D2's Friday Five, Christmas curiousities

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In honor of jinzi. Alas, poor soul, we hardly knew ye.

[Poll #639114]

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[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Other : "Happy Yule" or "Merry Yule" and "Happy Holidays" for non-pagan peeps


Best presents : I don't exactly remember, I'm always having a hard time remembering what I got for where and when ;)

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have ever heard "Happy Yule" or "Merry Yule" in America. Must be a European thing.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

Yep, tis.

[zarhooie.livejournal.com]

I got plane tickets for $WINTERHOLIDAY this year. ^_^

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

Got Jul is also one used ... it's more Pagan indeed, it's actually from American peeps I heard about it ( as the Pagan movement over there is gaining quite some strength, the main world organisations are based in the US - also some quite dangerous sects, must be an American thing ;) j/k )

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I think Yuletide greetings used to be more common here early in the 20th century. At least my father's family always had plenty of references to "Merry Christmas and a Cool Yule!"

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I clicked "Perhaps Midnight Mass and something else" because you didn't have an option for "The 9:00 candlelight service at the Methodist church." Going to the 11:00 Spanish-language service is also a possibility, though I don't remember enough Spanish to follow along that well. As a person who moves very slowly in the mornings, I'm not so likely to go to church on Sunday morning.

On gift giving, I picked "Buy a gift" largely because I wish I had the money to do so this year.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Polls can't always cover the outliers. ;)

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

One of the best Christmas presents I ever received was shortly after I moved into my own apartment, and I asked for a mop and a bucket. Not only did my mother get me the mop and the bucket, she also got me a duster with a bird's head on it, and wrapped the entire thing up to look like an enormous ostrich.

Not only was it a gift I desperately needed, but it satisfied the "I want the biggest present under the tree" urge, and also looked wildly cool.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a rather memorable gift!

[odclay.livejournal.com]

I clicked "Merry Christmas," but it's really "other." Other refers to "You too!" when people wish me a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays first.

Best gift I've received? Well, I'd say buying myself a trip to Great Britain might work...

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Buying something for yourself isn't considered gift giving, Jacob-chan. Unless your parents gave you the money.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

And not all of them should. But it seems to me that most Protestants do the Christmas Eve service thing, which may be well before midnight and doesn't qualify as a mass.

[odclay.livejournal.com]

They covered half the plane ticket. Ok, so it's not the best gift ever. Hrm...

I got nothing. I mean, when I got the stuff, it was nice. Looking back, though, from my not-so-materialistic-anymore viewpoint, it was just stuff. The trampoline was great, especially because I was only nine or ten. But everything else just loses its appeal after a while.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Baptists do the Sunday morning thing.

Midnight mass, midnight service...it's just different similarities.

[purplkat.livejournal.com]

I'd like to note that while I checked 'Buy a gift' in the last question, I would have preferred an option for 'make a gift'. I made all my christmas presents this year (worked on them all year long), and I have NEVER looked forward to christmas quite so much as this year, not since I was a child, even with the moving, and not getting to do any decorating at all, and Sam not getting done with school 'till the 16th. When I wrapped up my father's present, I kept giggling in anticipation of what he was going to do and say when he saw it.

I'm definately going to be making the 'make everyone's presents' thing a tradition. Even if I can't get EVERYONE, next year or in the years following, I'm going to make most of the presents I give out.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

I am wholly unfamiliar with the idea of making presents, so that's why I didn't even think about it. Duly noted for next time. :)