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How will you celebrate Christmas?
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ally77 said on November 29, 2002 15:11:
For me:-
This weekend I will hang the decorations before I jet off for some shopping in Stockholm!!. Then over the Christmas period, I will chill out with family and friends. EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY ALL ROXETTE FANS OVER THE WORLD.....
kiwijazza said on December 2, 2002 12:20:
I’m going to stay overnight at my mother’s on Christmas Eve, then wake up to some presents. After that we’ll be going to my sister’s for breakfast...and more presents. Then my stepfather’s relative for lunch...possibly more presents :P . And then we’re off to see close friends of the family for dinner...and, yet again, get more presents! :D
davidc4 said on September 20, 2006 15:38:
found this thread and thought id re ignite it
wot are everyones plans?i will probably end up watching tv bord out of my mind full of potatoes and chocolate.....thats what happened last year anyway
Marlene said on September 20, 2006 19:02:
Yea, it’s still September, but some supermarkets here tell otherwise.
roxgirl_germany said on September 20, 2006 19:14:
Gingerbread, Xmas biscuits and stuff on sale here from 1 September (or even late August?)... *feeling sick*
I refuse to buy the stuff before November.
ally77 said on September 20, 2006 19:15:
Wow I actually remember writing / starting this topic... I didn’t even have a PC at home then.... and I did it from an Easyjet Internet Cafe in Manchester! lol
Marlene said on September 20, 2006 19:28:
In mid of August I read at the papers that (Harod’s???) in London started putting Christmas things on stock because of the big demand. They also offer Christmas trees from that point. That makes me wonder...
Marlene said on September 20, 2006 19:32:
But back to topic, this year we will celebrate without tree. I don’t like the thought of killing a tree just for some weeks of our joy. Or not joy if the cat climbs up again... The years before we had one because we thought it is a special feeling for our daughter but now she feels sorry for the tree, too, so we will go into the forrest on Christmas eve and ’decorate’ a little tree there with lots of bird food, carrots and stuff the animals out there like to eat.
Majdy said on September 20, 2006 20:23:
Celebrate in forest and decorating the tree there? Wow! That sounds like fun! I should ask my husband to do the same too :)
plectrum said on September 26, 2006 03:29:
Well for me i’ll be putting up the decorations 12 days before xmas slowly getting the kids into the xmas spirit,lots of baking,fancy dress xmas party including kareoke (sp) lots of booze,& plenty of alkaseltza’s lol
pwbbounce (moderator) said on September 26, 2006 07:04:
Well I love xmas. LIke I’m a little kid again on Xmas morning. I’m awake at some ridiculous hour like 6am. It doesn’t matter that I rolled in the door 3 hours earlier, and I don’t have a hangover!!! We always have xmas at my house, everyone comes to us. There’s normallly 6 people for lunch, and then around 12-13 people in the evening. We all play games and it’s just a lot of fun. But why do you eat from the moment you get up until the last crisp before going to bed lol :-)
just_like_that said on September 26, 2006 08:25:
I’ve got my step daughters over as well as my little girl so we’ll be doing the whole santa - esque thing. You know.....leave out a little something & a tipple (which I will happily indulge in before bed!!!) & waking up a little hazy after the previous intake to the girls screaming with joy that father christmas remembered to come to our house instead of thier mothers.
I love it!!! Fantastic to see them smiling!!
ally77 said on September 26, 2006 09:21:
Christmas in our house (when I lived at home) use to be busy every year..... all the family would come over and mum would always cook a big lunch!
Not done that now in years with the old folk dying off... lol so now it’s always just the three of us!
plectrum said on October 2, 2006 03:16:
lol (i know exactly where you coming from with that statement)
realsuga said on November 10, 2006 19:15:
I’ll be in Sweden for Xmas - never been before, so no doubt I’ll be eating herring while stalking Per & Marie, lol
Seriously, any tips for Sweden - places to visit/things to do?
piggin said on November 11, 2006 00:45:
i will also be in Sweden for xmas staying with family near to Halmsted so will be looking out for Per and Marie.
pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 16, 2006 08:34:
How jealous am I of realsuga and piggin..... GRR!!!!!! I’d love to go to Sweden for Xmas.
rox-kuryliw said on November 16, 2006 19:30:
well i do what i do every year , i will try and get rudolff horns on my dog and tie bells to his ankles and have him growl at me LOL, and with ben and jerrys ice cream watch some films lay under the christmas tree with my pj’s on drinking a snowball full of cherrys lo.
Debora said on November 17, 2006 21:31:
The same I do every year: we will get together at my aunt’s house (about 13 people for dinner and some more at midnight), we will eat a lot, we will drink even a bit more, and we will eat a lot of bijouterie.
At midnight, my little cousins will open their presents while their parents take photos and then we will come back home and we won’t sleep because we will have eaten so much that we will feel a bit sick.
Santi said on November 18, 2006 00:16:
I will not, I’m not Christian :P
But I’ll make sure I do something for the Winter Solstice, that’s something really worth celebrating for me! :D
animalkingdom said on November 18, 2006 01:19:
Imo, celebrating Christmas doesn’t mean that you have to be religious; heil to Santa!
rox-kuryliw said on November 19, 2006 12:58:
im not christian, ijust think its a wonderful time and i like to celebrate the giving and sharing of life and times and just the feeling SOME people have with it. NO way im calling it season greetings either lol. bloody america lol
LittleSpooky said on November 19, 2006 19:21:
I don’t know yet. My Thanksgiving plans changed at the drop of the hat. So *shrugs*
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whateveriam said on November 19, 2006 19:27:
OK, so I’m not a very Christmassy person. That’s OK, but no one gets why I don’t go all pie eyed at lights, fairies, santa and shite. I like the trees...and the family get together, but that’s about it. I don’t need presents and tons of food, or Doctor Who Specials (OK, scratch that one LOL) I’m horrible, I’m sorry...
