How do you celebrate thanksgiving/Christmas

[Rowbowkid800]

I was wondering about how people celebrate holidays like thanksgiving and Christmas because they are coming up this thread let’s you tell you family traditions for me thanksgiving is a whole day event for my family and for Christmas we get matching pjs it’s just a fun thing that we do. You can share anything about the holidays coming up

 

[Croconaw]

I don’t do anything special for Thanksgiving or Christmas. I don’t really like holidays too much. I will get gifts for people whenever; not because it’s a holiday and you feel like you have to. I won’t bring any negativity into an innocent thread, though. I think holidays can be special, but I don’t like the marketing behind them.

 

[piichinu]

we eat a lot and make mean jokes

 

[Rowbowkid800]

we eat a lot and make mean jokes

That’s kinda what my family does

 

[Mimi Cheems]

For Thanksgiving; me and my siblings watch the Macy's Parade (every. single. year... -w-) and make breakfast (usually cinnamon rolls and bacon) and just hang out while my parents cook dinner ^^ Sometimes we help them but they hate when too many people are in the kitchen so we usually stay out of their way. And then we all clean up after we're done eating LOL.

For Christmas; we make cookies and decorate together and put up the tree as a family. My dad doesn't like listening to Christmas music though so we usually have to persuade him to listen to it while we decorate >w> And that's pretty much it! OH! On Christmas Eve we have a whole seafood feast sorta, omg it's so so good T^T My favorite part about living with my dad is we have seafood on Christmas Eve c:

 

[LadyDestani]

Since I'm married, we have way too many families and traditions to incorporate on the holidays and unfortunately it makes them really exhausting.

For Thanksgiving, we have to do a dinner with my family, a dinner with my husband's parents, and a late lunch/dinner with my husband's extended family. Scheduling varies each year based on everyone's availability so it's always a hectic mess trying to fit everything in throughout the Thanksgiving weekend.

For Christmas, it's kind of the same. We have one Christmas with my family, one Christmas with my husband's parents, one Christmas with my husband's extended family, and sometimes a fourth Christmas with our niece and nephews if/when we're able to see them because they live in a different state. The scheduling always changes. We might have our first Christmas on Christmas Eve or the weekend before Christmas and our last Christmas as late as early January.

I would LOVE to be able to settle into some kind of tradition and avoid all this chaos, but my husband's family just doesn't work that way.

 

[Midoriya]

Usually my family does something, though it’s not the same anymore without my mom. I never cared for the fall/winter holidays like Halloween and Christmas anyway. Spring and summer is where it’s at, imo.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

we usually go to my grandma's house for both holidays but I'm honestly worried abt visiting them since I'm nb and my grandma has a tendency to be homophobic/transphobic :,,,,)

tbh I don't really celebrate thanksgiving anyways. it's just another day to me, albeit with some good food. for Christmas we usually go to my grandma's house, go to the Christmas eve service at her church, eat some lasagna, maybe open one gift, and then in the morning we open the rest and watch that stupid 24 hour run of A Christmas Story lmao.

it's a fun time but like I said I just came out in public back in June so im kinda scared to go back since they live like two and a half hours away, not exactly a quick escape if I land in trouble

 

[th8827]

I have dinner with my mom. She typically makes Turkey, Glazed Ham, Mashed Potatoes, and Brown Sugar Glazed Carrots, along with various other side dishes. My sister does not join us for dinner because she is Vegan, and does not want to make my mom cook a separate meal just for her.

 

[shellbell]

Thanksgiving: we eat.

Christmas: I try to escape across the world with my partner so I don't have to spend it with his extended family -_-
When I can't escape the gathering I take the free food and game by myself.

Edit: I should explain that his extended family are lovely people (except that one...), I just can't handle all the small talk in such a setting.

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

Used to eat a big Thanksgiving meal with my parents and brothers but I moved to Australia and they don't celebrate that here. I never even see the stores selling turkey at any time of the year???

Christmas is Christmas. Gifts and stuff.

 

[Chris]

I'm British so I've never celebrated Thanksgiving before. However, this year an American colleague has invited us over to her house for dinner so I'm looking forward to that!

My family hasn't really celebrated Christmas since the pandemic began.

 

[Envy]

I don't really do anything too special for Thanksgiving. Half of the Thanksgivings over the past decade I worked, so I suppose I just got used to not even being home. I'm not big on traditional foods served during Thanksgiving, and my family doesn't really gather on it anymore, so it's not anything too special for me anymore.

