Holiday Traditions
 

Thanksgiving is coming for those of us in America, and the Holiday season'll be close behind. So I decided to create this thread for you all to share your favorite holiday traditions. They can be things you do with family, shows you watch, whatever makes the Holidays the Holidays for you. So I'll start us off.

Thanksgiving is about the Macy's Holiday Parade and Football, ever since I was a little Sentai. And, of course, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Then Christmas comes and so much.. Rudolph, and Frosty, and Mickey's a Christmas Carol, and so many others. And then New Years and the Tournament of Roses Parade.
Family.. not so much. We don't get along with much of my mom's side of the family and that's all that's here. But that's fine. We get along great by ourselves.

For my family, it was always about the Parade in the morning, going out together to see a movie, (this year, we're seeing Catching Fire. It's the last violent movie for awhile since one of my sisters is due by January, and we'll be seeing cartoon movies more regularly on Thanksgiving for awhile. :p) having dinner, and making mashed potato snowmen...before eating them. :lol

Mashed Potato snowmen sounds deliciously fun :lol

Dedicated to my art and design courses. Need to finish some projects, some papers for the extra credit, and tons of study for the finals. :D

Oh, it is. Especially considering how "creative" we are allowed to get because me and my siblings are basically all adults. :lol

You gotta have Tamales for the holidays.

Not to put a downer on anything or whatever but my holidays changed a lot when my Mum died. We don't have thanksgiving in the UK, not that that matters because the shops get in the Christmas spirit at like the start of October. When my Mum was alive, we were pretty much in Christmas mode then as well. My Mum LOVED the lead up to Christmas, the decorations, the music, the holiday spirit. She used to make it my favourite time of year.

Now she's gone, the whole Christmas build up thing is basically gone, and Christmas has just sort of become a day where my Dad can justify buying me something he couldn't any other time of the year. Yeah I don't really care much for Christmas any more.

I think Black Friday has turned from "Buy gifts for family and friends." to "Buy that for your self because it's cheap and you'll never get it at that price later."

You could always enjoy the Holidays for her. Christmas is about remembering people we wish were here. Like my grandmothers.

And it's like that here to. Halloween starts in Augest, Thanksgiving starts in September, and Christmas starts in October.

I try, but let's just say a lot of "shit" has happened and it just isn't the same any more. That isn't to say I don't miss my Mum, and think of her over this time of year - hell just look at these posts, but yeah, shit's changed.

Halloween isn't even really a thing in the UK, sure shops decorate themselves and cinemas might put on a horror classic, but it's pretty much been and gone within a week. With Christmas often starting before it and far out living it.

Typically my wife and I head down to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and grandparents, but with my mother-in-law being very sick, this year we will not be making the trip. One of our traditions there is that for lunch on Turkey Day you have deviled eggs and pinwheels. And then you have "Thanksgiving Again" for dinner on Friday!

For Christmas, we do a lot of the typical stuff: the tree, lights on the house, and so forth. As part of our Christmas decorations we break out a set of Christmas-time mugs, which are always used in place of the regular mugs for the month of December. My wife and I always liked the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, but my kids LOVE them. Rudolph and Frosty, of course, but they also really liked The Year With A Santa Claus, with the Snow Miser and Heat Miser. My wife and I both love It's a Wonderful Life, so that one is always played as well. Of course I read the kids Twas The Night Before Christmas.

From a tokusatsu perspective, the holiday season always makes me think of Godzilla vs Gigan, which was the final Showa Godzilla movie I needed in my quest to get them all on tape (being the pre-DVD age at the time). I got it for Christmas from my parents, and watched it over Christmas break. So I will always associate the two of them together.

Let me start off by saying that I LOVE the holidays...or should I say Christmas. I go bananas for decorating and preparing and baking and the whole shebang.

