While we're on the subject...

[conuly]

I've decided. I can't leave holidays up to their parents. Because Jenn'd mess everything up!

*blinks*

No, really, this isn't as crazy as it sounds. Jenn really doesn't get as enthused about holidays as I do, so it makes sense that I should, um, be a driving force here. Besides, it'd give me something to *do* with all my holiday-related enthusiasm, while giving Jenn et al. a chance to not have to do anything.

Naturally, I'm taking my reasoning as an excuse to go completely overboard with holidays of all sorts.

So! *cracks knuckles* What're some common things people do for various holidays wherever you're from? What do you think of those things? What does your family do?

Yes, this post is prompted by the discovery that one can order Christmas Crackers online and get them in the US. It sounds about as fun as fortune cookies, and I'm always up for that. (Hey - it's for the kids, right? As we all know, that justifies everything! Yes, even that! And that! In all seriousness, I think it justifies letting me do something constructive with my insanity.)

Edit: They don't have to be strictly holiday traditions. Just post.

Edit again: I still don't want kids of my own. They'd be spoiled brats. Seriously. And I wouldn't get to go home every day.

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[missfahrenheit.livejournal.com]

Crackers!! Hey, it's not truly Christmas unless someone falls asleep wearing their wobbly paper cracker hat :D

Until last year, when I'd finally moved away before the decorations went up, we always, always always made a new star for the tree every year, out of tin foli and cardboard and tape and glue and glitter. Thant was fun :D And we still get stockings (not proper Christmassy ones, they never have been- just Dad's old fishing socks which are really thick and wooly) on Christmas morning, delivered by Santa, which have to have a satsuma in the toe even though we're all aware that my brother will not eat his at all and will give it to me immediately. And it used to be a Christmas Eve tradition to watch the Snwoman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084701/) and Father Christmas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180691/) (reliably on on Channel 4, around 3pm on Christmas eve every year!), except this year the Snowman's on on Christmas Day and I don't seem to have seen Father Christmas in years. I've never been able to shake the need to watch them though.

[conuly]

We (my family, or maybe just me) watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas (I wanted to buy the book at the ETG this year, but it was sold under my nose), and various cheesy made-for-TV movies. Fun.

Oooh, and the Twilight Zone Marathon on New Years.