Christmas in your country

Barbeque on the beach.

Christmas in summer is good.

Mostly children bitching/crying about how they got a black iphone 4s and not a white one. (I wish I was joking.)

Ahhhh, Christmas time in Italy?

The 24th of December usually you go to your grandparents' house, Family lunch and dinner melt together (you start to eat at 12.30 and you stay there until 1.00 A.M.)...of course you don't eat 12 hours long but you eat, you chat, you play some games together and after that you have a very light dinner...chat and games again (board games: monopoly, risk, etc) and at 23.00/23.30 you start to give and receive gifts...this will go on for about 2 hours...then you sleep (you know, people like to sleep) and the 25th you come back to your grandparents' house to have Christmas lunch (or you go to the restaurant if you want)...after that you spend the afternoon playing board games and chatting...

This is Christmas for 90% of the Italian families.

Edit: P.S.
In my family there's no kids bitching :D

Despite of having 80% people in my country follow Buddhism, we still celebrate it but not so big like Christian :)

Desperately trying to avoid family and elevating my alcohol blood levels to heroic levels at the mandatory Christmas dinner. Just because I live on the beach doesn't mean I want those snot-nosed little bastard nephews staying over, mother.
I'm considering buying a winter manor in Gotland so I can avoid the whole process completely.

I'm in a nice warm country for Christmas. Plenty of sunshine and wind and Christmas music to remind me that it's winter.

I dislike Christmas so, i will celebrate the winter solstice by participate on steam winter sales event and playing my favorite games meanwhile i wear Easter bunny ears.

Drunks everywhere, loud music, and alcohol.
No gifts though, that's on Three Kings Day.

I will go home, see the parents and spend a few days until returning here.
Probably my cousins from the same city will show up at one point. It won't be anything fancy in any way, just some peace and quiet.
Which reminds me I still have to look for presents.

Other than that, I will celebrate like everyone here with the winter sale.

Well, here in Chile, we get our presents on Dec 25th (Far as I know in some countries like Spain you get your presents on Jan 6th), and I'd say that Christmas, as a celebration, is smaller than new year's eve. And as is almost summer in here, there's no snow to play with XD.

24th is meeting close relatives and eating, 25th 26th are rest at home. And more eating ;D

Non-stop eating until the New Year - Christmas dinner followed by lots and lots of Chinese food :)

Also, a tiny bit of ice on the roads bringing the entirety of London to standstill.

Christmas means business in China, Chinese shops have discount promotions.lol

Big family gatherings the night of the 24th, fancy food, a toast at 12:00 nobody knows why, open gifts if you got any, try to get out as soon as possible to get drunk with your friends. Same on the 31st minus the gifts. Then you don't see most of those family members until the next christmas.

I'm going to go to my girlfriends house and we'll be spending Christmas together :3
She's from another country ^^

In Spain, the main gifting day it's January 6th, the 3 Wise Man day. But every year the "Papa Noel" or Santa Claus day grows in popularity for the children mainly.

This is the calendar in Spain:

24 December: Big dinner with family. Reunion from people in their relatives houses. Seafood and other expensive food.

25 December: Big lunch with family. Roasted lamb, beef, etc...

28 December: The Innocent Saints. The "April fools" in Spain. Pranks and jokes everywhere.

31 December: Crazy parties like most places in the world. In the countdown for the new year, you have to eat 12 grapes.

1 January: Huge hungover everywhere.

5 January: The 3 wise men coming. Parades for the children with candy, toys and family dinners too.

6 January: The 3 wise men day. Presents to everyone, but mostly the children.

We don't celebrate Christmas in Turkey.We celebrate the New Years Eve and nothing special happens.

I live in Indonesia and I'm a Buddhist, so..... I'll just be playing games I'm going to buy in the winter sale while having Christmas specials run on my TV

Christmas in the PH :D
Queso De Bola, Pancit, Roasted Chicken we would get lechon (spit roasted Pig) if we could haha

And probably Drinks of all sorts, alcoholic and non-alcoholic

Parties and Parties

In Soviet Russia Christmas has you!

Seriously,we have a christmas 7th January

There is nothing more happen in china except some deals in the shopping mall...

over here in Vietnam,bitches get in bike and crowd the fuck out of the streets on the 24th night,to the point that if you throw a 'nade down the crowd,no one can avoid it...

oh and it's Black Metal season everyone.

Christmas-time in the UK starts immediately after Halloween (according to shops anyway) so by the time December 25th comes along, the majority of us have turned into scrooges. But no, seriously, I love Christmas. Food, fun and family.