Favorite Holiday Tradition? The awesome “Ugly Christmas Sweater,” party held by my friends every year!

Favorite Holiday Tradition: My mom’s homemade latkes at our family Hannukah party

My favorite holiday tradition is reuniting with my entire family and singing some karaoke. We sound insanely awful, but it’s fun nonetheless!

Either pizza and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation night with my fam, or dj’ing a holiday party with all my friends while wearing elf ears.

My favorite holiday tradition is piling the entire family in the car and driving around looking at Christmas lights. We load up on delicious unhealthy food and drive around all night looking at lights. 

Such good memories!

Favourite tradition: Listening to grandparents tell the same story they did last year

My favorite tradition is something that started with a couple of my in-laws and cousins.  Swapping gifts that benefit a certain cause (so gifts that are linked with a  cause, kind of like Ugmonk and Rice Bowls) or purchasing something that is made by a local artist.  This is just fun to support something and someone good.

Watching as many Christmas movies that I can fit in from Thanksgiving to December 31.  

Mocking up a christmas tree :-D

Candlelight spaghetti dinner on Christmas Eve!

Eating so much food I feel incredibly nauseous yet uncomfortably proud all at once. Beautiful

Favorite Tradition: Christmas Breakfast with my family

Favorite Holiday Tradtion: Pretending what it would be like if it snowed.

My favorite holiday tradition is airing our grievances around dinner followed by performing feats of strength.

Favourite holiday tradition is going stopping off at my friends parents place to pick him up (say hi to the family) then heading to our local bar to hang with some old school chums and have a good catch up

My favorite tradition is baking cookies and all kinds of deserts on Christmas Eve. The best part? Having my house smell like heaven all day.

My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree with my family.  I enjoy the time spent together and how we have done it every year and never missed one.

My favorite holiday tradition is watching christmas vacation as we decorate the house and tree.

My favorite Christmas tradition is making Christmas shortbread cookies with my favourite people!

The ceremonial unbuttoning of the pants during Christmas lunch, so as to fit more foodstuffs into mine belly!

Favorite tradition: Getting useless crap und complain about it among friends :D

Newest tradition I’ve enjoyed is giving one gift on Christmas Eve. =)

Favorite Christmas tradition?  Eating all the desserts that everyone makes.  :)  Nom, nom, nom!

My husband and I are celebrating our first Christmas as a couple this year! We don’t have many traditions yet but we are excited to start new ones as a new family :) So far we have watched the Muppets Christmas Carol and Christmas Vacation.  We are also planning a big Chrismas breakfast for our friends and family.

It would definitely have to be everything entailed in Christmas morning at my parents house. My sister has a 2.5 year old daughter and 4 month old son, so Santa still visits our house and it’s always magical. I love it because for those morning hours we’re able to just be with each other with no distractions opening gifts, listening to Christmas music and making breakfast together.

Favorite Holiday tradition?

Avoiding my family and getting drunk in my room watching netflix.

My favorite Christmas tradition..

Coming together with the whole family.. Eating some Chinese food :).

I don’t know how that this year will go; My grandma (who held the family bond close) died last year in December, but I think it will be great :).

Sorry for my poor, poor language; I’m not American :)

TRADITION: Christmas Day skiing.  Nothing better than first tracks after opening presents with family.

Taking my son (4) sledding on the hill next to my fathers house on Christmas Eve.  My father had a quadruple bypass two Christmas ago (Yes surgery was literally Dec 23rd) and it was the only time we were not able to do it.  Its a tradition started when i was young with my father.  We now do it with the three of us and sharing it with 3 generations is awesome!

Favorite tradition is simply getting to sleep in a little bit, then enjoy hot coffee with some eggnog in it with my family.  It’s just a time to slow down and is very much needed at the end of every year.

Opening presents in our stockings on Christmas Eve.

My Favorite Christmas tradition:
Wondering how I finished all these christmas preparations right on time.

Favorite Christmas tradition: 24 hours of A Christmas Story. Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!

fav tradition: caroling at the local nursing home

My Favorite Christmas Tradition:

Is waking up Christmas morning and my brother and I cut the ribbon from the steps to get into the living room.  Once the ribbon is cut we are able to open the gifts

Muppet Christmas Carol! 

Favorite tradition is:

Spending time with family on Christmas day.

My family and I always go to the local theater to catch a Christmas showing.  Feels great to get out of the house, experience winter and get away from sports (believe it or not)

Shopping for presents for the love ones! And a Christmas eve get-together dinner :)

Coffee before presents is a family tradition. It’s kind of a coming of age thing…you know you’re an adult when you don’t care about anything (including presents) until you’ve had those first few sips. Or gulps.

