Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays fellow travelers! Do you want to know some US Christmas traditions that we celebrate? Well from mistletoe to Elf on the Shelf to Christmas lights decorating homes and businesses, these are some of the most common Christmas activities and traditions that families and friends do at Christmas in the US.
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Elf on the shelf is so creepy. Found him in the bathroom once looking down at the toilet. I don't like the idea of being watched either.
Where did you get the Prairie
Gardens van at?!. I live near Champaign and love to go there!
Funny fact.. Christmass is to celebrate the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ… These "american" ppl.. never heard of HIM.
Shalom pruder
Now I can watch that movie yeah in a new light🕯️
I had no idea
My whole life blind about Christmas ⛄ just to be told now that Christmas is killing and survival to be white and proud
Rudolph, the 1970s Scrooge musical with Albert Finney, and- for us Chicagoans- the Bozo Gar and Ray special, are must-haves at Christmas for viewing, and I love making cookies and chocolates. My husband also likes having a nightcap of eggnog with his brother after Midnight (10:30 PM) mass. He loved the Christian Brothers eggnog I bought for them last year for the nightcap.
Just like in the Philippines when it's everybody decorated their house of Christmas lights, from windows, to doors, to gate and to the garden and trees, I just love it you can really feel the spirit of Christmas where there's only joy's giving gifts, carrolling to houses, and eat delicious and Christmas foods, going to the church. Oh how I love those days! I really miss this traditions
im not sure why i get so happy and sad at the same time seeing this
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Martha Stewart's Christmas DVD is like my new Christmas tradition, and it's really fun for over 3 hours, and if I ever have kids, I'm going to show it to them, so the tradition can carry on into the next generation.
We hide the Christmas pickle on our tree for the kids to find and they hide it again for the next person to find. We have an elf but not typical elf on the shelf. We hang it on light fixture or sit it on a shelf but do not move it around. Just more of a funny decoration.
Of i m for the elf on the sheff it s so funny. I like also watching christmas movies from canada or in mountains with snow and pines in the cold with wood or typic houses. It s exiting, also in big cities the those Marketing business women whom sell christmas trees decorations,
Hi Mark. Like your channel although I don't travel at all🕺. In Finland,we visit graveyards,to remember those who are not with us anymore,it's an old old tradition,going back I think to pagan times, something that Christianity didn't destroy all though they tried hard. Anyhow,keep it up,peace from 🇫🇮
Most of them are 🇬🇧British traditions
Merry Christmas btw 😁
Your energy itself is making me feel the Christmas spirit! Thanks for the video and happy holidays 🙂
I'm anti Elf on the Shelf.
this video is super duper good. Now i now more about American christmas tradition and also learn many new fun fact
Elf on a shelf needs to go back to Hell where it came from!
Thank You for explaining the U.S. Tradition !!! MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄🎁 to you and your family !!! Love the way you explain in detail and your bubbly personality 😇 !!!
Have to be honest Christmas in the USA is a disappointment, it’s a one day thing then back to work
My parents never fought when getting the tree. They are still together, so maybe it is a good indication of a lasting marriage. Last year my husband and I got our first real Christmas tree. He made me cry. What does that say about ours?
Anti elf on the shelf. It’s tacky! Time consuming at a time when you have enough to do! Expensive to buy the props! And my kids aren’t stupid. They’d realize he was fake pretty quick and then wonder what else we are lying about 🤔
80 inch TV for 20$? WHERE???
This is so beautiful!🎅🎄🦌
Greetings from Germany
I’m okay with elf on the shelf and enjoy most funny pictures. However, my dad just had a hissy fit yesterday because my uncle shared a funny facebook picture of the grinch holding the elf over the toilet. Dad said parents don’t realize they could traumatize their kids. I say it’s up to the parents to know what their kids can and can’t handle, and not everyone with an elf has children. Some people have one just for fun and to entertain others with pictures.
