Traditions?

[*Emsie*]

I was wondering if anyone had traditions/routines that they did at special occasions say when its a birthday, anniversary etc or other times I suppose.
I often hear of other peoples but don't feel like we actually have any ourselves and do things differently/with the flow each time. I always like the sound of other peoples though.

 

[Jenna88]

Not a birthday or anniversary but We have a few Christmas traditions..
Ok the first one doesn't actually happen now but it did happen for 14 years of my life until my granny and granda passed away. We were very close to them and my mum, younger sister and I lived across the road from them until they passed which is why some people find this a strange tradition.

One week before Christmas we would move into their house and stay there until after new year. We literally never went home in that time even though our house was directly opposite there's. I loved it and it made Christmas seem a whole lot longer. My uncle and his wife and my cousin used to move in a few days before Christmas too and also stayed until after new year. It was only a three bedroom house with 8 people crammed in but I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

The second tradition still happens. My step grandmother has 5 kids, 10 grand kids and 2 great grand kids. On Christmas morning everyone listed and their husbands/wives heads to her house for 10.30 am. This is the really cheesy bit...either my step dad or uncle (they take it year about) will dress up as Santa, ring a bell and enter the living room. They're then sat on a chair and my gran then passes them a Santa sack for each person. 'Santa' calls out the individuals name and they have to come and sit on santas knee to receive their gift...it doesn't matter if you're 4 or 65 ...you have to sit on santas knee! It sounds sooo cheesy but it's something we've always done and we all love it!

 

[donna88]

Not a birthday or anniversary but We have a few Christmas traditions..
Ok the first one doesn't actually happen now but it did happen for 14 years of my life until my granny and granda passed away. We were very close to them and my mum, younger sister and I lived across the road from them until they passed which is why some people find this a strange tradition.

One week before Christmas we would move into their house and stay their until after new year. We literally never went home in that time even though our house was directly opposite there's. I loved it and it made Christmas seem a whole lot longer. My uncle and his wife and my cousin used to move in a few days before Christmas too and also stayed until after new year. It was only a three bedroom house with 8 people crammed in but I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

The second tradition still happens. My step grandmother has 5 kids, 10 grand kids and 2 great grand kids. On Christmas morning everyone listed and their husbands/wives heads to her house for 10.30 am. This is the really cheesy bit...either my step dad or uncle (they take it year about) will dress up as Santa, ring a bell and enter the living room. They're then sat on a chair and my gran then passes them a Santa sack for each person. 'Santa' calls out the individuals name and they have to come and sit on santas knee to receive their gift...it doesn't matter if you're 4 or 65 ...you have to sit on santas knee! It sounds sooo cheesy but it's something we've always done and we all love it!

Both your Christmas traditions sound lovely to be honest



We don't really have any for Birthdays or anniversary's either, would be nice to start some though. We don't do anything for our anniversary...but that's more because we're not married yet and we can't decide on what our anniversary would be, the day we met? our first date? ect. But we both think wedding anniversary's are more important anyway so we'll do something then. Might be nice to start a little tradition.

Birthdays we just go with the flow and do whatever takes our fancy.

Christmas we change where we go each year, but we always play a game, apparently its a tradition in Norway (or somewhere else I could be completely wrong my auntie started it and she has been to so many different countries and has friends everywhere) but we all bring a few wrapped presents, just cheap things, but some of them are nice little things and some are joke things. we put them in the middle and set a time limit, usually an hour or two (sounds like a long time but it flies by when your doing it) we then take it in turns to roll the dice, when you get a 6 you get to pick a present from the middle (not knowing what other people have brought) when all the presents are gone from the middle you can steal from someone else when you get a 6 (this is the fun part) it sounds really silly and I suppose it is lol, but its a really fun game and people get really possessive over certain presents and fight over them. After the time is up you keep what you have and everyone opens them. It's always really fun to see what people have been fighting over. One year my brother and auntie were fighting over a book, when my brother finally won it, he opened it and found it was the art of seduction!

 

[MadameLaMinx]

Christmas we change where we go each year, but we always play a game, apparently its a tradition in Norway (or somewhere else I could be completely wrong my auntie started it and she has been to so many different countries and has friends everywhere) but we all bring a few wrapped presents, just cheap things, but some of them are nice little things and some are joke things. we put them in the middle and set a time limit, usually an hour or two (sounds like a long time but it flies by when your doing it) we then take it in turns to roll the dice, when you get a 6 you get to pick a present from the middle (not knowing what other people have brought) when all the presents are gone from the middle you can steal from someone else when you get a 6 (this is the fun part) it sounds really silly and I suppose it is lol, but its a really fun game and people get really possessive over certain presents and fight over them. After the time is up you keep what you have and everyone opens them. It's always really fun to see what people have been fighting over. One year my brother and auntie were fighting over a book, when my brother finally won it, he opened it and found it was the art of seduction!

That sounds brilliant!!!! We have a similar sort of thing at my mother-in-laws, except she always does a "Pass The Parcel" and there's a pile of presents in the middle that she provides and when the parcel stops on you, you get a present from the pile, but you can't tell what it is - and there is often sulks when someone gets something really cool. It always bothers us a little bit because she spends a lot of money on this (There are 10 of us apart from her - 4 adults and 6 grandkids) so something like this, where we all bring something and play that game - would be a good way to still have that sort of fun but without her going to all the expense!