Celebrate with the #SheSpeaksTraditions Giveaway. Win an Etsy Gift Card & Thankful Tree!
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Nov 07, 2018
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!
*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 kmaccubb | COCKEYSVILLE, MD
Spending time with family.
by Brenda121 | VANCEBURG, KY
We do stockings.. Everybody has to buy something to put in the stocking... We set a limit, but it's always fun
by 20manderz08 | YOUNGSTOWN, OH
baking with my mom
by kpayne1027 | Tucson, AZ
My daughter has chosen our Christmas dinner food theme every year. One year it was French food, Italian...this year she picked Mexican. I am making tamales. Its not that crazy...but Christmas Day we usually spend just as us (family of four) instead of with relatives so this has become our little family tradition
by rubymacklin | Chicago, IL
I find a Christmas story like "The 13th Gift", read it during holiday season beginning in November thru December. Then I review my library of books about Christmas and share one or two with special reading friends to read during the holidays. I send a note with the book and ask that they return it when read. I have gotten some heart warming responses from this tradition.
by TRasmusan | Glasgow, MT
Just plain old spending time with my family.
by taletreader | Hickory, NC
All of my family gets together at my grandma and grandpa's house to have a huge feast, for one. But with my immediate family, we love simply watching funny, touching Christmas movies together by the fireplace.
by bloubeck | KANSAS, OK
FOT
by mamachris | San Jose, CA
baking holiday treats to share with friends, neighbors and schools; white elephant/Kris Kringle gift exchange; and buying each of the kids a new ornament for the tree that they will take with them if/when they move out on their own
by stringer1 | Somerset, KY
My favorite is putting up Christmas decorations
by KellyAnneReviews | PORT ST LUCIE, FL
I actually enjoy cooking all day and watching the parade and football!
by Megan2899 | COTTAGE GROVE, MN
Doing the wishbone with my son!
by moos2me | Hancock, MD
opening christmas gifts cmas morning and doing stockings, watching the parade, cmas movies and music, cmas dinner
by ksutherland | MODESTO, CA
My favorite tradition is watching holiday movies with hot cocoa and a fire in the fireplace!
by ginnyfal | WEST BOYLSTON, MA
Over 50 years ago, my parents had a fan in the wall above their stove. My parents told my siblings and me that a bird came to live there on Thanksgiving and that the bird reported to Santa Claus whether we were good enough. So we did not have "elf on a shelf;" we had "bird in the wall." We still talk about the bird arriving on Thanksgiving.
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