to open early and wear on Christmas Eve and an equally loves tradition is just time spent with family.

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  127. Yours sounds yummy 😋 Cut out cookies are my all time favorite cookie 💙
    This tradition we started a few years ago when the kids were out on their own. Christmas Eve is just for our kids, their significant others & grandbabies. I preorder this delicious fried chicken from a local place then Hubby & I make all the sides and desserts. Food is served buffet style starting about 6 PM and they can come and go as they need to. Some come eat, visit, exchange gifts then take off for another stop. Some come and stay till way after dark. It’s lovely & low chaos, either way. 😊

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  128. Making Christmas cookies with my sisters. We always did it when we were little with our mom because we couldn’t afford Christmas gifts to our neighbors so we would bake cookies. My sisters and I have taken up the tradition, make thousands of cookies and hand out to our neighbors which is so much fun!

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  131. My favorite tradition is organizing the towns 4th of July festival and fireworks display. I’m on the committee and it’s an all year planning process. Makes it always feel like a holiday.

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  132. Halloween we go overboard and go to all the fall festivals we can! Christmas we takea train ride on the North Pole Express to see Santa

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  133. I love anytime we get together for a meal and have a chance to take a nice walk afterwards. The walks are always full of laughter and good conversation

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  136. I give each of my kids a unique ornament every year that represents something from that year or something about them. It is fun finding them and then seeing their faces.

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  137. Hot Chocolate for the kids, something stronger for the adults and some good snacks….then we go and cut down our Christmas Tree in the woods.

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  140. A ladies group I belong to has a Christmas party every year and we do the white elephant gift game and it is so much fun. A couple of years ago I ended up with an advent calendar of socks and underwear, needless to say they for a much younger female. I gave them to my granddaughter. It’s a hoot every year.

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  141. My favorite holiday tradition is one that I grew up with. My moms side of the family is from Iceland and the Christmas Eve tradition was every member of the family gets a new book and chocolate and that is what they spend Christmas Eve doing. I still carry this on and my kids love it. Icelander buy the most amount of books in the world during December

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  142. I can’t cook to save my life—but baking? That’s my superpower! While my husband battles through chemo and radiation (because, let’s be real, cancer is the absolute worst), I’ve been channeling my energy into the kitchen. And let me tell you, it’s been a sugar-fueled storm these past two weeks:

    • 🎄 Christmas cut-out cookies
    • 🍪 Molasses cookies
    • 🥜 Peanut butter cookies
    • 🎂 Whoopie pies (two kinds—fluff filling AND cream cheese filling, because why not?)
    • 💋 Meringue kisses
    • 🍫 Christmas cookie fudge

    Basically, if it involves butter, sugar, and joy—I’ve baked it. Consider this my sweet rebellion against cancer: one cookie tray at a time!

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  143. When we have so many splits in our family , it hard to get everyone together, but my Brother has stepped up to the plate and manages to get Mum and Dad together in the same place. It’s difficult, but it means we get to spend Christmas in one place rather than trying to be everywhere for everyone.

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  145. My favorite Holiday tradition is everyone getting together, talking and having a good time. It usually involves good food too so that is always a plus. Gifts are exchanged but the best part is just being together.

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  153. Christmas isn’t my favorite holiday so my favorite part of the season is setting up and organizing all the things my kids consider traditions. Christmas nougat in the crystal candy dish, Christmas Eve boxes with PJs and goodies, baking whatever sweet treat that strikes my fancy each year, and decorating the house to make it feel cozy. My kids are grown, but they still love it all.

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  154. Grandma’s Green Beans and Mushrooms (Every Holiday)

    This is a family tradition that goes with any family meal but especially with Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Makes me think of family every time I make it.

    Sliced Mushrooms
    Whole Green Beans 

    Butter
    Sherry (those who use cooking sherry should die!)
    Garlic (minced is better but powdered will do)
    Season Salt

    Now this is all to taste but overdo it on the butter (think 1 package of sliced mushrooms = 1/3 of a stick to start).  

    Melt butter in a sauté pan or pot or whatever is big enough to hold the green beans too.

    Add garlic, mushrooms, a glug or two (again to taste) of Sherry and Season Salt

    Stir/mix the mushrooms and turn to simmer

    Simmer until the mushrooms have absorbed most of the liquid, stirring occasionally

    While the mushrooms cook, make the green beans to your ideal texture, but remember they will cook a little bit in the pan. (I use steam-in-bag microwave)

    Toss the green beans in with the mushrooms and mix.  Add a bit more of everything as needed, cook for a min or so,  and serve!
    Happy Holidays!

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    1. BTW, This is excellent with steak, which we began having for Christmas dinner, as having turkey again do soon got boring 😴.

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  155. Christmas photos…. the stable i board my horse at does Christmas photos every year. My dogs, son, horse and myself always have matching outfits on and we all take a group photo.
    It’s such a sweet time with son that I look forward to it every year.

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  156. Christmas time Baking cookies, family time, Christmas movies, decorating the tree and making tamales with the whole family..

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  157. Love the cookie tradition, Julie!!

    So, I would be an empty nester (kinda, my youngest two adult sons still live with me) but I went and had a grand finale baby at 39 with my hubs. She’s 15 and every November 1 for the past 5 years or so, we go full “It’s time”!! (Mariah Carey reference) and decorate for Christmas. We are over the top and a bit obnoxious with it (eliciting eye rolls from the three dudes who live here with us) but it’s so fun and we get to enjoy the season for a full two months!

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  158. My favorite Christmas Tradition was going to my Grandparents’ house for hours just to stuff ourselves and open presents before going to midnight service at church.

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  159. Definitely baking Christmas cookies with my girls! Our favorites are peanut butter blossoms, but we don’t discriminate. We love all the sweets!

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  160. My favorite holidays tradition is when my family who lives all over US gets together on December 25 and stay together doing cool activities for kids till December 31, celebrating the start of the New Year and saying what we are grateful for in the previous year and what we hope for in an upcoming year.

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  164. On News Years eve we stay in out comfy clothes have appetizers and watch movies.. it’s very relaxed and a great way to usher in the new year

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  166. My son and I celebrate Yule and exchange books on the Solstice, but because we are always also off on Christmas, we watch the entire Hobbit/LOTR extended editions.

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  170. My favorite tradition for any holiday is just having family together. I love our tradition of decorating cookies together too.

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  171. My favorite tradition is the Christmas pickle. You have a Christmas pickle ornament that you hide in the Christmas Tree, on Christmas Eve the first person to find it gets a special gift.

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  172. I love Halloween and Christmas. I have always loved to dress up for halloween and give out candy. I have been driving an 18 wheeler for the last 13 years, I retired a few months ago and this has been the 1st time in 13 years I have gotten to celebrate the Holidays at home.
    For Christmas I always spend it with my oldest daughter and family, we have a tradition of a large breakfast and then open our gifts on Christmas Day.

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  175. My favorite holiday is Halloween . Here in Australia Halloween isn’t as big as the USA , but I love dressing the kids up and seeing all the decorated houses ,
    At Christmas I love all the Christmas lights but not as many people do them these days unfortunately its really sad

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  177. Circumstances have made it hard for us to establish traditions but my mom always used to make homemade hot chocolate on Christmas morning and I’ve tried to keep that going. It’s a way to share her with my husband and kids and also a way for me to remember her.

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  179. No rules apply
    Do what you want, go where you want, or not, eat what and when you want. Relax, enjoy and read, read as many hours as you want…

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  183. My favorite tradition is having my three daughters and their families over — any occasion that this happens is a holiday! I love cooking for them and seeing them enjoy what I have prepared. I especially the sound of laughter of the littles!

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  186. Hmmm…… my favorite Christmas traditional is bakeing the cake.
    I try to bake my mother, my grandparents ‘s cake and foods. We live far from each other so I bring them here with tge food.

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  187. We don’t really have any traditions though we try to make them. But my fave holiday is Christmas and New Years and spending them with my family. Sadly my kids are growing up and let’s me honest, there are going to be a few years where they might be elsewhere (my son is enlisting) and its going to be so different.

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  188. When we were little on Christmas Eve we would get to open one gift, usually from our grandparents, then open everything else on Christmas morning. The holidays aren’t the same anymore but we still try.

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  189. I make cookies and candy. Sometimes i’ll make some fudge that my mom used to make. I would like to make different things but i think my family would not approve since i have been making the same ones for years.

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  190. We don’t really have any traditions nowdays, but when my sisters and I were kids, we used to open our gifts on Christmas Eve (usually because mom often had to work,) and then on Christmas Morning we got Santa’s gifts, which were usually larger in value, thus we got more excited about. lol

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  193. It’s a toss up between getting together with my mom and 2 of my nieces to decorate cookies. My nieces are in their early thirties now and they still enjoy doing cookies with us. The other is on Christmas Eve when my family gets together we will play games like, bingo with money or lottery tickets. It’s slot of fun, but takes forever.😀

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  194. Decorating! I’ve been saving Christmas pretties since a child. Around Thanksgiving it’s like watching a movie made of memories as I unpack each box and find it a place to shine for the season, sharing it’s story and history (again) with my kids and with the grands and the littles. I love watching my 40 something year old kids faces as they also relive a precious memory through the decorations as they are revealed each year 💖💖💖

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  195. When my dad was alive it was getting drunk(i am a lightwieght) and making cookies for santa and little foot prints for the kids in the morning now im not sure yet my little ones love finding the christmas pickle to see who opens presents first though

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  196. Christmas always involves 2 things: 1. family Christmas pajamas personalized & having the year printed on them. 2. Star shaped cut out cookies with chocolate stars on top.

