Your Favorite Christmas Tradition?

Going on an actual horse driven sleigh ride

 

My favourite xmas tradition is to celebrate it with some close friends in the summer and fuck off on a holiday to some foreign shore for two or three weeks during the official xmas new years silly season thus completely avoiding all the traditional bullshit gladhanding and materialistic clap trap. Alright for many to weather the circus but definitely not my cuppa tea. No worries all my friends and family have known my proclivities when it comes to all the official holidays - Easter and Thanksgiving included - no ill will on my part ( I send cards but they are not based on whatever the particular event is about - for Christmas / New Years one time I sent everybody 'Get Well Soon' cards.
To mark someone's wedding I sent the happy couple a commiserations card.
I sent someone 5 years of birthday cards in one bunch stating I was covered for that time period and it was up to them when they read them.
I was a deparment manager for a large Department store. I gave all of my staff xmas cards congratulating them on their retirement. ( none of them were older than 50 and most were teen to 30 something)

 

Me too especially when the kids help, and they’re really fucking old. But they like making them when they are in town.

 

A true agent of malcontent or should I say an evolved prankster

 

Eating at a Chinese buffet for Christmas or Christmas Eve dinner. (Unfortunately I am only half joking with this one) it was fun though.

Unsure what I will do this year. Most of (not all of though) the people who (unfortunately) share DNA with me are awful people. But I have an SO and some other actually good people now/again. So I am not sure yet what will happen. The thought of Chinese buffets on Christmas/Eve will always make me smile. I hope to have more normal traditions someday. I won't go into a rant and be bitter, but I have some real pos "family members"

 

The music. Not the commercial bullshit that every pop artist puts out. But the classical music. The Nutcracker, Handel's Messiah (Although George didn't write the oratorio for Christmas), and the various hymns and sonnets telling the story. Oh and lest I not forget, the college bowl games around the holiday.

 

Every year I manage to listen to the entire Bach's Christmas Oratorio. I do enjoy some of the classis jazz Christmas stuff.....like something you'd hear in a smoky club on a snowy night. There's a comedy production of A Christmas Carol that's been put on here for 50 years...we always go...they always switch it up a bit for the year. Lastly - I like to see It's a Wonderful Life on the big screen. There's a small local theater that always screens it....once we went to see it at a big classic old theater - it was great....

 

Probably going caroling with an acoustic guitar player playing while the rest is singing ' O Holy night' in that manner lol

 

I wanna go back to the 80s when christmas was beautiful............


Decorations,music,etc............

 

Yeah, I like it a little bit less every year....buy this, buy that...it's like something that needs to be accomplished...do this...do that....get this..get that..drag all this stuff out...and Christmas shopping...uhhhg...I hate with a passion. I do enjoy my outdoor decorations, that keeps me busy.