Real People Tell Us Their Weird Christmas Traditions

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1. "We do a Secret Santa where you have to MAKE the gift each year…"

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"Last year, my dad made me some shoes." —Mat

2. “In Mexico we hire 'three wise men' to come to our house to deliver presents at 4am…”

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—Leslie

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—Tom

4. "Every Christmas we buy the saddest looking tree we can…"

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"…Because we don't want it to feel bad for being a bit rubbish. I accidentally cut my finger on this one and left a blood trail down the hall to our flat." —Nicky

5. "In France each person leaves one of their shoes under the Christmas tree to be filled with presents."

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—Johanna

6. "Every year my family has to do 'ornament ER' before we decorate the tree…"

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"…Where we gather and repair all the broken Christmas tree ornaments” —Mandy

7. “We all look forward to our mum’s lengthy gift tag inscriptions…”

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"My mum spends Christmas Eve alone, wrapping presents and looking through old photos. It makes her a bit sentimental, so sometimes the tags get a bit weird.

"Like the above example from last year – from 'Father Christmas'." —James

8. "We put 'spirit animals' on top of the mince pies…"

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"Those are supposed to be a cat, a horse, a sloth, and someone who ruins the games every year by not doing their animal." —John

9. "We couldn't find the star for our tree one year, so my brother topped it with a banana…"

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"Many years later, we're still skewering the top of our tree with a beautiful banana." —Melissa

10. "Every year we put a celebrity/fictional character we like as our star…"

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"We've had Morgan Freeman, Garth Marenghi, and the Doctor.

"I can't remember the others, but I plan on bringing some gender equality to the tree this year and having Angela Lansbury." —Rossalyn

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—Anon

*So that they don’t destroy our nice one.

12. "We have two Christmases…"

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—Sarah

13. "We send my mum a hideous fake Christmas present ‘from’ whomever can’t make Christmas dinner that year."

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"Last year, we got an ugly glass elephant ornament from Poundland and wrote a long note ‘from’ my brother about how it reminded him of her, and how his memory of her Christmas spirit will be ‘as long as an elephant’s’.

"She brings it out whenever he comes over and makes a big show of how much she likes it, and he can’t work out why she’s obsessed with a hideous glass elephant."

—Dave

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