How do you celebrate Christmas (if you do, that is)

[Stingy Jack]

My wife just hit me with the worst fucking idea imaginable. She said: "This is what I was thinking we should do for Christmas this year ... we'll just buy ourselves one big thing to share, and maybe a couple of little things for each other and spend the rest on Ashlynn (our daughter.)"

Of course, my reply was: "You have to be shitting me. That would be like 4 hours of foreplay, and 30 seconds of actual sex. I want my Christmas mornings to be orgasmic, paper shredding, box ripping, new-toy playing excitement for at least half an hour!"

She said: "I figured you would say something like that."

Am I wrong? She says this the tradition that her mom and dad followed (which is understandable, since they had several children). Personally, I like to save up a bunch of money and blow it on everyone I know buying them presents (and I expect to get plenty in return, too.) This is the tradition in the house I grew up in.

So, what do you all do, if anything? Do you have any "pre-christmas" rituals, like open one on Christmas Eve? Or what?

[massacre man]

i normally go to sleep on the night of christmas eve

[Egekrusher]

Which family?

My dad's side? My mom's side? My stepdad's side? My stepmother's side?

[Ritualistic]

I usually make a list of people to buy gifts for that I know I will recieve a gift from... This may sounds humbug BUT I dont have a lot of money so I usually just get everyone gift certificates. I usually go to my moms house for dinner and then be with friends that evening.... My family wasnt the norman rockwell family so we dont have any traditions..

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by Egekrusher
Which family?

My dad's side? My mom's side? My stepdad's side? My stepmother's side?

Er ... just pick one and go with it.

[massacre man]

whats the point of gift certificates with that same 20 dollars you coulda got that person... 20 dollars

[Sam The Egg]

I get drunk and violate the neighbor's Reindeer

[Egekrusher]

Originally posted by Stingy Jack
Er ... just pick one and go with it.

We were lucky to make it to Christmas on my mom's side. We always opened the first gift at least a week before hand, and the rest never made it to Christmas because my sister and I both pestered the living shit out of my mom and stepdad.

My dad and stepmom always had us on Christmas eve, so we opened presents then.

[Ritualistic]

Originally posted by massacre man
whats the point of gift certificates with that same 20 dollars you coulda got that person... 20 dollars That way they wont go spend it on some stupid shit like deodarant or something like that LOL and I wouldnt want the 20 bucks that I gave them to go to misuse..My brother drives a lot so I usually get him a gift certificate at BP. My mom buys a lot of knick knacks and stuff so I usually get her one at Precious memories store.. So it all depends on the person i am getting it for.. PLUS I get tons of them from family members because they dont know what horror I have.. I get a lot for Best Buy, Circuit city and miscellaneous online shops

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Ritualistic
That way they wont go spend it on some stupid shit like deodarant or something like that LOL and I wouldnt want the 20 bucks that I gave them to go to misuse..My brother drives a lot so I usually get him a gift certificate at BP. My mom buys a lot of knick knacks and stuff so I usually get her one at Precious memories store.. So it all depends on the person i am getting it for.. PLUS I get tons of them from family members because they dont know what horror I have.. I get a lot for Best Buy, Circuit city and miscellaneous online shops oh ok lol

[newb]

Spend obscene amounts of money on stupid shit that nobody needs, while going deeper into debt as I navigate the fucking aisles in the local mega-plex with every other sorry asshole out there trying not to actually kill someone because everyone is fucking miserable and just want to be home in their nice warm house with a cold beer.


Other than that


I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME
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[Ritualistic]

I like X-mas time too just people at stores can become demons.... GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!! THAT IS MY PARKING PLACE YOU ASS FUCKER!!! THAT IS MY CRYSTAL FIGURINE!!! It can be hilarious as well, just sitting back and watching everyone at the mall run around like rats.. LOL

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Ritualistic
I like X-mas time too just people at stores can become demons.... GET THE HELL OUT OF MY WAY!! THAT IS MY PARKING PLACE YOU ASS FUCKER!!! THAT IS MY CRYSTAL FIGURINE!!! It can be hilarious as well, just sitting back and watching everyone at the mall run around like rats.. LOL bye everything the tuesday after christmas

[orangestar]

I open presents from my immediate family on Christmas eve night after church (grr..) then the next morning either all my extended family comes to my house or we go to my Grandparents and open presents there and eat lots of food and have a good ol' fashioned family fun time.

