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*****CLOSED & WINNER ANNOUNCED*****GAME: The Great December Debate | DYD 2025

SEVENTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Christmas Dinner: Ham or Turkey?
Some of you have already answered this, and I can see that some don't do either, so feel free to just share what you do for your Christmas meal...whenever you have it!
 
At my in-laws it was either turkey or prime rib, but I really love to have ham on Christmas Day with scalloped potatoes, a big Caesar salad, dinner rolls and pecan pie!

I wish I had more pictures of food at Christmas! I would love to scrap a feast page highlighting all the goodies!
 
Christmas Dinner: Ham or Turkey?
We do ham... or gammon as we call it. I've started the tradition of doing a cold lunch as it's middle of summer in South Africa. I cook the gammon the day before and so just have to slice and serve on the day....mmmmm yum! I still need to buy one for this year (usually I get it early and put it in the freezer till right before needing to cook it but this year they weren't in the shops till the last few weeks and I hadn't thought about it... will add it to my shopping list now)
 
I am with Cathquillscrap Gammon at my house too. The sides are determined by the weather forecast. Salads if it's hot and hot veggies if it's a little cooler. I have never cooked a turkey. But Christmas at my house involves a gammon and trifle.
 
StefanieS said:
I am with Cathquillscrap Gammon at my house too. The sides are determined by the weather forecast. Salads if it's hot and hot veggies if it's a little cooler. I have never cooked a turkey. But Christmas at my house involves a gammon and trifle.
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Call me uneducated, but I am assuming there are no turkeys in South Africa, so that makes total sense. Do you do any kind of potato salad? I love potato salad with cold ham!
 
EIGHTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Holiday Vacation: White Christmas or Tropical Paradise?
 
To be honest, I've never done either, but I would enjoy a tropical paradise! We get snow sometimes in December, but I don't find it vacation-y...I'm not a skier, snowboarder, cabin dweller, or hockey player like the kid I saw skating down our road during the great ice storm of January 2024. Most of my Christmas vacations have been spent on the Oregon Coast...which means mostly inside playing board games and snacking since the weather is usually atrocious. Though it can be very nice some years!

Here's how I've scrapped a Christmas at the Coast in the past.

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FOURTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 14th

Elf on the Shelf: Visits every day or Why would I do that to myself?

It's fun! I've been doing for two years now and DD really enjoys it; I've been saving all the fun ideas I see on line, but I feel I won't be able to do 25 days this year, unless I redo some of the old ones too. I take a picture every day, but I haven't scrapped them. And if I do, I won't post them online!!!
 

SIXTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Opening Presents: Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?
Morning! DD and DH are morning people. I'm a night owl! In Greece Santa comes at midnight on New Year's Eve, so DD opens her presents in the morning. I always take photos of her, that are always blurry, because she keeps moving around, and I've never thought of taking a video instead... Maybe this year I'll remember!
 
SEVENTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Christmas Dinner: Ham or Turkey?
Turkey, just for the tradition, and a lot of other stuff, because no one likes it!
 

EIGHTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Holiday Vacation: White Christmas or Tropical Paradise?
In Athens Greece, February is the coldest month. We've never had snow in Xmas, just winter weather. But it'd be strange for me to celebrate Xmas in summery weather!
 
Christmas Tree: Real or Artificial?

Real. Yes, it's a bit of a fuss, and a bit of a mess, but I love the look and scent of a real tree. We generally get a balsam fir, which are plentiful in these parts, so not crazy-expensive (that said, it seems like everything is more expensive these days!).
 
Christmas Dinner: Ham or Turkey?

Turkey with all the trimmings (stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc.)
 
Christmas dinner is Chinese food here! Sometimes Thai or pho. I have never heard as much Yiddish in a restaurant as I did one Christmas Eve...

My son's first Christmas, we were shocked that the Chinese restaurant we were planning to go to in Atlanta was closed for Christmas Eve. But Christmas Day, on the way back to the hotel from the Georgia Aquarium, we could smell the pho restaurant from a few blocks away.

We also used to go to the movies on Christmas Day pre-parenthood so lunch was frequently popcorn.
 
We live in a tropical paradise so getting a white Christmas the year I met my husband's family was so magical to me. First Christmas for me and I got a live tree *and* snow! His grandma teases me that I'm not allowed to visit Ohio anymore because I keep bringing blizzards. :giggle
 
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FOURTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 14th

Elf on the Shelf: Visits every day or Why would I do that to myself?

It's fun! I've been doing for two years now and DD really enjoys it; I've been saving all the fun ideas I see on line, but I feel I won't be able to do 25 days this year, unless I redo some of the old ones too. I take a picture every day, but I haven't scrapped them. And if I do, I won't post them online!!!
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I admire the commitment! I have seen plenty of fun ideas, but yes, you'd have to plan them out and get everything together, that's for sure.
 
NINTH QUESTION--NOVEMBER 15TH

Die Hard: Christmas Movie or Action Movie Filled with Gratuitous Violence?
 
I watched Die Hard last year, and I can confirm it is, indeed, a Christmas movie. Prove me wrong!
 
In 2002, I bought an artificial tree from Target and we used it probably more than half the years since then, up until 2024, when it was replaced by a new, taller artificial tree, also from Target, in their post-holiday 2023 clearance sale. The new tree has attached collapsing branches and it feels so luxurious not having to sort the branches and slot them all into their trunk holes like I probably did at least 15 times with the 2002 tree. Some years, when we felt more financially capable and craved the smell of a real tree, we did buy some nice fresh ones. I truly don't have a preference overall. It depends on the year. I'll be putting up the fake tree again soon.

I'm a middle child. Is this a middle child trait, being so okay with both choices? :lol2

I also have enjoyed both eggnog and hot chocolate. I used to make eggnog myself as a child with this special shaker from Tupperware. It had a spout lid and a plastic circle with spokes that slotted into the top of the cylinder and, I guess, helped with mixing whatever you put in the container. I used milk and raw egg (which grosses me out now and also amazes me what we used to do that now is considered wrong) and nutmeg. I guess I could go with pure numbers to pick a favorite between these two, though. I'm sure I've had far more hot chocolates than eggnog over my 54 years. I love when mint flavor is added to hot chocolate.
 
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