What is your favorite or unusual holiday tradition?

Hi Mimpi! We too draw little feet with ground rice flour paste [baby Krishna's feet ] on Jenmashtami/Krishna Jayanthi day in September.And the fun part [ apart from complete fasting throughout the day] is that we make murukku, seedai[these are savoury items which no normal toothless child can eat]and also offer butter, curds, guavas, milk kheer, and many more sweets to Lord Krishna[in the name of Krishna we have a feast at home].But apart from joking , this drawing the feet of Lord krishna appeals to me very much.We draw these tiny feet right from the door to the shrine where we keep all the pictures and lamp for Bhagwan.And then we also garland the pictures. The feeling is very sweet and I love this concept that baby Krishna is taking his little steps to each house and is enjoying the sweet and other items we lovingly prepare and bestows His blessings on us.

My favourite holidays are Christmas and new year, and I'm not sure if these traditions are unusual! In my country (Philippines) most of the people will go for 9 days early mass or late evening mass before Christmas, and some of us believed that our wishes will be granted if we completed the nine days mass. On new year's eve or before, we collect 12 kinds of different round-shape fruits for luck and make such loud noise to prevent bad luck from coming, but not all Filipino do this. Merry Christmas dear.

Listening to Christmas Metal Music and listening to H.P. Lovecraft (songs about Chthulu mythos) Winter Solstice music. We go to different relatives homes and we eat a lot of ham!

We don’t have any Christmas traditions that are all that unusual at present although when I was a child growing up in Italy I was brought up to believe that Baby Jesus was the one who left me presents while I was asleep on Christmas Eve. For me it was not Santa, although I was very much aware of he was, but this little baby. The whole thing never made much sense because I could not see how an infant could deliver presents! I’ve not ever heard of that belief anywhere else and in our house nowadays we are quite happy to have Santa drop around!

I don't suppose getting hammered with your family counts? We do most things pretty traditional. We do however eat Holuphchi, which is cabbage rolls, there a ukrainian dish. On easter we pain ceramic eggs. On Christmas we go Christmas caroling on this ferry that goes around this island, it's awesome. I love just driving around and looking at the Christmas lights, there so beautiful.

christmas is not a common festival in our country and so we don't have this kind traditional ways to celebrate . We youngers will go to church for this festival and after it we are going to celebrate with our ways . Truly ,i don't like any festivals .In my opinion i think festival is just on a excuse of gathering together ,if we want to have fun or get toghther we can choose any time which is fit for us not only on festivals. hope you have a nice day

well its a german tradition to hang a pickle on the tree (a glass one, not a real one) so the little kids can find it and get an extra present. we have a felt advent tree with pockets that i put treats and notes in for the whole month of december for our daughters. they really love it!

I guess hanging multicolored lights and having fresh smelling pine branches about would be my favorite part of Christmas. Neighbors here go all out with the lights and decorations on their lawns, so my simple string of lights is pretty low-key by comparison, but it is nice to look out the window and see them twinkling there like rainbow stars in the night.

Chocolate advent calendars, one for each day from December 1st through Christmas, the kids love them.

Hey mimpi! Now that sounds like a really adorable tradition! But, I have carpet by my door so what would I do? We don't really have any tradtions except for our little Christmas Tree that we put up and I haven't even done that yet! I used to put up a big 6 footer, but my cats like to climb so we stopped doing that and it's just too much work for me now. And we can't leave Santa his cookies and milk because my cats would be into that too! So, I guess all the tradtions have gone out the window since Star & Luna have taken the run of the house!lol The are the bosses you know! Whatever they want goes!lol You know how I love my kittys! My bf thinks I'm crazy too!

I don't have too many unusual holiday traditions. I always come for Christmas and enjoy playing music with my family. We usually have a jam session ranging from carols to the latest popular sings. It brings the family together and great joy to all!

here is most favorite tradition festival to most of people is the spring festival and we celebrate it all the country. lots of delicious food and candies prepared for it and people around are so happy and said happy new year here and there. children play a lot of fireworks .

The best of all customs we have is cooking and eating delicacies. We make special feast, sweets and savorites and offer it to god (my mom places the food in our pooja room and leaves it there for a while for the Gods to taste the foods. After half an hour she gets it out of the room and we gobble the sweets. Then we distribute the sweets and savorites to our neighbors and relatives :)

My family never forget to watch a DVD anything to do with Jesus during Christmas. That one tradition a learned from my parents which I want to keep on having. Good to know that whatever busy schedule we have, we can still sit together and watched how Jesus made miracles and bring hope into this world.

We have a similar tradition here with the rangoli, the only thing being it's blended to suit our sentiments from the north modified with the traditions followed by the south. So much so that the outcome soometimes can be quite confusing. Even the christmas traditons are so different here as they get blended to suit the local traditions. The one i miss most, is the Lodhi festival one in which all the members sit around the fire toasting thier potoatoes in the cold and having a good session of fun.

One of my favorite Christmas traditions is sharing Christmas with our Jewish neighbors. When my kids were young, they loved going next door to learn about their traditions. Their girls would come to our house to learn about Christmas. We would go to their house to participate in their big feast and they would come to ours for Christmas dinner. To this day, even though the kids are all grown and have lives of their own, we parents still participate in each others' celebratory dinners. It's really nice to be able to learn about other religions and cultures and how they celebrate this time of year. We know we don't share beliefs but still, we are willing to share and spend those days together as friends.

Hi mimpi nice topic dear.. yes RANGOLI is a part of each and every festival and celebration in south India.. we usually draw colourful rangolis on festivals and also on marraige and pooja's and all.. And also we used to have Rangoli competitions in our schools and colleges every year.. whcich was awesome to see so many colourful rangolis together.. it was held to encourage our traditional art in youth.. I love to draw rangoli though I am not that good at drawing it..