Christmas Poll 2.... when is right time?

When is the right time to open presents?

  • Christmas Eve

    Votes: 3 10.3%

  • Christmas Day

    Votes: 16 55.2%

  • Combination of both

    Votes: 10 34.5%
  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
When I was growing up, only Christmas morning. Probably due to they weren't wrapped yet.

With our kids when they were young, 1 each Christmas eve. Carefully selected so they could play with it. Needed something to reduce the energy level.

After they came back from college, Christmas morning only.
 
I'm partial to Christmas morning, but it really doesn't matter. Christmas is about family and traditions. Each family should develop and adopt whatever traditions it chooses. I admit that I like to receive and open presents, but I don't need or want for a darn thing. I just want for as much of the family as possible to have the time to spend in one another's company. Now somebody please pass the cranberries!
 
I'm equal opportunity.....
 
Herkileez said:
When I was a kid, we had to wait til grandma got dressed Xmas morning......:eek:
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And now my wife and I are the grandma and grandpa - Keiji and Reina not only have to wait until we're dressed but also for us to arrive.. mostly though, it's about being able to spend time with our small family.

@Shawn Seeger:
What's for Christmas dinner? (I cooking a beef pot roast). Desert is a strawberry cake flown in from Japan.
 
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As a kid it was Xmas Eve exchange with family and boring gifts of mostly clothes, socks, few toys followed by 11pm Lutheran church Xmas service. Xmas morning was what Santa delivered… the fun stuff.

Then as married couple with kids we ended up splitting it up with the Xmas Eve with grandparents and other family members…. Xmas day just being the wife and kids and the Santa gifts to each other that would be to embarrassing for our parents/grandparents to see how wasteful we were. I mean how many toys can the kids want and pairs of shoes the wife wear? Ridiculous! Oh but the fishing stuff was critical and deserving. 😉
 
With all the blended/extended families, whenever you can make it work.
We did a Christmas thing on the 22nd, as nieces and nephews were up from California. Doing another tomorrow, more out of area family in town.
Whenever you can all get together, because as you get older, there's less of you to get together.
;)
 
iveofione said:
I don't have any family so it is a moot point to me. But I did give myself a new Bluetti Charger 1 DC to DC charger for Christmas, it arrived on Monday. Whoo-Hoo, 5X faster charge times!
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Hey I lifted myself one of those also! And a new BLUETTI AC300+B300K, for our house!
 
Buzzy said:
And now my wife and I are the grandma and grandpa - Keiji and Reina not only have to wait until we're dressed but also for us to arrive.. mostly thought, it's about being able to spend time with our small family.

@Shawn Seeger:
What's for Christmas dinner? (I cooking a beef pot roast). Desert is a strawberry cake flown in from Japan.
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It will be snacks on the Eve (Homemade Chilli, Mac &Cheese, Meatballs and cut meat and cheese and maybe pie or that could be tomorrow. I made 2 pies, a Strawberry Rhubarb and a mixed Berries)

Christmas day will be Turkey and all the normal fixings! Can hardly wait!
 
We have always done our immediate family gift exchange on Christmas Eve. That started as a result of my wife and I coming from large families that were divorced and remarried a few times🤣. We were both the first to have kids on either side which meant everyone wanted to see the kids. We would start Christmasing on the 22nd and go through the 27/28th. It was fun and miserable all at once.

The night of Christmas Eve was the only 15 minutes my wife and I had to ourselves…after 10-15 years it stuck. My wife is also a part Christmas elf😂. This is her Super Bowl, state championship, opening day of fishing/hunting all in one. She IS the spirit of Christmas!
 
We would be allowed 1 present Christmas eve, and it would always be PJ's much to our disappointment.

Then it was game on in the morning, I was always first up but would have to wait for dad to wake up.
 
Growing up both sides opened presents Christmas Eve and we opened Socks Christmas Day.

Raising kids, Christmas Eve at my parents, Christmas with her parents sometime in December - to make it easy. Then opening our presents with our kids Christmas Day.

Now, Christmas Eve at Dad's, then kids go everywhere to their own family's and extended.

Fond memories as a kid at grandparents and on the farm in Oregon (both in Salem area and Sisters). Out running wild, shooting, sledding, skiing, ice skating in the pond.

Found out as a young adult because we found pictures of my dad and grandpa's "testing" our toys before they were wrapped. Pictures of them driving our "new" slot car tracks! So, I did the same with my kids gaming systems!
 
The girls open their gifts from each other on Xmas Eve, and then everything else Xmas morning before brunch.
Growing up, we didn't have a chimney, so on Xmas morning we all (7 kids!) had to stay in our rooms with the door closed until we heard Santa blow his whistle and slam the front door before we could charge downstairs to the tree.
Oddly enough, Dad always seemed to be coming in from fetching the newspaper right as we got down there 😊🎅
 
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