What are your (childfree) Christmas traditions?

jackieblack

moromir wrote: »

We always try and buy a new bauble for the tree somewhere on our travels that year.

LutonGirl wrote: »

I've done this for years and love unpacking my ornaments each year, reliving the memories as they come out of the boxes. Whether it's the festive fish I bought in Harrods when shopping with my now late Mum, or the Graceland bauble I bought 30 years ago, they're all special. I like adding the current year's newbie to the tree too.

Same here - it's one of the few things about Christmas that I like and really my only incentive to bother putting the tree up

wanderingwondering

The best part of being together at Christmas is that you can both choose bits of the traditions/attitudes you love from each family and from your upbringing and leave the bits you don't like! So have what you want for breakfast, play the music you like, wear what you want, open gifts when you want, drink what you like, visit who/when you like etc etc! All families do these differently and when you have spent Christmases at each other's family homes there will surely be things you would like to adopt for yourselves


Traditions in our house - go through radio times in advance with highlighter and mark tv programmes to watch (never buy/do this any other time), go walking and (try to) collect greenery/holly/berries to decorate house, go to garden centre to choose & buy a real tree, drink prosecco with breakfast (usually smoked salmon), take it in turns to wrap presents in secret (usually in the kitchen with the door shut) with a drink or three after tea on Christmas eve! I love Christmas and little things you do will be memories and become traditions in future.

pd52

We usually go to a Christmas pantomime or theatre (local) late Christmas Eve afternoon