# Merry Christmas Eve Day Eve **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150 "2017-12-23T18:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/1 "2017-12-23T18:02:01Z")
What are you doing today? I grew up celebrating the 24th as The Holiday, one of my favorite days of the year. whole family comes over, big meal and then PRESENTS. staying up late with The Grownups. šŸ™‚ that means today is some kind of holiday, Iā€™m sure of it. I went to Walmart early and almost everyone was in a good mood, or pretending to be. not crowded when I left at 9. are you out and about or at home? working? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/2 "2017-12-23T18:15:29Z")
Celebrating Festivus, duh. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/3 "2017-12-23T18:42:19Z")
Itā€™s raining on top of yesterdayā€™s snow, so I am safely inside. My father is shoveling but will probably put up his little tree and decorations later. We also open presents on Christmas Eve, before Midnight Mass. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/4 "2017-12-23T18:43:59Z")
Wine tasting with a bunch of friends at some local wineries. Hey, I gotta go so I wonā€™t be late! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/5 "2017-12-23T18:45:15Z")
Working (casually) at home, last minute shopping, and cooking for the Big Day. And catching up on The Dope of course. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/6 "2017-12-23T18:45:51Z")
Iā€™ve always called today Christmas Double Eve. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/7 "2017-12-23T19:20:20Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Celebrating Festivus, duh. so, air your damn grievances, already. :mad: me, I am playing[The Mormon Tabernacle Choir](https://youtu.be/i_YcFLnaR1A). šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/8 "2017-12-23T20:20:31Z")
All day yesterday and into the wee hours of this morning I thought today was 12/24:smack: I am excited to have an extra day; but now I must wait another day to open presents. ā˜¹ I do not exchange gifts with anyone and live alone with no plans so I do not really need to know what day it is. I already know what is in each of the Amazon boxes because I purchased the things to me from me; but still I feel that I must wait to open them until 12/25. When I was a kid we were never allowed to open even one gift on Christmas Eve. Hey anyone else spending the Holiday alone with DIY gifts? ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/9 "2017-12-23T21:32:11Z")
When I was a kid our big day was having all the relatives over on Christmas Eve with dinner at our house and opening presents. Christmas Day we went to church with our food hangovers, then went to my grandmotherā€™s for Christmas Day dinner. It was exhausting. Now we have a nice dinner on Christmas Eve, just a few of us, and open presents Christmas morning after a nice breakfast. Weā€™ve re-focused on relaxing and having fun. We watch Christmas movies together and just hang out looking at the tree. Today Iā€™m venturing to the local drug store for some last-minute candy, and maybe to the grocery store if it isnā€™t too crazy. Other than that, weā€™ll be slowly doing prep for Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas breakfast, wrapping presents, and probably eating too much candy which is why I needed to go to the drug store in the first place. šŸ˜ƒ Iā€™m such a sucker for the Christmas candy! Geesh. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/10 "2017-12-23T21:47:31Z")
> [@Sveltington](#): > > All day yesterday and into the wee hours of this morning I thought today was 12/24:smack: I am excited to have an extra day; but now I must wait another day to open presents. ā˜¹ > I do not exchange gifts with anyone and live alone with no plans so I do not really need to know what day it is. I already know what is in each of the Amazon boxes because I purchased the things to me from me; but still I feel that I must wait to open them until 12/25. When I was a kid we were never allowed to open even one gift on Christmas Eve. > > Hey anyone else spending the Holiday alone with DIY gifts? What a shame to be alone on the holiday. You donā€™t live in NE Kansas, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/11 "2017-12-23T22:00:15Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > What a shame to be alone on the holiday. You donā€™t live in NE Kansas, do you? No, I am in CT. Do many people in NE Kansas celebrate the Holiday alone? Or were you going to invite me over? I would bring my home made cookies although since you are a Baker you probably can do better. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/12 "2017-12-23T23:00:46Z")
ā€œItā€™s the best Eve.ā€ -Chance the Gardener ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/13 "2017-12-24T00:10:25Z")
Just got back from an afternoon of shopping: groceries, extension cords and a few stocking stuffers. Plan on not going anywhere near a store until day after Boxing Day. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/14 "2017-12-24T00:29:31Z")
Not alone, well I kinda am, at the moment. So I am wrapping some junk for the Lilā€™Wrekker. Sheā€™s in town with friends. Mr.Wrekkerā€™s fishing, he will come home in the wee hours. Tomarrow is prep day for Christmas day feasting. My older daughter wonā€™t come home for holidays, they are gone to Florida. We see them New Years. Son -ofaWrek, will be here on Christmas day to eat ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/15 "2017-12-24T00:35:55Z")
We exchanged gifts last night and today, because Iā€™m impatient. We saw the Last Jedi, which was great. He gave me my big Christmas present, which was too amazing for words.\* We went out to eat and I had prime rib, a wedge salad, and some really tasty vodka cranberry thing. Now Iā€™m curled up on the couch with a heating pad, chocolate, and no complaints whatsoever. \*Itā€™s rather involved to explain, but the short version is, he bought me a professional editor/consultant for my novel. Iā€™m still reeling. This looks to be going down as one of those rare, precious, perfect days. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/16 "2017-12-24T00:40:14Z")
nice! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/17 "2017-12-24T01:02:07Z")
> [@JackieLikesVariety](#): > > I grew up celebrating the 24th as The Holiday . . . Thatā€™s how it is in most of Latin American, I think. In Colombia, when people say ā€œNavidad,ā€ they mean the night of the 24th, where you have a big party, with a big meal, lots of friends, and lots of drinking and dancingā€“exchanging gifts is not as big a deal (mostly small token expressions). Christmas day is for sleeping off your hangover (and going to church, if youā€™re devout). At least, thatā€™s how it is on the Caribbean coast. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/18 "2017-12-24T01:35:47Z")
Sweet one, Spice!! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/19 "2017-12-24T03:31:50Z")
I spent the afternoon in Yosemite. Staying outside the park tonight, going back for another visit tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150/20 "2017-12-24T03:34:36Z")
You too, Phoebe. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/merry-christmas-eve-day-eve/805150.md?page=2)