Do you celebrate Christmas at your house and how much?
I was torn on the difference between celebrating a low-key Christmas and not celebrating Christmas. At the very least, I celebrate Christmas by not going to work!
No, I go to my mom’s house.
I’m not Christian, and I don’t live in a Christian-majority country. So no.
That said, I used to love Christmas in Manhattan. All those pretty lights!
Do you mean does our household celebrate Christmas or do we celebrate it here as in this is the gathering place?
Yes, this house celebrates Christmas, but no the big family celebration will be at my niece’s house.
Here, it’s Yule.
I don’t see the difference between “Don’t celebrate” and “Never celebrate”. Either one would be my choice.
There are two different questions in the poll. The first five refer to how often you celebrate (bottom answer being “never”), and the second five refer to the size of the celebrations (bottom answer being “don’t”). I found it a little confusing myself.
I’m a “never” and “don’t” since I am Jewish and grew up in a home where Christmas was never observed in any way.
Yup, every year. Well, I celebrate Yule, the rest of the family celebrates Christmas.
Since I happen to live in a different town from everybody else, we meet at either Middlebro’s house or at Mom’s. In turn, Middlebro and family will be at their house, at Mom’s, or at The Other Grandmother’s.
That’s for “the twelve days”, if you mean Christmas day itself, this year it’s at Mom’s.
We’ve all celebrated Christmas our entire lives although we have a Unitarian Universalist, a secular humanist and an undecided youth in this house.
We celebrate here at home by having a tree, hanging stockings and opening Christmas presents. We also sometimes have the extended family here, though that’s not always on Christmas Day itself. (Yesterday afternoon, the 23rd, we had a gathering for my side of the family at a sibling’s home. On Christmas Day will will go to my in-laws for Christmas dinner.)
Usually we celebrate in our home but occasionally go to a relative’s house.
We do some years, as the kids are sometimes at their other parents. I am resolving now, however, to never do Christmas again. Like many things, the payoff is dwarfed by the pain in the ass of the whole thing.
Yes, every year.
I celebrate my sister’s birthday, which happens to be December 25th.
People think it’s weird when I wish them “Happy [D/a’s sister]'s birthday.”
Yet they continue to with me a Merry Christmas. I’ll never understand it.
-D/a
Every year, but it’s fairly moderate, some might say low key.
I celebrate Christmas every year one way or the other…but it’s been about ten years since it was at my house.
I have no family in the US and no kids. For the past four years, a single, middle-aged family-less friend and I have developed a little tradition of going to see a blockbuster movie, then going out for a swanky dinner.
Two years ago I moved into a fairly tight-knit neighborhood and have developed good friendships with a few people around here - all, like me, single, middle-aged people who for one reason or another don’t do The Big Family Christmas. We’re getting together for breakfast tomorrow morning.
It does feel a little sad not to be able to do the traditional family Christmas any more but them’s the breaks!
Surely the OP didn’t mean literally at your house, but in the sense of “in your family.” We celebrate every year, and it is low key, at least in terms of presents. I never spend more than $500 or so, total.
I celebrate the atheist version. We’ve changed Christams in our family. We have a policy of no gifts for adults, just for the kids. Makes Christmas much more enjoyable. Just food, family, and libations !
Well…the thread title is “Do you celebrate Christmas at your house?”
I took it literally, because I am not a mindreader.
Had the OP been “Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, however you define family” I would have answered differently.
Because “at your house” and “in/with your family” mean different things to me.