12-19-2011 at 10:22 PM

Every year on Christmas Eve, I go to my best friend's house to open gifts with her family (since I'm at my own house on Christmas Day). We have a very unique tradition... my friend, her family, and I take turns tasting the cheeses that her mother has imported from Denmark (she is Danish and thinks the cheese is delicious, we are American and can hardly stomach the stuff). The cheeses range from stinky to moldy, and our personal favorite is the kind with MAGGOTS in it. This results in rounds of gagging, and sometimes vomiting into the toilet (if we can make it there in time - which we don't always). What a fun Christmas tradition! We finish the night off with shots of aquavit - a Scandinavian liquor with about 40% alcohol that definitely kills off the tastes of awful cheese. It's a pretty strange thing to do for the holidays, but we always crack up laughing while we do it, and it creates lots of unforgettable memories.

12-19-2011 at 10:12 PM

did you ever hear a cat that didn't purr?

12-19-2011 at 10:10 PM

A tradition of ours is to eat latkes around Christmas (Although technically it's a Jewish tradition,we aren't Jewish)

12-19-2011 at 9:38 PM

This is rather embarassing to admit for a 24 year old male but:<br /> <br /> Every year for xmas, if we're home at my parents on xmas (which we all are, since my sibs are younger than me) we're expected to do the following.<br /> <br /> Go to the top (when we were younger and lived in a two story) or the bottom of the stairs (Basement, ranch house) in our pajamas the morning of xmas, and my dad video tapes us walking up the stairs in our pjs to see the presents "santa" has brought us.<br /> <br /> Granted now my pjs don't have feet and involve university logos but still. Video blackmail for life.

12-19-2011 at 9:36 PM

*enter here, enter there...* Merry Christmas! &lt;3

12-19-2011 at 8:43 PM

My family has a rather unique tradition, I'd say, involving a coconut monkey. <br /> <br /> It all started with my mum and dad, shortly before they were married. They were going through my dad's things with his mother (I don't entirely remember why; I think he and my mum were going to move in together or something). Anyway, my mum was tossing things out that she didn't see fit to keep of my dad's, when she came across a coconut-shell monkey that he had acquired from my grandmother (his mum) when she had gone to Aruba on a short holiday. <br /> <br /> Now, my mum.. she wasn't a fan, to say the least, and without anyone knowing, the poor thing ended up in the rubbish bin! <br /> <br /> I'm a bit blurry on the details, but somehow Ms. Monkey found her way back in the house, wrapped up as a gift from my grandmother at Christmas time, much to my mother's everlasting dismay. <br /> <br /> Again, like I said, I forget many of the details, but this Gifting of the Monkey stuck, and every year, the monkey is gifted to another family member and must stay in display in that person's home lest they keep it for another year. When it is time to part with the monkey for that year, you must write a fitting poem for its departure, and read it aloud when the primate is transferred. <br /> <br /> At first, the monkey was rather bare, but over time she accumulated many accessories-- A pearl necklace, hat, and mink shawl being a few. <br /> <br /> Right, so, that's our tradition, I guess. Hope someone finds some amusement in it! <br />

12-19-2011 at 8:41 PM

My family and I always decorate the tree and when we finish we turn out the lights... It gets very dark and the tree is turned on. We all lie under it and murmer how beautiful it is... XD we also always watch "Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer"!

12-19-2011 at 8:08 PM

Not necessarily interesting, but every year my Dad and I make a candle and bath salts for Mum. Last few Christmases, we've also started making soaps to compliment the bath salts, and this too is becoming one of our traditional Christmas gifts.<br /> Mum and I also have some gifts we always make for our female friends -- earrings.<br /> <br /> And when we drive around to look at Christmas lights, whenever we see a really great one, or one that someone obviously put a lot of work into, we break into some loud not-quite-singing-but-not-quite-humming of "Linus and Lucy" -You know, that one piece of music from a Charlie Brown Christmas? Yeah, we start humming/singing that. xD

12-19-2011 at 8:02 PM

9) Gamble in a Cake<br /> A great holiday tradition for the 6th of January, after the excitement of the presents from the Three Kings, the family shares a big luncheon where they have El Roscon de Reyes for dessert. This is a circular cake in which a figurine of a king and a raw, dried bean is hidden. Everyone searches their peice of the cake to see if they recieved the king or the bean. The person who has the king gets to wear a crown for the whole day and is named the king. The person who gets the bean has to pay for the dinner.

12-19-2011 at 7:51 PM

Hey everybody,<br /> Merry Christmas!<br /> I just wanted to enter the drawing for the ball.<br /> <br /> Uh.... I don't know what I am supposed to post to enter,<br /> but hope I win!

12-19-2011 at 7:46 PM

We decorate a christmas tree with tinsle and ordaments (typical) we have a giant!! Feast a huge feast we have mexican food lot of it we eat candy canes before dinner we open one present before christmas we sleep all in one room some in bed some on the ground then in the morning we wake up to the christmas tree on we dance and sing around it

12-19-2011 at 7:38 PM

In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck! There once lived a woman so poor, says a Ukrainian folk tale, that she could not afford Christmas decorations for her family. One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spiders had trimmed her children’s tree with their webs. When the morning sun shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.

12-19-2011 at 7:32 PM

"It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie. Many families watch it together every year.

12-19-2011 at 7:15 PM

usally christmas isn't that big but this year its totally differant. Its my Nephew;s first Christmas and we have gone big. We got our self a nice tree, even though its really ctwisted DX, and have decerated the outside of the house. i'm reallly looking forward this year. its our time to make some new memories and traditions. but no matter what.. the best thing about Christmas is being togather as a family :3

12-19-2011 at 7:08 PM

Every year at Christmas we all put up our tree then up until we take it down we have to chase the cats down from it because they love to climb to the very top. Then family comes over and we all eat and play a ton of fun games, and you'll randomly hear people yell or groan because they're doing terrible at whatever game we play...

12-19-2011 at 6:55 PM

Every Christmas Eve we order pizza from our favorite place and leave the cooking for Christmas day. We cook a HUGE Italian dinner and eat as a family, except this year we have neighbors coming as well as family, so we'll have tons more people than usual. <br /> <br /> In the morning we always wake up early for presents because of our excitement.

12-19-2011 at 6:47 PM

My family also has one more tradition... All the guys like to hang out in my cellar and watch some sort of sport. They break up into two groups, and each roots for a separate team. Most of the time, they yell at the TV. But, if it gets too heated, they start to throw food. ^^;

12-19-2011 at 6:44 PM

My family usually gets together, and we each bring a pie. At least, most of the adults do (most on my mother's side). And they go outside, and throw it at one another. Whoever has the most pie on their face at the end gets the first bite of our Christmas turkey. (:

12-19-2011 at 6:34 PM

Well everyone gets together and buys gifts for each other and it is really fun! Also we have this BIG fiesta, were everyone in our family makes at least one pot of food and than we eat it :) It is the best food you can get! We have Russian food Turkish food and much more :D

12-19-2011 at 6:27 PM

Merry Christmas ☻♥☺