Who came to your house on Christmas day ?

No-one. DS2 and DGS3 picked me up on Christmas Eve. Spent Christmas Day with family and visited friends for dinner. Boxing Day off to DS1 where more family assembled - more food and gifts and then deposited in my own house: peace and quiet, although I loved every minute with my descendants, except for those grandchildren spread, as usual, across the globe!

Oh Surfinsal, what a lovely, uplifting story. The true spirit of Christmas was shown there 😁.

surfingsal what a lovely story, brought a tear to my eye.

One year my father asked my mother if an elderly man who drank in the local pub could join us for Christmas lunch he was widowed with no children, Dad said would come round about midday, my father spent the morning driving some elderly friends to their daughters and said he would be back about the same time. Around about 11ish there was a knock on the door an elderly man was standing there so mum invited him and gave him a drink and some nibbles and tried to keep him entertained, as children we thought it was funny as he still had his slippers on, I remember him telling us a bout the farm he grew up on , a while later there was another knock on the door and another old man standing there so mum invited him not quite sure what was going on but again offered him a drink and sat him next to Jim the first old man. Dad arrived home came into the lounge and said hello to Charles the second old man and asked who "Jim" was ! After a lot of discussion the police were phoned and it turns out Jim had walked out of his care home hence still wearing his slippers , dad asked if he could stay for lunch as he seemed to be enjoying himself and the police checked if the care home were ok about this and they were so he stayed with us all day and after that he every Christmas day for 11 years along with Charles as they had become good friends.

As a child Christmas was usually the four of us, with my parents and brother. Family lived at the other end of the country. My aunt, uncle and cousin stayed one year. Occasionally a single elderly friend from church would come for dinner.
The rest of the year my parents often entertained.

I hope nobody did- I was away.

I started with lovely ingredients Charley but somehow the meal was not as good as my usual Roast.
Don’t know why,
but I enjoyed the turkey more next day with jacket potatoes and pickles.

Nobody, on my own, with lovely food. A normal day here.

No-one. Just us two, first time in 30 odd years.

All nice things at christmas for many
I hated it as my mother became a jehovas witness so no christmas and birthdays for us after i became 8 years old and my brother 4 My father was devistated and started working away as much as possible Home wasnt a very happy place
I left when i could at 18 years of age but always very sad about my childhood so when i eventually had my own family it was wonderful to have a family christmas of my own in my house
I am now 74 and have many regrets about how my mother treated us Religon is supposed to bring people togther but not in my life and only the opposite all across the world as far as i can still see Killing and fighting continues and has done for ever and nothing will change !!!!!

When I was in my early fifties I joined a scheme to give adult uni students from overseas who had no where to go for Christmas …a holiday of just a few days over the Christmas period
First year I had a man from Iran and man from Malaysia a lady from China and a man from Ethiopia All strangers to each other. We really had a blast everyone got on so well There was a Muslim a Christian and a Buddhist a vegetarian a non beef eater and a non pork eater
We only did simple things sit round talking walking on the beach and in the parks and woods We had music I had some drums in the house the African and the Iranian both played the drums They loved it and I kept in touch for years after they d finished their courses and long gone back
I often had adult overseas students from the local collage from all over the world France Egypt Morocco Pakistan Russia America Alaska I still have a book with their photos and remarks about their stay in
They were definitely my best ever Christmas s The rest of my Christmass s have been fairly uneventful

I grew up in South Africa. We had a holiday house at the seaside. My dad was one of 8 siblings. Often, our house was chock a block full of adults and children sleeping on every available space, some of the older children camped in the garden. Some 13 to 20 people. Christmas lunch was a variety of cold meats and salads, ice cream, trifle, jelly and custard. Then a sleep on the lawn in the sunshine or the more energetic walked to the beach.

AmberGran

No one as a rule.

We were a military family and most of the time hundreds or thousands of miles away from any family or close friends. In fact, we had no close friends because we changed base every three years or so, leaving behind everyone we had made friends with.

I too am from a military family and my parents made many friends, whose friendship lasted long into retirement because although we kept moving - and for us it was usually a lot less than three years. You would move from one place and your friends , but three years later you would be on the same base with them again.

No one as a rule.

We were a military family and most of the time hundreds or thousands of miles away from any family or close friends. In fact, we had no close friends because we changed base every three years or so, leaving behind everyone we had made friends with.

Christmases of yore...my dad's family were great card players, and after Christmas tea out would come the card tables and the cribbage boards with matchsticks for markers.
Nobody in my DH's family is remotely interested in Snap, let alone Canasta or cribbage. I so cherish those memories
Happy Christmas 🎄

No one on Christmas Day. We would walk to midnight Mass and meet friends there, get home about 2 a m, then just the four of us for Christmas Day.
Boxing Day was for visiting and being visited - we usually went to my G’parents house and met up with cousins there.
Mum and Dad were both very sociable; Christmas was family centred though.

hi=uge = huge.

When we were kids the entire family lived within a few streets of one another. This was quite common in working class communities. On christmas morning our cousins would pop in to show us their presents. On christmas night my parents hosted my aunt and uncle and cousins. The odd neighbour might pop in and be offered a drink (sherry) but it was not a big thing where we lived. In the 1950s there was little money and people did not make a hi=uge splash as they do now. No lights in windows or ostentatious decorations. Families mostly socialised among themselves.

I think she was having a pop at her mother in law who was from the East End! I’m SE inner London born and bred and had lots of fun with friends etc

nanna8 I don't know either as I am an Eastender from London. Londoners are the salt of the earth.

On Christmas Day it was always my mum and dad, brother and two unmarried aunts.

Christmas day was always spent with the maternal grandparents and aunt's family. They took turns to host it.
My dad was the only person who drove, though, so whoever's house it was at, he would always have to collect and return people. He genuinely didn't seem to mind though.

Christmas get-togethers with the paternal relatives took place a week or so later. I presume my paternal grandparents spent Christmas day with either my dad's sister or his step sister, but can't be sure - I never gave it a thought back then.

We went to my gran's who stayed 60/70 miles away. Loved it, loved my gran,still miss her 41 years on....

We always went to my grandparents who lived in a lovely big house on the coast. Magical memories

No-one came to our house on Christmas Day during the day. Although our large extended family all lived in the same borough of Inner London (six aunts and uncles and 14 cousins) we all stayed in our own homes for the daytime meal and celebrations, but walked to my Nan's or oldest Aunty's in the evening and had a party. It usually went on from about 7 till around midnight and I can still remember walking back home as a young child nearly asleep with my Mum and Dad holding me upright!