Holiday Traditions for Better or Worse

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January 02, 2009
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Does your family make you go caroling? Put a lump of coal in your stocking? Go on a Christmas movie binge? Cut down a tree? Go sled-riding during the first snow that lays? All-night dreidel-playing? What are YOUR holiday traditions, the good and bad?

Charades

We used to play charades every year, which was always hilarious because all the old folks like great aunts, uncles and grand parents would play as well. My great aunt Edythe once acted out the word “faint” by dropping to the ground. HARD. We all thought she had died, but she hopped right back up. She was very spry for a 89-year-old lady..

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Playing Bingo

Bingo goes hand-in-hand with growing up Catholic in Pittsburgh, so naturally it has infiltrated Christmas. My extended family is HUGE (see “Catholic” above), so as more and more kids were born, the buying a gift for everyone “tradition” wasn’t economically sustainable.

So NOW, people buy prizes, like gift cards and candy, and we all play bingo for them. It. is. AWESOME.

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Too much "doing," not enough "resting"

Okay, I’m fishing for some bad “traditions,” but I can’t come up with any except that the holidays feel exhausting most years and they shouldn’t. I love Christmas parties, families and holiday events, but sometimes there are too many. Whatever happened to just staying home and playing with your new model cars and Barbies while eating cookies for every meal? I want those days back this year.

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: by elguapo 12/16/2008 Reply

For Worse. Egg nog martinis. Gross.

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aliciak

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I like to: crochet, eat, read, write, go to museums, watch old movies, cook, bake, observe children, visit the library, travel, cut my own hair, explore New York, mix gin drinks, bike ride, take photographs, keep in touch with people, be crafty, swim in the ocean, make bets, and read blogs and ca...