Merry Christmas man. May your days be filled with merry and much eggnog.

For me personally there are none, as I don't celebrate.
But maybe you'd find it interesting that things are a bit different in general here too. First, no such thing as Christmas eve really. But then, the 25th and 26th are both officially Christmas days. We have two of them.
And as for presents, well, I'm sure it's blown over from the US well enough that there are plenty of people who do it, but in general, not a thing with Christmas.

Merry Christmas

I create 25 fake short synopsis for a fictional crime drama called "Police Navidad" and post them to Facebook like a crazy advent calendar.

Merry Christmas Eric

More and more over time, for my family, our Christmas traditions are getting smaller. For a number of reasons but the biggest one is the last 4 years my immediate family and the grandparents have felt that things have become too commercialized and have wanted to do more visits and dinners then doing a giant get together and unwrapping gifts. In fact unless your one of the babies in our family, gifts are not expected by most, including myself. For those 10 and under, they get multiple gifts from a lot of the family but to one another, things are few and far between, which is good because I don't need more STUFF, in fact I think most of us can do with less of it. :3

I know the pains of the scattered tribe. I wish I could spend it with everyone.
Hope ya have a very Merry Christmas.

I spend Christmas with the   Shandafa s; generally, a trip to the local Chinese buffet (which we refer to as Bo Ling's) and Dr. Who on BBC America are in the offing...

Merry Christmas, Eric!

Merry Christmas EWS!

Every year I watch the best Christmas movie ever: Die Hard

I make myself sugar cookies with pentagrams on them and eat them while listening to Slayer

And we open presents on Christmas eve

HA-HA! We watched Die Hard last night. I like it. My wife hates it. Lethal Weapon (the first one) is great too.

Is Lethal Weapon a Christmas movie?

Yes, about as much as Die Hard is. Both took place during the Christmas season. All the Christmas decorations were up.

Merry Christmas to you and yours Eric. I always look forward to any and all of your updates. I hope you enjoy many many more and I'm there to enjoy all of your future drawings. BTW, the best Christmas gift I received this year was from you, the drawing of Timmy's first Christmas. Thanks again for that.

Those were really funny/cute. Sadly my son did not recognize the voices (and he is obsessed with Transformers).

One tradition I try to do every year is, I get my kids a new set of pj's to wear on Christmas Eve/Day.

This year I got them a new Christmas book, that I am giving them tonight for me to read before bed. I also got one of the big Disney christmas storybooks that I am giving to my daughter (but it is for them both) on Christmas.

I also try to get them each a new Christmas ornament every year.

Once my daughter gets a little older (and can read a little better) I am going to be looking for a pickle ornament. You hide the pickle on the tree Christmas Eve while they are a sleep. Whoever finds it in the morning gets to pass out the presents.

Every year we put two cardinals on the tree (for my mom). When you see a cardinal it is said to be a visitor from heaven watching over you. (My mom is religious we are not)

I am looking for a really well made spider ornament as well. The story goes that one year a gentle mother set to cleaning her house for christmas. The spiders had to flee to the attic to escape her broom. When christmas eve came the spiders came down to view the tree and we're overtaken by it's beauty. They scurried all over it in their happiness to view all of the ornaments. But alas the tree became covered in their gray webbing. When Santa came he saw the tree and smiled. He could see how happy the spiders were, but he knew the mother would not be. So he turned their webs to strands of silver and the tree was even more beautiful then before.

As time goes on, it's possible your son will develop an ear for that stuff. While I tend to pick up on those details now, when I was little, I was one of those kids who just didn't notice that, for instance, Oscar and Big Bird were the same guy.

Took me time to develop an ear for it, and sometimes it's just a matter of taking a new look at an old thing, (like noticing actors in 'before they were famous' guest roles on older movies and TV shows)

Oh, yes, and to answer your own actual question... //^_^//

Boxing Day is a thing for my family (volunteering for stuff), as is the Epiphany Feast, which is usually when we take down our decorations each year. This time of year, Christmas Eve, is when we put ornaments and tinsel on the tree in mostly one go, and then top it with an angel rather than a star. For the years that I was on my own, yeah, I did that same MST3k thing, too!

They were the same guy?!?!?!?! How did I never notice that. LOL He recognizes the voices for certain characters, but it is usually after I say "Oh crap....that's so in so".

I watch alot of Anime, so I've gotten to where I notice the voices alot.

Seasonal eggnog chug.
Buy your own quart!

The one tradition we've always held in my family is the Christmas dinner. But as time goes by, there are less and less people to have it with. My family just hates each other.

Have a Merry Christmas, Eric!
It was Christmas 2005 when I discovered Sabrina Online and the rest of your work, so you're kind of a Christmas figure for me. =P

Merry Christmas.

Sadly, leaving wrapping the gifts as late as possible seems to be my only tradition.

YOU haven't lived with a SCROOGE for thirty years! my stepfather is a workaholic farmboy that never had the time to do Christmas, even when his kids were growing up. I think his parents did it all. we lost our christmas traditions literally 30 years ago. when mom's mom had a debilitating stroke christmas eve, and spent Christmas in a pittsburgh medical center.

Merry Christmas!