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  199. My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve, it’s my mother’s birthday so the whole family gets together and makes tamales..every year. We drink, we play games.. enjoy our time together

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  200. New pyjamas on Christmas Eve. Since my children were little, if they had a gift left in their bedroom on Christmas Eve they knew that some of their list would be gifted on Christmas Day. My children are 16 and 24 now and it’s something we still do, although the gift has changed from a toy or teddy bear to pyjamas

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  201. My favorite holiday tradition is our annual trip to the Christmas tree farm to get our tree and then decorate it as a family while watching holiday movies.

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  203. I would have to say going to all the Fall/Winter Festivals. Great shopping, things to do with fairy and having fun.

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  205. My grandmother used to drive me around to look at Christmas lights. She is no longer with us but I still love to see the lights. Just thru the neighborhood or those drive thru as well. Never miss seeing Christmas lights.

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  206. When its christmas we make our sons presents into the shape of a snowman with the hat, face and all. Btw white wrapping paper not cheep or easy to find 🙂

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  211. My bestie comes to town and we always BBQ and drink and see in my birthday on boxing day (26th) then eat leftovers and watch the boxing day cricket match 🏏✨️🥀🖤

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  212. Christmas cookies something we do every year and on Christmas Eve we read Twas the Night Before Christmas and open one present.

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    1. My favorite tradition is my brother and I giving each other a box of Whitman’s chocolate for Christmas. Our grandparents used to give each family unit one for Christmas when we were kids. When they passed away, we decided to carry on the tradition between the 2 of us.

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  213. I love Christmas! I love baking cookies, decorating the tree, spending time with family, and going to Christmas Eve Service. Christmas is a joyous time.

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  214. I love baking cookies and breads. Putting up decorations and lights is another favorite. Christmas is my favorite time of year. The old Christmas shows, Rudolph, Frosty, Santa’s Coming to Town, Charlie Brown Christmas are great. White Christmas and It’s A Wonderful Life are great. Last but not least Die Hard.

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  215. Decorating + baking! I also took over making Nana’s fudge + peanut butter balls after she passed. This will be the 3rd year I’ve made them. I surprised the family the first year after finding the recipes while cleaning out her apartment.

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  217. When the kids were young I wrapped 24 different Christmas books and put them under the tree (the same ones each year). Beginning December 1st they chose one book to unwrap as their bedtime story, and we would lay under the tree for the reading. I miss them being little!

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  219. My favorite Holiday tradition is going to my parents on Christmas Eve and opening gifts. We’ve kept the tradition going even with adding in-laws and kids. We also added having Santa come to give the kids each a gift once we started having children.

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  220. My favorite tradition was always going to the candlelight service on Christmas Eve. It’s beautiful when the church is lit mostly by candles. Listening to the story of Jesus’s birth and singing traditional Christmas songs. Then we’d drive by all of the decorated houses. Some were really special and really put a lot of effort into it. Christmas Eve has always been my favorite holiday. ✝️🎄🎅❤️

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  222. Tree trimming , hot cocoa, making cookies with my niece. Trying to keep up these with tye amount of loss these last couple of years. Oh and she is 16 now. So waayy to cool now

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  223. My favorite holiday tradition is making sticky buns Christmas Eve for the kids to eat Christmas morning. It’s the same thing I did as a child with my mom.

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  224. Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love watching the kids, if any age, dress up and go trick or treating. Our kids are adults now and do we live to watch the kids in our neighborhood experiencing the joy of knocking on homes and getting their candy. Dressing up our home for the holiday is also one of my favorite things to do. We have a GIANT fake spider, Harry, that we sit on the roof of the first floor, turn his lights on for his eyes, and watch the kids react to him. Most of the kids love him, some get creeped out by him. Either way, we love Harry. Lol
    I think Halloween and everything involved with is my favorite because you can whomever you want to be and it’s only for the day/night.

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  232. I think that would have to be opening gift Christmas day when I get to watch my kids and grandchildren faces light up with delight.

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  234. Making my husband’s mother in law’s sweet potatoe pie. Since she shared the recipe with me, I make it for the holidays and give several away to my immediate family 😋

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  236. I think my favorite holiday tradition would have to be decorating cookies and homemade ornaments . Since I had a gastric bypass surgery the week of Thanksgiving we didn’t have a Thanksgiving this year and I am hoping to be able to eat solid food by Christmas so I know things will look different this Christmas too but I really want to be able to continue our cookie and ornaments tradition.

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  237. We cruise a lot of holidays this will be the first December in a few years we havent cruised. We have done 2 Easter, 1 Ground Hog’s day, 3 Christmas, 1 Memorial Day, 1 Halloween, and 3 Birthdays

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  240. My favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve. We eat Chinese food watch a Christmas story and we’re matching pajamas.

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  241. My favorite holiday tradition is picking out the Yule log. My sisters and I bundle up and go frolicking in the woods until we come across an ash or oak tree. Then we look for that perfect fallen branch and take it back home to be decorated with candles, sigils, and anything we might want to add. We always have on a simmer pot and music on whilst decorating, then bake afterwards.

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  243. Letting my kids decorate our tree, they are getting older now and aren’t into decorating so now I have to try to come up with something else.

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  245. My favorite tradition would be checking out the lights and reading the night before Christmas to my kids. It was a tradition that my mom started with me.

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  247. My favorite Holiday tradition is Getting everyone together on Christmas Eve and opening one gift while having Finger foods and Hot chocolate.
    Thanks for the opportunity!

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  248. My favorite tradition is going to see Christmas lights with the family. I love to walk around the town square with a hot drink while enjoying the lights.

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  251. I really love the Christmas Eve box I make up for my Daughter (19) she is Autistic with learning difficulties so is still very young of mind and loves it, I put in PJ’s and a nice hot chocolate as well as other things, we match PJs (sad I know) and then we snuggle and watch Christmas movies, I find Christmas Eve magical!

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  254. Opening one gift each on Christmas Eve. As a kid, that helped to allay the anticipation; as an adult, it was so much fun watching the kids agonize over which single gift to open early <3

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  255. Taking my 4 kids to take a picture with Santa Claus EVERY year– they’re 18,17,16,15 😆 they still humor me and do it! Absolutely love it!

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  256. My son and I watch Nightmare Before Christmas while we decorate the tree. It’s just nice bonding time together and he enjoys it.

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  257. I love this stuff we call pink stuff. Its cottage cheese and cool whip with strawberry jello. It sounds gross but is so good and I only eat it during the holidays since I was a kid

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  258. My favourite holiday tradition at Christmas is when the whole family surrounds the dinner table and we cut an apple into that many slices as many we are around the table ( it is ideally the whole close family. We all take and eat a slice. The apple symbolises our unity as a family. We are sharing this gesture in the hope of being able to be together and to do it again the following year.

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  259. My birthday is Christmas Day. As a family, we open our Christmas presents on Christmas morning. Then we go to morning mass and come home, get the turkey cooking and have brunch. Then it’s my time for opening my birthday presents. Except the one year I got one big present which I opened for Christmas. I was very disappointed 😞

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  260. We are a Die Hard family. It’s. It not Christmas if we don’t get to watch Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Plaza!

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  261. I love Christmas. Putting up the tree is a labor of love. I also love watching Christmas movies. It’s a Wonderful Life is my fav. Italian Christmas dinner with the family at my house is a tradition that I hope passes down to my kids.

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  264. Im honestly not a huge fan of Christmas. I enjoy Thanksgiving more. I love spending the time with family and not having to worry about all the “gifts” and expectations. Christmas is always more stressful to me.

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  269. My favorite holiday traditon is the having special food for the holidays. I really like Christmas cookies and Easter cookies. Roast turkey, cranberry relish, and pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving are all things I look forward to having every year.

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  274. Mine is how we make something from our childhood every Christmas usually something my Grandma used to make. Just that little bit of nostalgia carries you.

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  275. favorite holiday tradition is going to see the Lights with the kids and having wagon ride and hot chocolate

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  277. Every year I get everyone Christmas pjs and we wear them all day on Christmas Day and binge our favorite Christmas movies.

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  278. Used to be that my Mom and I would put of the Christmas tree while listening to Elvis Christmas record. Then I started collecting Christmas tree ornaments from the travels with my husband. Now it’s just me and my cats so there is no tree. Going to hang a painting I painted of a Christmas tree. Good enough.

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  279. We always have Christmas at my grandmother’s on christmas morning and we have breakfast in our PJS and I always hand out the gifts. ♡◇♡ another holiday favorite is decorating the tree with my Nannie, I will cherish that as long as I can. You never know how many more times you have left to do these things with people you love.

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  280. Every year I host a Mother/daughter Christmas party. I have been doing this for over ten years. Every year we pick a theme, do a potluck, and do something fun. This year we are doing a Christmas PJ theme, potluck, and we are painting Christmas signs. Thanks for the chance!

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  282. I normally get the week between Christmas and New Year off, add in the weekend and I sometimes get 2 weeks off and only need to spend a couple days of PTO. My husband and I often times make it a road trip to visit family out of state.

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  283. I loved trick and treating with my kids. Hopefully I’ll get to do that with grandchildren one day.
    Another favorite is driving or walking through the park where I live at Christmas. They hang lights and it’s just beautiful. I used to do this with my dad. He’s gone now so I’m not sure when I’ll go again.

