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Michael Kwan · 1 year ago

It's all about the egg nog and $100 will buy a lot of egg nog!

Lorra · 1 year ago

I'm already a subscriber. That is how I found out about this opportunity so quickly!


A friend of mine makes a circular loaf of Christmas bread for each of her friends every December. She delivers these in frozen form in the weeks before Christmas and asks all of us to eat ours as part of our breakfast on Christmas morning. I enjoy this rather unique tradition.

Lorra · 1 year ago

I'm already a subscriber. That is how I found out about this opportunity so quickly!


A friend of mine makes a circular loaf of Christmas bread for each of her friends every December. She delivers these in frozen form in the weeks before Christmas and asks all of us to eat ours as part of our breakfast on Christmas morning. I enjoy this rather unique tradition.

Malaika · 1 year ago

I´m already subscribed and my favorite Holiday tradition has got to be singing carols around the tree with the whole family. It began in my childhood and we´ve continued it now with my children. I hope they don´t outgrow this or think it´s too corny in the years to come, I love it!

Debra Oliver · 1 year ago

Favorite holiday tradition is to open one present on Christmas eve and open the rest on Christmas morning. It is a remembrance of the days of Santa.


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Alex · 1 year ago

I love putting up festive decorations around the house. It can be as simple (and cheap) as stringing up old Christmas cards or making your own ornaments.

tojosan · 1 year ago

I'm signed up, tojosan-at-gmail.com.
Favorite holiday tradition is the opening of Santa gifts. We always make sure everyone, no matter what age, gets at least one Santa gift. Preserves the tradition.

@eileen53 (AprilleE) · 1 year ago

My family has a lot of little traditions we love.
Mom's homemade eggnog in Dad's mustache.

Making bread on Christmas eve, the smell filling the house.

Lasagna on Christmas day.

And a box for bowling shoes from the 70s that has held our tree's angel topper for years and years - and is given to someone each year.

kash78 · 1 year ago

Homemade decoration, spicy foods & get together with relatives & friends. Its all about our holiday tradition!

carogonza · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is making Christmas tamales with my family. Oh so delicious!

Leigh · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating with a traditional Polish feast! (Minus the pickled pig's feet and creamed herring...yuck.)

ChazFrench · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is quickly becoming my Thanksgiving escape to Mexico to tan and de-stress. For Xmas my sister and I bake cookies on Xmas Eve while doing shots of good tequila.

Dana · 1 year ago

We have regular American Christmas, but then everyone in my mother's family travels to PA 1st weekend in January to celebrate Orthodox Christmas. When my grandfather was alive it was huge gathering of family and friends with a pig roasting on a spit, live music (my grandparents & their Serbo-Croatian club band) and Serbian dancing. Now it's just family gathering 1x/year with cabbage rolls, pierogis, etc - putting a gift for each child on the hay under the table. It's the one time we can all be together & a way to pass on traditions to the next generations.

Anita B · 1 year ago

My bday is Christmas and my family used to wrap all the gifts on Christmas Eve, straight into the morning. When midnight rolled around, everyone would stop and sing me Happy Birthday.

Merlene · 1 year ago

Great stuff everyone.
I'm going to be writing a post about holiday traditions on Sunday. Old traditions, new traditions, and even blending traditions with those of others :)

Money Matters · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is getting up on christmas morning, gathering around the tree and reading the Christmas story. Ah...


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Merlene · 1 year ago

Anita I love this!
My Girlchild's birthday is the 27th and my youngest niece is the 26th. It's tough having a birthday so close to the "big day". It's great when I hear about people make an effort to make the birthday and the holiday both special :)

Jill Jones · 1 year ago

My favorite tradition is breakfast on Christmas morning, after we have opened our stockings we tuck into cinnamon pull apart bread, scrambled eggs and bacon.

Kimberlee · 1 year ago

Great giveaway! Our family tradition is baking chocolate chip cookies every year. Fresh baked melting cookies are oh-so-good!

Maritzia · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is going to look at the lights. My husband and I will load the dogs in the car and drive around for hours, from neighborhood to neighborhood, looking at the lights. It's a holdover from my childhood and I just love it.


(I'm subscribed to your newletter as Jodith, btw. Maritzia is my Disqus nam)

Megan S. · 1 year ago

I'm already subscribed to the newsletter! My favorite tradition is the Christmas movie marathom my hubby and I take on. We have tons on DVD and I DVR a lot of the TV movies and we watch at least one a day!

