What is christmas like in your country?

What is christmas like in your country?

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Christmas markets and shit.

Not snow, just cold weather :(

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Most major cities have German Christmas markets.

What ? Really?

Yes. This is what they look like.

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>22nd December
National lottery, official start of Christmas season

>24th December
Dinner with the family. We eat like pigs and then we eat typical Christmas sweets like marzipan, praline and polvorones. We sing Christmas songs together and religious people go to mass at midnight.
> 25th December
Rerun of 24th for lunch.

> 28th December
Our April Fools.

> 31st December
Another epic dinner to celebrate the new year. We eat 12 grapes at midnight, one for each ring of the bell.

>5th January
Parades are held to welcome the 3 wise men.

> 6th January
We get the presents that the three wise men brought the night before.

What do you do in Canada ?

We also eat at those days like animals, but we get our presents at the 24th.

Typically its just a stay-at-home day
>kids wake parents up early
>parents take a while putting their socks on
>kids run down stairs to the tree
>start with christmas stockings with a mandarin orange and a bunch of trinkets and chocolate
>everyone opens gifts and makes a giant pile of wrapping paper
>have a late brunch with waffles and canadian bacon and fruit
>lunch is cold turkey sandwiches from last night's leftovers
>next few hours is spent napping, kids play video games, shoveling driveway, making coffee
>dinner with extended family, usually more turkey and stuffing and potatoes
>play board games like crokinole and scrabble with grandparents
>go to sleep

Every Christmas Eve my family goes to the Christmas Market in chicago and we drink Glühwein

Hottest time of the year, I like it that way t.b.h.

Comfy as fuck.

t. Midwesterner

Went to Munich for Christmas in 2009, was maximum comfy.

Nice, we have lots of fireworks

Massive meal with extended family, then midnight mass

lonely because tfw no gf

Does it ever get chilly there?

>Not snow, just cold weather :(
This (for the past few years at least).

B.C.?

Chilly yes but never snow. It has snowed in some parts of the country where is elevated but not here in the capital. Never below 10°C.

>fireworks at x-mas

24th: Presents and Dinner, usually Bacalhau. Cozy Fireplace and family if possible.
25th: Lunch out with family, usually Leitão or Turkey.

The streets in most towns get decorated with lights, and it gets chilly (for us anyway), so it's a comfy time.

We usually get a tree (plastic or real, depending where you live), and some people gather some moss and build a nativity scene diorama of sorts, which is the more traditional thing here. The firemen at my city usually make a huge one that has characters moving and whatnot.

Pretty neat time, but Christmas proper is just 2 days. Decorations stay until the 6th of January, though, which is when some go out singing carols, wishing everyone else a good year.

Yes. It hasn't really felt like the holidays since the snow stopped falling.

Sorry I had a nap.

Yeah they are very common here, obviously they are all local employees but all done in the German market style.

I think i'm killing myself this christmas

Things might get better lad, if you kill yourself you'll never find out. Wanker.

many muslims here visit christmas open houses and buy presents and stuff.

Muslims celebrate Christmas?

Yes it gets really fun. As a kid in 24th of november we waited until midnight, prayed, opened the presents and inmediatly after we lighted a fuckton of fireworks.

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Santa lives here at the Baltimore harbor for the Christmas season.

not very exciting

fucking annoying

Because you celebrate literally every single holiday on the face of Earth and have days off after every full moon.

Also what the fuck is this.

December*

o-only like 25

it is currently 37 degrees Celsius outside and December just started.

what did st Nickolas mean by this?

Quiet, cozy and cold

Took this at the Christmas market today :)

I gotta admit, I sorta agree with them

At least in the past the whole "Christmas tree" shenanigan could be interpreted as being European tradition. But now it's not even that anymore, it's just yet another thing which has been completely hijacked by Amerilard consumerism.

>Family dinner
>Shameless commercialism
>Same 4 or 5 songs on radio
Can actually be good when people do it up right, but good god there are Christmas songs other than same handful of shit from the 40s/50s.

I sometimes wish I didn't live in the middle of fucking nowhere.

Dude, you can't fucking go to Toluca or Zacatecas for a one night stay weekend? We get the best deal out of Christmas as we don't actually have to deal with snow except for the nicer parts of making snowmen and roasting marshmallows in an open fire. Seriously man, everything that's not the southern third of the country has snow nearby.

It's comfy, colorful traditions like posada parties, the Guadalupes-Reyes drinking marathon (from Dec 12 to Jan 6) the best hot chocolate in the world

Huge dinner with the family, lots of drinking, really good times.
>mfw I'm the only one who isn't hungover the next day

its a couple hour drive for us at least

do you make Tamales?

Break a piñata, eat buñuelos, sing in a karaoke, pass out drunk and wake up early at the next day because every member of my family has business of their own.
I like Dia de Muertos more.

Over eating
Over spending
Family gatherings that end with fights

basically fucking romance couple day
usually everyone eat fried chiken(KFC etc) and Christmas cake.
my family eat sushi and chicken and something every year.
t. even not christian

Winter wonderland. Santa boils and eats the naughty children.

related

Always fucking hot. Usually my family gathers at my grandparent's house (mum's side) after the usual xmas gift-giving and catching up, once there we just catch up, eat a lot of food, play board games, drink alcohol, usually start with seaford; starting with cold prawns dipped in various sauces, then moving onto other shit like roast pork and home-made icecream, various breads, etc.

Sauna, booze and axe

Beat your wife and children

Usually just go to church and come back for family dinner.
Some relatives and/or friends come over

Also very hot, so heated family arguments as per usual

Love me some panettone

37 degrees? Do you live next to the damn sun?

There is a big tradition in my city where the government decorates the river that crosses the whole city for the whole month

It's a bit colder than the rest of the year, sometimes it gets below freezing. Every few years it will snow.
In my city they have a light show and it was alright back when I was a kid and would go every year.

Cold, dark, snowy, comfy. A proper White Christmas. People go to church for Christmas carols and spend time with family. I pity those who didn't experience real Christmases in their childhoods.

My family is not Christian so I have never celebrated it. It is just as other time, except Christmas Songs becoming a thing for few weeks.

I try not to be a CHI but I really like dia de los muertos stuff

Jehova witness detected, you are the only people autistic enough to not celebrate Christmas

Decorations and banners all over major cities and shopping malls, and sales everywhere

Many people here including non-Christians celebrate Christmas, just leaving out the religious stuff.

Christmas day is also a public holiday here, so a lot of families tend to go on vacation around that time as well.

why don't australians celebrate christmas?

Christmas?

The birth of our Lord?