 | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Fredrik Glöckner
| | | | (...) In Norway, we always open the presents after the Christmas dinner on the 24th of December, typically around 18-20. (That's 6-8pm.) We normally have to wait until the dishes are done, too, but I have a feeling that this is done to have the kids (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Jonathan Little
| | | | | | (...) In the United States, it seems that most people wait until Christmas morning. I know I always did. It was a matter of forcing yourself to go to sleep at night and trying not to wake up too early, because you knew that your parents wouldn't get (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Frank Filz
| | | | | | | | We used to have a 4 stage Christmas. Stage one was Christmas Eve at my aunts with my mother's side of the family. After it reached the point that there were more than about 5 or 6 kids in my generation, we stopped giving everyone presents, and all (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Steve Bliss
| | | | | | | | | (...) Your extended family Christmases sound very much like mine, as far as who gives presents to whom, and who gets together, and all. When I was a kid, my dad's side of the family (from my grandparents on down) would get together on the Sunday (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Mike Faunce
| | | | | | | In my "extended family" we opened gifts at different times: On Christmas Eve, the family had a big get-together and exchanged gifts "family-to-family, person-to-person." As much of the family as possible was together for Christmas Eve, this included (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend... —Jacob Sparre Andersen
| | | | | [ I suspect this answer is a few months late, but ... ] Fredrik: (...) In Denmark the general habit (among the ~99% of the population that are protestants) is to open the presents after dinner Christmas eve. I have never encountered a Danish family (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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