A once-upon-a-time tradition (in other words, when I was a kid) was to pick out and open one Christmas gift the night before. This was the Christmas Eve Present, and functioned as a sort of teaser for the main event the following morning. One of the earliest I remember receiving that way was Hot Spot, the blue transformer fire truck. (I eventually ended up with the rest of Defensor, but I don't remember when or how.)

Now days, my main holiday tradition is a marathon of all the Christmas episodes of the sitcom Frasier. This year I'm looking forward to sharing that with my fiancee.

Merry Chirstmas, Eric!

Happy holidays

wheres my starscream xmas special?

This year, we have a major shift in Christmas. Always before we traveled to West Virginia to spend the holiday with TL's parents and family (Most of my close family is gone.)

This year though, TL's mom is in ill health, and not up for company. My lovely bride and I will start the new tradition of spending the day together, just us. Our daughters and their spouses, and our grandkids are going to celebrate next weekend.

So far, our new tradition includes going out for a late lunch/early dinner at Shoney's.

Merry Christmas Eric, and everyone.

TM

I haven't been to a Shoney's in forever - almost certainly at holiday time, because I never found them in Ohio, but they were in Kentucky/Indiana, where family lived.

Is Rax still in business, or is that more in Indiana/Illinois anyhow?

No idea. There used to be Rax fast food joints where I lived, but no more.

Hope yers goes well.

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We used to have a lot of things we did, whether they were traditions or just simply what we did every year. Watching Charlie Brown and Rudolph were a given. Certain decorations were set out or hung up which all had that classic basement mustiness to them. We always got a real pine christmas tree, which forever ingrained in my mind the association between the smell of pine and christmastime. Even if I'm golfing and shank my ball into a pine tree, the smell of pine on the ball makes me think christmas. We used to have 3 christmases: my dad's side of the family on christmas eve, our immediate family christmas morning, and my mom's side of the family on christmas afternoon. There were other things I always enjoyed about christmas, too, such as the mirror surface of shiny red, green, gold, and silver ornaments, and those smells in department stores--back when we had real actual department stores (you know, the ones where they had professional gift wrappers that made packages look like a million bucks)--of leather from the belts and wallets in the men's area and the perfumes and colognes from the counter where that stuff was sold. I actually loved going christmas shopping. And the christmas music didn't start until a couple weeks before christmas. Christmas was very special to me as a kid, and there was so much excited anticipation of it approaching. Even the snow made it wonderful. Oh, and nobody gave a shit whether someone's greeting was "merry christmas", "happy holidays", or "season's greetings".

Now, all of that is gone. My parents stopped getting a real tree as soon as I moved out, and after a few years didn't even bother putting up the small tabletop artificial tree they had. Likewise, the ornaments stopped being used and were either given away or thrown out. Luckily my brother still has many of them for his family's tree. Christmas on my dad's side of the family changed dramatically once his dad died and became sporadic because it always had to revolve around one person's work schedule. Now, it hasn't happened in years. The big christmas get-together on my mom's side of the family continued all the way up until last year (when my aunt who always hosted it decided she's had enough, which I can't blame her for), but even when it went on I skipped it for the past several years because I simply felt out of place and didn't enjoy it any more. Our immediate family christmas get-together still goes on but it just doesn't feel special like it used to, especially ever since my dad died. I've gotten so I absolutely hate christmas shopping because it's so stressful it makes me want to scream, because figuring out what to get for people and where to find it has become damn near impossible. The department stores where we used to shop are not all long gone and replaced by Khol's and Target which smell like, well, Kohl's and Target. I've also gotten so I absolutely hate the snow because where I live, the few inches that nobody else cares about can mean I'm snowed in and unable to enter or leave my driveway, on top of the long distances I have to drive. These days, christmas music starts the day after halloween, and christmas crap starts showing up in the stores literally in August. It makes me sick of christmas before we've even reached thanksgiving, and I feel dread as I think of it getting closer and closer. There is such a sense of relief as soon as it's all over.

I really don't mean to sound like a sad sack of shit because I don't mean to, but I also can't change how I feel about it either. I like the actual get-togethers with family and wish it could be just that, without all the other crap. I still like the beauty of shiny christmas decorations and the lights. Each type of lights hold a special place in my heart--the old style frosted bulbs that put out such a soft warm colorful glow, the miniature bulbs that put out bright pinpoints of light like multicolored stars, and the newer LED christmas lights that put out such pure colors of red, green, yellow, and blue and make me think of the colors on my Commodore 64 screen. And then there's the baking! I love the food at christmas whether it's the traditional chocolate chip cookies or Mom's homemade Danish coffee cake. It varies from year to year what I make; this year was big cinnamon rolls and chocolate cheescake, while in years past I've made chocolate chip cookies, pfefferneuse (a spiced ball cookie coated in powdered sugar), or eggnog from scratch (not that storebought crap that tastes like they relabeled leftover paint). I do appreciate the beauty of winter and snowfall, just not the experience of it. And I still like Charlie Brown and Rudolph when I get to see them. Christmas has changed a lot since I was a kid, and I really wish I could go back to those simpler times when it still felt really special.

Merry Christmas, Eric! Hope your holidays are well!