My favourite is giving people presents. I love seeing the smile on people’s faces when they get something amazing or something they’ve always wanted.

My favorite holiday tradition is jumping in the ocean Christmas day. (I’m from New England so the water – and air – is very very cold)

having dinner with my friends is my favorite part of christmas

In our circle of friends, every Christmas we play cards every day for two weeks in a row while drinking boozes, lots of boozes. It’s why it’s called a holiday : ]

Favorite Christmas tradition is definitely mom’s homemade biscuits and gravy breakfast before opening gifts. A breakfast that good always trumps the gifts!

Favorite holiday tradition is the whole family getting together. There is nothing like spending quality time with family.

Favorite holiday tradition is eating too much on Christmas Eve, watching ‘A Christmas Story’ on repeat all night and each exchanging one gift. Happy Holidays too all!!

Simply joining my beloved family and share a huge tasty dinner ! :)

After everyone leaves our  house, my 3 brothers and I go to or watch a movie. Since we are  all in different places, I really enjoy the fact that we get to hang out just the 4 of us.

Playing games with my brothers and sisters til late every night of Christmas vacation

For the past 4 years, since my daughter was born, my wife, daughter and I just come down stairs, gather around the tree and open presents. After, we have pancakes or waffles and spend the rest of the day together. It used to be that my wife and I would drive around to our parents houses, but now we’ve got our own little family.

One of my favorite holiday traditions is baking with my mom.  We start Thanksgiving weekend with the fruitcake and make time to bake together throughout the holidays.

Decorating the tree! (designer style!)

Pumpkin streusel pie. :-)

This goes beyond tradition, but certainly remembering Jesus and the beginning of his life is something that takes place here at home in Riverside, California.

Newest tradition is opening all the gifts on Christmas Eve.

Kris Kringle with my 5 siblings on Christmas Eve.

My favorite tradition is watching A Christmas Story on xmas eve.  

What a fabulous giveaway! My favorite tradition is the Secret Santa drawing among my friends. We have a low-key holiday party when we meet to distribute the gifts, and as always,we watch A Muppet Christmas Carol. It’s the best Christmas movie, of course. :) 

Its all about family and being together, oh and the cookies… definitely, the Christmas cookies.

We just started a new tradition of sponsoring families through World Vision.

My favorite tradition is sharing and celebrating everyones holidays even if I myself do not particularly celebrate it with my religion.

The whole family gets new pajamas on Christmas Eve…then we play games until bedtime.

Up here we cook the «tourtiere», a meat pie with veal, pork, beef and a touch of cinnamon. Cooking with grandma recipe !

Favorite Holiday Tradition: The Pogues and Kirsti MacColl singing “Faire Tale of New York”.

Watching “A Christmas Story” at least 3 times, with friends and family.

My favorite Christmas tradition is waking up Christmas morning with music playing and hot cocoa waiting for me. :) Guess I’m spoiled!

Our favorite tradition is making Danish aebelskiver!

Favorite holiday tradition is having my grandparents come over the christmas morning to open gifts, then going back to their house to have leftovers from Christmas eve for breakfast. Delicious!

My favourite holiday tradition is reminiscing about the stories behind each ornament collected over 20 years while hanging them on the tree.

Every Year we wake up in the morning, and we eat a big breakfast, then my dad takes out his Bible and reads the entire Christmas story, then we pray and go open presents. Merry Christmas!!

I’m starting a new tradition this year with a few of my girlfriends — drinking wine, listening to Christmas music, and exchanging home-made gifts since we are all strapped for cash :) !

best tradition: avoiding our families as much as we can, to have a merry christmas!!

Making candy cane reindeer with my daughter, niece and nephew.

Finding and cutting down our Christmas tree as a family.

It would have to be…ordering in Chinese every year on Christmas Eve at home, rather than traveling to see distant relatives we don’t even get a long with.

My favorite Christmas tradition is the evening meal with the family ;)

My family has been going to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra every year around the holiday season, cause they always tour right around Christmas. It has definitely become my favorite holiday tradition, cause it’s easily one of the best live shows I’ve ever seen and my whole family always goes together and has a great time. and I know the band loves playing in Philadelphia, cause that’s where they played their first ever show!

my first time celebrating xmas!

We have a Chili Cook off competition on Christmas Eve between parents and 5 siblings.  We invite many family and friends over to judge the chili and cast their votes.  At the end of the competition a person is rewarded.  Once this happens, the cooks can finally eat, trying all the different chili combinations.   Untraditional and really GOOD!

Watching a movie. 

