Do you watch football every Thanksgiving? Does an elf sit on your shelf before Christmas? Or do you spin a dreidel on Chanukah? We all have our traditions to personalize the holidays and make them feel special.
But some traditions are more common than others. So we want to know... what holiday traditions do you follow each year? Tell us to win a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Kit!
To get you started, here are some of the non-traditional traditions SheSpeaks staff members celebrate during the holidays:
We do a Thanksgiving Tree every year. Everyone gets leaves and they write what they are thankful for and then we hang them from branches that we collect together. It's very sweet. - Aliza Enter below to win your own Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Kit, plus a $50 Etsy gift card!
Each kid gets a new ornament for our Christmas tree every year. We buy it from a store that has tons of ornaments - they even write their name and year on it. My kids are now 21 and 16 so we have tons of them, everything from soccer, gymnastics and baseball to graduations and driving. - Missy
Instead of gifts every night for Chanukah, we spend some nights doing activities with the kids, usually involving food and a giant mess. We've tried making sushi (a sticky-rice mess), fondue (a chocolate mess) and pasta (the biggest mess of all - flour was everywhere!) - Susan
We make homemade pizza on Christmas Eve, for every year of my life I can remember except one! We even make the crust from scratch and everyone picks their own toppings. Even my teenage son calls it "the best tradition ever." - Carol
My New Year's Eve tradition is to make a fancy dinner at home and skip the crowds. In addition to getting some decadent food, we try a new signature cocktail, candles & mood music so we can feel like we've transformed our house into a swanky restaurant. - Emily
*One lucky commenter, Tweeter or Instagrammer will be chosen at random to receive a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree (if the tree is sold out, the prize will instead be a $75 Etsy gift card.) Giveaway is open through November 25th, 2018 to U.S. residents at least 18 years of age. Entrants must be a member of SheSpeaks. If you are not a member, click here to join. Winner will be notified by email.
Update: Thanks to all who entered! Congrats to our winner, SheSpeaks member peter26.
We are hosting Thanksgiving dinner every year.
I absolutely love putting up the Christmas tree! I sure don't like taking it down.
We used to do a Thankgsiving Tree when my kids were younger. I would save the leaves and put them up each year and it was so cute to see what the kids were thankful for... one year my daughter put "Toylit Papr" haha :) :)
Chinese food on Christmas and movies!
Enjoying the day with all my kids and grandkids
My favorite tradition is kicking off the Christmas season by decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. I skip the crowds and shopping, put Christmas music on, and my son and I sing and decorate!
we get matching pj's
Baking with my kids
For Thanksgiving my hubby cooks a big feast so we can eat leftovers for a week and I watch the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and the dog show. Christmas we put gingerbread, mice, and peanut characters ornaments on our tree.
My husbands family makes Kielbasa every year for Christmas
I love holiday baking and spending time with family :)
Baking cookies!!!!!
We do two days of brunches.
We love to decorate our tree, then sit around the fireplace with a roaring fire roasting chestnuts from our own chestnut trees and tell funny stories! Love Love Love Christmas and family!!!
We decorate the tree while listening to Christmas music and having snacks. We also read a Harry Potter book each year and then watch the movie and try to read a Christmas book every night before Christmas.