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  284. I have 2. I like to drive around and look at decorated houses and drinking eggnog and rum while decorating my tree

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  285. I love our special Christmas dinner with all my family. It includes a Christmas shot of Southern Comfort.

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  286. My ex doesn’t like traditions and would do what he could to foil them. One he allowed was homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. My youngest son, who now lives in Alaska, is bringing this tradition to the people he works with. 🙂

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  287. I love making Christmas cookies with the kids and grandkids! My youngest two are close to the same age as my two grandsons so it’s fun!

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  288. We don’t really have traditions in my family, but I would say my favorite part of the holidays is just being with my family on Christmas morning, opening gifts and just spending the day together.

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  291. My favorite holiday tradition is how we do our Christmas dinner. Because we have family all over the place we decided years ago to do our family Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve. My son and I, along with his father, prepare something we have never eaten before from scratch and spend the night eating and playing board games or card games. We have done food from Russia, Greece, India, one year I picked up a cookbook I had never used and fan through the pages, and we each randomly stuck our hand in and whatever we were touching. That’s what we cooked.

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  292. That is such a sweet tradition you have withh your Christmas cookies❤️

    Well… I used to have traditions, but with the ebb and flow of life, they have all gone out the window at this point.

    So, I am just going to go with the flow and do what works for now.

    I am currently enjoying a cat themed advent calendar. Maybe I can make that into my own little tradition?

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  293. For all major holidays where family gathers together, my favorite tradition is making sausage balls for breakfast. We end up leaving them out most of the day and everyone snacks on them throughout. Every time I make them I wonder why we don’t make them more often. Then I realize it’s because they’re reserved for these special occasions, and I love it!

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  299. This is my favorite time of the year! I just love the music, the foods and everything exciting that comes with this festive season so I love all the preparations. The decorating and celebrating the season with family and friends

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    1. Well last year was the first year that our youngest child was no.longer living at home. I have two adult married kids so we are still trying to figure out how to all get together to open up gifts and Christmas Eve.

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  304. My favorite holiday tradition is to do holiday baking with my daughter on Christmas Eve and in the evening we do a Christmas movie night and I get everyone a gift box with a new pair of pjs. And snacks for the movie. 🎄❤️❄️

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  306. Favorite Holiday Tradition has always been when the “elves” bring Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. That’s when the kids know they need to go to bed so Santa can come!! Also decorating the Christmas Tree together as a family.

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  308. Everything Thanksgiving instead of cooking a traditional feast, we all pick our favorite meal from the year and cook that instead. So we have 5 different meals and a lot of leftovers.

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  309. My brothers and our families rent a house and spend the weekend before Christmas together cooking, playing cards, dirty Santa and hanging out. It’s the only time we see each other all year because we live everywhere. Makes us miss those that can’t be there but reminds us of growing up and being together.

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  310. My kiddo and I like to make a bed in the living room on xmas eve and stay up all night watching movies. Shes 16 now so the fact we still do this and I know she will be off to her own thing one day soon… I cherish these traditions

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  311. Our family Christmas Eve get together. We go to mass then come home & have a small dinner, drinks open presents. It’s just a fun, loud crazy time

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  312. Grinch day celebration, driving thru the lights ,Chinese food on Christmas eve, we have to many fantastic traditions to pick just one.

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  314. Christmas Movies! We have all of our classic favorites we always watch as a family. Each year we add something new to the mix.

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  317. I like watching Christmas movies leading up to Christmas. I suppose that’s true now more than years past because I don’t really celebrate Christmas anymore. And I guess the movies are, in a sense, allowing me to feel like I’m celebrating it.

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  319. I love to watch the traditional Christmas movies and maybe a few of the new ones with my kids and granddaughters.

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  320. This is going to be a rough end of the year without my husband but we are going to start a new holiday tradition. Making popcorn balls and decorating our tree together is a long time tradition.

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  321. Drinking hot chocolate and reading a Christmas story book before opening presents will always be my favorite tradition.

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  322. Candy making with family and friends we make 50 pounds or more every year we give it to friends and family

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  323. My favorite tradition is planting jelly beans with my kids and now my grandkids. For Easter we the night before Easter we plant jelly beans and on Easter morning we have lollipops! That Easter Bunny has some super sweet magical powers!

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  324. My favorite holiday tradition is just coming all together as a family. Cooking eating and enjoying eachother

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  325. I love halloween and I like to go to places that are supposed to be haunted and explore. Last year for halloween I stayed in a castle in scotland and the year before that I went to draculas castle

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  326. Traditions have gone by the wayside since mum passed away nothing is the same without her.
    We used to watch scrooge on Christmas eve eating Turkey and pickle sandwiches..xx
    Thankyou so much for the chance xx

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  327. Driving around and looking at all the lights and watching the Christmas Parade my town has every year.

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  332. My favorite thing about all holidays is cooking all my favorite foods – the same foods we have had for the last 40 years – and having found family come over, squeeze into my small house and just share food and love.

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  334. One fave tradition is the whole family cooking a totally NOT traditional Christmas meal. Like last year we bought a sushi kit and hunted down sushi grade salmon and tuna And made our own sushi and fried rice

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  336. My favorite holiday tradition is displaying all of my Christmas snow globes. I have some that are 30 years. Starting collecting when my first son was born. My favorite is a Hallmark Coca-Cola Santa Clause with a train that goes around the base, we’ll its supposed to anyways. It’s so old it doesn’t work anymore. But even the broken ones are still beautiful!

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  338. My favorite is the quiet magic. Seeing the belief in my kids eyes that wishes and magic is real. I love the quiet before all the chaos and smell of cold and wood burning fires.

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  340. My favorite holiday tradition would have to be… ever since I was little my mom would read us the night before Christmas book on Christmas eve. It was one of my favorite things to do and I really want to continue on with the tradition when I have my own kids one day.

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  341. I’m the biggest kid when it comes to Christmas so I have many traditions that I absolutely love including all the Christmas cartoons and movies. I do have a favourite with my best friend. We exchange a book on Christmas Eve with chocolate. We choose a book for each other from an author we like or have heard is great and find each other the best chocolate so that when the chaos of Christmas Eve is over and before the chaos of Christmas morning starts, we can sit down And start a brand new book from each other. We’ve been doing this for several years and I’ve learned about many new authors and enjoy every moment. It’s one I never wanna stop thank you so much for this giveaway. It’s one of yours. I’ve been craving to read. Maybe it’ll be next year’s Bestie book exchange 😍🥰❤️📚

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  345. Baking Christmas cookies with my daughter. Depending on my work schedule during the holidays it’s either between Christmas and New Year or after New Year. But we bake cookies together each year ☺️

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  347. My favorite tradition is making my cheesy potatoe casserole for our Christmas, Easter & Thanksgiving family dinners!

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  348. Baking cookies with my mom and my kids. Also spending Christmas Eve with my whole family and then going around town looking at Christmas lights

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  349. Making Dumplings for our traditional polish Christmas Eve dinner. But it’s not necessarily at Christmas we start about a month before as we need to make 300 of them and they do get eaten as we make them it’s lost of fun and mess .

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  350. I love cookie baking day. I used to do it with my daughters when they were young. We continued it after they got married. Now I have 4 granddaughters and they are all a part of it too. I also love that our whole family gets together for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. My husband’s birthday is Christmas Day so we celebrate his birthday too.

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  351. On Christmas Eve, after our big dinner and before the kids go to bed, we read the night before Christmas. This started when my son, (who is now 44) was a toddler. As soon as he became old enough we let him read it. Then when my daughter was old enough she shared in the read. Now my kids have carried on the tradition with their kids!

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  353. Growing up with Mom as a head nurse she always worked the Christmas Day shift to give one of her staff off. Since she left at 6:30am we would open out gifts Christmas Eve. We’d sit around and I’d pass out the gifts. Every year my mom has to find a special gift hidden in the tree from my dad. That rocked.

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  354. I have big family so we each take a day to host a get together. We go to my brother house for Christmas Eve. We eat and play games. We would do Christmas Day at my parent’s place. This is first year that will not be doing Christmas Day at my parent’s home. They are not with us.

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  355. I have big family so we each take a day to host a get together. We go to my brother house for Christmas Eve. We eat and play games. We would do Christmas Day at my parent’s place. This is first year that will not be doing Christmas Day at my parent’s home. They are not with us.

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  356. Waking up on Christmas Day to muffins and then going to my grandparents to open presents and eat Christmas dinner was always fun.

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  357. I cook the big Christmas dinner on Christmas eve. So my favorite tradition now, is that relaxing family time on Christmas day. Gifts have been opened. Everyone is full of leftovers. We just watch Christmas movies in our pajamas. It’s the best.

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  362. Favourite holiday tradition is spending Christmas morning opening gifts and then having breakfast together. Then we spend the rest of the day with family.

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  367. Every year for Christmas, we try a new tradition (like advent calendars, pajamas, etc.) But nothing really sticks so the running joke is our tradition is trying different traditions lol.

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  368. Sadly I don’t really celebrate the holidays. It’s not been the same since my daughter died. I don’t have the sparkle for it any more. So my husband and I have a quiet day, and we’ll watch a movie or I’ll read whilst he watches sport.
    Thank you for this amazing chance.

