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Do people really sleep on the 24th and open presents the next morning?
- Thread starter Strangelove_77
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Different traditions for different people. Hispanic Christmas Eve dinners all over Latin America and other parts last a long time anyway so by the time we got to exchange presents with family it would be always way past midnight so we'd be doing it on the actual 25th (for example I went to sleep until 4am this year). Santa's gift for kids would always be found under the tree in Christmas morning though because he'd arrive in the middle of the night before dawn while you're asleep.
I've never heard of opening them on Xmas Eve. Scotland, UK.
Always been the 25th. Growing and up and now I have kids of my own. When is Santa meant to deliver the presents, duh.
We do an Xmas Eve box where you get like new PJs, sweets and a movie for the family to watch but that's it.
The 24th is just a normal day. Most people are working. I only had it off as I booked it well in advance.
Always been the 25th. Growing and up and now I have kids of my own. When is Santa meant to deliver the presents, duh.
We do an Xmas Eve box where you get like new PJs, sweets and a movie for the family to watch but that's it.
The 24th is just a normal day. Most people are working. I only had it off as I booked it well in advance.
I am not super hyped to open gifts so anytime is fine. People take Christmas too seriously and are too eager to open gifts.
We wake up at 9am on the 25th, our young ones organize the presents into piles by names, then we open at 9:30 or 10. Then we eat Breakfast and hangout/play.
You parent your kids? You teach them that Presents open at your dedicated time and if they aren't Santa/You takes their presents away, or they are put on the Naughty list for the next year.
They can look at them, they can organize them into piles, they can shake them and guess. But they can't open until the time you set.
You parent your kids? You teach them that Presents open at your dedicated time and if they aren't Santa/You takes their presents away, or they are put on the Naughty list for the next year.
They can look at them, they can organize them into piles, they can shake them and guess. But they can't open until the time you set.
There's not much in the way of Eve celebrations up here, unless you count last-minute scrambling for gifts and dinner items as a tradition. Typically things happen the day of- you wake up, get with the fam/go to church, open gifts, then eat dinner and mingle. It's basically like a second Thanksgiving, but with more capitalism. xP
Dutch here and everyone I ever celebrated Xmas with opens them on the 25th in the morning at the earliest. Often even the 26th since Santa knows what other place you're gonna celebrate Xmas at.
It always made more sense to me to open presents in the morning. That way you have all day to play with your new stuff you just opened (counting adults and kids in that). Not much fun to open your stuff and be like "Cool! So excited to use this! Well off to sleep now!".
I have a question. why are there presents underneath the Christmas tree before Santa?
I've seen that in movies like the Grinch and it confuses me.
I've seen that in movies like the Grinch and it confuses me.
A lot of people just want things. They don't care for the other stuff. There's always a huge rush to open gifts. Like, enjoy the time off, relax, have some food you normally wouldn't have, etc. The gifts should be the least important.
As kids Santa always came the next morning and that's how we've always done it. Opened gifts at 9am this morning
Stayed up till 4am opening gifts this year on the 24th,my girls idea. Had to wake up this morning (christmas) to clean everything up. Not doing that again,going back to opening everything up christmas morning like i always have.
For us it has always been:
Christmas Eve- a Christmas celebration at grandparents house with extended family, food, aunts, uncles, cousins, people playing guitars, card games, etc. Kids open presents from those relatives, and maybe the adults exchange some too.
Christmas morning - kids wake up, run down and open presents from mom and dad and/or Santa. It's for immediate family.
Christmas afternoon/evening- yet another get together, this time it's for the OTHER extended family from the other side.
So as a kid that meant my mom's family on Christmas Eve and my dad's on Christmas Day afternoon/evening ... as an adult it's my family on Christmas Eve, my wife and kids on Christmas morning and my in-laws on Christmas afternoon/evening which is where I am right now.
Christmas Eve- a Christmas celebration at grandparents house with extended family, food, aunts, uncles, cousins, people playing guitars, card games, etc. Kids open presents from those relatives, and maybe the adults exchange some too.
Christmas morning - kids wake up, run down and open presents from mom and dad and/or Santa. It's for immediate family.
Christmas afternoon/evening- yet another get together, this time it's for the OTHER extended family from the other side.
So as a kid that meant my mom's family on Christmas Eve and my dad's on Christmas Day afternoon/evening ... as an adult it's my family on Christmas Eve, my wife and kids on Christmas morning and my in-laws on Christmas afternoon/evening which is where I am right now.
Smaller gifts are from family, but the biggest gift comes from Santa.
I'm pretty sure Santa already went through the houses in the Grinch. The Grinch came after and stole the gifts.
Hispanic. Woke up at crack of dawn to open gifts the 25th then a family gathering at grandmas later that day.
Mexican here, but it varied from time to time when we were kids, if my dad had time to sneak out of eve's dinner to place the presents under the tree then we did it that night, but most of the times we had to wait till morning to open them, now that we're mostly adults we just do the secret santa thing with the extended family on the 24th
I'm in the US. When I was a kid, we'd open some presents in the evening on Christmas Eve, and some in the morning on Christmas Day. Nowadays, we usually do all of it on the evening of Christmas Eve. This year we delayed it a day because my mom wasn't feeling well, though.
As a Mexican we do open up present on midnight and into the early hours of the 25th (2AM) due to the number of people present at the party. If going to sleep early we do it once we wake up.
EDIT: As someone else mentioned there is also a Baby Jesus and nativity scene.
EDIT: As someone else mentioned there is also a Baby Jesus and nativity scene.
It's traditional in the UK to open them Christmas Day morning, but I'm familiar in other parts of the world that Xmas Eve is the more important day. It's not a competition guys, just enjoy yourselves and your loved ones.
My family celebrates Christmas like New Year's Day where most of the festivities are on the Eve. We open presents at midnight, enjoy them until about 3 am and then enjoy the gifts some more on Christmas. We also have a second Thanksgiving style dinner that day.
Whaaat? I'm (half)Mexican and I've never heard of opening them on the eve. Who the heck would let (aka want) their kids up at midnight to open gifts and get all keyed up? The whole Santa thing was always incentive to get your ass in bed and go to sleep. Opening at night seems weird to me, especially if it's not even on the proper day.
We just wait until the dinner desserts are over and then we start opening them. No kids though, only adults.
But even as a kid i don't remember waiting and opening them on the 24th anyway.
But even as a kid i don't remember waiting and opening them on the 24th anyway.
I think in many Latin cultures (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Latin America) the tradition is to open Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve (Nochebuena).