Probably watching “Home Alone” (always on tv with christmas) with my family for the 15th time :)

One of my favorite Christmas tradition is on Christmas Eve night, I watch The Polar Express to get that Christmas night/morning excitement! :)

Falling asleep as we are in church with my family :)

Putting together a 1000 piece puzzle with my Grandmom

My favorite holiday tradition would be having Æbleskiver’s from scratch on christmas morning. It is a family recipe brought from Denmark by my grandparents. We get the whole family together and that is really what the holiday season is all about… spending time with the people you love.

My favourite holiday tradition was the christmas piñata. Yes, we’re WASPs and I don’t know where the idea of a piñata came from. It ended recently, since all us kids are grown up and only one person gets a whack because it usually breaks open with the first hit. My family is rather bland, so we appropriated another culture’s traditions and assimilated it. : )

Enjoying the night air of Christmas Eve! It’s magical.

love the & shirts. pick me for the $100!

love eating as much as i can with the in laws. 

My family eats Thanksgiving at midnight…my dad works till then, so we have the big meal ready for him when he gets home. It’s a lot of fun staying up late, cooking, and eating. :)

Icing someone during secret santa or yankee swap

Trying to beat the terrible Terminator 2 SNES game with my best friend while drinking tall boys of PBR and smoking cigars. The holidays are over once our spirit has been destroyed by that impossible game.

Favorite holiday tradition: just spending time together with family and friends.

My favourite tradition is to relax in sauna, eat well and just have fun with my loved ones

My favorite holiday tradition is watching “it’s a wonderful life” every christmas eve right before we open presents,

My favorite tradition is to decorate the tree with my mom and fake Santa’s steps in the house to surprise my brother in the morning.

Geometric xmas!

Spending time with family and sharing in the joy of giving with each other.

My favorite tradition is going to the casino after we eat dinner. We always go without fail.

My newest fave holiday tradition is skipping my own family’s christmas eve party for my husband’s, their’s is way more fun :]

Happy holidays.

A few years ago an aunt started leading us through simple games. Winners of each game can select a mystery gift from under the tree. It totally made our holiday get-togethers more fun.

growing up we’d break out the Christmas decorations just after getting back from my grandparents on Thanksgiving day. We’d spend all night putting lights, garlands, and corny christmas villages everywhere :)

Favorite holiday tradition is making tamales and menudo for Christmas day. Nothing like homemade Mexican food for Christmas brunch

My favorite holiday tradition is to drive through neighborhoods to check out decked out homes. From the classic, tasteful winter scene to the original, neon-lit nativity rock band, most efforts provide a good laugh.

My favorite tradition is to design and silkscreen a family tree each year. Oh and eating a giant breakfast and opening presents with family.

Favorite tradition: The food, the wine, the music and, of course, the company of my loved ones.

Has to be gingerbread houses!

Each year on Christmas morning my mom makes pound cake for us. Some of the best stuff in the world when it’s toasted in the oven with butter. :)

My favorite tradition is going paint-balling in the rain (if it rains). Then afterwords, an epic meals. 

My favorite family Christmas tradition is (was) waking up at an ungodly hour and watching 1 (or 2) movies with my brother until the parents will allow us to open gifts. :) Running on pure greedy adrenaline from 4 am and on.

My favorite holiday tradition is watching the kids write Thank you notes for Santa and baking cookies for him, after we send them to bed we totally eat them up and sprinkle the trail of cookie crumbs in front of the fire place. It’s cute cause the kids thinks Santa is a messy eater! LOL

my favorite tradition would have to be ugly sweater parties me and my roommates have every year.

My unique tradition is making live streaming of our dinner to people that can’t have a christmas dinner because they’re alone for some reasons…

eating. a lot.

Favorite holiday tradition? Wearing the awesome Ugmonk shirt I got with my $100 gift card!

We make a live screaming of our christmas and new year dinner to friendly internet people that past this days alone for some reasons. You know , like, sharing good moments and happiness :-) 

my favorite tradition has got to be wrapping gifts with my mom. we both have very hectic schedules since my dad’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s, so we take that time to unwind, reflect, and laugh.

Gravy sprinkled with turkey.

Favorite holiday tradition is my dad’s turkey noodles. and watching the Christmas story for 24 hours!!!!!

Favorite tradition: egg nog.

My favourite Christmas tradition is playing summer sports on the beach or in the backyard. I’m from the southern hemisphere, so Christmas here means sun, surf and barbeque! :)

My favorite tradition is passing out all the gifts to my little cousins and watching them rip through all the wrapping paper at once.

My favorite tradition is when the youngest in the family places the star on top of the Christmas tree. The anticipation of the tree decorating being complete combined with the imagination of how great the real star shined and how even greater the mind blowing thought that God has come in the flesh, along with the annual raised eyebrow and holding of
breath from my mother as the yellow painted tin star gets very close to the ceiling :-)

My family makes a Ham and roasts it in the oven, then we all fight over the skin thats slightly burnt, yes its weird but it is fun and yummy

My Dad telling the Christmas story using the nativity scene, each of us having one of the figurines or barn animals and entering the manager at our point in the story.

