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Other Topics => Polls => Topic started by: JazzyManda on December 21, 2004, 01:09:41 pm
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i don't. i don't get why people do, but oh well
so do you?
Amanda
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i already have all of my presents o.O
well, except for one--that's from a friend, though.
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My brother and I open gifts from my parents on Christmas Day (and we give them theirs that day too), but we open gifts from other family that comes over on Christmas Eve.
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My parents let me and my sister open one gift on Christmas Eve.
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I do not want any presents. I do not like Christmas. Therefore I will not be opening any presents at all :razz:
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Well yes and no...
We go to my dad's side of the family on Christmas Eve and we have the exchange thing, on Thanksgiving we each put our names in and pick one, somewhat similar to a secret santa. But people know who have each other. So we open those gifts, gifts from god parents, and gifts from grandparents. And on Christmas day we wake up bright and early to open our gifts, load the car, drive to my mom's side of the family and open gifts over there.
so yes and no...
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I'm usually up until 2 or 3 so it's technically Christmas day already but what difference does a couple of hours make. Especially after you've outgrown the whole Santa Claus thing.
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I'm usually up until 2 or 3 so it's technically Christmas day already but what difference does a couple of hours make. Especially after you've outgrown the whole Santa Claus thing.
What are you talking about? You mean...there is no Santa Claus?!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
:razz:
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I don't win gifts... I ask money because I do what I want and I win the money before Christmas Day/Eve.. I've already won my money
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everything is opened on christmas day. I dont get why ppl open stuff on christmas eve either :?
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We open ALL of the gifts on Xmas day. It usually goes like this:
7:00 - 7:30 - I wake up and open my presents at home and go back to sleep
11:00 - 12:00 - i go to my grandparents house (mom's side) and open my gifts
12:00 -2:00 - call my friends
2:00 till 1:00 am - ppl come to my house and we open presents, get drunk, eat alot, gossip, and so much more. Next day i usually get on a plane to visit my dad.
I prefer to open them on xmas day cus its more fun!!!! and my cusins still are in the Santa Claus stage.
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My brother and I exchange presents, that's it.
Why? Because when we were little, we were always so excited and couldn't wait, so our parents let us exchange presents.
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On christmas eve because that is tradition in my country.
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Christmas Eve most of the time.
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I've always opened some presents on Christmas Eve, and I can explain why. I have a bunch of dispersed branches in my family (and that's branches with a lowercase "b"), and as such there are usually at least three or four different dinner-and-exchange events to attend. When I was little, my dad's family always met the Sunday before Christmas, so anything my grandparents, aunts, or uncles got me from that side was opened that day. My mother's family always had dinner on Christmas Eve night, and we opened up our gifts from each other there. Santa Claus gifts usually appeared at the grandkids' houses while we were there at Granny's, and they were usually opened either really late at night (like after midnight because we stayed at Granny's really late some years) or the next morning. When I was little, my mother's grandmother and her family had a Christmas dinner on Christmas afternoon, and we always went out there until she went into a nursing home. Now I rarely see any of my father's or great-grandmother's family anymore.
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i don't. i don't get why people do, but oh well
so do you?
Amanda
i do... its because in some other countries, (my parents are from uruguay & colombia) and they celebrate christmas eve (its called noche buena) as the night that the 3 kings traveled to see the birth of jesus.. and instead of santa claus they tell their kids that the 3 kings are going to come and leave them presents... so instead of leaving cookies and things out for santa claus they leave food out for the "camels" that the 3 kings come...
thats the fable. heh
so yes, that is why we celebrate on christmas eve.
also.. because latin peope give any excuse to party.
in colombia we also have novenas and we have a party every day for 9 days before christmas at alternating friedn's and family's houses.
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Both of the big family gatherings for me are on Christmas Eve so that everyone could have their own thing on Christmas Day. But, since my mom died when I was three and it's just me and my dad, we figured we mind as well just exchange gifts on Christmas Eve too.
The only thing I got on Christmas Day was from my girlfriend. Otherwise, I do everyting on Christmas Eve.
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I am aloud to open one present on Christmas Eve
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Here in Guatemala is traditional to open them on Christmas Eve, you don't have to wait until the next morning.
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I open all the presents form my aunts and uncles on new years eve. I always tell myself that ill wait till christmas day to open the gifts from my parents....but i always end up opening all or sum of them.lol
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we open presents on christmas eve. (tradition...)