Christmas eve/day traditions

Tommy-G · 12-24-2020, 07:20 AM

What's yours?
My wife and I always go out for a lavish dinner on Eve and then cook up a bunch of food on Christmas Day.

We usually see my parents at some point Christmas Day

MBM340 · 12-24-2020, 08:18 AM

We squeeze about 25 oranges to have some great juice for Christmas Breakfast. My wife cooks an egg and bacon - I guess you could call it a quiche' and then we open all our gifts...We watch Christmas movies all day until football comes on (but now I have given up on the NFL so just continue with movies) until we cook and eat our Christmas Ham late in the afternoon and then the family all falls asleep in front of the fireplace crackling (with real logs) and I surf the internet for the cars I want to buy...

erickonphoenix · 12-24-2020, 08:32 AM

Christmas Eve we'll crack a bottle of wine and snack on salmon and brie, then watch Fargo The Grey, Hateful Eight, Ice Harvest or any thriller set in a cold climate.

Joekerr · 12-24-2020, 08:35 AM

Now that I have kids, we are going to read the Christmas story / birth of Jesus in Matthew and Luke before we open presents and hopefully establish that as a tradition to show what is important and why we are celebrating Christmas.

Then my wife always does something for breakfast (this year it is chocolate challah bread, last year it was sticky buns) because she hates my parents tradition for Christmas breakfast which was literally stuffing your face with as much Toffifee and Turtles as you could handle without making yourself sick. So now we have those on hand and it is a blend of both breakfasts.

Then we have appetizers for dinner that we usually start making by around 2pm or so and just constantly snack on them with no real set dinner throughout the day / night. And wine / beer / Baileys / etc. Maybe a Christmas scotch.

stein_325i · 12-24-2020, 08:58 AM

The wife and I are jewish (I'm sure you can tell by my username

) but like any American Jew, we enjoy christmas by getting chinese food

dreamingat30fps · 12-24-2020, 09:16 AM

Not sure if this is standard for all latin people but we mainly celebrate on the 24th. We have a big party and if it's extra special or we plan to have a LOT of people we roast a whole pig. If not then just a shoulder or whatever, however there is no Christmas eve without roast pork of some sort.

Typically we exchange gifts at midnight. However my family never makes it to midnight so we do it whenever towards the end of the night before people go home. Then on the 25th it's basically just when kids get their "santa" gifts and that's about it. However we sometimes will have another smaller gathering on the 25th with other people we could not see at the main event on the 24th.

Tommy-G · 12-24-2020, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by MBM340

I surf the internet for the cars I want to buy...

Sounds perfect

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Originally Posted by erickonphoenix

Christmas Eve we'll crack a bottle of wine and snack on salmon and brie, then watch Fargo The Grey, Hateful Eight, Ice Harvest or any thriller set in a cold climate.

I feel very illegitimate for not knowing any of them

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Originally Posted by Joekerr

And wine / beer / Baileys / etc. Maybe a Christmas scotch.

My kind of party

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Originally Posted by stein_325i

we enjoy christmas by getting chinese food

I have never had Christmas Chinese, I feel like I am missing out

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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps

. However my family never makes it to midnight .

Right there with you

erickonphoenix · 12-24-2020, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

I have never had Christmas Chinese, I feel like I am missing out

I'm not Jewish by religion but my Grandfather was and Christmas Chinese is a thing.

Dang3r · 12-24-2020, 10:05 AM

We having a nice dinner, share the presents and then go online to slaughter some guys on the battlefield at COD, D2 or BF4

dreamingat30fps · 12-24-2020, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TommyG-inFlaNow

I have never had Christmas Chinese, I feel like I am missing out

Not Jewish but one year my gf and I were in Boston on vacation and we happen to be there on the 25th. Figured we would go eat somewhere that night... yeah right. The places that weren't closed were packed or reservations only. You know who WAS open? Chinese. We had Chinese food in our hotel room.

Murf993 · 12-24-2020, 01:15 PM

Normally it's Christmas eve with my wife's family, and Christmas day with my family. However with the whole Rona thing, it's just my wife and I at home this year with our new dog and old cat. I'm a bit sad about not seeing family but was sort of prepared for the idea so it won't be horrible. We will mimosas and baileys in the coffee while we fix a nice breakfast, take the dog for a long walk and then probably watch something Christmasy on TV. A nice dinner of Turkey and the fixings and some more TV, probably a nice fire, home made pie and a good whisk(e)y to finish off the night.

Peace on Earth friends.

erickonphoenix · 12-24-2020, 03:28 PM

oh yeah, Mimosas on christmas morning. Forgot about that one. That's a classic.

vreihen16 · 12-24-2020, 05:47 PM

I'm the oldest child in a large family. My siblings and I decided to stop exchanging Christmas gifts a while back, and focus the gift spending on their kids. After a few years of that, we decided that gag gifts of no more than $1.00 were allowed between siblings...with recycling and free stuff like junk mail AOL CD's and trade show trinkets permitted. It was funny for everyone, and eliminated the stress of Christmas shopping for everyone.....

FuzzyPeaches · 12-24-2020, 06:19 PM

Most of our family Christmas traditions revolve around the food.

Christmas Eve is boiled calamari in homemade spaghetti sauce plus shrimp, Honeybaked ham and turkey. Then usually a card game between us siblings and my Mom.