My favorite holiday tradition is dressing my pug up like Santa and watching him run around barking at all my relatives.

My favorite tradition is spending some quality time w/ my family, eating some scrumptious food, and opening gifts, from my parents, my brother, and even Santa or Frosty. 

 The sound of the handbell my dad uses to signal to the family, that we can enter the room with the tree and the gifts. (In Hungary, gifts are recieved on the evening of the 24th.)

Each person in family writes a poem for one other family member chosen at random out of a hat. Then on Christmas eve we each read them outloud while we enjoy my mom’s homemade hot chocolate.

my favorite holiday tradition is to get together with my fam, and helping out the less fortunate with some gifts and food.

During Christmas I like that I have a few days off and I can spend time with family, read, watch TV shows and so on. :)

Meet with old friends in the hometown

Favorite Holiday Tradition is picking out a real Christmas Tree and taking it home to be decorated.

My favorite holiday tradition is something we call Sinterklaas in Belgium. The night of the sixth december all the belgian children put their shoe next to the fireplace and they put a carrot (for the horse of Sinterklaas) and something to drink in it. Sinterklaas walks on rooftops and has a help, called Zwarte Piet, who climes through the chimney to open the door for Sinterklaas. The morning of the sixth the beverages are empty, the carrot is gone and they are replaced by toys and cookies. It’s really really magic! 

My favourite tradition is a gingerbread decorating open house we host every year. We bake up a couple of hundred gingerbread cookies and then invite all of our friends and family over to decorate their cookies, eat some munchies and just have a nice laid back afternoon. Good times!!

favorite christmas tradition is seeing scrooged for the 189th along with some turkey popped with pop corn =)

Has to be the process of doing nothing. Just enjoying the overwhelming feeling of zero pressure, good food and great company.

Is there anything more festive than putting on some good Holiday music and decorating EVERYTHING with lights?

My favorite tradition has always been putting the Christmas ornaments on the tree with the family.  The best part was always making sure that my ninja turtle ornaments were in the front and center of the tree!

avoiding your family

My favorite holiday tradition is walking through the snowy pines with my fiance in the park near my house.

Buying my grandma a sherry at the pub before Christmas dinner

A glass of champagne on Christmas morning, an immense lunch followed by an evening wih friends and family. Lovely!

Banana Nut Bread on Christmas morning in front of the fire while we open presents as a family.

My family Christmas tradition is making memories…each person brings a $10 gift card on Christmas Day…BUT…it has to be wrapped/disguised.  We tell a short story with directional cues as we pass packages, large and small, around the circle.  At the end of the story one by one each person attempts to unwrap their package.  Gift cards have been heated & slid into chemistry beakers, frozen in blocks of ice, cut up for a puzzle and so on.  The room is filled with laughter and love.  It’s affordable and great for all ages.  Merry Christmas to all

My favorite holiday tradition is the Secret Santa exchange reveal at my work. I always end up having to video chat in from my holiday vacation, but I just love that I work with people I like so much that I’ll call in from my family vacation.

My favorite tradition is going to the bech with the whole family.

My favorite holiday tradition is my families annual talent show. Last year I sang Temptations, Drummer Boy. I lost to my dad, he did a cartwheel while he was hoola-hooping. 

My favorite holiday tradition is rum spiked eggnog!

definitely not church!

Getting zero sleep because every year we wait til Christmas eve to wrap the gifts lol good times :)

Love spending the day over at my sister’s house with my family.

After all the family stuff, I go home to the sharehouse where friends come round and we drink … too much. Then we have to make a moderately decision to complete the next day. Last year it was to get my lip pierced!

My favorite tradition is getting the Christmas tree and putting it up (we get a real one) and seeing my boys’ faces light up in excitement :)

Favorite tradition would have to be drawing names out of a hat for who gets whom presents for Christmas. We’ve found it works best for a large-ish family – plus it makes things more personal and all around enjoyable.

Best holyday tradition, eat what my family cooked !!

My favorite tradition is that all the family is together at Christmas, which means more to me than any gift I could give or get… :)

Singing songs that grandma changes the words to. :)

Not having any responsibilities the week between Christmas and New Years day. Just relaxing, reading, working out, and hanging out with friends and family. 

My favorite Christmas tradition is watching my wife’s uncle make a hat out of the left over wrapping paper.

Favorite Holiday Tradition.  5 words. Pop-ping the bub-bly.

Watching Elf, the movie.

Usually we have a dress-up theme but this year we are going to try Festivus

Favorite holiday tradition: family gathering and christmas gift exchange with everybody.

