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[BayBalou]

We open presents on Christmas eve and then we have a huge dinner on Christmas day.
I get to open my presents in just a couple of hours! Yay!
I'm a bit too old to be this excited, but I can't help it haha.

How do you guys do it?

[Irradium]

Open presents Christmas morning, then have Christmas dinner late in the afternoon, then visit relatives until New Year's Eve. That's pretty much it for me.

[Rainie]

My family does absolutely nothing for Christmas ~
/Only celebrates Chinese holidays like New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc./

..Although my friends/brother/some relatives still give me presents ~~

[Ashlee]

It varies every year. We don't have any set traditions and being engaged means I have two families to consider. This year my immediate family are apart for the first time in 26 years. Mum and I are in Adelaide with dads family, my brothers are back home and Dad is in Singapore on his navy boat. We did presents a week ago and today Mum and I are having a feast with two of my Aunts and cousins.
Should be good but I do miss my Dad and brothers.
Merry Christmas!

[Kat]

We usually have a little Christmas Eve Party with our cousins where we open gifts to/from each other. We'll usually eat a big dinner first then open presents. Then we'll watch Christmas Vacation, it's our awesomely hillbilly family tradition. For some reason it gets funnier every year.
Then on Christmas morning I'll have a huge glass of eggnog, and we just a open a few gifts to/from each other in our household.Then leftovers for lunch, then rush off to mess with whatever presents I got xD This year I think it's just computer parts so I'll be sitting around impatiently for my dad to replace the parts! /derp
I'm wondering if I should visit my half-brother for Christmas? D: I want to get him something but I haven't though of what.. don't know if he's getting me anything. Aaand I really don't want to go over to his house and see my mum.. Naaah I'll pass

[ShinaDutchAD]

Open presents and eat a nice breakfast at my house here.

Then the fam packs up and heads out to my grandmother's house for the family get together.

Then I come home and play with all my spoils

[Elindoril]

Extended family dinner on Christmas Eve (Probably only still doing this because our 98 year old Grandmother is still around), then the immediate family goes back home and we do our own thing on Christmas Day.

The best part is listening to my younger siblings complain on their amount of loot they get, silly materialistic kids.

[Pilot]

The christmas tree in our home stays in place until February because no one bothers to take it down.

[Elindoril]

The christmas tree in our home stays in place until February because no one bothers to take it down.

I remember going to a friends house one year in May or June and their tree was still up.

Was wondering if they were going to bother taking it down or just go the full run.

[Silentqueen]

Christmas dinner on the 24th, and we get to open 1 present, then 25th we have a big breakfast and open the rest of the presents, and visit relatives 26th, 27th. (I'm not at home this year nor have been the last 3 years,we moved to a different country so it's kinda just my husband, my in laws and friends.)

[Turnip]

Depends on where I'm living and which relatives live nearby :V But mostly Mom and I just open our present(s) and cards then do nothing else for the rest of the day, maybe a nice Christmas dinner if we have all the ingredients/have enough $$$ to eat out x3

[Ali]

Go out with friends on Christmas Eve night, stay out until Christmas, go home and open one present. Open everything else in the morning, Boy cooks, have a very peaceful day. Then we go to my brother's for Boxing Day and go out with his wife and children, stay there and head back to London on the 27th or the 28th.

[Silentqueen]

Reading all the posts, so it's pretty much the same for everyone. Presents, food, relatives, and more food.
No one has mentioned anything extra peculiar like jumping over a bonfire, or sacrificing a green parrot.
I know in some European countries like in Hungary or Austria they open all the gifts on Christmas Eve.