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  371. Christmas Eve boxes. Each year, I give my kids each a box to open on Christmas Eve in the afternoon. It contains family PJs, snacks, and entertainment items – like card games, puzzles, arts & crafts. What started out as a way to keep them occupied so I could finish up anything last minute when the kids were little is now one of our favorite traditions!

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  372. My favorite holiday tradition is throwing a murder mystery halloween party every year! I gather family and friends and usually have it themed. I love it

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  374. The kids always begged to open “just one” gift on Christmas Eve. So I started the tradition of PJs. Now my kids always expect a new pair of PJs to wear & wake up to Santa. My oldest has started the same tradition with my granddaughter.

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  376. We go to Yankee Candle Village on the Saturday after Thanksgiving to see Santa fly in on a helicopter. We spend a few hours there making candles and shopping, then go have lunch and watch the Ohio State football game. We end the day driving through a light display and seeing santa. We started this tradition with just my husband and kids, and now it has extended to my parents and siblings and their spouses joing us as well. I can’t wait to continue the tradition as more kids get added to the family!

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  377. Making cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning and stockings Christmas morning with the kids. Watching them scratch their scratch tickets is surprisingly fun!

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  378. Our tradition is mak8ng all different types of Christmas cookies and decorating the cutouts. I love spending time with my husband and kids in the kitchen!

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  379. Me, my hubby, daughter and son always get hot chocolate/coffee from wherever (Dunkin’ Donuts usually) go go looking for Christmas lights 🥰

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  380. For Thanksgiving, I always watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade in the morning. For Christmas, I always get a chocolate advent calendar.

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  381. We have two holiday traditions. The first is wevlike to drive around our neighborhood and marvel at all the different Christmas lights on all the houses. We’d get hot chocolate and jump in the car and off we’d go. The second one was to watch all the Rankin and Bass Christmas specials from Rudolph to Santa Claus Is Coming To Town to Rudolph’s Shiny New Year

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  382. We have our Christmas dinner on Christmas eve with my family, so my sister and her partner comes to my parents house along with my self and my husband. We have Christmas dinner and then spend the evening with hot chocolate and movies. We then get to wake up together on Christmas morning to have breakfast and open gifts. This way we get to see our nephew open his presents 🎁 and this year we have another nephew, he was only born 3 days ago ❤️

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  384. Don’t really do tradition, but love having my parents come and stay over the Christmas break. Enjoy time off work and sleeping in.

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  385. We really don’t have traditions these days. What we do for ourselves is travel and make memories during the holidays

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  386. My very favorite holiday tradition is going to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra with my daughter. Sometimes we take other people and sometimes we don’t but my favorite part when I take somebody for their very first experience is watching their face the minute the show starts there’s something so special about The look in their eyes in the wonderment in their expression…

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  387. Making sugar cookies and decorating them for Santa Claus. I did this with my daughter every year and now do it with my grandkids.

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  388. Our family holiday tradition since my son was old enough to help is baking sugar cookies together and decorating them.

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  389. My favorite Holiday tradition is having Speck and Dicken for New Year’s Day!!! It’s a German pancake(wheat) with bacon and sausage in it.

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  390. The whole extended family spends Christmas Eve at my Aunt’s house. Catching up with family I don’t see often enough is my favorite part of the year.

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  391. My favorite holiday tradition occurs on/around my husband’s birthday. Every year around that date, I have a bowling tournament somewhere in the country. Most often it’s in Las Vegas or Reno, but no matter where it is, we always make a big deal out of the trip since he’s forced to travel with me.

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  393. My favorite holiday tradition is just gathering our rather large family together and enjoying the time of year. Family is everything the trappings don’t really matter.

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  394. Every thanksgiving we each pick a favorite meal to cook , instead of cooking a traditional meal. So, lots of leftovers

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  396. My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve Presents. Every year, we go to my Dad’s house for Christmas Eve & my children & my sister’s son open 1 gift. And every year it’s pajamas. Initially they didn’t match, but over the years that’s changed. Now, they follow a theme every year & now my parents also get matching pajamas. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed & looked forward too. The kids are all teens now, they don’t enjoy it as much, because teens. But I love having the pictures throughout the years.

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  398. I have so many and they seem to change throughout the years as my daughter gets older. But right now I would say our favorite holiday tradition is going to be making gingerbread houses. Just the two of us Christmas morning, especially a chocolate one

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  399. We make tacos every Christmas and then hit the movie theater, and it may sound silly and simple, but it’s something we look forward to every single year. We’re also all huge Gilmore Girls fans, and have a Gilmore Girls dinner for Christmas Eve, which means, just about every frozen, junk food option you can think of.

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  400. My favorite holiday tradition is cooking and baking with my eight year old daughter. We do this for all the holidays we celebrate but especially for fall holidays through new years.

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  401. My favorite tradition is making Christmas tshirts with my kids. We have been doing this for the past 15 years. They are now 25, 23, & 19. We sleep in them on Christmas Eve and they all get a new pair of pajama pants under the tree on Christmas Eve to wear to sleep with their Christmas tshirt. We have had some really funny shirts over the years. Reindeers being chased by a cop car, dinosaurs eating the Christmas tree, snowman missing pieces, gnomes upside down and Santa stuck in the chimney. It is a night filled with laughter, cookies and wonderful quality time. 💕

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  403. Each year a group of my friends come together to bake christmas cookies. We know each other through our children (they went to kindergarten together). As our children are 20+ years old now, we’ve been doing it for quite some time. There are some classics as Choco Crossies. Chees Cookies and rum balls but we try new receipts every year. That session usually last 6 to 7 hours and afterwards we’re all quite beat. But it’s so much fun and we get a lot of different cookies to take home.

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  405. Really dont have any holiday traditions. Though for birthdays we have trying to make it a tradition for a very small group of us to go out for a special lunch

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  407. My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree as a family. We will play Christmas music and decorate the tree.

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  409. I have two. Every year for Christmas me and my daughter bake cookies and make ornaments. We give them to co-workers and family.

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  410. Going 20yrs strong. Every year we pick out one ornament for our Christmas tree, as a family. We’re hoping one day when we are old, our tree will be filled with one of a kind ornaments & all the love and memories of the holidays. Our kids get very competitive now for the “perfect” ornament. But it’s cute to see everyone’s personality shine. My most treasured are ornaments they made when they were in Kindergarten. I love that the teachers did that.

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  413. My favorite tradition is the making of ornaments for the tree. Also, we make cookies and hand them out to the neighbors.

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  416. My favorite tradition is to get dressed in our pajamas, and drive around town to see all the Christmas decorations while drinking hot chocolate….and then we come home and watch The Polar Express

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  417. My favorite tradition is family feast night for Chinese New Year. Everyone comes home and there is chaos in the kitchen with everyone trying to cook some dish for the feast.

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  419. My favorite tradition
    Is going to pick out our Christmas tree. And then going to our city’s lighting ceremony. Even though my children are grown we still do that together.

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  420. For me ots just sitting with all lights out but the christmas lights and watch8ng the snow fall with a christmas movie on and fire glowing while we eat holiday candy just has the most relaxing and loving family moment

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  422. My grandmother, mother and I have been making cookie trays since I was talk enough to reach the table. 2 weeks of baking and then the ladies of our family would get together and make cookie trays. My mother and I have continued that tradition and my daughter is now tall enough to help out.

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  424. My favorite holiday is Christmas, i could care less if i get anything, my joy is giving and seeing others expression when they open a gift that i really tried and really put heart into it.

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  426. Watching certain movies!

    Nightmare before Christmas
    The polar express
    And the first three Die Hards

    Add in some others like the OG grinch, frosty, Rudolph etc if they are available

    Didn’t really celebrate the last 5 or so years, but I got gifts for a handful of people this time

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  432. Making pumpkin bread, I’ve made it every year along with my daughter and mother in law making Italian cookies. It’s our way of giving a little of our home to someone else’s.

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  433. My favorite Christmas tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve followed with driving around looking at Christmas lights with our kids and granddaughter, going back home to open our Christmas pajamas and then making homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast Christmas morning and putting out cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for all the reindeer.

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  436. My favourite Holiday Tradition is somewhat specific to my family (I think). We would go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve then when we returned home we would open presents. Staying awake was the most difficult part LOL! On Boxing Day, we would have fondue (meat, cheese and veggies with delicious dips). It would give you a lot of time to talk with everyone at the table while waiting for your delish meat sticks to cook. These days, the fondue is the only tradition we keep anymore. It’s a blast!

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  437. I love to play table/card/board games. The holidays (Christmas, my birthday, etc.) are one of the few times I can convince my family to do it.

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  439. When I was a kid every Christmas Eve my grandma ordered Chinese food. The whole family came at least 20 or so some years more. We’d eat then open gifts. Unfortunately that ended when she passed away.
    Christmas day was spent at a hall where my other grandma and all of her 9 brothers and sisters got together with all of their kids and grands kids. Well over 100. My great uncle is a Catholic priest so mass was at noon, any baby baptism needed were done. Then we would eat pot luck style. And finally Santa came and gave each kid a gift. This family tradition continues to live on.

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  442. I have not read yet but would love new books to read ive been hearing really good things!! And the graphics are amazing on the covers.

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  443. My favorite tradition used to be family gatherings. But, now with my grandparents gone we just don’t do them anymore. I do baking and watching Christmas movies with my little family.

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  444. Watching Christmas movies with my granddaughters whether it it Christmas in July, Chistmas in October or actually at Christmas time. They love it and it is our special time with a big bowl of popcorn.