Favorite holiday tradition: Watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” with the family. While drinking hot cocoa, always.

My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies/cakes/pies with my mom to bring to my grandparents’ houses.

Sticky Buns for breakfast :)

My favourite holiday tradition? Spend it with my family, maybe on a cottage, in the mountains, with a lot of snow everywhere!

Thanks for the giveaway!

Giving until you can’t give anymore!

My favorite holiday tradition is singing karaoke (not very well) with my family.

opening stockings as soon as we get up Christmas morning

Spekulatius! 

My favourite tradition is being woken up far too early by my very excited wife.  She’s up even earlier than our daughter…

Drinking egg nog. 

Favorite tradition. Dressing up and going to Dickens on the strand in Galveston TX or spending time with the family around the Christmas tree.

Or buying ugmonk tees for friends for Christmas!

My favorite holiday tradition: renting a movie and watching it after dinnertime with my family during Christmas weekend, and then laughing with my sister at my parents when they fall asleep. It’s one of the only times of the year where the whole family has time off. :)

My favorite “Christmas” tradition is decorating the “Hannukah Bush”….. Think about it ;)

Cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!

Listening to old Christmas Vinyl….

Favorite tradition is the family staying up until the sunrise. While playing playstation outside and the fire pit on the side. 

My new favorite is the annual “Who” themed party that I host every year!

Favorite holiday tradition is watching White Christmas while wrapping presents.  Occasionally I get up to dance along with the movie. 
Thanks for the giveaway!

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating cookies with the whole family!

Going to the family Christmas party and watching the grand-kids tear into their presents. This year I think it took about 3.5 minutes for all 7 of them to get into the presents

My favorite holiday tradition is when my mom makes an awesome Christmas dinner, and we sit around the tree and tell stories.

Going with my wife and kids to a movie on Christmas afternoon.

Watch A christmas story over and over while hanging out with the family.

Favorite Holiday Tradition: Being in Australia would have to be playing cricket on the beach!

My favorite tradition is chilling at my house on boxing day with my mates, eating leftovers, watching the boxing day test and playing some backyard cricket. It’s my favorite day of the year!

Watching the first two parts of ‘The Godfather’ and leaving the third one for when the holiday season is over.

My favorite tradition is definitely going to the North Carolina mountains for Christmas every year.

Favorite Holiday Tradition?  Walking outside and pretending it snowed in SoCal.

Going to a Christmas Eve. candlelight church service then coming home and opening one (only one) present.

Playing Christmas music while decorating the tree.  So much fun to be home with my parents and siblings!

My favorite holiday tradition is simply watching “The Christmas Tree” over and over. The main character bears an uncanny resemblance to my Brooklyn-born Jewish mother… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTs5eKZ0i1E

Watching “The Snowman” with my family.

Favorite tradition – Driving around randomly on christmas eve drinking hot chocolate, eating a huge peppermint stick to the point is sickening, and listening to christmas music while looking at lights.

My favourite tradition is opening that one present on christmas eve (ALWAYS pyjamas) and being all matched and cozy with the family as we read about the nativity, and then set out cookies for santa!

Sledding on plastic snow shovels. :)

Getting together with family for a delicious meal on Christmas Eve!

Gingerbread baking day : )

Trying to buy as little as possible.

My most favourite Christmas Tradition is to eat the Chinese Fondue and the Day after a Cheese Fondue. That’s Christmas!!!

My favorite Christmas tradition is crafting terrible “gingerbread” houses out of graham crackers with my cousins every year. Someone’s always collapses without fail.

Favorite tradition? Wishing it would snow.

Playing sports with friends on Christmas afternoon

i look forward to our family traditions everything from christmas eve mass at midnight, to my mom’s homemade stuffed shells (we’re italian), to all 30-40 of us that get together just for christmas day.

i have purchased 4 shirts from you and would love to have some more! a gift card sounds so awesome right now. :)

Singing “Ill Be home for Christmas” with my Brother in the reflection of our huge kitchen window. Good times(:

I love eating Bookbinder’s snapper turtle soup with my grandparents on Christmas day!

My favorite holiday tradition is Best Friend’s Day. I invented this holiday so that my Muslim best friend could no longer get out of giving me a gift in December. Yay!

My favorite tradition is stocking up on all the Holiday seasonal tea before the stores stop selling them, and also enjoying the kittens that my grandparents “are letting us babysit” while they are in texas. (pretty sure they aren’t actually ever taking them back. Sneaky, grandparents. very sneaky.) 

My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with homemade ornaments.

My favourite holiday tradition is waiting for Santa bearing milk & cookies! :D

My favorite tradition is no matter what happens my family always finds a way to get back together on Christmas day no matter where we are at.

