Celebrate with the #SheSpeaksTraditions Giveaway. Win an Etsy Gift Card & Thankful Tree!

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Nov 07, 2018
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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:

A Thanksgiving Tree

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!

Years of Memories

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

Cooking Experiments

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

A Christmas Pizza

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

New Year's Signature Cocktail for Two

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

What's your favorite holiday tradition? Tell us for the chance to win a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree!

 

#SheSpeaksTraditions Giveaway

*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.

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by StinaBella | BARDONIA, NY
Nov 10, 2018

We gather on Christmas Eve with my whole family. It has been growing over the years and we are at 30 people right now.

by MLynch | FAYETTEVILLE, AR
Nov 10, 2018

I enjoy making a pecan pie with my daughter every year and at Christmas time we do Christmas Eve gift box which is usually pajamas, a book, a movie, and a snack of some sort.

by bound4aruba | Hershey, PA
Nov 10, 2018

The last few years I have been celebrating with a group of friends. We all get together and have lots of laughs and lots of different foods. They love to see me try different meats being the only big city person in the group.

by cowlady2 | DELAND, FL
Nov 10, 2018

I like sharing food with the people I love and hosting them at my home.

by lauren75 | PERRINEVILLE, NJ
Nov 10, 2018

I like getting together with family

by ChelleB35 | WINTERVILLE, NC
Nov 10, 2018

Decorating the christmas tree and baking desserts

by zekthezookeeper1967 | Kansas City, MO
Nov 10, 2018

Baking my mom's Christmas sugar cookies has been my tradition.

by orchidlady01 | PEMBROKE PNES, FL
Nov 10, 2018

For the past couple of years, my sister and I have started a tradition of cooking Thanksgiving dinner together and catching up. It has become our annual family reunion.

by hayleemphillips | HAMPTON, GA
Nov 10, 2018

Every year on Christmas eve my mom lets me and my brother open just one gift... of her choosing.

by Pattyrena | BUNCOMBE, IL
Nov 10, 2018

Getting a thanksgiving meal to go at Cracker Barrel. Since I had a brain enuryism 8 years ago we have just done this to make it easier.

by dragonfly777 | JACKSONVILLE, FL
Nov 10, 2018

We do an eggnog family toast on Christmas Eve using mini Santa mugs!

by apeski | blaine, MN
Nov 09, 2018

going to midnight mass

by annrone | LEBANON, MO
Nov 09, 2018

Making cookies and candy.

by haboobafoofo | ORLAND PARK, IL
Nov 09, 2018

Baking cookies with mom the night before the holidays

by ILvTink | JACKSONVILLE, FL
Nov 09, 2018

We light the Hanukkah candles and spin the dreidel and eat latkes

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