What are your favourite memories of Christmas?

My Nan had 14 kids who had 28 kids and every one of them used to turn up at my Nan's on Christmas Eve - wonderful times.

Massive memory was Nigeria around 1975.
We had been celebrating Christmas Eve from all different countries around 7pm to 5am and all went off to bed.
A few minutes later there were loads of screaming and around 7 bungalows all burned down with my Mum and Dads being spared.
A woman set her bed on fire with a fag and the fire spread out of control.
We used to take the pee out of Nigerians for a lot of things but their Fire Service that day were awesome.
 
413x said:
Christmas gets sadder every year. One of the things that pees me off with Xmas is my parents are miserable over inheritance/money and my gf doesn't even have her mum.
Wish they'd just let it go.
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We lost our Mum a couple of months after my Mrs lost hers. My brother's partner lost her mum and my friend's partner lost hers.
All to cancer.

Life is too short to worry about pointless ****.
 
GGizmo said:
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?
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I'm absolutely loving the present day Christmas' with young kids , it's really magical and I feel privileged to experience it
 
Big xmas get togethers with all the relatives one with so many people my father used an old door as a makeshift table with a cloth over it you'd never know the difference. Choosing the xmas tree was a big deal the biggest one we could fit in the room if it wasn't scraping the ceiling it wasn't big enough, two sets to lights just to cover it all masses of tinsel and lametta and that xmas tree smell (till they all fell off and you'd have to sweep up all the needles). Happy days
 
marinersfan said:
We lost our Mum a couple of months after my Mrs lost hers. My brother's partner lost her mum and my friend's partner lost hers.
All to cancer.

Life is too short to worry about pointless ****.
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Sorry to hear.

My partners mum was lost to cancer at 67 too. Wasn't long after Christmas found out. 6 months later. Gone.
 
I remember one Christmas when I was quite young, playing around with my gran’s storage stool which had her knitting and sewing in it and I took out quite a large needle and stuck it on the cushioned lid and forgot about it.

My uncle Ted then sometime later went to sit down on it and I still remember the look on his face.
 
I remember one thing I always looked forward to as a kid.
My Dads Mum was really tight and I used to look forward to her Christmas present.
I used to get things like keyrings, pencil, pen with Stoke City on it that cost 10p.
The strangest one was a Tartan Tam O'Shanter hat when I was 11 and still had 20p on it :)
I then had bargain bin vinyl albums that cost 10p, she thought an album was an album and didn't know people had favourite artists so I'd end up with some "Sound of The Swiss Alps Yodeling Favourites" or similar :)
 
I recall my nan used to get me the man united annual because she thought I liked them. Never had the heart to say otherwise.
Sadly died at 99, just before hitting the century.
 
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The Xmas I got a Super Nintendo Street Fighter 2 Turbo Edition, it was a big deal at the time when I harldy ever got the chance to go to an Arcade
 
Not quite your conventional memory, but it is fond to me in an inexplicable way.
I was 14. My mum had kicked me out of the house for reasons I cannot remember so I walked up to my Dad's flat. He had taken a load of LSD or ketamine or something and had **** himself and passed out in the bathroom so I sat and played Theme Hospital on the PS1 for around 10 hours straight. Looking back, it wasn't a great game, but I really got into it.
 
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The Xmas I got a Super Nintendo Street Fighter 2 Turbo Edition, it was a big deal at the time when I harldy ever got the chance to go to an Arcade
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Oh yes I recall getting a snes quite late on. I thought I had no more presents and then got handed it at the end. I remember I was commended for not sulking when I thought I didn't get one.
 
Scuzi said:
Not quite your conventional memory, but it is fond to me in an inexplicable way.
I was 14. My mum had kicked me out of the house for reasons I cannot remember so I walked up to my Dad's flat. He had taken a load of LSD or ketamine or something and had **** himself and passed out in the bathroom so I sat and played Theme Hospital on the PS1 for around 10 hours straight. Looking back, it wasn't a great game, but I really got into it.
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We have a winner :)
 
I have some lovely memories of Christmas when I was a young boy in the 1970's. It seems silly now but my brother and I used to get our Action Men ready, and make them a bed or den for the night to put them to sleep when we went to bed ourselves. Our parents would put out a mince pie and a glass of sherry for Father Christmas (we never called him Santa in those days). It was a bit of a ritual as a kid. Christmas Day was always exciting as we both rushed to wake our parents up at 4am, then 5am and eventually managing to wake them at 6am to jump pm their bed and open everything. Everything was always impecably wrapped and, if it fit, was inside a big bag or pillow case. We would excitedly play with everything at the dinner table.

Many years later, with me living with my own family and my father dead, I would sometimes go round to my mum's house (about a four hour drive) and stay for a few days over the Christmas period. Typically it was early January rather than Christmas because I always had to work over the Christmas break and almost never had any time off. Sometimes I would go on my own and sometimes I would drive my kids there for a few days to see their grandmother. On the drive there I would always play a version of A Christmas Carol in the car. Then my mum would treat us like royalty for a few days. At that point she was not particularly well off but she would always get us something. It didn't matter to me what it was, but the simple fact that she had saved a little money and bought something had given her a lot of happiness.

Funny Chrismas moments; my accident prone mum falling through the living room window when putting the tree decorations up, and on another occasion setting fire to it (we used to have candles on the tree before that - after the fire we got normal lights).

My dad died 22 years ago and my mum died 5 years ago. You never quite get over losing your parents and I especially miss them around this time of year. Love you mum. Love you dad. Thank you for some lovely Christmases.
 
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