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Christmas is coming

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Yeah, I know, it's still 17 weeks. But Christmas is coming.
What are your plans, traditions? Going on a holidays, spending time with the family, or avoiding them? Buying your presents as early as possible or waiting for the last day?
Ho-ho, Santa is coming!
 
I'm actually looking forward to Christmas this year--for a change. It's going to be special. My husband, our daughter and son-in-law and our two little grandsons will all be here. That was supposed to happen this month, but life got in the way. :( So I shifted from the disappointment to looking forward. :)

We'll have Christmas together, we'll go to the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's, and we'll have our oldest grandson's birthday together. We're tossing around ideas--Disneyland in December is amazingly beautiful, and the weather is MUCH MORE conducive to walking around all day than August! So, yeah, definitely looking forward to it. :D
 
Christmas has been very chill the past couple years with us.
This year the wife and I will probably take a little vacation on our own to Europe (likely Paris). I have a couple siblings within a few hours drive and my folks usually visit out here, but that's about it. Working for a restaurant, I'm crossing fingers for some vaca time. :)
 
My nephew is getting married on the 29th so I will be spending the holidays with my entire family. That may or may not be a good thing. Haha. Can't wait, should be a fun time!
 
Hate to be Scrooge here, but Christmas is just another day for me. I'm not that close to my family, except my sister. And I usually have to buy my own gifts. So for me, Christmas serves no purpose.

Now New Year's Day is a different story.
 
Christmas doesn't actually mean much to me. As an actual holiday we just ignore that completely and carry on as usual. I see images of Santa Claus most days as many stores and malls have Christmas decorations up all year round. Air China frequently plays festive music, like Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas, on their planes any time of the year.

A Hangzhou shopping mall in June. :rolleyes:
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Santa has all his elves busy in Guangdong Province of course, making all the gifts and toys for those that do celebrate Christmas.

Our big holiday comes up a few weeks after Christmas. New Year or Spring Festival, when basically the whole country closes down and most people go home to be with their families.
 
We go to the local hardware store to pick out a tree (I'm a sap for real trees). We decorate the tree. We spend Christmas with my bride's family as my family is far away in Montana and I'm in Illinois. We eat ham and other great food and exchange gifts.

Leading up to Christmas, we watch the standard Christmas movies; Home Alone, A Christmas Carol, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, etc... Classic movies.
 
I go dig up Cheech and Chong movies and will replay some of the World Series or Superbowl games I recorded.

I live in a "Politically Correct" town and I'm tired of the BS.

A majority have no feeling for what Xmas stands for. They pay lip service to it at church, but live it? Hell, no. Witness the mobs, greediness and even death on Black Friday. You can't even look at something you might be interested in without someone shoving you out of the way.
 
this year, we are going to spend Christmas in Singapore with my two siblings and the newest member of the family (a bouncing baby boy :) ).
 
I'll be turning 21 on the 16th, so some new traditions will be made. I'm thinking some alcoholic egg nog? ;)

But definitely some holiday cheer, seeing distant relatives (always lovely, no sarcasm I swear! :p) much much food!

I'm hoping we have turkey and honey glazed ham. Yum.

Presents also lol. :D
 
zuben el genub said:
I go dig up Cheech and Chong movies and will replay some of the World Series or Superbowl games I recorded.

I live in a "Politically Correct" town and I'm tired of the BS.

A majority have no feeling for what Xmas stands for. They pay lip service to it at church, but live it? Hell, no. Witness the mobs, greediness and even death on Black Friday. You can't even look at something you might be interested in without someone shoving you out of the way.
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I'm sorry, that must really suck.
My grandparents neighborhood actually tones it down on the whole trampling the weak during Black Friday. And most actually understand the real meaning of Christmas.

It's pathetic how most people act during the holiday seasons.
 
ss1992 said:
I'll be turning 21 on the 16th, so some new traditions will be made. I'm thinking some alcoholic egg nog? ;)

But definitely some holiday cheer, seeing distant relatives (always lovely, no sarcasm I swear! :p) much much food!

I'm hoping we have turkey and honey glazed ham. Yum.

Presents also lol. :D
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i loooove glazed ham!
 
BAH HUMBUG! I mean, it's lost all meaning except to those few who do go to church here. It's just a spendfest in most households downunder. I stopped buying presents except for direct family many years ago. I'll be spending Christmas day at my brother's place with the rest of the family. For Christmas lunch there's bound to be roast pork cooked in the barbecue, glazed ham and chicken; served with various salads (don't forget it's midsummer downunder at Christmas time) followed by various 'traditional' Christmas desserts, like, Christmas pudding, pavlova (it's traditional for this family!) and a few others. Then in the afternoon, a snooze...
 
general eclect said:
BAH HUMBUG! I mean, it's lost all meaning except to those few who do go to church here. It's just a spendfest in most households downunder. I stopped buying presents except for direct family many years ago. I'll be spending Christmas day at my brother's place with the rest of the family. For Christmas lunch there's bound to be roast pork cooked in the barbecue, glazed ham and chicken; served with various salads (don't forget it's midsummer downunder at Christmas time) followed by various 'traditional' Christmas desserts, like, Christmas pudding, pavlova (it's traditional for this family!) and a few others. Then in the afternoon, a snooze...
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It's cool to hear about how people from other parts of the world celebrate Christmas lol. :)

So the 'buy whatever you can and squash whoever is in you way' mentality is there as well?

I don't know how bad it is in other countries but here people get killed. It's stupid.
 
mikedt said:
Is Christmas a public holiday in Singapore? It's a holiday in Hong Kong, but not mainland. Have a good time anyway. :)
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Yup .. or at least it was when I lived there.

In fact, the Singaporeans kinda went overboard with it - usually I was ready to scream if I heard another Xmas song by around the middle of November - as you would expect given the national sport is shopping and Xmas is the major shopping event :rolleyes:
 
general eclect said:
BAH HUMBUG! I mean, it's lost all meaning except to those few who do go to church here. It's just a spendfest in most households downunder. I stopped buying presents except for direct family many years ago. I'll be spending Christmas day at my brother's place with the rest of the family. For Christmas lunch there's bound to be roast pork cooked in the barbecue, glazed ham and chicken; served with various salads (don't forget it's midsummer downunder at Christmas time) followed by various 'traditional' Christmas desserts, like, Christmas pudding, pavlova (it's traditional for this family!) and a few others. Then in the afternoon, a snooze...
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It always shocks North Americans when they see Santa on a surfboard or realize that the southern hemisphere does not have a white Xmas.

You can check out OZ fabric sites on the net. Some of the old biddies on one quilting forum did, and were screaming about Santa on a surfboard or under a palm tree fabric was sacrilegious. Took up the whole forum for about 3 days.
 
zuben el genub said:
It always shocks North Americans when they see Santa on a surfboard or realize that the southern hemisphere does not have a white Xmas.

You can check out OZ fabric sites on the net. Some of the old biddies on one quilting forum did, and were screaming about Santa on a surfboard or under a palm tree fabric was sacrilegious. Took up the whole forum for about 3 days.
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That's just their 'Manifest Destiny' crap. We must spread western culture!

Smh..
 
Humbug! :(

(I work retail, so it means never-ending queues of bad-tempered clueless shoppers).

Working Boxing Day is fun too... so many returned presents from the ungrateful hordes.
 
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