My favorite holiday tradition is baking butter cookies to bring to our family gatherings on Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

No doubt, watching Christmas Vacation while decorating the tree!

Captain Morgan Cider.

My family likes to watch It’s a Wonderful Life while we decorate the Christmas tree.

Christmas eve with wine, food and the Christmas Story marathon!

My favorite tradition holiday is DIWALI!

My family holiday tradition is pulling pranks on christmas day. as the years have gone by, its getting harder to come up with better pranks but we always pull through

A very old and weird Christmas eve tradition in Germany is to hide a pickle/gherkin (as an ornament of course) deep in the branches of the Christmas Tree. The first adult who finds the pickle traditionally gets good luck for the whole new year. The first child gets an extra gift.

Its not certain where this custom finally came from, but its always an amusement and my favorite tration!

Happy Holidays!

Every year my family gets together and we play board games…we always add a new/crazy game every year!

Favourite tradition was always driving around and looking at different displays with my family. 

My favorite tradition is opening presents at midnight

Eating Christmas Hot pot with friends ;)

We celebrate festivus. I can support a holiday built up around a cheap pole

Beach BBQ with all my cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents, who I only see once a year nowadays.  It’s like being a kid all over again.

My favorite holiday tradition is taking Christmas photos with my roommates for our Christmas cards. We have done it two years in a row and it’s always wonderful to choose and theme and plan out the photoshoot. This year we wore onesies. 

Lessons & Carols at Duke Chapel on Christmas Eve that ends at Midnight.

My favorite tradition is setting up the fake Christmas tree and hanging out with friends and family.

My favorite holiday tradition is dancing with my family in our run-down garage. Even though it was cold and frosty, we still managed to have a good time. 

My favorite tradition is checking out the Christmas lights after we went to Church.

I always love Christmas because this is the time I go home to my family and be together, enjoy good food, and sharing/reminiscing great stories, laughing together.  Being Filipino, and growing up in a very small town, the best holiday tradition is still the simplest-  to be with family and enjoy this one time a year holiday. 

We put no names on the presents. Everyone opens presents randomly then swaps them around the room until each present gets to its intended person. Is fun and everyone is kind of more aware of what everyone else gets.

Getting our mother sloshed after two flutes of cheap champagne so that she could giggly reveal uncomfortable family secrets.

My favorite holiday tradition is givingg gifts to all my loved ones.
I got my girlfriend a ugmonk hoodie this year c:

My favorite holiday tradition is light the Hanukiya in Hanuka :)

My favorite Christmas tradition would be going to our outdoor Christmas Eve service in the amphitheater at church. All the trees are lit up, we sing songs, are reminded of what we are really celebrating. Awesomely wonderful!

Our family go to the church to see Christmas plays.

Definitely decorating the tree.

I celebrate Christmas with my two best friends the day before Christmas Eve – drinking a bowl of red wine and vodka-shots from clementine peel whilst calling each other the weird name Miabou and playing homemade Jeopardy.

My favourite tradition is when all our family get together for Christmas dinner, and then we are all singing and dancing to Mariah Carey’s ‘All I want for Christmas’ all the adults went pretty crazy after dinner, while all the children busying themselves with showing off their presents!  

My favorite tradition? Loads of eggnog & the annual yankee swap amongst my friends with “adult” gifts. Always makes for an interesting evening.

My favorite holiday tradition is making street art for everyone especialy for chrismas, wearing my ugmonk sweet shirt !!

One more thank’s from Marseille (France) for your design !

Seeing the whole family together :)

Going to a new country to celebrate christmas every year :)

My family has a ‘cookie weekend’ every year.  My aunt comes to visit, my sisters and I all come home, and we bake cookies and catch up all weekend.  I might actually enjoy this weekend much more than Christmas itself.

One of my favorite traditions is eating a big Christmas dinner with my whole family – ham, mashed potatoes, homemade mac & cheese, & so much more. We sit around the table & remember stories from past Christmases & get a lot of laughs. :)

Favorite Holiday tradition has become watching trilogy or series of movies with my son.  It started years ago with LOTR and has evolved since then to Blade, Matrix, Die Hard, etc.  Still have to pick this season’s movies but you get the gist. :)

Happy Holidays Jeff to you and yours!

Favorite tradition: Every year, I sit on top of my highly decerated housewith a cup of coffee and take in what a beautiful holiday it is!

For years, my family has held a Christmas Eve fondue. It has been one of my favorite traditions, hands down, but now that I have small children and my brother is married, its getting harder and harder. Looks like it won’t be happening this year!

Favorite holiday tradition: a (weather permitting) game of pond hockey with all the kids I played hockey with in high school

Watching “A Christmas Story” and then replaying scenes by dressing my boys in abnormally large coats and pushing them down in the snow.

