Hearing about other people’s traditions is often interesting. When my wife and I got married we decided to start a Christmas Eve tradition where we’d pick a country and plan out a dinner consisting of items from it. We’re making sure we’ve got the necessary ingredients for this year’s meal and it brought to mind how comforting and fun family traditions can be.

So what does your family do this time of year (or any time of the year) that you look forward to and helps make the holiday feel like the holiday for you?

  • Dravin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    We always cut down a tree in the forest - the forest manager makes a map of which parts of the public forest they want the firs and spruce thinned out, so it’s like free forest management. After Christmas we put the tree out by our chickens, who enjoy sitting on and under it.

    Man that brings back some memories. While my family grew up with an artificial tree but my Aunt and Uncle always went out and chopped down a spruce for Christmas and it being Alaska there was no shortage to be found. They were the host for the Christmas Eve get together.

    • ChaosCoati@midwest.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yeah lots of people around us cut on their own property. Our land is a recovering tree plantation, however, so we don’t want to cut any of the newer undergrowth yet. Hopefully our kid looks back on the memories of going to the forest fondly