CP day 9 Holiday addition
Day 4,923, 17:36
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by moomoohead
Get to Know each other: Holiday Traditions
Story Time I sold Christmas trees at my ice cream shop side business the last few years. A guy comes up to buy a tree and he buys the ugliest and cheapest tree I was selling, a scotch pine. He had the money to get a better tree. He told me when he was a kid, he grew up poor and his family could only afford cheap ugly trees. He now buys them every year because they were some of his happiest memories. Thought it was a great story. So, what are you families unusual holiday traditions?
Keeping to Christmas tree theme. We have a tradition in my family that we never put up the Christmas trees to Christmas Eve. My kids hated it when they were young, but I could see some of them doing it when they have families of their own. My mom did this when I was growing up, and she got the unusual tradition from her father. My uncle told me my grandfather, started the tradition because he used to knick the trees off tree lots in Brooklyn, on Christmas eve when the lots were closed. Do not know if that is true (My uncle has a lot of colorful stories about my relatives), but it is an interesting way for a tradition to start.
We have a tradition in America, the Easter Bunny brings kids a basket of chocolates on Easter morning, sort of like Santa with presents. In Ireland Relatives and friends give kids large chocolate eggs, no Easter bunny baskets. When my kids were living in Ireland, their Irish cousins wanted to know why the Easter bunny was dropping of baskets at my house and not there’s. Tough one to explain to small kids.
What are your Holiday Traditions in your Family? Please post in the comments.
Moo’s Three Truths and a lie eRepublik version
*I lost a election for CP by the most votes of any looser, and won by the fewest of any winner.
*Twice I talked to two people playing the game that I thought were women, only to find out years later they were men.
*I was elected CP in another small country using another character also named after an animal.
*I was shortly banned twice in mass banning by rouge global administrators.
Post your guess in comments. Good Luck
ANWSER TO YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUESTION.
I have no idea, was hoping someone would take the time to count who has been CP the most, guessing it has been DC.
Story Time I sold Christmas trees at my ice cream shop side business the last few years. A guy comes up to buy a tree and he buys the ugliest and cheapest tree I was selling, a scotch pine. He had the money to get a better tree. He told me when he was a kid, he grew up poor and his family could only afford cheap ugly trees. He now buys them every year because they were some of his happiest memories. Thought it was a great story. So, what are you families unusual holiday traditions?
Keeping to Christmas tree theme. We have a tradition in my family that we never put up the Christmas trees to Christmas Eve. My kids hated it when they were young, but I could see some of them doing it when they have families of their own. My mom did this when I was growing up, and she got the unusual tradition from her father. My uncle told me my grandfather, started the tradition because he used to knick the trees off tree lots in Brooklyn, on Christmas eve when the lots were closed. Do not know if that is true (My uncle has a lot of colorful stories about my relatives), but it is an interesting way for a tradition to start.
We have a tradition in America, the Easter Bunny brings kids a basket of chocolates on Easter morning, sort of like Santa with presents. In Ireland Relatives and friends give kids large chocolate eggs, no Easter bunny baskets. When my kids were living in Ireland, their Irish cousins wanted to know why the Easter bunny was dropping of baskets at my house and not there’s. Tough one to explain to small kids.
What are your Holiday Traditions in your Family? Please post in the comments.
Moo’s Three Truths and a lie eRepublik version
*I lost a election for CP by the most votes of any looser, and won by the fewest of any winner.
*Twice I talked to two people playing the game that I thought were women, only to find out years later they were men.
*I was elected CP in another small country using another character also named after an animal.
*I was shortly banned twice in mass banning by rouge global administrators.
Post your guess in comments. Good Luck
ANWSER TO YESTERDAY TRIVIA QUESTION.
I have no idea, was hoping someone would take the time to count who has been CP the most, guessing it has been DC.
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Your Christmas tree tradition is very interesting because Santa Claus has always brought our Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. I wonder if it's a midwest thing? We kids never questioned how Santa had time to decorate every tree in the world on Christmas Eve, or how he even had room on his sleigh for so many trees.
Our Easter tradition is my maternal grandmother's horrible chocolate covered fruit filled egg. We put them in the refrigerator every year and throw them away before the next Easter. Crazy tradition I know but it makes her happy to give them and we can't deny her that pleasure.
I think it would be easy to talk to women thinking they are men and vice versa, I choose that one.
Christmas gathering, however since my grandpa passed away.. It's a meh tradition, more like tiring ourselves...
anyway, it's not happening anymore this past few years... I can rest at home peacefully~
3rd one is a lie?
No special tradition in my family, holidays are usually just a good reason to see eachother and have lunch or dinner together a couple of times a year.
And about the lie? I´ll go with the 4th one. I like the 3rd so much I want to belive it´s true 😛
There was family gathering on Christmas eve, Christmas tree candle-lightning ceremony, Nutcracker, Chritsmas dinner at candle-light and such things. It is old times, I miss it. When we were very little we were told Jesus Christ made the Christmas tree and he brought the Christmas presents, but very soon we started to help at preparing the tree and give presents to others too.
In Europe Santa Claus brings presents on 6th December morning, in the window in boots that have to be placed there previous evening. Usually these were candies and Santa Claus-formed chocolates, serious presents being at Christmas. At Easter Easter-bunny brought presents mostly coloured or chocolate eggs and other Easter-type candies and chocolates. Like Santa Claus it was also a feast for children, nevertheless I still receive such presents when I go home at Easter.
While my grandmother was alive, every time I've visited her for the holidays, she had a pair of my old shoes and when I've arrived there was always money and chocolate in it "from Mikulás" 😁 Plus for Easter Mondays I always had to sing her the song for locsolkodás (don't even know if there is an English word for that?). I was always complaining like grandma I'm not a child anymore 🙄 But now that she's gone I miss those moments...
actually moomoo i did check lot of the normal contenders. weird thing is that people like orangejuicemm, irishbhoy and sweet drinker were cp 1 or twice. biggest total by 1 account (but i did not look much) was patton at 5 i guess that mufc , don croata etc has been cp more times than that so you can award the price.
as to todays question i would guess 1
as to traditions here we have a chicken leg of lamb and plenty of other foods on christmas and again on the 1st of january to celebrate the new year. we have a day on 24 September which is heritance day. but have now been captured and redubbed braai dag or barbecue day on which day you try to barbecue as much meat and about every meal. that is quite fun. ofc although we also have weber's our barbecue is not smoking more preparing food on a open fire.
Nothing weird or unusual. A lot of salads and plastic christmas tree (earlier, when children were little, we bought natural pine) on New Year. Birthdays are celebrated humbly(maybe this word would fit the best, but I heard negative tone in it) but decently. Without big parties and loud joys, I mean. But with a lot of food, surely.