What is christmas like in your country?

>>68244917
Christmas markets and shit.

Not snow, just cold weather :(

>>68244917
Hot

>>68244917
Most major cities have German Christmas markets.

>>68245039
What ? Really?

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>>68245120
Yes. This is what they look like.

>>68244997

>>68244917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfqWoLDtcg

>22nd December
National lottery, official start of Christmas season

>24th December
Dinner with the family. We eat like pigs and then we eat typical Christmas sweets like marzipan, praline and polvorones. We sing Christmas songs together and religious people go to mass at midnight.
> 25th December
Rerun of 24th for lunch.

> 28th December
Our April Fools.

> 31st December
Another epic dinner to celebrate the new year. We eat 12 grapes at midnight, one for each ring of the bell.

>5th January
Parades are held to welcome the 3 wise men.

> 6th January
We get the presents that the three wise men brought the night before.

>>68245441
>>68244917
What do you do in Canada ?

>>68245577
We also eat at those days like animals, but we get our presents at the 24th.

>>68245716

Typically its just a stay-at-home day
>kids wake parents up early
>parents take a while putting their socks on
>kids run down stairs to the tree
>start with christmas stockings with a mandarin orange and a bunch of trinkets and chocolate
>everyone opens gifts and makes a giant pile of wrapping paper
>have a late brunch with waffles and canadian bacon and fruit
>lunch is cold turkey sandwiches from last night's leftovers
>next few hours is spent napping, kids play video games, shoveling driveway, making coffee
>dinner with extended family, usually more turkey and stuffing and potatoes
>play board games like crokinole and scrabble with grandparents
>go to sleep

Every Christmas Eve my family goes to the Christmas Market in chicago and we drink Glühwein

>>68244917
Hottest time of the year, I like it that way t.b.h.

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>>68244917
Comfy as fuck.

t. Midwesterner

>>68244997
Went to Munich for Christmas in 2009, was maximum comfy.

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Nice, we have lots of fireworks

Massive meal with extended family, then midnight mass

lonely because tfw no gf

>>68251632
Does it ever get chilly there?

>>68245027
>Not snow, just cold weather :(
This (for the past few years at least).

>>68252190
B.C.?

>>68252113
Chilly yes but never snow. It has snowed in some parts of the country where is elevated but not here in the capital. Never below 10°C.

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>>68251632
>fireworks at x-mas

24th: Presents and Dinner, usually Bacalhau. Cozy Fireplace and family if possible.
25th: Lunch out with family, usually Leitão or Turkey.

The streets in most towns get decorated with lights, and it gets chilly (for us anyway), so it's a comfy time.

We usually get a tree (plastic or real, depending where you live), and some people gather some moss and build a nativity scene diorama of sorts, which is the more traditional thing here. The firemen at my city usually make a huge one that has characters moving and whatnot.

Pretty neat time, but Christmas proper is just 2 days. Decorations stay until the 6th of January, though, which is when some go out singing carols, wishing everyone else a good year.

>>68252268
Yes. It hasn't really felt like the holidays since the snow stopped falling.

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>>68245120
Sorry I had a nap.

Yeah they are very common here, obviously they are all local employees but all done in the German market style.

I think i'm killing myself this christmas

>>68252602
Things might get better lad, if you kill yourself you'll never find out. Wanker.

>>68244917
many muslims here visit christmas open houses and buy presents and stuff.

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>>68252690
Muslims celebrate Christmas?

>>68252414
Yes it gets really fun. As a kid in 24th of november we waited until midnight, prayed, opened the presents and inmediatly after we lighted a fuckton of fireworks.

https://youtu.be/ghQIH7PP_RI

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Santa lives here at the Baltimore harbor for the Christmas season.

not very exciting

fucking annoying

>>68253010
Because you celebrate literally every single holiday on the face of Earth and have days off after every full moon.

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>>68252992
Also what the fuck is this.

>>68252769
December*

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>>68253052
o-only like 25

>>68244917
it is currently 37 degrees Celsius outside and December just started.

what did st Nickolas mean by this?

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Quiet, cozy and cold

Took this at the Christmas market today :)

>>68253142
I gotta admit, I sorta agree with them

At least in the past the whole "Christmas tree" shenanigan could be interpreted as being European tradition. But now it's not even that anymore, it's just yet another thing which has been completely hijacked by Amerilard consumerism.

>>68244917
>Family dinner
>Shameless commercialism
>Same 4 or 5 songs on radio
Can actually be good when people do it up right, but good god there are Christmas songs other than same handful of shit from the 40s/50s.

>>68246136
I sometimes wish I didn't live in the middle of fucking nowhere.

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>>68245027
Dude, you can't fucking go to Toluca or Zacatecas for a one night stay weekend? We get the best deal out of Christmas as we don't actually have to deal with snow except for the nicer parts of making snowmen and roasting marshmallows in an open fire. Seriously man, everything that's not the southern third of the country has snow nearby.

>>68244917
It's comfy, colorful traditions like posada parties, the Guadalupes-Reyes drinking marathon (from Dec 12 to Jan 6) the best hot chocolate in the world

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>>68244917
Huge dinner with the family, lots of drinking, really good times.
>mfw I'm the only one who isn't hungover the next day

>>68255869
its a couple hour drive for us at least

>>68255896
do you make Tamales?

Break a piñata, eat buñuelos, sing in a karaoke, pass out drunk and wake up early at the next day because every member of my family has business of their own.
I like Dia de Muertos more.

Over eating
Over spending
Family gatherings that end with fights

basically fucking romance couple day
usually everyone eat fried chiken(KFC etc) and Christmas cake.
my family eat sushi and chicken and something every year.
t. even not christian

Winter wonderland. Santa boils and eats the naughty children.

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>>68258451
related

>>68244917
Always fucking hot. Usually my family gathers at my grandparent's house (mum's side) after the usual xmas gift-giving and catching up, once there we just catch up, eat a lot of food, play board games, drink alcohol, usually start with seaford; starting with cold prawns dipped in various sauces, then moving onto other shit like roast pork and home-made icecream, various breads, etc.

Sauna, booze and axe

Beat your wife and children

>>68244917
Usually just go to church and come back for family dinner.
Some relatives and/or friends come over

Also very hot, so heated family arguments as per usual

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>>68244917
Love me some panettone

>>68253409
37 degrees? Do you live next to the damn sun?

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There is a big tradition in my city where the government decorates the river that crosses the whole city for the whole month

>>68244917
It's a bit colder than the rest of the year, sometimes it gets below freezing. Every few years it will snow.
In my city they have a light show and it was alright back when I was a kid and would go every year.

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>>68244917
Cold, dark, snowy, comfy. A proper White Christmas. People go to church for Christmas carols and spend time with family. I pity those who didn't experience real Christmases in their childhoods.

My family is not Christian so I have never celebrated it. It is just as other time, except Christmas Songs becoming a thing for few weeks.

>>68256075
I try not to be a CHI but I really like dia de los muertos stuff

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>>68261943
Jehova witness detected, you are the only people autistic enough to not celebrate Christmas

Decorations and banners all over major cities and shopping malls, and sales everywhere

>>68252733
Many people here including non-Christians celebrate Christmas, just leaving out the religious stuff.

Christmas day is also a public holiday here, so a lot of families tend to go on vacation around that time as well.

why don't australians celebrate christmas?

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>>68262312
Christmas?

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>>68262516
The birth of our Lord?