Weird traditions - Page 2

princessLZ · #21 (**permalink**) 03-18-2007, 10:05 PM

most people on here seem to open their presents on xmas eve at midnight
most people in england wait until the mornign (or at least in my house), and some leave them until the main christmas day meal (which can be at like 6pm)

this year my boyfriend didnt even open his until 2 days after christmas, because his family couldnt be bothered XD

im also south african, but all i get from that is hunting for food, boiling up all the horrible bits of animal and considering it delicious, and a LOT of church (i have two uncles who are priests)

we also have a new years tradition

its called getting really really drunk, and all the kids hangin out and watching disney films

i babysit

diadori · #22 (**permalink**) 03-22-2007, 10:59 PM

family tradition? I guess since me mum's irish (immigrant, oh yeah) we have a few christmas traditions. But they all have to do with having candles and lighting candles, like we light a big red candle in our window every year cause that's what they do in Dublin, but this year all we had was a candy cane colored one so we used that instead. And we have a little candle advent calander, and we can only light each candle on a sunday of december. Although, I think other people have that too.

I guess I have a daily tradition with this little calander my grandfather gave me in his will. It's like one of those calanders you change every day, except they're blocks. There's four blocks, 2 number blocks, 1 month block, and one day block. So I change the blocks to the correct date every day. It's really cute cause there's teeth marks on the corners of most of them where some of my cousins chewed on them when my cousins were babies.

And on St. Patricks Day we eat traditional Irish food, except I don't like to eat lamb, so we just eat sausage sandwichies!

cfom · #23 (**permalink**) 05-07-2007, 09:58 PM

I don't know if my family have special traditions, but there's a lot of Danish traditions that we follow.. ^^ for example:

We eat duck or roast pork at Christmas, and we celebrate christmas the 24'th December..

We eat at about 6 or 7pm and open our presents at about 9 or 10 pm

hehe We also sing and dance around the christmas three.. ^^

Ehm.. We also have an easter lunch, where the familys get together, and we eat rye bread (which is dark bread with grain) and with diffrent things on top..

I guess there's a lot of other stuff that I can't remember now.. hehe

I almost forgot, that my family follow the christian traditions, but my family doesn't really belive in any religion

yiin · #24 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 04:28 PM

we always go to Oktoberfests and Matsuri. but not this year

RawrXKittyXBoom · #25 (**permalink**) 05-12-2007, 09:59 PM

Every christmas we buy my dad something got to do with cow/s....... this year a cow calander last year a toy cow that pooped jelly beans.....

cuddlecephalopodcuddle · #26 (**permalink**) 05-15-2007, 07:56 PM

yeah, my grandpa's 100% italian so for pretty much every holiday he cooks a huge pasta dinner. its delicious.

splashieduck · #27 (**permalink**) 05-20-2007, 08:29 PM

Me and my family always order Chinese food for Christmas dinner. =) Every year. XD

vietgrl___x · #28 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 08:44 PM

When speaking in vietnamese I always say 'Thua' before my relatives name. It`s a sign of respect that I grew up with.

Oh & I celebrate Tết & Chinese New Year too! ;] I don`t have to go to school on that day.

laura-aap · #29 (**permalink**) 08-24-2007, 11:32 PM

we always celebrate sinterklaas.
we have 2 handicapted children in the family and they still believe in it.
sinterklaas is a bit like christmas but instead of reindears and stuff.. he rides a horse and he's from spain. we always tell kids: he's already over 400 years old.

its kind if cool if you are a kid. putting your shoe somewhere with a picture in it.. and you got a present! that for like a week or 2 (before the 5th). and on the 5th of december its sinterklaas his birthday so we always got so many presents!! I always got like 10 big presents in one time.
till I figured out that it was all fake. I pulled of the guys beard.

but I still get presents. just because my dads family loves it.

The only tradition I hate is visiting your family on januari the 1th.
but thats more because I hate my grandma.

se7enbabie · #30 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 08:37 AM

Haha, once again, I'm Nigerian. I think I have said that in almost every post I made. lolz. But anyways, one of the biggest things in my culture (the Yoruba culture) is referring to people older than you (whether related to you or not) as anty or boda (Yoruba way of saying 'brother'). This is a sign of respect. When I came to the states, I got so confused because here, everyone refers to each other by their first names. It took a while for me to adjust. haha

TOOTHPASTE · #31 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 12:57 PM

on christmas, my whole family eats breakfast togheter and me and my brothers gets a present to open, then later, we eat christmasfood, then
we watch donald duck, and after that we open the presents thats under the christmastree, : D

and every year i give my dad something with ducks on it. X'D

Dutchie · #32 (**permalink**) 12-21-2007, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by laura-aap

we always celebrate sinterklaas.
we have 2 handicapted children in the family and they still believe in it.
sinterklaas is a bit like christmas but instead of reindears and stuff.. he rides a horse and he's from spain. we always tell kids: he's already over 400 years old.

its kind if cool if you are a kid. putting your shoe somewhere with a picture in it.. and you got a present! that for like a week or 2 (before the 5th). and on the 5th of december its sinterklaas his birthday so we always got so many presents!! I always got like 10 big presents in one time.
till I figured out that it was all fake. I pulled of the guys beard.

but I still get presents. just because my dads family loves it.

The only tradition I hate is visiting your family on januari the 1th.
but thats more because I hate my grandma.

ohw I love Sinterklaas!!! this year I got pajamas, this time it really was a surprise because we weren't going to celebrate it, my dad made the poems, (My mothers poems don't rime) here is something more about Sinterklaas.

Our tradition, we always eat at my grandparents (my mothers parents) with Easter and Christmas, but this year we are going on Sunday to my grandparents and not when it's Christmas, And with my Grandmothers birthday (my dads mother) we always eat Stampot with Rookworst

.em. · #33 (**permalink**) 12-24-2007, 11:04 PM

My mom's parents are divorced, so we usually have Christmas with my grandfather on Christmas Eve, then with my Grandma on Christmas Day. And my aunts/uncles usually come to. Same thing with Thanksgiving.
My parents are kinda religious (not SUPEr, and im not at all), so I'm not forced to go to any services or anything.

other than that...i dont think we have any other intersting traditions

xivorymoonx · #34 (**permalink**) 12-25-2007, 04:37 AM

We do the Easter thing too. My mom makes baskets filled with candy and a chocolate bunny and she'll hide them around the house and when we wake up, we go find them.

On Christmas eve we always open presents that were given to us by other family members outside our household. Then Christmas morning we open the rest.

Also, we attend a midnight mass on Christmas eve AND Easter. I hate it T.T

Ummm...and we are all total mutts (we have so many different ehtnicities it's crazy T.T) but we always attend the local Greek and Indian festivals that are held where I live. We love to explore different cultures and festivals are a great way.

For every few holidays (Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, and Easter to be exact =P) we all get together and make cookies and roll out dough and use cookie cutters that go with the holiday. It's so much fun =)