Christmas, though, I love! I celebrate it as the Winter Solstice, and the winter is my favorite season! So I decorate. A lot. And I love it. It's so fun. It's also fun to give gifts, but I haven't had much income to gift much over these past several years. D:

 

[amemome]

It depends, but usually we celebrate Thanksgiving by gathering family and having the "classics" (turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing (apparently it's called dressing down south)) plus some "holiday" Korean food (KBBQ, an assortment of jeon, a soup). Sometimes we'll call over family friends and their families. Pre-pandemic, I used Thanksgiving to go to Canada (since they don't do Thanksgiving when we do, everything is open! yay!) with friends. But now that things are a bit strange in the world, those plans are on pause indefinitely.

Food is so big for my family on Thanksgiving, and I always get stuffing cravings around this time of year.

My family is religious so we do a Catholic Christmas (Christmas Day mass, then our own shenanigans for the rest of the day). If I beg enough, we get a Christmas Honey Ham, but usually, we just have the nice "holiday" Korean food (KBBQ, an assortment of jeon, a soup). We also put up our Christmas decorations (a tree, lights, wreaths, religious memorabilia, all of the random presents we have lying around LOL) which is always a huge hassle but satisfying to look at.

We'll see what happens with the pandemic and stuff.

 

[Stikki]

We don't have Thanksgiving in the uk. The nearest we have is Harvest Festival, but it's much smaller and usually only observed in school or church. It's where everyone donates tinned food and it then gets taken to the foodbanks or care homes. It's not a holiday and I rarely know when it is. I did do a version of Thanksgiving last year to try to lift spirits during lockdown - made a roast dinner and we said what we were thankful for. It was nice to remember the good things we had.

Christmas tends to be decorate the house on December 1st, have Christmas music playing a lot for the month and try to do as many festive activities as possible. Lots of Christmas films/tv during this time. Christmas Eve night is usually spent wrapping presents, usually with the midnight mass playing on tv. Christmas Day is spent opening presents, having a British style Christmas dinner (turkey, roast potatoes and veg etc) and more films and tv haha. Last year I did Toy Day on the switch at some point. Sometimes I'll visit people, but for many years I kinda appreciated my single-motherhood and just made it the best I could. Boxing Day through to New Year is just spent chilling and eating leftovers etc, which is nice.

I can find the season hard, despite ultimately loving it. A lot of horrible things happened over the years around Christmas, which often brings bad memories flooding back. Then there's the added pressure of not wanting to be sad and having to present a front. So I'm up and down during this time. But I do like it...I think.

 

[ForgottenT]

My moms side of the family usually gather at my Grandma's house, and we eat a lot of amazing food, and have a good time, and then we dance around the Christmas tree, and take turns to open presents, then we continue chilling, and eat dessert until we go home.
Me and my brother usually celebrate Christmas with our dad on the 23rd too.

We don't celebrate Halloween, nor Thanksgiving (obviously) here in Denmark, so nothing there.

 

[MOON TRIPS]

I live alone and don't do much for either holiday anymore. I am a gift giver, and while I can give gifts anytime, it's not the same. :V family gatherings were a thing when I was younger, and even a few times as I got older, but now we're all pretty far away and stuff, so... eh.
I do eat yummy food on both holidays, but nothing really traditional. I like decorations but live in a small apartment and don't really have anywhere to sit decorations down... but I do have a tree that hangs on my wall and stuff for my door that I always put up.

 

[Tao]

I don't celebrate thanksgiving because I'm not American.

Christmas, I've not really settled in to any traditions since my living situation has changed every year for the past couple of years, thus Christmas has been different. Me and my partner are trying to work out what we actually want to do since a big part of Christmas (gifts) feels redundant as we're always buying each other stuff throughout the year anyway, plus she always feels outdone because I can spend more so she doesn't want to do that this year.


One constant that's happened every year for as long as I can remember though, Jingle All The Way comes on. Christmas officially starts once the mighty fist of Arnold Schwarzenegger collides with the face of a Reindeer and he fights Santa edition Big Show.

 

[daisyflowers]

i celabrate christmas with my family! (don't celebrate thanksgiving as i'm british as well heh)- we open some presents before and after lunch, and it's going to be officially a tradition for me to have tofurkey this year

 

[Xara]

to be honest, my family and i don’t really celebrate thanksgiving or christmas anymore, and haven’t in a few years now. my mom likes to cook a good meal for both holidays, and we’ll all get each other a gift or two for christmas, but that’s about it aha.