What is your most unusual Christmas tradition?

[gritsar]

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Who knows why we all got the tangerines? Is it cuz they fit just right in the toe of the stocking? The fact that citrus fruit is ripens in November/December? or perhaps it goes back to the time when most kids didn't get tons of gifts for Christmas, but rather a stocking filled with useful stuff, maybe a few pieces of candy, and of course the tangerine. Wouldn't today's kids absolutely freak if all they got for Christmas was a stocking like that?

As for my unusual Christmas tradition, I, like Windy Ridge, burn a Yule log. I pick out just the right one, decorate it with safe flammable items, we each write our wishes for the new year on a small piece of paper and tuck it in the amongst the decorations, and burn the yule log, using a small piece of the previous year's yule log to start it.

 

[texaschickmama]

I have decided to break tradition this year. In years past we bought for people that I did not even like, he does not even believe in Christmas, this year, not. We are focusing on our immediate family and not even going to be in the drawing with my big family. Just feel like simplifying. I want my kids to know the true meaning of Christmas and not get caught up in the materialistic "meaning" of Christmas that the department stores want us to believe.