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  445. Game night on Christmas Eve with my parents and taking a picture of my son in pajamas in front of the Christmas tree each year.

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  446. My familys favorite tradition is attending the “Southern Living Christmas show” each year. Its held in Charlotte NC, and it lasts for 12 days. Me, my mom, sisters and neices all go together. (no guys) and we spend the entire day shopping and hanging out with each other. This was our 39th year my sister said. Its so much fun!! Merry Christmas to all!! ☃️ 🎄 🎄 ☃️

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  447. I use to make several hundred cookies and give platters to many friends. all the had to do made me nuts and so stressed. I still love to bake and share but not on that scale, and there are occasions or random times all year now. Much more fun

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  448. When my kids were little they used to open one present on Christmas Eve and then we would read The Night Before Christmas and start watching A Christmas Story for 24 hours

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  450. When my kids were still at home, I always took a picture of them in front of Grammy’s Christmas tree. Every year. Now that I have my first grandbaby, I have to make some new traditions!

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  452. Getting together with family on Christmas Eve for dinner where everyone brings a dish and then opening presents.

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  455. We don’t really have any traditions anymore. When my mom was alive and my kids were young, we would go all out for Halloween and host a party for the kids and their friends.

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  456. Christmas Eve family gathering. We all come together at my husband’s oldest living Aunt/89 and drink her homemade eggnog while exchanging gifts. We celebrate our wins, mourn our losses, and toast to good things to come.

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  459. My favorite holiday tradition is filling stockings on Christmas Eve. My Husband loves wrapping presents, so the only thing I have to do is fill the stockings.

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  460. Last year my girlfriends and I decided every year we would go out driving various places to look at holiday decorations. We put different names of cookies, brownies or pastries along with thermos of Hot Chocolate in a hat and each of us draw from the hat. We make the treats and cocoa and bring that along to eat and drink during the drive. We had so much fun last year. We had a,”sugar high night.”

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  461. My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve my daughter’s and I make gluten-free cutout sugar cookies and decorate them. Then we all go out as a family and look at Christmas lights.

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  462. I make a Greek cookie with powdered sugar on top and in the recipe. Everyone loves them and always ask for more.

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  463. I make a Greek cookie with powdered sugar on top and in the recipe. Everyone loves them and always ask for more.

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  466. My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas breakfast with the whole family. It’s the Saturday before Christmas (unless Christmas is on a Sunday then it’s the week before). As a kid we would get together at my grandparents house on Christmas Day, but around 2001 or 2002 when I was around 18 or 19, we started the Christmas breakfast tradition at my parents house. My dad cooks everything breakfast. Eggs, sausage, bacon, country ham, biscuits, gravy, you know all the good stuff. All my aunts, uncles, cousins and all their kids come and we spend the whole day together as one big family. There’s over 50 of us now and if you ask any of them what their favorite holiday tradition is they would probably tell you the same thing. I know this because it’s been said many times. Spending time with family is what makes this tradition my favorite and I know I am truly blessed.

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  467. I think decorating the Christmas tree is my favorite tradition. Evrry year, we go to the tree lot to choose a pretty one. I’ve never owned a fake tree.

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  470. driving around looking at different neighborhoods Christmas lights & attending the different “Light up _____” around our city

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  473. Since my grandkids were little we always make Christmas Cookies (Christmas Eve usually). We’ve even continued it when we have been traveling. Last year we baked cookies in our London hotel. This year will be in Singapore.

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  476. Visiting Christmas tree lane, decorating the tree, making different kind of tamales, singing, spending time with family, wearing matching pajamas. Basically- family time

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  477. My favorite holiday tradition is going to the local tree farm the day after Thanksgiving and picking out our Christmas tree.

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  478. On Christmas eve we sit down with our malteser popcorn, Milo drinks with marshmallows in them and watch the Polar Express. Then on Christmas day the kids are allowed to open their Santa sacks and go through those while we sleep in. Then we have bacon and eggs and pancakes for breakfast before cooking a big roast for a late lunch

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  481. We gather together for Thanksgiving, Xmas and Easter, my daughter opens her house, my niece comes back from CT, my daughters in-laws attend so we are this big, beautiful, blended family, others make the 3 hour drive so we can have a potluck. We talk, eat, catch up and hug each other for a couple of hours. Sometimes there are games or football on the TV and we all leave happy to have spent time with those that we love.

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  482. Definitely picking out the tree and decorating it while Rudolph plays on the TV. It’s been a long-standing tradition with my parents and siblings. Now, with my husband and kids, we still pick out the tree and decorate while watching Rudolph, but we’ve added a charcuterie board to the mix—a nearly 30-year-old tradition, long before they became cool.

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  483. My favorite tradition is done at Thanksgiving and Christmas. I cook a huge dinner for my family, and then make plates with the leftovers and deliver them to local people who don’t have anyone to fix them dinner and can’t do it for themselves.

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  484. My favourite hidden tradition is watching the kids open their stockings on the end of our bed, eating chocolate for breakfast. It’s so simple but it makes me so happy to see the joy on their faces

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  485. Going to my son’s house Christmas morning for breakfast and watching my twin grandkids open their Christmas gifts

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  487. Christmas Eve! Started a family gathering almost 40 years ago. And now it’s gotten bigger over the years with new additions to the family. Perfect

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  488. I would say related to Christmas, on Christmas Eve. We always go out to dinner and then we come home and unwrap one present. That present happens to be new Christmas pajamas for everyone. I like the way it starts the next few days in our house. For a non-Christmas I would say how I celebrate my girls’s birthdays. They’re special days and it’s all about them. They get special breakfast lunch and dinner and we do one present. Their birthdays have always felt special to them because I make a big deal out of it.

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  490. My favorite holiday tradition is getting up and cooking a big breakfast then, after gifts, going to my daughter’s house to see the grandkids and exchange gifts. It is such a wonderful time.

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  492. On Christmas Eve, Santa’s Elves brings new pajamas when its time for the kids to go to bed, so that Santa could come. We also decorate the tree as a family with Christmas music playing.

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  493. I love decorating my Christmas tree while listening to favorite Christmas albums. Making Pecan Ball cookies coated with tons of powdered sugar, the recipe from an old Betty Crocker Cook Book I received when I got married in 1969 when I was 21…I’m 77 now! My children love them. We also used to open 1 gift on Christmas Eve. I’ve started a new tradition a few years ago and that’s making a sweet potato casserole from a posting from Julie’s that she made. I used to do marshmallows on top and no egg inside. But now use her recipe with light brown sugar inside and in the topping of butter, flour, and chopped pecans. I’m asked by many to make this and give out the recipe too! It isn’t a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner without this Sweet Potato Casserole!

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  495. Going to my daughter’s on Christmas morning to watch the grands open presents. They are so innocent and get so excited to see what Santa brought. I kind of lost the Christmas feeling when all of my kids didn’t believe in Santa. Now I get a do over with my grands. Just brings back the magic of Christmas.

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  496. We are big on decorating the outside of the house for Halloween and Christmas. And then in October we will go through all the scary movies we can since it’s the only month I will watch them, lol. Then Christmas movies in December. Our girls have both moved out, but we all still do that from afar and then we’ll talk about what we’ve watched in our weekly catch up calls 😁

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  497. My favorite holiday tradition is decorating with my kids & watching Christmas movies with them & playing games with them. Just anything we do together for the holidays is always my favorite. It’s hard to get them off their tablets, so I really enjoy our family time. Happy Holidays! Ty for the chance!

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  503. My mom and I thrive during Christmas time, we love everything Christmas! We love to decorate and bake Christmas treats. Every night we watch a Christmas movie or two leading up to Christmas. It’s our favorite time of year 🙂

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  504. Favourite holiday tradition – I’m Swedish but live in the UK so I miss all the Nordic traditions leading up to Christmas, swedes celebrate advent – four Sundays leading up to Sunday with calendars and lighting candles, like a countdown, and Lucia – with traditional songs – last year I got to see a Swedish choir in England and I cried so much 😅😂 don’t get me wrong I love lots about English Christmas too, of course but there’s something special about your roots and especially when you live abroad, it hits differently somehow

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  506. Eggs Benedict on Christmas morning, staying in pj’s with the the Christmas tree lights on watching movies & eating popcorn.

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  511. It’s not Christmas day unless we have eggnog french toast for breakfast and then watch ” A Christmas Story and It’s a Wonderful Life.”

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  512. Family meetings to discuss what non-traditional meal we are having at Christmas. Lasagna is the winner this year.

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  514. My dad and mom ALWAYS coded our gifts. It kept us from being upset with who got what or how many before we opened them. I grew up with 3 other siblings so it could get feisty with 4 kids. The code could be anything. Every gift had a set of numbers and every kid had a certain number that was there’s. It could’ve been the last number in the series, a math problem, the middle or beginning number, etc. We would guess throughout the holiday as my parents would wrap gifts. We figured it out 1 year and that was it. It stopped after my dad passed away from cancer because he came up with the numbers and coding on the gifts while my mom wrapped them. It just wasn’t the same without him. As we got older, we realized it was way more fun to try and guess the codes rather than the gifts.

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  515. My favorite is decorating the house and Christmas trees (yes- plural) I have 3 all while listening to John Denver and The Muppets – A Christmas Together! Been doing it since I was a child and now that I am grown, I still can’t do Christmas decorating without that music. Best Christmas Album/ TV show ever!!!!