Brandy · 1 year ago

Our favorite tradition is sleeping over at grandmas so that we wake up to "ho ho ho merry christmas" from grandpa santa

Chezchani · 1 year ago

Favourite holiday tradition? Latkes!!!!

cheran salvaggio · 1 year ago

my favorite tradition is all the family gets together at moms on christmas eve and we the best dinner then exchange gifts. this also helps the kids sleep and everyone goes home and spends christmas morning att there own homes. when everyone is done christmas morning we go visiting the extended family.

Maya · 1 year ago

My mom and I make gingerbread people of all of our family and friends - and write their names with icing. We even get really creative and add personal characteristics like hair texture and length. When I was in college she sent one for all of my roommates and our cat :)

Forest Royse · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is exchanging and opening one present on Xmas eve in anticipation of the big day. Also, I make a few dozen pizzelle cookies and give them as gifts. Yum!

Jen Beggs · 1 year ago

I'm already a subscriber! My favorite family tradition is having big Christmas stockings stuffed full of goodies. I also love going to cut down a fresh Christmas tree in the snowy woods.

Kara Christopher · 1 year ago

It's not Christmas without the family get together on Christmas Eve, complete with "dirty Santa" gift exchange. :)

Penelope Pince · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is watching a new movie (or movies) that we buy on DVD with my sister. We live in an isolated area thousands of miles from friends and family so Christmas is just the 2 of us. We love watching movies, which is one of our main hobbies, and always have a movie party on Christmas. Last year we got the Horatio Hornblower collection f 8 movies and watched them starting Christmas Eve. We love those movies so much we're going to watch them again this Christmas. (The year before last we watched the extended version of the Chronicles of Narnia.)

Spinny · 1 year ago

My favorite Christmas tradition when I was growing up was Swedish pancakes for breakfast on Christmas morning. Crepes smothered with Lingonberries and dusted with powdered sugar. Yum.


As an adult, my favorite tradition is wrapping all of my presents while watching The Princess Bride.

Mandy · 1 year ago

My mother hosts a huge Christmas Eve breakfast for both sides of our family. She's been doing it for over 30 years now and I always look forward to it.

Stacey Verguldi · 1 year ago

We make a birthday cake(or cupcakes) for Jesus and sing happy birthday.

Chris · 1 year ago

I am already registered! We open one gift on Christmas eve over cocoa and marshmallows - which is usually new pjs to sleep in and wake up for Christmas morning presents and pictures.

Sharla · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is singing Christmas songs with family. I love this time of year!! Oh, and I'm an email subscriber. Thanks!

Tina · 1 year ago

For our tradition, we have a memory box that is passed throught the family. It is just a box that each person is to add something every year that explaines what means the most to them and how they have shown it throught the year. Then it is gifted to another person in our family. Some things are written in poems, some are love letters, some are just memories of important things that happened to them throughout the year. Every year it is great to here and see people's response and remember what was most important to them last year or many years past.
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crystal adkins · 1 year ago

I am a subscriber.
My fav. tradition is making cookies and candy with my mother in law while we have to "taste test" each batch :)

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MRS.MOMMYY · 1 year ago

first thing we have on Christmas morning before presents is a birthday cake for Jesus

Loretta Kingston · 1 year ago

We usually go over to a friends house for drinks and a small celebration on Christmas Eve, then spend Christmas Day at home opening presents and enjoying the day!

Chris Redding · 1 year ago

After we open presents, I make pancakes for breakfast. I don't make them often so it is a treat for my kids.

Karo · 1 year ago

My favorite tradition is the cooking w/ the kids and grandma before Christmas. 3 generations telling stories and sharing.
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jkheyen · 1 year ago

I just became a subscriber and I am anxious to read what you have to say! :) One of our holiday traditions is to make cinnamon rolls after we open presents and sit down (who am I kidding the kids do not sit down and eat after they open presents) and enjoy our cinnamon rolls and our gifts. I have done this since I was young and now I do it with both of my kids.

Caryn Bailey · 1 year ago

We love setting up the tree together, decorating, and drinking eggnog with holiday music blaring in the background! On Christmas Day...we go to the movies after we open gifts and before dinner


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lace · 1 year ago

I've subscribed.


My favorite tradition is opening stockings as soon as we get up.

