What is something silly that has become part of the holiday tradition in your family?
In my family is has become a tradition of sorts to disguise and gift boxes of cordial cherries. One person will invariably get six or seven boxes of them. The joke is, the things are very sweet and no one really cares much for them but wouldn’t be rude enough to throw them away. What prank or running joke can be expected when your family gets together?
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Usually alot of prank gifts…such as large boxes wrapped up for small charms…Usually with 3 or 4 smaller boxes inside. So one never really knows what is under the tree.
Regifting the ugliest sweater ever.
nothing really…It would be fun, though. I wonder how I would go about starting a tradition like that.
>20 at least
but you should see it; its red, green, black, white, and yellow, and it’s got this abstract woman’s face on it… so weird
@ChocolateReigns Start by getting a particular person somthing so against character for them. Something everyone would recognize as such and find humor in. The more people you get to do the same the more fun. just don’t get mean.
we reuse gift boxes and gift bags and wrapping paper
so the we have this one gift bag with NSYNC on it,
It was orginally given by Grandma to two of the BOYS for their birthday.
Then ever since it was pass along to all the BOYS FOR EVERY HOILDAY AND BIRTHDAY.
@toomuchcoffee911 be sure to spray it with scotch gaurd in case they “accidently” spill something on it.
@therookie that reminded me….It’s not a Christmas tradition, but it is kinda funny…Mine and my best friend’s family have a few birthday gift bags going back and forth between us. It’s quite funny.
Many years ago, when I was in preschool, we made “reindeer feed” in class to sprinkle in our yards. The next year, I couldn’t remember how to make it but wanted to leave something for the reindeer again, not just Santa. So my dad suggested we leave some carrots on Santa’s cookie plate for the reindeer. Every year since, we’ve left a few carrots on the plate for Rudolph. Even though all of us clearly know Santa doesn’t exist, my dad still eats the cookies and carrots and drinks the milk just for fun. …or just because he’s hungry ;P
@Fly I guess the carrots offset the cookies, for a balanced midnight snack.
Anytime it’s possible then my ex husband, my sister and I will look in nativity scene displays for the baby Jesus figurine so we can hide it. My grandpa used to do this and we just kind of adopted it as our own thing. Sometimes we substitute things for baby Jesus but that kind of depends on whose house we’re in.
I don’t have family to exchange gifts with ; BUT my buddy, his family, and I would exchange gifts on Christmas etc…
Just he and I would try to find the most outlandish ADULT gift to exchange between each other that would cause embarassment when opened in front of everyone….
I got him a pocket pu**y one year and when he opened it; he grined , started laughing .. turned to his wife and told her that now she could get all the headaches that she needed . Then; he called his uncle and was bragging about the gift . He has no shame.
My family has a weird one. It started when I was little, and I danced around the house singing and asking for my gifts. So then it became a tradition. So I did this reluctantly, until I was 18. So now my cousins have to it when they come over.
My family loves to watch Bad Santa on Christmas. HAhaha we’re so classy.
We like to all go out, late on Christmas Eve, and burn crosses on random white folks’ lawns.
It’s a gas.
@Fly Are you really SURE it’s your dad?
We sing these crazy Swedish Xmas songs that must have been the reason they invented glug to be able to sing!
We use a sombrero for our tree topper, and eat ice cream sundaes for breakfast on christmas morning.
I use the left over Christmas paper to wrap gifts in on birthdays, etc. Does that count?
Someone always has to get the “Genuine, As-Seen-on-TV, Guaranteed 100% American-Made, In Living Color, Supersized, Finest-Kind, Giant Box O’ Sox.”
We also have the long-standing and celebrated tradition of Christmas Pajamas, to be opened and worn at midnight at the cusp between Christmas Eve and Chistmas Day.
My sister and I get out a very annoying and silly Disney character house song singing thingy and play it when our dad comes home to annoy him
@Darwin reminded me. For several years my daughter would always get a thigh master or butt master, or what ever “master” was being advertised that year. Eventually it was almost a quest to find it because it was an ongoing joke.
My parents do funny or novelty gifts that are hung on the tree and opened at the end of the day when everyone’s drunk. And then we play silly board games like Pictionary or Balderdash.
@Fly
WE DO THE SAME THING TO WITH THE CARROTS!!
I had just remember the bells,
every Christmas morning somebody get up really early and rings bells.
The first year my brother was back form the Navy, He had woke everyone up at 4 in morning with not just one set but three bells.
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