Your T shirt is offensive
So cool that you are in front of the famous leg lamp and wearing a Ralphie shirt. You clearly "get" Christmas! Have a merry one and keep making your videos….
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. I am from Greece but I was born in New York in the late 70's. I always remember the PERFECT decoration on the streets. We left New York in '86.. and so I have not rejoiced many times throughout the Christmas celebration in the USA.
I was recently suckerpunched in NYC. Be careful, Cops not help you.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, Wolters.
In American churches with Swedish heritage, they celebrate St. Lucia's Day on December 13th. It's a festival of light due to it being so close to the shortest day of light of the year. The girls of the church form a procession with candles on their head. These lights are also made to consider Christ bringing light into the world.
Must say it’s easier to to decorate than to un decorate by far. Great video!
We always got to open one gift on Christmas Eve. Then we opened the rest after Santa visited our house. Also, what about Christmas caroling? Does anyone do that anymore?
Fun Facts : Santa Claus was created after Odin ( Nordic God)
Elf on the shelf is weird.
I live in what used to be an old mining village in the UK so our family still has a coal fire (as do many others in the village) so when I was younger to "send my letter to Santa" I'd burn the letter in the fire after I wrote it (my parents always insisted to have us let them "check over it" before burning haha). We also don't take the tree down until sixth January with the 12th day of Christmas being on the fifth.
I'm in Australia and we have Christmas t-shirts, we'd die in the heat if we wore sweaters! The last few years at work rather than Kristkindl (Secret Santa) we do Selfish Santa which is a lot more fun. We each bring a gift (to a specified amount) the gifts are all wrapped and placed in a pile, a nominated person gets to choose a gift and unwrap it, if someone else likes the gift then they can 'steal it' when it's their turn to choose a gift. The same gift can be stolen a few times, it's a fun way to exchange gifts.
Can you do a video on The DON'Ts of Visiting North Korea?
Now Mark…how come Home Alone was not mentioned….
We're starting a new one, maybe: After watching so many of your Christkindl Markte videos featuring it, and the how-to video you did with your mom, we're assembling gluhwein ingredients to give it a try!
Ralphie!!!!!!
Mark … Buddy….. How could you forget the nativity scene? Jesus is the reason for the season. My wife is so mad at you now. I'll have to buy extra eggnog to calm her down. You're making my life misable. Thanks. I'm still a subscriber, but you making it tough at my house. I'm a fellow traveler, entrepreneur and marketing guy. Help me out! Fix this!
It’s ironic that we go from thanksgiving to stomping over people to save a few bucks
We put our tree up on Black Friday with spiked hot cocoa and Christmas movies. We leave it up until Monday after Super Bowl, as that is our holiday season.
We have tamales Christmas Eve followed by Candlelight Communion at church. Christmas morning only 1 person opens a present at a time, that way we get to see what everyone got. Christmas morning breakfast features pineapple fritters and peppermint ice cream. I found that my boys would eat eggs, bacon and/or sausage as long as they got the fritters and ice cream. As adults they all talk about how special breakfast was.
We're very traditionally English in our traditions (comes of both singing in choirs, I guess), so the tree and decorations go up after 1 December (more often nearer the 20th to avoid needle drop, though that's avoided with a good water-holding Christmas tree stand) and stay up until Twelfth Night (night of 5-6 January), after which it's terribly bad luck to keep the decorations out.
There are some traditions that had to give way to practicality – I've never lived anywhere with a real fire, so as a child in the late 1980s letters to Father Christmas were placed by the heating boiler (hey it's got a vent, right?) and stockings were hung on the footboard of the bed for minor presents like stationery and fruit. I'm not sure Father Christmas would have gone for milk, though – a glass of sherry or brandy left in the living room, on the other hand…
Living in Florida two unique ones.
We have a 1 ton sandcastle Christmas 🎄.
Christmas boat parade where people decorate their boats.