Jean D. · 1 year ago

On Christmas Eve, we set out water for Santa's reindeer, and for Santa, we set out cookies and milk. Making the cookies and eating most of them first? That's a tradition we keep. I've helped make cookies since I was four or five years old.

tammigirl · 1 year ago

My favorite part of the holiday is the times when we are all together. It's simple and wonderful. We are four generations strong, ranging in age from 82 to 2. (with two pending births)

Michelle · 1 year ago

Our family always plays the "Mrs. Wright" game on Christmas day. Everyone buys a gag gift and wraps it. We all sit in a big circle and my dad reads the "Mrs. Wright" story; every time the words "right" and "left" are said in the story, we all pass our gifts left or right. When the story is over, whatever prize is in your lap is yours to open.

Megan · 1 year ago

I just subscribed! My son is adopted from Guatemala so on Christmas Eve we celebrate with tradintional Guatemalan food. It is a wonderful time to celebrate our unique family. We are also adopting from Colombia so I am beginning to research Christmas traditions in Colombia to incorporate into our celebration!

Julie Neff · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is to go to a movie as a family on Christmas after opening gifts!

patti huber · 1 year ago

my money saving tip is limiting gifts to three per person: one physical ( a needed gift), one spiritual( one that draws you closer to God), and one emotional (one that would be greatly enjoyed).

patti huber · 1 year ago

my favorite holiday tradition is looking at christmas lights on christmas even with my family. listening to christmas music, eating cookies, and looking at lights is always fun

zmama · 1 year ago

We love getting all the family together for a yummy meal and opening presents together! Its really nice when everyone can be in one place!

Bonny S. · 1 year ago

I subscribed. My favorite holiday tradition is a bunch of us girls get together and do the holiday baking. Making all that candy, cookies and other goodies we just have a blast.

Sara Hagar · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is having quiche for breakfast every Christmas morning.

Kristy · 1 year ago

I have subscribed. My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree and the house while listening to our favorite Christmas songs. We also have "Santa Puppy" visit on Christmas morning for our dog. My daughter loves it.

scramble · 1 year ago

Our Christmas family tradition started about 13 years ago . In the beginning it was just me , my husband, my daughter and maybe a couple of my husbands kids . Now it includes just about everyone we know . People all go eat wherever ,but at 2pm on Christmas day they all converse on my daughter's( has the biggest house) . We play a gift game called white elephant< poor man's swap meet, or just " the game" as it is called by us. Several small gifts (1 to 2 dollars) are wrapped and placed in a pile . Then the youngest picks a gift and from then on nothing is safe as the gifts are taken and retaken . the majority of them are gag. (toliet brush , etc), but in the mess are gifts that everyone wants (this encourages the friendly fighting over gifts). The children too young to play ( will cry if gets gift taken ,) are allowed to open a small gift chosen just for them and they get to go play or watch a movie. The rest of us go 2 rounds of gift swapping . Lots of laughter and great memories bring everyone back each year. Every Oct . I will be ask by every one , " we are playing the game this year? " My answer is yes , same time ,s ame place. Last year there were 33 people playing , not bad for a game that started with 5 or 6.

marla · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday traditon is Christmas breakfast at my grandmother's house -- fried country ham, biscuits, sausage casserole!!


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Karen W · 1 year ago

My favorite Holiday Tradition is putting up the Christmas Tree. It's always so much fun going through all our ornaments we've collected over the years.

Marlana · 1 year ago

I can't decide between my favorite traditions, so I've narrowed it down to two. I hope that's okay. ;)


I love dressing my kiddos up in their new Christmas pajamas at my parent's Christmas on Christmas Eve. They are ready for Santa's visit the next morning and make the cutest pictures. Plus, we don't have to worry about waking them up to dress them when we get home. They ride home in their jammies.



My second favorite tradition is baking something new to take to our neighbors. I've done this for 12 years. We live in a rural area and don't have many neighbors, but it's just another way to reconnect and share some holiday love.

Colleen · 1 year ago

We walk by candlelight through our house, where I hang many pictures of Christ's life. We talk about the meaning of Christmas with our kids.

Amiee Lindstrom · 1 year ago

I am subscribed to your newsletter!! Thanks for the chance to win

Amiee Lindstrom · 1 year ago

My parents always let my brother and me open 1 present on CHRISTmas eve. Of course they always picked the present and it was always new pajamas!! So my brother and I both carried on that tradition, we also let our kids open 1 present on CHRISTmas eve and its you guessed it PJ'S!! My kids love it...
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Celia · 1 year ago

My favorite tradition is the trip to select a tree. It reminds me so much of my childhood when we had our own woods to cut a tree from. We would pick a tree weeks in advance and cut any brush from around it and mark the tree with a ribbon to make it easy to find again. Then the week before Christmas, all the children and my father would hook a small trailer to the tractor and go cut the tree and bring it back to the house. Now, of course, we go to a tree farm. Not quite the same but still fun to drive around and select your own tree and cut it down. :-)

Sarah · 1 year ago

My favorite tradition is reenacting the nativity on Christmas Eve.

