What are your favourite memories of Christmas?

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GGizmo

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I have moments that come from many Christmas's.

But I think the memory that stands out was when I was quite young, maybe around 9 or 10 years old, when all the family would meet up at my grandparents house.

I was lucky that I not only had my grandparents being alive but nearly all their generation, great aunts and uncles. But the best person attending was my frail great grandma, or as we called her "little Nan", as she was only short in statue.

To have the entire extended family on my fathers side going back 4 generations in the same place, with all the decorations, giving presents, eating Christmas dinner, watching the Queens speech supercedes any memory since.

Does anyone else have any memorable standout moments of Christmas?
 
1997, finished opening presents and then my stepdad said that one of mine got mixed in with his, I open it and it's a copy of formula 1 for the PlayStation (which I don't have). I'm then told that there might perhaps be a bigger present upstairs. I don't think I ever ran upstairs as quick in my life.

My parents were not particularly well off at that time so getting a PlayStation was massive for me, although I probably didn't realise that until many years later. I guess then the year after when I got final fantasy 7 which ended up being my favourite game of all time.
 
Feek said:
Kylie, Santa Baby.
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Skating on a frozen pond so many years ago I can't remember when it was.
Couldn't break the ice even with an axe.

That just doesn't happen any more.


Tbh Christmas is **** now with family drama and I look forward to the 29th when I'm back home. Except of course opening my ocUK secret Santa present! :o
 
We've always had big Christmases, but 1 year it was just me, mum, dad and my brother.

It was so relaxed. Chilling out, watching trash on TV, having drink, food and a laugh.

Couldn't tell you what I got for presents, but 1 of my best memories.
 
Christmas was good as a little kid, time off school, playing in the snow (back when there was snow), lugging the tree home and decorating it (tree place was at the end of our street), going to grandparents house (usually some family also there), then off to dad's to do it all again.

As I got older the tree place closed, family stopped meeting at grandparents house, snow stopped happening, and I didn't see dad anymore. Instead we would go to a friend's house for xmas and new year, our mums would cook xmas dinner and he always got the latest console so it was like a solid week of couch co-op. Our mums argued over a guy so we stopped seeing them rip.

As a student I spent an xmas with a gfs family, they were religious so I had to sit through happy clappy church, they went overboard with tatty ornaments and actually watched all the naff tv. I was curious to see how other families did xmas, the answer is it's never the same as the way your family does it.
 
Being awake and seeing my mum and dad bringing the gifts into my room at about 6 or 7 years old. When I was around ten, my aunts and uncles gave me so many more and expensive gifts that year, I had loads more presents than usual. I had no idea why, I later found out my mum had been diagnosed with breast cancer and this was why. She did live another 9 years though.
 
bainbridge said:
Going out on Christmas day on a new bike sticks in my mind.
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Brother and I got bikes Xmas Day, it was very icy. Pleaded with parents to let us go out and ride them - yeah, brother broke his leg.

Memories:

Sellotaping a digital watch to my head with the alarm set very dark 'o' clock and parents yelling at us to get back to bed :)

Boxing Day we used to hire a hall where all the family turned up and brought food and drink - cocktail sticks with hot dogs, cheese and pineapple, open top sandwiches etc :cry:
 
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Most of mine are probably console related! Mega Drive in the early 90's and then a Playstation 1 in 1997; great memories of ISS Pro, V-Rally and Casper (don't ask) before I picked up Tomb Raider 2 in January.
Although I also have great memories of Christmas Day walks with my dad, sledging and messing around with family and friends back in the the days when we got proper winters!
 
Christmas lunch was always epic as a kid, dad was a chef, the turkey was huge as we grew them ourselves (I think one year it wouldn’t even fit into the oven).

Waking up to find Santa had brought a BMX. The StarCraft year was good too, think I did about a 15 hour gaming session :)

The year we had a power cut all day Christmas Day was memorable too, middle of the countryside, darkness, just cosily sat around the gas fire.
 
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