Thanksgiving for my family, since we moved far away from any of our extended family, has turned into a time to go on vacation. Hiking the Grand Canyon, Skydiving in Florida, walking on the beach in California, Hofbrauhaus in Vegas. We've only been at home for a traditional Thanksgiving once in the last 9 years. And that's fine with me. :)

Christmas, on the other hand, I go all out for. I usually start listening to Christmas music in October and try to control my decorating urges until the day after Thanksgiving. I admit this year I couldn't stop myself and already have my tree up. Oh well! My mom and I LOVE baking cookies, especially our old family recipe for sugar cookies and we have a blast decorating them. The only "tradition" we have is making stuff in our stockings from Santa. Usually those presents are small, inexpensive, and quirky. And always from Santa. It's silly, but I love it.
Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

For Thanksgiving we always sit around the table and watch the Macy's parade and eat turkey, probably the only time of year where were all together.

For christmas i play the newest game i got while my parents watch.

Yeah we don't do much.

This guy gets it, and remember you always eat Tamales with some bread.

Here we don't have thanksgiving, but during the nine days before christmas we have novenas, they are partly prayer partly singing and are quite fun, likewise the nativity is more important than the tree, some even take entire parks!

And December 7 is the night of candles, people place candles on the streets and houses while the kids play, though the current part of the city where I live isn't that festive tbh.

My fathers are divorced so I spend the morning and afternoon with my father, sisters and their families and the night with my mother we wait til midnight and open our presents if we have any.
Then I wait till the sunrise.

Same deal with the new year. :)

Lets see when I was little, every christmas we'd go to my aunt an uncles house to hav family christmas, after a few things happened, we no longer fo that.

But traditions we keep is every saturday before christmas we go to my grandmothers for breakfast. It is the best food EVER! Then for new years we go eat supper at her house. Pure southern food. I love it! :D

Though Thanksgiving we normally just have a getogether at whatever relatives house chooses to have it at. :lol

I don't think I've ver had a fresh Tamale.. I used to eat the canned ones alot.

They make canned tamales?

They used to when I lived in Orlando, I think they still do. Yea.

Tamal, the singular form is Tamal.
And who the heck makes canned tamales? Sacrilege!

The best Tamales are always homemade and by a Grandmother too.

Wiser words haven't been spoken in this forum.

What's a tamale?

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What's the XW1n5t0nX Christmas experience?

• Eating pizza on Christmas eve. We use to do it every year when I was a kid, but as time went on, I became the only one to continue the tradition, even if it's a shitty microwave one.
  
• If any of my figures are currently holding a weapon, remove the weapon. It's a day of peace. Toys should honor it as well.
  
• Watch all of the Nostalgia Critic Christmas episodes I like. These include The Grinch, Jingle All the Way, both countdowns, Babes in Toyland, and Jack Frost.
  
• Watch Jeff Dunham's Christmas special.
  
• Watch TBS' 24 hours of A Christmas Story.
  
• Watch the following movies: Jingle All the Way, The Santa Clause, The Santa Clause 2, Home Alone, Home Alone 2, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon and live action), Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

I'd love a fresh one but I dont know where to get one in the middle of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) country.

Huh... I've never seen those before.

You are Sentai! Since when you care about logic? :lol

Not everyone has ackowledged my awesome yet in this sucky thing called reality.

Oh come on! Who dares question the great Nossan!

I don't watch Kyoryuger, so me.

Brave in one or something. :lol
GABUURINCHO!!! TAAAAMAALES!

While we do not have Thanksgiving here (or let's say it's kinda different and celebrated earlier in autumn), we do celebrate St. Nicholas' day. When I was a kid, I used to hang a stocking on my room's door (though some people also use shoes) and my mum filled it with candy and small gifts. Usually, it's a tradition to give mandarins and nuts to the good kids and sticks and coal to the bad kids, but we never did that in our family.
Though I don't live with my mum anymore, I still get smal St. Nicholas' gifts from her, my aunt and my grandma.

On Christmas, I usually go to my mum's place and we decorate the house and the tree and so on. At Christmas Eve, we first have breakfast together and then exchange our presents. In the afternoon, we go to my grandma's place, where my uncle cooks for the family (we have usually very expensive and good food, this year it'll be roastbeef). We have more presents there (xD) and then sit together, have a drink and so on. After that, my mum and I go to the local church, where I meet some friends (my best friend back home lives down the street, so he always comes there too).
The next day, my grandparents come over and my mum cooks for them. We sometimes have cake in the afternoon too. And on the third day, we always to something different, sometimes stay at home or visit someone.

As for TV, I usually watch The Last Unicorn or Anastasia.