Jamie · 1 year ago

I LOVE making ornaments with my son. Our favorite are the cinnamon dough ornaments...they make the house smell so good!!

Angel · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my kiddos. I love to see all the hand made ornaments from years past. It's such a wonderful night of memories. I get to remember when my daughter was 3, 5, 8, etc. My son will start making ornaments with us next year, he's 1.

Jennifer · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition is going to look at Christmas lights. Especially now, my 3 year gets so excited about it!

Sarah McGiven · 1 year ago

I subscribed. A few years ago my parents decided that instead of having their kids buy them gifts they wanted us to spend the money doing service for someone else and then on Christmas give them a letter and pictures explaining what we did. This has been a wonderful tradition for our family and helps us keep the true meaning of Christmas in our hearts. We now have a book with all the things we have done over the years. It is so fun to look through and I can't wait to add to it this year.

kathy · 1 year ago

I love making chex mix in the oven and then adding red and green m and m's. we do this every year.

wanda · 1 year ago

We always make Monkey Bread on Christmas morning....this is our thing.
We love that stuff...and gather around it at the table and pig out!

See this post from summer....we just could'nt wait. :)



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Lindley · 1 year ago

Can't wait for the newsletter- thanks so much! I am really enjoying reading everybody's tips and ricks to saving money. My favorite holiday tradition is our cookie decorating contest we have every year with all the kids!

Debbie · 1 year ago

I just subscribed! My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my daughters and granddaughter, and after it's all done, we package it all up and then go and deliver it to neighbors and friends. This is something that my mother used to do as well, so I use alot of her recipes.

Laurie Lozier · 1 year ago

I'm signed up! Our favorite tradition is packing up and going to our sister-in-law's house each year for Christmas.

Stefanie · 1 year ago

My favorite holiday tradition as a child was listening to our Charlie Brown Christmas record which had a book with the entire story to read along with.

Jennifer · 1 year ago

Isubscribed!


This was the first year, but my children decided to start their own tradition. They each picked out one present that they want, and then they donated it to charity. They are starting to question Santa and why there are children that dont get anything. This is teaching them from a young age,the joy of giving, not to be selfish, and to appreciate what they do have.

Shay S. · 1 year ago

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is pulling out all the decorations and putting ornaments on the tree. This is usually the first thing we do to start anticipating Christmas. We blast music through the house, dance around, and reminisce about all the different ornaments and decorations and where we got each one. Each year we go out and pick out a new ornament and do a fun activity like ice skating, sledding, go look at lights, et cetera, so the memories of these little trinkets are endless!

Dana · 1 year ago

OUr favorite tradition is putting the tree up, we make a huge ta-da over it the kids get all excited and they know once that tree goes up Santa will be coming soon. I just love to see the look in my kids eyes when we turn the lights off and the tree is all lit up, it warms my soul.

Dana · 1 year ago

I subscribed!

Deanna Petty · 1 year ago

A few years ago, instead of having a traditional Christmas dinner at my grandparents, we started having soup and hotdogs with homemade coney sauce. Odd combination, but I look forward to it.

June · 1 year ago

I host a Christmas Eve pajama dinner party each year. After dinner, I make everyone a cup of hot chocolate with a stick of peppermint and some of my homemade marshmallows. We take our drinks, load into cars, and drive around to look at everyone's Christmas decorations. Afterwards, all kids are ready to be tucked into bed and the grown-ups can do their Santa thing before falling into exhausted slumber themselves. The pajamas make it all cozy and casual.

CJ · 1 year ago

I love to hear and sing the Christmas songs. Going to church and being with family.

Momma · 1 year ago

Our favorite holiday tradition is being with friends and family! And never forgetting the reason for the season!


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Tia · 12 months ago

My favorite part of the holiday is spending time with my family on Christmas morning.

angie · 12 months ago

We take the kids to cut down our tree and always make cookies for santa on christmas eve.

Connie · 11 months ago

Bundling up in a warm car to drive and look at Christmas lights. While driving, listen to Christmas music...singing along...until at least 2 of the 3 kiddos fall asleep. Take them home and carry them in to their warm beds.