God jul to everyone here

[Agvg]

We celebrate this evening and not the 25 December

 

[ljjhouser]

When we had kids at home, we would celebrate Christmas Eve (24th) just before bedtime. Then, of course the kids would get us up the next morning (Christmas Day). Usually early. Merry Christmas - to so many people in so many different places. Smile, enjoy the best of everything.

 

[Agvg]

When we had kids at home, we would celebrate Christmas Eve (24th) just before bedtime. Then, of course the kids would get us up the next morning (Christmas Day). Usually early.

To have seen so much Christmas celebration om movies and TV I don't really know what's the traditional ways are in the US, do you have variations on the same theme all over or is it very different ways?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Christmas for us... No Santa Claus.

 

[Opti-Mist]

Hyvaa Joulua !!

 

[Jstpssng]

To have seen so much Christmas celebration om movies and TV I don't really know what's the traditional ways are in the US, do you have variations on the same theme all over or is it very different ways?

I think that everybody has different traditions. Christmas here has become way too commercialized... retailers often depend on the holiday to make a profit for the year. Yet there are many good things... Our church used to charter a bus and visit nursing homes, singing Christmas carols. We'd go through the front door, down the hall, and out the back, singing our way through. 50 years later I still remember one bedridden elderly lady laying there lipping the words as we went past her room. Candlelight service on Christmas Eve was another tradition the church had.

 

[ljjhouser]

To have seen so much Christmas celebration om movies and TV I don't really know what's the traditional ways are in the US, do you have variations on the same theme all over or is it very different ways?

We have some movies we really like about Christmas. Each Christmas we try to see them together (my wife an I) and just enjoy the season together. Movies like Holiday Inn, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Going My Way and The Bishop's Wife.

We no longer get gifts for each other, but do for visitors if they are here. Christmas Eve and Day are important to us. Each year we buy a special tree decoration. We keep the box and in the box we put a note of all the things and memories we have done throughout the year. They are a stamp of our life together. In earlier years, we used to go to Midnight Mass at the Cathedral. We don't get each other gifts because it is not about that for us. We usually get what we need anyway during the year. Being together and happy is very nice.

We have evolved to this way of Christmas. When kids were home, we would have many presents for each other and the kids. Being together as a family was important. Nice breakfast and visiting with friends and relatives.

 

[Torvy]

frohe weihnachten

Everyone and everywhere in the US is a bit different. I am of Deutsche descent and our family follows many traditional German things. Being Catholic also means a long history of midnight Masses. We just got back from the 10 pm Mass. We only have 1 child left at home. Gifts tend to be practical or sentimental. Most of the time is spent playing card or board games and eating home-cooked treats.

 

[Agvg]

Here Christmas is more and more just a celebration of the winter Solstice, which is an important thing in a cold and dark country.

Some do go to church at 17.00 for an hour but the number are going down.

A another tradition with old roots are to put food out in your barn, it was very important remember the barn gnome that watched over your farm, the last thing you wanted was to make this gnome mad at you.

I have put out food out in the barn my self when the children was young.

In Norwegian those gnomes is called fjøsnisse, and Santa Claus is called Julenisse.

The world was full of Nisser in the old days, house nisse, Forrest Nisser and so on, old people also often belive you had a invisible helper witch also could be a kind of nisse.

 

[Agvg]

Norway was baptized by the sword in many places and people saw no problem to put the Christian god in the collection of god's they already had

It's very obvious when you se the oldest churches that it was a transition that took maybe hundreds of years.

 

[Agvg]

Those old beliefs in all kinds of spirits and invisible people never died out, my grandmother was a firm believer in this and probably many in her generation did.

 

[Agvg]

frohe weihnachten

Everyone and everywhere in the US is a bit different. I am of Deutsche descent and our family follows many traditional German things. Being Catholic also means a long history of midnight Masses. We just got back from the 10 pm Mass. We only have 1 child left at home. Gifts tend to be practical or sentimental. Most of the time is spent playing card or board games and eating home-cooked treats.

German Christmas I dont know much about, but have been once to Wien and seen the magnificent Christmas market there, was given a lagre cup of something that made you warm and probably would have had a big impact on your abilities to walk straight if you keept filling this cup...

 

[Buppies]

Merry Christmas to you folks

 

[m7040]

We celebrate December 24 based on our Danish tradition. Having grown up in Denmark we still have our traditional Christmas celebration despite having lived here since the mid 1960's

 

[Agvg]

We celebrate December 24 based on our Danish tradition. Having grown up in Denmark we still have our traditional Christmas celebration despite having lived here since the mid 1960's

What do you eat ?

 

[m7040]

Usually flaeskesteg which is a pork roast and ris-ala-man this is cooked rice with sugar and whipped cream almonds and rum

 

[Agvg]

Here it's Ribbe or Ribbestek as I think it's in Danish.

 

[m7040]

we also put out a bowl milk for nissen in the barn and sing the old songs while dancing around the Christmas tree before opening presents

 

[Alan W.]

We have some movies we really like about Christmas. Each Christmas we try to see them together (my wife an I) and just enjoy the season together. Movies like Holiday Inn, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Going My Way and The Bishop's Wife.

We no longer get gifts for each other, but do for visitors if they are here. Christmas Eve and Day are important to us. Each year we buy a special tree decoration. We keep the box and in the box we put a note of all the things and memories we have done throughout the year. They are a stamp of our life together. In earlier years, we used to go to Midnight Mass at the Cathedral. We don't get each other gifts because it is not about that for us. We usually get what we need anyway during the year. Being together and happy is very nice.

We have evolved to this way of Christmas. When kids were home, we would have many presents for each other and the kids. Being together as a family was important. Nice breakfast and visiting with friends and relatives.

My wife and I also love the same old Christmas classics. Unfortunately TCM wont play Holiday Inn due to the blackface scene.

 

[Agvg]

we also put out a bowl milk for nissen in the barn and sing the old songs while dancing around the Christmas tree before opening presents

Nice to see old traditions is still alive