We have only one family gathering and it’s to open gifts at midnight. It’s the only time of year I have my entire family with me. We exchanged gifts, hugs and laughs and it’s just a great time. I look forward to it all year.

My mom is a dog person, so she’s got about 40 dog statues of various sizes and materials around the house on display. Every year during the Christmas celebration my Aunt sneaks around the house and turns all the statues around, ass facing forward. We never see her do it, but it always happens. True story!

Play board games after Thanksgiving or Christmas lunch. Not only having fun with my family, but kills lot of time. Then I don’t need to watch those holiday movies year after year…

My favorite holiday tradition is our family’s yearly tradition of putting up and decorating the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Then we all snuggle up on the couches by the fireplace and watch Christmas movies all night. Nothing better than cocoa, marshmallows & Christmas flicks!

My favorite holiday tradition is that my parents give each of us 4 kids an ornament every year so that when we get married and start a family we will have several ornaments to take with us! We have started giving them an ornament as well for them to have when we leave so their tree isn’t empty when they are empty nesters :) 

Hearing the “WOWS” as my boys open their presents. It’s fun for me to watch their enthusiasm.

Favorite Holiday Tradition: Italian children set out their socks for
the female Santa Claus, “la Befana”, to fill with gifts, toys and candies. If the children were good, their shoes would be filled on Christmas morning. If
they were bad, they would find their shoes filled with coal

Breakfast at Cracker Barrel every Christmas Eve!

My Favorite Tradition: Coming from from college and still having to wait to open gifts because I’m up four hours before anyone else. You’re never too old for Christmas! 

My wife and I have a tradition where we stay up until midnight on Christmas Eve (so it’s officially Christmas) and we open the gifts we got for each other.

Every year after opening presents at my Nannie’s house my 2 younger brothers and I would stay up late for the Catholic Midnight Mass downtown. We’re not Catholic but we always found it so interesting and just the fact that we got to “go out on the town” at midnight on Christmas Eve was always a thrill. 

sleeping in new PJ’s christmas night

My favorite tradition is to wake up the morning of Christmas, go in the living room and wait for everyone to open our presents. At that moment you just want to open the box but you have to wait a pretty big dilemna but family first you know ;)

My favorite tradition? The Christmas music by Domingo that’s always flooding the house on Christmas morning.

My favorite holiday tradition is eating Mexican food with my sister late night on Thanksgiving. Our family always eats Thanksgiving around 3pm so we are hungry again around 8 or 9. San Diego mexican food always hits the spot :)

Eating a bunch of food with a bunch of Italians!

Drinking bourbon.

My favorite holiday tradition is entering contests for sweet design stuff by commenting on posts.

Watching Christmas Vacation

Favorite Holiday Tradition: Yankee gift swap and a delicious feast with the family on New Years Eve. Also, being just as excited to look in my stocking at age 19 as I was when I was 7.

Juste to be with my family, eating vietnamese food and tell to my mother and father that they are the most important persons in my life. I never said that excepted when it’s Christmas time

My favorite Christmas tradition is making homemade doughnuts with my family on Christmas morning.  I don’t know how this got started as a tradition, but doughnuts just don’t taste as good any other day!  :)

A FREEZING outdoor treasure hunt set up by “Santa” even for the grown-up children.

Glory glory hallelujah. My favorite tradition is ganging up with my sister to make fun of my dad. Good times :D

Favorite Holiday tradition Thanksgiving dinner & food coma with the family

Our favorite tradition is adopting several “angels” from the Salvation Army Angel Program – children who otherwise would not receive Christmas gifts.  We don Santa hats and head to the mall for the afternoon to buy clothes, shoes and toys for these special children.  We love to think of their faces on Christmas morning.

Spending time with the family and opening gifts infront of the fire Christmas morning!

My mom’s special sausage cheese dip. Hot dang!

My family likes to hide Hannukah presents around the house. When we were kids, we’d look forward to the scavenger hunt for all eight nights. It was a good way to keep a long holiday fresh and exciting :)

Favorite tradition: not doing turkey, but doing roast duck instead. Roast Duck > Turkey

my favorite tradition is going to my Grandma’s on Christmas  day the going to my other Grandma’s the day after

Favorite? Maybe hosting a gingerbread house decorating party each year. Good times.

The whole family sleeping in the living room next to the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve

This year I’m doing something I’ve never done before. On Christmas Eve I’m going to be hanging out with a group of people who load up a big rig with lights, audio, technicians and singers. Get a bunch of other people to choreograph some dancing and then they commence spreading cheer in the North Hollywood area. There one of the few (possibly the only ones) that do caroling at an epic Disney-like level. Websites super old looking but check it out http://www.christmascaroling.org/
I’m not much of a Christmas guy but I love being with the people love and enjoying life with people I’ve never met before. Super excited this year! 