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  517. Oh it’s hard to pick. I love our family tradition of like buffet food/snacks and games on Christmas eve, but being Scottish I’m also a big Hogamanay lover (new years eve) and I’ve always made blowjob shots on Hogmanay.🍾

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  520. On Christmas Eve my brother, dad, and I go shopping for stocking gifts and then have drinks at different places along the way.

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  525. My favorite Holiday tradition is not working. Days off even with nothing planned but to read… especially with nothing planned but to read.

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  527. Now that my son is a young adult I love watching Christmas movies with it. We’ve been doing it for many years now.

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  529. It is actually the day after Christmas when the house is empty, clean and quiet, and me and my dog are snuggled up on the sofa listening to a dark and spicy book on audible.

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  531. Growing up with Mom as a head nurse she always worked the Christmas Day shift to give one of her staff off. Since she left at 6:30am we would open out gifts Christmas Eve. We’d sit around and I’d pass out the gifts. Every year my mom has to find a special gift hidden in the tree from my dad. That rocked.

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  533. Favorite holiday tradition is we have a cousins party the Saturday before Christmas. They are older now and some even adults so we play games that involve cash and gift cards. It is SUPER fun, competitive and can get WILD. I LOVE IT!

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  534. That’s an easy one!! Hi! My favorite holiday tradition is making torte or French meat pies, in our family they are pork 🥧 pies!! My Nanny usto to make dozens of pies with her Mom. We started eating them after midnight mass, which our catholic mass was truly at midnight and last between one and two hours on Christmas Eve!! Then we would eat them till just after the new year! I’ve never gotten sick of them and we only had them then ,no other time of year. I usually make them with my mom and sometimes my aunt and cousins. It’s a magical time! And oh sooooo good! It’s also fun to taste other people’s meat pie but my family’s are always the best! No surprise there. Thanks for the chance. Merry eating 🍽️ 🍪 🧁🍳🥗🥟🥮🥧!

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  538. We have a new one. For the past two years we have been going with our Son, Daughter-in-law and granddaughter go to Duluth, and do the Bentleyville Light Tour. A walk through the lights with costumed characters, warm cookies, hot chocolate, hot cider and toasted marshmallows. And at the end of it all a visit with Santa, and a hat from Santa.

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  540. My Grandma always makes treats at Christmas time.. Fudge, turtles, hard candy, cookies, peanut brittle, etc.. My absolute favorite tho is her strawberry and white chocolate fudge. Her orange fudge is pretty fire as well.

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  541. My family is spread out all over Australia so any holiday when we are all together is my favourite. It only happens maybe every 3-4 years

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  543. My favourite holiday tradition is that my daughter an i love halloween so we put on new halloween bedding, decorate our rooms, get halloween/spooky pj’s and get each other Boo boxes! We dont always go out to celebrate but we do watch horror movies with snacks

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  544. Christmas lights, have to check out all the neighborhoods.
    I cook Christmas dinner and then we all sit open presents and talk forever.

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  546. I take my dogs to drive thru Christmas lights every year. They love it. I’ll never get tired of watching them stare at the lights and chase the ones that move through the windows.

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  547. Making about 500 cut out cookies!! Then eating cookies
    Playing Christmas music in every room. And at work

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  548. My favorite holiday tradition is the gift giving. I love to find something special for the few people that I exchange gifts with. I usually shop throughout the year and then store items in my gift tub waiting for Xmas.

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  550. For Christmas our kids when they were little started writing letters to Jesus Christmas Eve and then Christmas morning before we open presents we would all go out to whatever little altar thing we built that we could burn something in freezing our booties off and we would pray and we would not read our letters we would burn them so they could make it to the heavens to this day most of our adult children still do this . Another thing we did since we were blended family we would get with the extended exes and whatever kids they had and go trick or treating all together as one big maybe not real happy ( but it’s for the kids right)lol. Now our adult kids do it with their extended in-laws and things like that so that tradition is still going on ..

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  552. This is gonna be funny because it is Christmas… But for all the weird reasons LOL. My husband and I work at the same place and it gets shuts down for two weeks between Christmas and New Years and we use that time to not leave the house and just play video games to our hearts content. We don’t do decor or cook or carols or whatever. We just stay indoors and we enjoy each others company and it’s the best thing!

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  557. Christmas decorating has always been a special time for our family. My youngest always spurs me on to decorate as early as possible (always after Remembrance Day though). We decorate the whole house together and my oldest and husband help with the tree with each of us placing bulbs & ornaments. I treasure this special time together before the hectic schedule of the holidays.

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  558. Every year my chosen family and I chose books for each other to read on Christmas even we spend the whole day living in books then Christmas Day we watch horror movies and hang out

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  560. My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with my family. It doesn’t matter the holiday. Time with them is what makes me happy.

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  563. We go as a family and drive around town playing Christmas Light bingo. There’s no reward for winning, just bragging rights, but it’s a whole lot of fun.

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  564. My two traditions that I love and enjoy every year is making cookies together and as gifts. I always make mini chocolate chip snowballs and chunky chocolate chip cookies. I always add a new type and make a total of three. My husband loves the snowballs and my older son loves the chocolate chip cookies then I just pick one that’s completely different like a cookie bar or something. The other tradition is opening gifts on Xmas eve closer to midnight.

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  567. On halloween my partner, myself and my bestie take my son trick or treating. Then after he is asleep my bestie and i watch horror movies and eat snacks until late.

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  568. My favorite Christmas tradition is baking with my mom and daughter. We have so much fun. I also make sure every year we make a brand new cookie so we try something different.

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  571. My favorite tradition is having my sister and nieces over on Christmas Eve to make cookies and watch our favorite Christmas movies. It’s so fun <3

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  574. My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my daughter on Christmas Eve while watching Christmas movies.

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  575. My favourite holiday tradtional is Christmas, from putting up the lights and tree, the shopping or making christmas presents and the Christmas baking. Especially love the Christmas baking and the eating of the goodies.

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  576. Being in Australia it’s a bit hard to have Traditional Christmas Traditions – ours usual involve aircon or the beach. Mine though has to be pulling out all our decorations! It builds all the excitement for what’s to come.

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  577. I hist christmas eve at my house every year for my neighbors. It is my one thing i do to host and i just love celebrating with my closest friends.

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  578. Making Christmas cookies and having prime rib for Christmas dinner. Everything made from scratch and family recipes. Like Gramma’s peanut butter fudge.

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  579. We mainly have Xmas traditions. My favourite is going to my mums for breakfast in our pj’s. And in my 30s we still all go in pj’s and dressing gowns

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  581. I love the magic of decorations. I hunt for the decor that reminds me of the magic I felt when I would visit my grandma and stare at the light glass tree playing music next to the bowl of walnuts.
    In my own home with my kids we love countdowns and I will often make different countdowns to a holiday (this year 13 days to Halloween). We also have a stocking for almost every holiday since I like to sew. We have valentines, St. Patrick’s day and Christmas so far. We love finding things to put in each others stockings (my “kids” are 19 and 21).

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  588. I love Christmas decorating, but the tree, with all of the one-of-a-kind ornaments, I’d my favorite tradition. I have collected ornaments every year since the birth of my children, so that they will each have one (from each year)! So far, there are 28 for each child and I love reminiscing about where I was living when each ornament was found! Merry Christmas!

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  591. Every Christmas Eve, my husband and I
    pick a new restaurant / dive bar, and day drink! We call it KrunkMas Eve 🤣

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  592. My mother is first generation Polish so we do a big Polish Christmas Eve filling all the traditions they’ve been passed down in our family for ever. We eat by candlelight leave the door open for the uninvited guest, we set a place setting for the uninvited guest, make sure everybody can see their shadow on the wall from the candlelight. And then there’s the food it’s all Polish. It’s supposed to be nine courses. We’ve shrunk it a little bit because we don’t really care for some of the stuff. There’s this dried fruit compote that reminds me of mincemeat. It’s any dried fruit that you could possibly buy boiled on the stove with water, sugar and cinnamon and then you either eat it like that or you pour it over ice cream. I’m the only one who likes it so we don’t make it lol. I do love pierogi, golabki and borscht. We only make it on Christmas so I wait all year for it.

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  594. Going to all the holiday festivities with my granddaughter and my adult children, then ending the season with a family feast and some ridiculous fun games.

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  597. On Christmas Day, after the presents have been opened and the dinner finished we have a game night. My best friends and their kids come over and we eat more, drink and play games until late into the night

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  598. Every year I host a mother/daughter Christmas party. There is always a theme, potluck, and a fun DIY activity. This year the theme is Christmas pajamas and we are painting Christmas signs

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  601. My favorite holiday tradition is when we go look at Christmas lights and Santa sneaks in on Christmas Eve.

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  602. I absolutely love tjis time of year first we get Halloween, my absolute favorite all things spooky is my fav I love it all! Then we get the magic of Christmas and my birthday is the day after Christmas! I l9ve all the decorations and movies it’s just all so much fun!

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  603. Well, reading that 1990 was 35 years ago just brought me down lol Why does it not feel like that long ago?
    Anywayyyy, my favorite tradition would be the countdown to Christmas with candy canes on our tree. My mom would get enough for each of us to countdown to Christmas about 10 days before. We would each get a candy cane every day until Christmas Eve. <3

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  605. I love Christhmass but it is more dear to me the El dia de los Muertos, we have it our country on november 2th, we made an special brew and bread with tht family and remember our lost familiars

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  606. I love Advent Calendar’s and so happy that they even come out with some that are not just for Christmas. I also love just spending time with family around the holiday’s.