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Jud (moderator) said on November 19, 2006 20:17:
I’m not religious* at all but I like this time of the year, everything is so cosy, have lots of dinners/get togethers - also with people I don’t meet too often, .. just nice :)
I will go to Spain on the 21st, back on the 26th. So I’ll party with my family and friends :)
* And anyway, this tradition excisted long before even Jesus was born and the Christians kind of stole it from the Romans ;)
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pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 20, 2006 09:42:
5 weeks today and it’ll be CHRISTMAS DAY!! YAY!!
TinyBubbles said on November 23, 2006 19:20:
Eish.. i was hoping ppl would forget about xmas this year. i’m totally broke.. cant afford gifts hahaha.
I’m not christian either santi but i celebrate xmas;)
I think i’ll prolly be working again this xmas just like the last.
Marlene said on November 23, 2006 20:38:
Some days ago we borrowed a Petterson & Findus book (written by Sven Nordqvist) from library. Pettersson hurt his leg so he wasn’t able to get a x-mas tree for his cat. So they did one by themselves, using a wood stick, making holes in it and sticking branches into the holes. Then they put normal stuff like an egg, a glass, a carrott, a spoon, a clock, a potatoe, a star made of newspaper,... at it. It was totally amazing! It’s something different and no tree has to be killed. I’m thinking about doing this special tree, just to watch my family, when they see it. O_o
Kathrin said on November 24, 2006 12:54:
My family,Relatives and me always go to Church first and then after that at Home before we open the Presents we have to wait in the Hallway until my Mother rings the Bell to come in The Living Room (She plays the ,,Christkind” and puts the Presents under the Christmas Tree) But Before we open the Presents,we all have to sing ,,Stille Nacht,Heilige Nacht(Silent Night,Holy Night)” in both German and English and me and My Mother are the ones who have to play the Melody on the Keyboard (Last Year I even played together with my Brother ,I on the Keyboard and my Brother on the Flute)
and then we wish everybody Merry Christmas(in German and English)+Open the Presents!
Kathrin said on November 26, 2006 20:37:
Because my Father comes from ALABAMA(USA) and my Mother is German,and my Relatives come from Germany and USA!
And It became a Tradition to play and sing Silent Night,Holy Night in both Languages Every Year,ever since my Mother and Father met each other(19 Years ago,one year before I was born)!
pwbbounce (moderator) said on November 27, 2006 16:29:
Well, I decorated my tree yesterday!!! It’s lovely, and got me in a very festive mood! :-)
Kathrin said on December 1, 2006 17:46:
I love decorating the Christmas Tree, espescally while singing my Favorite Christmas Songs!
Santi said on December 1, 2006 23:19:
I have not said I will not celebrate anything. I said I will celebrate the Winter Solstice. Which was what people used to celebrate around the 21st of December before they made up this story about the miracle boy, and the tradition that christianity absorbed.
Why do you think that Catholics have their more important holidays on December (Jesus), March (Joseph), June (John) and September (the Virgin)?? Christianity predated on all the sun/season-related dates (equinoxes and solstices) because it came natural to the people being converted, they had been celebrating that ever since they were born.
Anyway, I will celebrate something but I will not call it X-mas. Besides the whole stuff about X-mas is a bit boring now that I’m older...
miss-misery said on December 1, 2006 23:37:
I guess that Xmas is not so much about celebrating some religious thing as meeting family and friends and being together in dinners and parties. And for me, Xmas is special because I have the feeling that I have to close the year and begin the new year in a nice way, with good feelings and purposes for the future. Besides, in Spain we celebrate Twelfth Night with the Wise Three Men, so fun stays until January. And then, back to school with new energies after 2 weeks off.
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ncurran said on December 8, 2006 21:00:
Well Christmas might not be so boring after all. Wasn’t looking forward to it at all this year as it will be the first time that I would be alone with my parents for it (my sister takes it in turn with my parents and my brother-in-law’s parents and up until now the times when she was with my brother-in-law’s family I was away in Korea), and this year my sister is pregnant and is due just a few days before xmas, so she didnt want any visitors, or to travel :(
My dad is also working, so it was just going to be me and my mum. However, my mum has just been on the phone and my uncle and his wife are going over to france for xmas (they have a house there). When he heard it was just going to be the 2 of us he invited us to go over to france. The only thing is there are no flights back on boxing day and my mum is working on the 27th, but if she can arrange to get that off on Monday then we will probably be flying over to spend xmas in france!
Then the following week i am off to london to see kylie in concert....so the holidays might be ok after all!
Kathrin said on December 14, 2006 21:31:
I’ll decorate our Christmas Tree together with my little Brothers and Sister and my Mama and Papa(He is responsible for the Lights).Our Christmas Tree , it is a Fake Tree and we, I mean my Parents got it 16 years ago they bought it in the USA and as we moved back to Germany(My Mother is German) my Parents thought that we would save alot of Money if we take it to Germany and thats how we got it and it still looks as if they just bought it yesterday!
Kathrin said on December 17, 2006 23:00:
@Santi:The Story was not made up!
Scientists have proven it!
i_jera said on November 30, 2002 12:44:
I won’t celebrate it at all...
but new year’s coming, too (which I do celebrate)! :-)