Just hanging out with the family is my favorite.

Favorite Holiday Tradition: Making and baking peppener (small Danish molasses cookies) with the fam.

Favorite holiday tradition: Making gingerbread cookies with my family.

Opening gifts right at the stroke of midnight and then heading to the movies when we wake up after sleeping in :x

My favorite tradition in making new traditions with my new little family! :)

My favorite tradition is my dad filling our stockings with all kinds of random, fun stuff he finds at the discount store. He’s been doing it as long as I can remember and still did it this year even though my sisters and I are almost 30! :)

Definitely decorating the christmas tree and turning on the lights at night.

Going to the beach for a swim on Christmas morning, simple but everytime we do I feel grateful to be lucky enough to live in Australia and close to the beach

i love reading the christmas story from luke chapter 2 with my family christmas morning. Baby Jesus was the best present of all  . 

Favorite tradition: Eating an enormous roasted duck.

A Chic-Fil-A chicken nugget platter with the inlaws, and watching all the christmas classics on tv…you know, like National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Classic.

my favorite christmas tradition: staying up late playing games and then sleeping in.

It might not be the most exciting, but our family watch’s “Christmas Vacation” together every single Christmas Eve no matter what our schedules are like.  Since us kids are all moved out and can’t all get together as often as we’d like, it’s that much more special when we can get together to enjoy catching up on each other’s lives and enjoy the many laughs of the night.

Spending time with my friends and family.

Favorite tradition is a full day of cooking extravaganza and a little football mixed in

One of my favorite holiday traditions is to have family n friends game nite. We play jst about anything from old card games to traditional board games :)

standing by the window, imagining what it would be like to see snow-capped flats in singapore.

I love getting dressed up for church and spending time with my church family. 

My favourite Christmas tradition is hanging out and eating with my family and friends, after going to church on Christmas morning. 

My favorite Christmas tradition is having a homemade family lunch or early dinner.  After lunch/dinner, we all exchange/open Christmas gifts and just hang out, catching up with everyone.  :) 

Oh, and my family has Christmas stockings with all of our names (all of the kids’ names) embroidered on them.  Our Christmas stocking stuffers are usually the same every year — jelly beans, movie tickets, chocolates, more candies, lip gloss or lotion for girls, etc.

The homemade food and spending time with family are both priceless.

My favorite holiday tradition is my mum roasting chestnuts and the family dinner that ensues : )

One of my favorite traditions is watching A Christmas Story ad nauseum! 

My favorite tradition is the food and drinks that my parents do for the night before xmas. They’re delicious!

totally tast minute Christmas shopping–nothing like those goofy  high stress bonding moments with friends!

People are wonderful. Spending time with my family and friends is what I most look forward to over holiday break!

The inappropriate gifts my father buys the old ladies for Christmas. Always wrong but pretty hilarious nonetheless.

We have a glass pickle ornament on our tree.  Dad hides it Christmas morning and the first one to find it gets money.  Always fun to watch the kids looking for it as soon as they come downstairs Christmas morning.

Relient K’s Christmas album “Let It Snow Baby… Let it Reindeer” from Thanksgiving till Christmas!

I usually go for a movie with family, either something Christmassy although I really want to see Mission Impossible this year.

Carving that gammon ham and roast beef with the family samurai sword.

My favourite holiday tradition is decorating with my family! 

Favorite part of the holidays: watching my father sing “holy night” every Christmas Eve.

Sharing Pannettone with hot cocoa with my family! 

Cutting down the Christmas tree and then coming home to eggnog and rum

My favorite Xmas tradition would have to driving up to Santa Barbara to be with my family, to then go and sit in the living room and watch 3 NINJAS with my little bro.  We do it every xmas.  PLEASE pick me for the 100 dollar gift card, I want to get my little bro a shirt and we will make wearing UGmonk on xmas our new tradition.  

Favorite recent holiday tradition; Getting the Christmas Tree at home depot with my boyfriends family :)

Family picture with everyone, that never ends up right, usually because our dog decides to walk out of the picture just as the timer goes. Then when we put him to the side and try it without him, he stumbles back in and stands in front of the camera. Every year.

My favourite tradition: Recreating my late mother’s rum ball recipie for every christmas party I go to.

christmas with my family :)

Watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, Nightmare Before Christmas, and finishing it off with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

Nowadays, its Iphones, Xboxs, Macbooks, Ipads… but when i was a kid… We had to turn off our Gameboys, Put away our Tomogotchi Eggs and Nerf Guns, and sit by the fire with my family and play monopoly.