Im a sucker for Christmas, I decorate everything in sight and am generally in a very giddy mood on Xmas break.

[Hate_Breeder]

Christmas is cool. I usually celebrate with presents and a christmas tree. you know the usual

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Christmas is cool. I usually celebrate with presents and a christmas tree. you know the usual iv never heard of anyone ever do that

[Dark..Raven]

I agree with you.

But on Christmas eve my family gets together and watches " A christmas Carol"

On Christmas Day.. Let the shredding begin!!!!!!!!!!

[massacre man]

Originally posted by Dark..Raven
I agree with you.

But on Christmas eve my family gets together and watches " A christmas Carol"

On Christmas Day.. Let the shredding begin!!!!!!!!!! i watch the simpsons original christmas special

[bwind22]

I am boycotting this thread on account of it discussing Christmas in August. I don't even start thinking about Christmas until mid-December.

[mayoisthedevil]

i spend time with family. look at the lights, make funny cards, and watch a Christmas Story over and over and over and over again...i love that movie..."how do piggies eat?"

[Hate_Breeder]

Originally posted by mayoisthedevil
i spend time with family. look at the lights, make funny cards, and watch a Christmas Story over and over and over and over again...i love that movie..."how do piggies eat?"

Shit yeah! That movie is awesome. It never gets old.

"No way kid! You'll shoot your eye out!"

[mayoisthedevil]

Originally posted by Hate_Breeder
Shit yeah! That movie is awesome. It never gets old.

"No way kid! You'll shoot your eye out!"

HAHAHAHA! i love that little kid...his bro is one of the best characters in the movie! oh man!

[fluffho]

get oen of those trees and water it a lot because it sucks up a lot the first few days

then decorate it.

eve eat around 11pm then midnight get presents. not a little kid anymore so usualy i get just 1 big thing and maybe a few boxes of choc. last christmas i got the camera.. well, the money for it anyway.

then about midway january take down the tree... hahahahah\

"ralphy. i cant get up!!"

[darthvonpokemon]

WTF ? Not sure how my post for 'If you could do anything, what would it be ?' ended up here. I guess watch 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas' and agree with his views on the crass commercialization of the holidays. Then get drunk on egg nog and go caroling to my neighbors' homes at 3am in my underwear.
CK

[movieman64]

Originally posted by bwind22
I am boycotting this thread on account of it discussing Christmas in August. I don't even start thinking about Christmas until mid-December.


We already have stuff in layaway! We try to spend around $300 on each kid, (3 of them) In addition we have a daughter who's b-day is 12/25. It really sucks for her. Everybody always gives her a gift and says, "this can be your x-mas and b-day present together" WTF she's 7, she sees everybody else getting presents at x-mas and their b-day. So we end up spending another $100-200 on her for her b-day.

Whew, I'm ranting

[LilMissScareAll]

Get up and open gifts with my parents...we open 1 at a time. Usually we dont spend much money. Usually I just ask for money and we all just have small gifts to unwrap. That's probably what I'll do this year, too since I'm saving money to go to Hollywood.

We usually have Christmas with my mom's family on Christmas eve... or used to. We don't do much anymore on Christmas eve since my grandma died. Now alot of the family won't come around anymore. :o And when we do, everyone just rips their presents open, nobody gets to see what anybody else got, and there's paper all over the place.

My dad's family is completely different. They have Christmas at different times because some of us live in Kentucky and some in Ohio...so whenever everybody can get together is when we do it. Everyone opens their gifts one at a time with them.

[Rebel Yell]

I put up a tree with black balls, orange lights, and a Jack Skellington tree topper. I buy one present for each person in my family, sometimes 2. They all buy me presents as well. We all open them on Christmas Eve. Then Christmas day I sit around watching movies and eating cookies.

[Stingy Jack]

Originally posted by Ritualistic
That way they wont go spend it on some stupid shit like deodarant or something like that LOL and I wouldnt want the 20 bucks that I gave them to go to misuse..My brother drives a lot so I usually get him a gift certificate at BP.

What I would buy with a gift certificate for BP:

Deoderant