Every year - what do you do for Christmas?

For me... I do the typical stuff - time spent with family, opening gifts, Christmas tree, the dogs get gifts too... we have a cat now, so she gets gifts as well.

My spouse is a crazy loving person, so includes everyone and tries to make everyone feel blessed.

How about you?

I go over to my dad and stepmom’s house to eat lunch and we all open presents afterwards, then I spend the rest of the afternoon with my mom and her side of the family opening more gifts. My birthday is the day after Christmas so I get more gifts to open that day :P

Hopefully spend it with my son and daughter in law and granddaughter Ava.

With my daughter and husband😁

Spend it with the family and everyone kinda plays with what the got, it’s usually very relaxing. Also we usually do a nicer dinner! We also go to the zoo during new years week I don’t know why lol. But we like it.

Open presents, eat way too much at a relatives house, stop in at another relatives house, annnd Christmas movies with hot chocolate.

In an ideal scenario I:
1) Go to mass
2) Give to a homeless charity
3) Have Christmas dinner at a families or friends place.

If these aren't possible mind I'll just spend it how I spend any other day, accept trying to give proper thought to the one its about.

On 12/1/2025 at 2:20 PM, Hannah Newera said:

With my daughter and husband😁

But i dont celebrate Christmas but iove christmas stuff 😋

On 12/2/2025 at 7:25 PM, Red Robert said:

In an ideal scenario I:
1) Go to mass
2) Give to a homeless charity
3) Have Christmas dinner at a families or friends place.

If these aren't possible mind I'll just spend it how I spend any other day, accept trying to give proper thought to the one its about.

If I were to go to Mass, I'd have to go to confession to be able to receive communion.. that would take me about 10 years in the confessional LoL 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣

4 hours ago, Hannah Newera said:

But i dont celebrate Christmas but iove christmas stuff 😋

Why not celebrate it anyway.

Im muslim so thats why

But i still love christmas and the movies and the hot cocoa and the nice feelings

Edited December 5Dec 5 by Hannah Newera

4 hours ago, Sheila89 said:

If I were to go to Mass, I'd have to go to confession to be able to receive communion.. that would take me about 10 years in the confessional LoL 😂 🤣 🤣 🤣

Interesting thing my priest told me about confession, apparently even sins forgotten in the confessional are forgiven, so even if you just went to confession over one thing but were feeling sore aboot all the stuff that counts as sin anyway afterwards even if you forgot to mention it, it was still forgiven.

Edited December 6Dec 6 by Red Robert

On 11/30/2025 at 6:13 PM, K.C. said:

My birthday is the day after Christmas so I get more gifts to open that day :P

Wow a boxing day baby! How do you find that? Do people tend to separate your birthday or lump it together with Christmas?

I adore Christmas, always have, we had a really regimented routine growing up that was around going to church, opening presents, having a big meal, watching some Christmas TV. Now my best kind of Christmas is just my partner and I, the dog obviously, presents, a nice meal, games and TV and lots of Christmas music! It's as much the run up to Christmas, getting to decorate, seeing family and friends, buying and giving gifts, that I love more than the actual day.

7 hours ago, ParadiseLost said:

Wow a boxing day baby! How do you find that? Do people tend to separate your birthday or lump it together with Christmas?

They usually separate it from Christmas. I wouldn’t mind either way though.

I've now completed one of those things on my little bucket list. I've given roughly 60 pounds to a homeless charity and a tenner to a homeless guy on the street tonight.

Roughly $93.60.

For me, on my income, thats pretty significant.