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  607. Favorite tradition is getting to make ornaments with my son. He picks the theme and then I figure out how to make it. Lol.

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  608. Decorating the office for Halloween. Already have next year’s theme. The other is the decorations for Halloween and Christmas to drive around and look at.

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  610. My favourite tradition is our Christmas book Advent calendar.

    I wrap up 24 Christmas bonds, and each night the kids can unwrap one and it’s our nightly family book. At the end of January I hide all the Christmas books for next year again, my kids adore this tradition.

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  611. St Patrick’s Day… As a kid I used to give my Mom a kiss and tell her ‘now, you’re Irish’ because Dad was the Irish half and in my kid logic, I’d kiss her so she was Irish for the day too. As I grew, it became a call on the day to tell I was sending a kiss. I still do it to my friends now since Mom passed.

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  612. My favourite tradition is going to my Mum’s on Christmas eve morning. I would make my stuffing and bring it around to her house. My girls started joining us. We would play and sing Christmas music, drink a coffee with Baileys added to it. Talk and laugh whilst stuffing the turkey and preparing the vegetables for Christmas day.
    It was always my favourite as we were all together and relaxed, the shopping wrapping and everything else had already been done and we could relax together before the big day.
    My Mum died this year after a short illness, we didn’t know last year would be our last all together. This year we will do the tradition but at my house and we will remember Mum and times gone by.

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  614. Advent Calendars…. even a an adult i still but myself one. I adopted a dog in July and even bought her one this year.😊

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  615. It was going out at night to cruise the town and look at all the Christmas decorations. Don’t do it any longer.

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  616. I’m fairly certain I normally say watching It’s a Wonderful Life, but I haven’t been paying attention to holidays in general for a while now. Even tho I’m Jewish (I feel obligated to throw that in there) I think I look forward to hearing the Christmas music, bc that has always been something that I love. And I just heard a beautiful rendition of Carol of the Bells that I will attempt to leave on this comment. (This is to say, the link.) If that is against your rules, I imagine that either my comment won’t go thru or the link will disappear, in which case I just suggest you look for it on YouTube either on shorts or put it in search w “cute girl in front” – something like that – it’s only about 2-3 minutes long but it’s so amazing it changed my mood and I’ve listened to it idk even how many times since!!

    https://youtu.be/ivVPqwFiocg?si=wGtIFjqg4DQnQ6kt

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  618. My favorite holiday tradition is taking my son to get a new ornament. My mom started it when I was little so I had atleast 1 new ornament every year and so I continue it with my son!

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  621. I loved to decorate Christmas cookies with the kids when they were little. There was always laughter around the table. Maybe someday, I’ll get to continue this tradition with grandkids.

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  622. Watching Die Hard, going to see half of family Christmas Eve and then going out to a Chinese Buffet with the rest of my family on Christmas Day

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  623. My favourite Holiday traditions would be our annual Christmas celebrations with our families. It always fills me up and I just love all of them so much that I’m excited to spend another year celebrating with them.

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  624. I have a large extended family (about 80 people) so we do a carry-in dinner, we play cards and games, and we laugh, a lot.

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  628. Ever since I was a kid for new christmas pajamas on christmas eve and would watch movies as a family and we all do it.

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  630. My favorite is a tie with handing out treat boxes, and Christmas light scavenger hunt. I plan and make everything, homemade cookies, fudge, bread, chex mix, candy, etc. I fill the boxes with loads of yummy goodies and then we load up as a family and go pass them out. We also do a Christmas light scavenger hunt we find a list online and we grab milkshakes and go hunting through all the neighborhoods. We have a blast.

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  631. For me it’s doing all the Christmas baking with my mum and daughter, and then sharing it with the kids teachers, our friends, and our neighbours.

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  638. My favorite holiday tradition is family time, with my kids scattered around the country as adults I love the time spent together.

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  639. I’m still trying to figure it all out. At this point I would just say gathering with my family. A lot of things have changed in the past few years and it’s time to create new traditions.
    However, one thing that is consistent is my cornbread dressing on Thanksgiving.

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  640. I am not going to lie, my fav Christmas tradition is the Christmas lights you see all over. The joy it brings. The simplicity, the wonderment, amazement, I just love it. It just brings a sense of peace to me.

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  642. My fav holiday tradition is nothing. Lol I feel like I don’t really enjoy any holidays at this point and they are just busy and stressful and make life more complicated.

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  643. So I grew up in a household that did not celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah. I grew up in a Christian household, so try explaining that to the world. Let me tell you they all thought it was crazy.. so my favorite holiday traditions actually come after the holidays because I love clearance holiday shopping!!!!

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  647. My favorite Christmas Eve tradition is going to our local thrift shops. It started long ago one Christmas Eve when my daughter wanted a SpongeBob chair. I looked everywhere online and my husband went to every store he could but there was nothing to be found anywhere. We happened to stop at Goodwill in hopes of finding some extra stocking stuffers and as I looked through the window, we saw a SpongeBob chair. My husband ran in and bought it for two dollars. She loved that chair and used it until it was practically in shreds. Ever since, we stop at a thrift shop and always find a little treat. Another Christmas Eve, she fell in love with a dollhouse bed at Goodwill. My husband paid for it and then he dropped us off at home so he could pick it up. My daughter kept saying that Santa was going to bring her the bed and the dog. What dog? The giant Scooby Doo that had been sitting next to the bed. Needless to say, my husband went back and bought it right before they closed, LOL!

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  649. We all stay at my parents house Christmas Eve and wake up at 6am Christmas to open gifts with siblings nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews. It is a full house and so much family fun.

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  650. My favorite holiday is Halloween, and every year I go crazy decorating outside. I have about 2 dozen anamatronics that move, light up, make noise. I have a full on graveyard set up. Creepy props everywhere, spiderwebs, fog machines, the whole set up. And on Halloween or the weekend before if Halloween is a weekday, I invite the whole neighborhood over for a big party in the yard to enjoy the holiday. We have loads of candy, drinks, food, a sh, the kids (and most of the adults) dress up. It’s a lot of work but a whole lot of fun and I look forward to it every year.

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  652. When I get ready to wrap all the presents, I watch the Grinch movies. My kids don’t really care for the movies, so I am sure to be left alone.

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  653. Wow, quite the question…I don’t really have any holiday traditions per se. My husband and I have been dressing up with my kids now for about 7 or 8 years when we go trick or treating. My family dynamics is messed up with divorced parents that don’t like each other, two sisters that we never seem to get along for the holidays, and of course the in-laws chaos. Holy shit, I sound like a book of everyday life.

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  656. My favorite all over holiday tradition is letting my husband cook the dinners and I relax. But with Xmas its that time with my kids before xmas…the decorations, the crafts, the spirit.

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  657. My mom started a tradition with me when I was younger that after my birthday we would go to a local nursery that was all decorated with 50-100 trees and we would pick on special ornament each for our Christmas tree. Once my mom passed my kids help keep this tradition going by taking me to go get our special ornament. While there we share memories of my mom. ❤️🎄

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  658. My favorite holiday traditions are baking cookies and opening Christmas Jammie’s on Christmas Eve night every year

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  659. I love that on Christmas morning my husband and I make the kids wake us up first. Then he and I go downstairs to see “If Santa came” without the kids. They have to wait for us to tell them to come down. I love that it gives my husband and I about 10 minutes downstairs to ourselves on Christmas morning to make coffee, turn on lights, and we get to see our kids faces when they see the tree and everything Santa left!

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  660. Making hot chocolate, extra marshmallow of course! Loud Christmas tunes, comfy pj’s and decorating the tree together!

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  662. Love Christmas it’s just me and my mom 🎁🤶We love lights the tree, baking cookies.🎅Thank you for the chance🎁🤶 Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to you🎅🎄

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  663. I adore sharing the magic of Christmas pajamas with my kids. When I was a kid, we got to open one present Christmas Eve. Wouldn’t you know it was always pajamas?! Now I get to gift new pajamas to my kids and wonder what they’ll remember.

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  664. New Years Eve. My family has food traditions and I love food. We make black eyed peas for good luck, Collard greens for money and corn bread for gold in the new year. Of course we add other foods to make it a complete meal like rice, fried chicken, potato salad and other things but that tradition means the most to me because it never changes and reminds me of my mother.

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  665. On Xmas Eve my husband cooks a lovely ham in the slow cooker and the family come round. He also cooks a really good Xmas dinner just for the two of us as the kids are grown up now. We still do Xmas crackers and wear silly hats though. Then Asti Spumanti on New Year’s Eve as it was what we used for our wedding dinner. It’s very romantic.

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  667. My new favorite holiday tradition is to have the lights going while listening to music with my cats and kittens. They do go play with the tree but only a few things fall off.

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  669. My favorite holiday tradition i did growing up and now doing woth my kids is baking cookies and candies while listening to Christmas music and then making trays for family and friends as gifts! The list is my great great grandmothers we bake.

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  670. I too feel like Christmas isn’t Christmas without cookies. I’m also a fan of Christmas movies of all types …even the cheesy Hallmark ones. Haha

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  672. I’m half Korean and when my mother was alive she used to make Christmas Eve dinner for the entire family—a big Korean feast. Since she is no longer with us, I have taken that task on and my kids look forward every year.

