Do you open Christmas presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

[terrya]

Our family opens our presents on Christmas Eve.

[flamingyouth]

1. Ours does too!

And I will never have it any other way. :D

[terrya]

8. Neither will I!

Christmas Day is just a time to relax and socialize. :-)

[flamingyouth]

25. This year, I'm going out for Chinese food and a movie!

:D

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

2. Christmas Eve with my father and brothers. Christmas Day with my friends.

[n2mark]

3. We usually

open our gifts on Christmas Eve, this year it will be the day after Christmas as my adult children both work those days.

[pagerbear]

4. Heathens! The only appropriate time is Christmas morning!

[StClone]

5. When ever I find them.

No really on Eve and then the Jolly Fat Man comes.

[underpants]

6. Christmas Day

Why do you hate America so much?

[terrya]

12. Damn! Is my anti-Americanism THAT obvious???

:-)

[pagerbear]

14. Well something is pretty obvious!

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[terrya]

17. Honey, I'm not subtle....

:-)

BTW: I couldn't open that file you sent. I'll try again Monday.

T

[Left Is Write]

7. Yep. My family is a Christmas Eve family too.

Fortunately, I married a man who comes from a Christmas Day family, so when we were still in Minnesota, dividing the holiday was never a problem.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Christmas morning.

...little ones, you know. Have to do the Santa thing.

[ohioliberal]

10. We open presents at my parents

house on Christmas Eve with my sister and brother and their kids and then my family opens our gifts up on Christmas Day.

[arwalden]

11. Christmas Day! Half The Fun Is Waiting!!!

With the exception of sex toys and videos. Those get opened up Christmas eve... it's kind of weird to open up a (whatever) or a (you-know-what) when there might be other family members around. :evilgrin:

[terrya]

15. How true...

I'd be moritifies if Mom saw me opening up that 12" dildo...

:-)

[arwalden]

20. Oh Come All Ye Faithful... JOYFUL And Triumphant!!

:evilgrin:

[SaintAnne]

13. christmas day

cuz we don't decorate the tree until christmas eve. Too much to do in one night

[SW FL Dem]

16. My father's family is Swedish so we

always opened most presents on Christmas Eve. The kids got their Santa present and everyone had a stocking on Christmas morning. My family does the same. There is something magical about having the lights and candles glowing while you open your gifts, plus it means you can sleep in in the morning :).

[Left Is Write]

18. Our Scandinavian heritage is why we do it that way too.

My family is mostly Norwegian and a smidge Swedish.

We have a big dinner on Christmas Eve (Ham, meatballs, twice baked potatoes, baked corn, carrots, lefse), and then open presents afterward in the early evening while having coffee and cookies. After the presents are opened, we change clothes and head to church for the candlelight service.

Christmas morning, we get our stockings and have stollen and lefse for breakfast, maybe with some leftover ham sliced and fried.

[FuzzySlippers]

32. Another Norwegian (mostly) here..

Always on Christmas Eve.

[Reverend_Smitty]

19. My dad's side of the family does it Christmas eve...

It's a holdover from old eastern European traditions. Which is cool because we eat and open presents on Christmas eve. All the little kids in my family get their stuff from Santa on Christmas morning and we all meet-up Christmas night for more food. Good times!

[Left Is Write]

22. Two days' worth of fun, parties, food and presents!

What more could one ask for? ;)

In my family, there's a lot of grazing on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Cookies, smoked salmon and crackers, port wine cheese, peanut brittle, fudge....yum! And then we have Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day supper to look forward to also.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. I'd stretch it out to a week long celebration if I could

:)

[Timebound]

21. Christmas Eve.

[damntexdem]

24. I grew up as an eve opener. My wife as a day opener.

So we compromise: open some both times. Of course, that means we have to get more presents -- but it's worth it so we can compromise.

[One_Life_To_Give]

26. Open before Santa arrives?

Now how am I supposed to open a present, when Santa hasn't delivered it yet?

[Dorian Gray]

27. Both

We go to my husband's parents' house one Christmas Eve and open presents. Then to my parents' house on Christmas Day and open more. It's great! :)

We open ours on Christmas morning.

[change200447]

28. Christmas Eve

Usually Christmas Eve...so the kids can hit all the other places on Christmas Day. I am flexible for their sake, they have enough to worry about!

[greatauntoftriplets]

29. We open on Christmas Eve....

The family comes to my place for dinner. On Christmas morning, the triplets get their presents from Santa Claus (I live 45 minutes away and so have never seen this), and we have Christmas dinner at my sister's place.

[bigwillq]

30. Christmas Eve but

by the time we get home from visiting, it's usually already Christmas Day (which happens to be my mon's b-day!)

[shesemsmom]

31. Christmas morning

one year we opened them on the eve, and it was such a let down the next day. One year we told our 12 year old, 6.00 am earliest we would get up, she came in and moved the clocks up 3 hours. I told my Hubby we needed to keep and extra eye on that child. Truer words were never spoken, she had 2 years when she was a real SHIT!!!

[demnan]

33. Well, it's really both

On Christmas eve in my youth it was the fresh new pajamas. As a child I never woke up on Christmas morning in anything but new pajamas that we got to open the night before.

Now it's what would give somebody the most kick the night before. I still miss my fresh clean pajamas but you know I'm in my forties and my Mom is in her eighties, so we all have our memories!

The rest comes Christmas morning - or whenever I see my good friends to exchange greetings, love and presents.

[China_cat]

34. Neither

When we did presents we did them on Sinterklaas day...which is tomorrow, come to think about it.

My husband's Dutch.

[supernova]

35. Xmas morning

now. We have it at my niece's house. Mimosas all around! :-)

When I was a kid, midnight was the rule, however.