Christmas is breakfast casserole, presents opened (in order of youngest to oldest going around and around), then lasagna for lunch. Maybe another card game if we're feeling it.

12-24-2020, 07:20 AM	#1
Tommy-G Captain 4491 Rep 694 Posts Drives: 2015 435 Vert Alpine White Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Bradenton FL iTrader: (0)	Christmas eve/day traditions What's yours? My wife and I always go out for a lavish dinner on Eve and then cook up a bunch of food on Christmas Day. We usually see my parents at some point Christmas Day
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MBM340 Second Lieutenant 1026 Rep 285 Posts Drives: 2021 M340 RWD Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: USA iTrader: (0) Garage List 2021 BMW M340i [0.00]	We squeeze about 25 oranges to have some great juice for Christmas Breakfast. My wife cooks an egg and bacon - I guess you could call it a quiche' and then we open all our gifts...We watch Christmas movies all day until football comes on (but now I have given up on the NFL so just continue with movies) until we cook and eat our Christmas Ham late in the afternoon and then the family all falls asleep in front of the fireplace crackling (with real logs) and I surf the internet for the cars I want to buy... __________________ "Either get busy living, or get busy dying. That's GD right." - Red (Shawshank)
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erickonphoenix Lieutenant 1728 Rep 536 Posts Drives: 2014 Gray 328xi Touring Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Houston TX iTrader: (0)	Christmas Eve we'll crack a bottle of wine and snack on salmon and brie, then watch Fargo The Grey, Hateful Eight, Ice Harvest or any thriller set in a cold climate.
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Joekerr Banned 7929 Rep 1,923 Posts Drives: 2017 Audi S6 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto, ON iTrader: (0)	Now that I have kids, we are going to read the Christmas story / birth of Jesus in Matthew and Luke before we open presents and hopefully establish that as a tradition to show what is important and why we are celebrating Christmas. Then my wife always does something for breakfast (this year it is chocolate challah bread, last year it was sticky buns) because she hates my parents tradition for Christmas breakfast which was literally stuffing your face with as much Toffifee and Turtles as you could handle without making yourself sick. So now we have those on hand and it is a blend of both breakfasts. Then we have appetizers for dinner that we usually start making by around 2pm or so and just constantly snack on them with no real set dinner throughout the day / night. And wine / beer / Baileys / etc. Maybe a Christmas scotch.
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stein_325i Ring Leader of G8X Haters 25083 Rep 8,762 Posts Drives: A Car Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: All-Around iTrader: (0)	The wife and I are jewish (I'm sure you can tell by my username ) but like any American Jew, we enjoy christmas by getting chinese food __________________ Current Garage: 2022 Mercedes-Benz S 580 / 2023 Genesis GV70 2.5T / 2007 Mercedes-Benz E 350 / 1999 Mazda MX-5 Miata Retired: '95 E36 325i 5MT / '04 E46 330i 6MT / '05 E83 X3 3.0i / '11 E90 335xi / '17 G30 540i / '19 F87 M2C 6MT / '19 MB CLS 53 / '20 MB GLC 300
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dreamingat30fps Lieutenant Colonel 5330 Rep 1,912 Posts Drives: Miata, Cayenne, Model 3, F350 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: South Florida & NC iTrader: (1)	Not sure if this is standard for all latin people but we mainly celebrate on the 24th. We have a big party and if it's extra special or we plan to have a LOT of people we roast a whole pig. If not then just a shoulder or whatever, however there is no Christmas eve without roast pork of some sort. Typically we exchange gifts at midnight. However my family never makes it to midnight so we do it whenever towards the end of the night before people go home. Then on the 25th it's basically just when kids get their "santa" gifts and that's about it. However we sometimes will have another smaller gathering on the 25th with other people we could not see at the main event on the 24th.
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Murf993 Major 14114 Rep 1,336 Posts Drives: Porsche 993 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Dog Lake, South Frontenac, Ontario Canada iTrader: (0)	Normally it's Christmas eve with my wife's family, and Christmas day with my family. However with the whole Rona thing, it's just my wife and I at home this year with our new dog and old cat. I'm a bit sad about not seeing family but was sort of prepared for the idea so it won't be horrible. We will mimosas and baileys in the coffee while we fix a nice breakfast, take the dog for a long walk and then probably watch something Christmasy on TV. A nice dinner of Turkey and the fixings and some more TV, probably a nice fire, home made pie and a good whisk(e)y to finish off the night. Peace on Earth friends.
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erickonphoenix Lieutenant 1728 Rep 536 Posts Drives: 2014 Gray 328xi Touring Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Houston TX iTrader: (0)	oh yeah, Mimosas on christmas morning. Forgot about that one. That's a classic.
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FuzzyPeaches Private First Class 491 Rep 197 Posts Drives: 2011 M3 ZCP Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Atlanta iTrader: (0)	Most of our family Christmas traditions revolve around the food. Christmas Eve is boiled calamari in homemade spaghetti sauce plus shrimp, Honeybaked ham and turkey. Then usually a card game between us siblings and my Mom. Christmas is breakfast casserole, presents opened (in order of youngest to oldest going around and around), then lasagna for lunch. Maybe another card game if we're feeling it.
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