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  678. Taking my kids around looking at Christmas lights! We always get special hot cocoa’s and then spend the whole evening driving all around our town and just ooohhhing and aahhhhing at the decorations while listening to our favorite Christmas songs. My birthday is Christmas day, so we usually spend that day watching all of MY favorite Christmas movies and snacking all day.

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  679. My favorite holiday tradition is picking names off the giving/angel trees. I try for at least 2 names each year and I go for the tags others might leave behind. I try to get everything on the tag and a few extra things as well. Everyone deserves a good holiday (Christmas)

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  681. My favorite new tradition has been taking the family to Johnson City, TX for light looking. Well actually pretty much any little town in the hill country is so fun at Christmas. Also, getting to open 1 present on Christmas Eve (new PJ’s) they are always wrapped super crappy because they are from the pets of the family. And Christmas night having a wonderful roast dinner with my parents. It’s going to be the first time in many years this year my parents will be away visiting my sister. So that’s going to be weird for us all.

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  682. My favourite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve we all come together, for supper it’s all appetizers. Once that’s done and cleaned up, we play cards for the rest of the evening!

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  684. My favorite tradition is going out on Christmas Day evening and looking at all the Christmas lights at people’s homes with my daughter.

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  685. My favorite tradition is spending Christmas Eve with all of my mom’s side of the family. Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc…. all sharing in making a feast, laughing, sharing stories and gifting each other.

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  686. I just love the spirit of giving that people have around Christians. And driving around looking at the lights!

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  688. Food! lol. I love the whole situation. The history, the planning, the cooking and the eating. Talk about a mood setter!

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  689. I love baking and making candy. Every Christmas I bake my Christmas Bundt cake for my family and extended family. We open gifts then eat cake. I have tried to change cakes but get told no each time.

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  691. On Christmas Eve my son and I get hot cocoa with a candy cane and drive around to see the lights. He’s already asked if we’re doing it this year and he’s 21 🤣.

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  694. Cookie baking with the kids but as they get older our cookie party is up to 16 people making 12 cookies all day. I’m making 3 meals and we will have music and games going all day! It used to just be my 3 kids with me and now they bring chosen family and friends, I can’t wait for the 23rd!!

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  695. Baking cookies and watching Christmas movies. Sadly kiddo is in college so it gets condensed into what little time he has home

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  696. Even though my kids are college age now, we got to the Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve and the. Head to my parents. We have dinner with them and my brother and his family and open presents. Christmas morning we relax and just enjoy a quiet Christmas morning.

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  697. My family tradition is super easy we watch the grinch Christmas even and then we make breakfast in the morning together

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  698. My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies (premade- I’m not a baker), making hot chocolate, and watching all of the Santa Claus movies with my family!
    Those movies are the best Christmas movies in my opinion!

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  700. Our favorite holiday tradition is making homemade hot chocolate (with peppermint sprinkles for me of course) and all hoping into a vehicle and driving around to look at the beautiful Christmas lights. It’s the one thing I look forward to every year as it lets my mind slow down and focus instead of worrying about everything else around me.

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  701. Since my kids were babies, starting the Saturday (night) after Thanksgiving, and every Saturday till Christmas Eve ( there are no exceptions). We pick movies, favorite snacks, drinks. We cuddle on couches, chairs, floors. my kids are now 22,16 &14, So there are now gf’s and Bf’s and BFF’s. But it’s fun and we are together, and there are plenty of shenanigans! It’s my absolute favorite

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  705. We do a lot of baking. Growing up in Pittsburgh, having a cookie table is a must. My daughter loves to bake so we make tons of our favorite cookies. In past years we would make up trays of cookies and pass those out as gifts to friends & ofcource for the holiday work parties. We also drop them off to people who have been kind and helpful during the year. Also for company who visits. That is probably the one tradition that hasn’t changed over the decades. We love to share some homemade goodies with some added special chocolates we make.

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  706. Making cookies for Santa with my kids and now with my grandkids. We get together every Christmas eve, decorate cookies and gingerbread houses.

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  707. There are so many holiday traditions, some of them are not the same as when I was younger and more family was around for the holidays. We always would go driving around and look at the christmas lights, now that we are all older and don’t get to spend as much time as we would like with family we no longer do that.

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  712. I don’t know if we have any set traditions other than opening gifts Christmas morning and then having a late lunch/early dinner.

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  713. My favorite holiday tradition in our family is we used to draw names at thanksgiving for the Christmas gift exchange. Just recently we started doing a white elephant themed exchange. Of course, we have a couple hilarious ones and the really good ones that everyone keeps stealing!! Makes a fun gathering with family and friends!

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  715. Going completely overboard with our Halloween decorations inside and outside! We have a huge display in our yard with several fog machines, music, the whole nine yards. This year we had almost 1,200 kids come through trick-or-treating!

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  717. My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree together as a family and then watching Christmas movies while making some homemade ornaments to add to it.

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  720. My favorite Halloween tradition is buying pumpkins and Styrofoam pumpkins and decorating them by painting them with different colour paint and designs! Then displaying them on the porch for Halloween 🌙 🌃 night!

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  723. Decorating. I love to decorate and make decorations with my little kids. This year we made Yule wreaths and will continue to make this a our tradition. My older kids have stuck to baking as our tradition. I love it and is the only time Im cool enough to get their attention. Lol.

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  728. My favorite holiday tradition is baking a ton of Christmas cookies and then decorating them around the kitchen table together.

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  729. I love Christmas, and I love my family’s Italian Christmas Eve, my Mom was Italian and passed down recipes and traditions to my siblings and I.

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  731. Watching Christmas movies. I always start off with A Christmas Carol (1984), then Home Alone 1&2. These two are a must watch for me.

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  732. Christmas treats, I have a love affair with sugar. Sharing time and stories with family and laughing, so much laughing.

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  735. I love drinking boozy cocoa and deccorating the tree. Its the only time I’ll let my mister play holiday music before Christmas day. 😆

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  736. I’m a single Mom and my son is autistic. He LOVES the Christmas tree. The lights and colors bring him so much joy. My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with him each year just the two of us. We put the Polar Express on the TV and spend the afternoon decorating. The tree stays up until spring ❤️

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  737. Blaring the Pogues “Fairytale of New York”, watching Christmas movies, reading my Christmas smut, and of course enjoying holiday food, holiday drinks, and holiday cheer with friends and family

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  738. My favorite tradition has always been a Christmas eve box for my kids. We get them new jammies, some of their favorite snacks and candies in the box and we watch a Christmas movie before bed.

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  740. My favorite holiday tradition is going to look at Christmas lights. Stop and get some yummy hot chocolate.. We spend a few hours in a golf cart /trailer & look at pretty lights & at the end we usually get another hot chocolate & roast marshmallows. My kids have enjoyed it for almost a decade && they are all teens now still enjoying it.

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  741. Mu favorite holiday tradition is dancing with my family, doing karoke, playing games, eating good food, opening one gift each on Christmas Eve 😊

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  742. Driving around looking at all the Christmas lights and decorations, open one gift on Christmas Eve, spend time with my family at Christmas day, eating yummy food and opening gifts. Listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies.

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  743. Halloween is my favorite….all things Fall really. If I had it my way, everyone would trick or treat, not just kids.

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  744. My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas. We are a mixed religion family so I love celebrating both as a family.

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  745. We have a neighborhood parade on the fourth of July. It called the Antiques and Horribles Parade. Everyone dresses up in costumes…political, traditional or current events. It’s like Halloween but you’re not freezing and tripping in the dark!

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  746. My favorite holiday tradition is having a tree trim party on December 12 which is also my dad, my son and my cousin’s birthdays. So we celebrate with a big dinner, putting up the Christmas tree, sing carols then sing the birthday song and eat birthday cake!

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  749. I always get scheduled for all six official holidays every year, including the night before so, I always end up doing my favorite things on other days. I love baking, cooking and making homemade candy for Christmas. I usually do it the week before Christmas, while listening to Christmas music 🎶 🎄🤶🏻

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  751. I supervise baking Christmas cookies and cakes, as my family competes to see who is this year’s befst baker!

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  752. Every Christmas Eve the kids get to have a play day with their elves and then we open eve boxes, which contain snacks, a new stuffie and new pjs.. and then we gather round and watch a Christmas movie before putting out cookies and food for Santa and the reindeer!

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  756. Brunch at my house Christmas morning. There is SO much food. Friends and family come over and it’s always fun. We eat too much, open presents and watch Charlie Brown!

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  757. Christmas has been hard since losing my grandma, so I make sure to do all the things I used to do with her growing up with my kids now. But decorating cookies will always be top tier.

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  759. I love my familys Christmas eve tradition where me and my husband swap small personal gifts and watch really crappy Christmas movies together 💜

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  760. We open a box on Christmas Eve that contains new pjs for everyone, drinks, candy and popcorn for watching a movie.

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  762. Christmas lights with my babies! Or making Christmas fudge! Maybe even our yearly Christmas trip to indiana for family! Honestly TBR holidays get me all excited!!

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  763. Regardless of all the squabbles through the year. Every year the entire family always comes back together over Christmas to exchange a new snow globe they picked out so each of us all have a snow globe collection built by other members if the family.

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  766. My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around to look at all the Christmas lights and decorations. My second favorite that I’ve decided to restart this year is doing a Christmas stocking for my girls.

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  769. We have a few traditions adding a new ornament to a wreath that we have had since we were married. Our annual flour fight between Thanksgiving and Christmas . Orphans Christmas for our friends without family in the area.

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