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i am just about to start my christmas clean( bit like a spring clean but at christmas) i always get the house ready for christmas even tho we go to my mums.. its from when i was little and i had to get my room ready for santa.. I also have a system for washing up and i always do it in the same order..Has any one else got any traditions or habits??stranger the better.. lol

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Not strange or wierd, but I love a nice home cooked roast every Sunday.
Fella hates it n always asks why we have to have it every Sunday, I dunno, we just always did when I was a kid

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dunno if this is in the same context but when i was little my mum used to buy us new pj's to wear on christmas eve and every year since Reece has been born i've done the same with him :D

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shush Ste, dont be telling all the blokes on here that ;)

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I heard that you should keep the loo seat down so your money doesn't go out of the house.....well I don't know about you but I don't throw my purse down the lav. :D

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Blimey, isn't that in the Lakes?

That's a long way to go for a hot chocolate, Willow. :)

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i have this great tradition n habit of eating everything the boss cooks at xmas:D

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Typical answer from a fella:p

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true but i always wash up.:p

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Cant say fairer than that:)

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wow, do men wash up?? i thought that was illegal

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have done it all me life ema, reckon if women cook it, its least i can do,simple as that.

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aaaw, do u wana come live at my house? i will teach you my washing up system... lol

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When we were little we always locked the door on new years eve,,because of the mummers,
Now before you think i am cracking up ,they were mostly young lads with their faces blackened and dressed in womens clothes who just walked into your house with a dustpan and brush ,and they proceded to sweep your hearth etc for money,,they never spoke but they just went mummmmmmm, they scared the hell out of us kids :eek:

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Christmas tradition when i was a kid was fly down the stairs as soon as you woke up and rip open the pressies that santa had left under the tree, then a phone call from ireland on christmas morning from my cousin, play with the games i'd got from santa, then go and get dressed before my sisters and brother arrived, watch the queen (mum always made us watch the queen at 3pm), then fight over where everyone was sitting the only ones who knew where they were sitting was mum & dad everyone else had to fight over sitting on a stool (reaching the table no problem) or sitting on the settee and even then there was arguments on that who was sitting in the middle cos the table leg was in the middle. Then after eating and washing up getting the cards out and playing cards all night until mum had lost all her money and trying to get my brother in laws tin off him!!!

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lmao................i think that would scare me too. probably have a go at them with my rolling pin...

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how times change granny, these days they would probably be muggers.:rofl38::rofl38:

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mug of milk every night.

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When I was little every time I went the loo I looked behond teh curtain. I'd stopped up late one night and watched a starsky and hutch program where this woman was attacked by a bloke who came from behind the batchroom curtain. It was a totally conditioned response rather than a habit as such. I guess its just like my habit of typing 'the' teh.

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i always thought illegal was a sick bird :D:D

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Me and Jack go for a meal with his nan,his dad and a friend of ours called Jennifer at Blackburn Cathedral sometime during xmas.
Christmas eve everyone in the house has take away of their choice for tea-even if everyone wants different eg chinese,maccy d's etc.
We leave a mince pie and sherry out for Santa on xmas eve,
and the biggest tradition that will always last.....christmas centres around Jack!....attention,presents,food...everything...
its all about Jack :)

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Has anybody actually mentioned leaving the carrot/apple for the reindeer, the milk or alcohol and a mince pie for santa? I like doing that, I also write a little letter from santa in the morning for my brother and sister too.

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*shaz COUGHS rather loudly* dont you mean SANTA leaves the letter? HUH? :rolleyes: i think your getting confuddled blazey;) it must be that cold you've got ;)
















yes i know what you mean but this is a family site, kids read it :D

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ok ok, santa writes the letter :p i swear that one year I actually heard bells at some ridiculously early time in the morning, but my mum thought I was just going crazy :p

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had you been drinking? ;)

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I remember sending my requests to Santa by writing notes on little pieces of paper and holding them (carefully) over the fire. They would fly up the chimney and all the way to the North Pole. I never had gifts under the tree; they appeared in a pillow case at the bottom of my bed. I remember that my great aunt Jane would bring a loaf of bread, a piece of coal, and some salt wrapped up in a twist of paper as gifts for the home, along with the box of snot rags that she bought me every year. Never a toy, always hankies! Except that one year it was socks. But these were the days when the lead soldiers were covered in paint with lead in it; and every toy had bits which could choke a kid to death.

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i was about 9yrs old so not likely

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So; Flashy probably started that early:Banane35:

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Used to leave sherry or whisky and a carrot for rudolph the reindeer and a cake or biscuits depended on what mum had in!!!

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I had a habit (not christmassy) whereby I wore my knickers inside out.
I explained this to myself by reasoning that the seams irritated my sensitive skin, and it was more comfortable to wear them that way.(princess and the pea syndrome)
I later learned that it was a sign of a witch (thought I was the only one in the village ;))
So I eventually cracked the habit with the help of seamless underwear

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oh dont you start picking on me too, ive had everyone doing that tonight :( lol

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I NEVER lie :D

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We always ring our little grandson up when we see Santa,s sleigh flying over our house on xmas eve..he always comes from over the sea .:o:o:):cool:

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My mum always bought us new pjs and she doesnt the same for my lad now. When i started going to church at about 8 or 9 they used to do Christmas eve carols by candle light and i always used to go to that until i was about 16 and i was draw to the booze. My mum also used to sing me a song on xmas eve as well as i went to bed. Christmas magic. Love it.