Do you watch football every Thanksgiving? Does an elf sit on your shelf before Christmas? Or do you spin a dreidel on Chanukah? We all have our traditions to personalize the holidays and make them feel special.
But some traditions are more common than others. So we want to know... what holiday traditions do you follow each year? Tell us to win a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Kit!
To get you started, here are some of the non-traditional traditions SheSpeaks staff members celebrate during the holidays:
We do a Thanksgiving Tree every year. Everyone gets leaves and they write what they are thankful for and then we hang them from branches that we collect together. It's very sweet. - Aliza Enter below to win your own Thanksgiving Thankful Tree Kit, plus a $50 Etsy gift card!
Each kid gets a new ornament for our Christmas tree every year. We buy it from a store that has tons of ornaments - they even write their name and year on it. My kids are now 21 and 16 so we have tons of them, everything from soccer, gymnastics and baseball to graduations and driving. - Missy
Instead of gifts every night for Chanukah, we spend some nights doing activities with the kids, usually involving food and a giant mess. We've tried making sushi (a sticky-rice mess), fondue (a chocolate mess) and pasta (the biggest mess of all - flour was everywhere!) - Susan
We make homemade pizza on Christmas Eve, for every year of my life I can remember except one! We even make the crust from scratch and everyone picks their own toppings. Even my teenage son calls it "the best tradition ever." - Carol
My New Year's Eve tradition is to make a fancy dinner at home and skip the crowds. In addition to getting some decadent food, we try a new signature cocktail, candles & mood music so we can feel like we've transformed our house into a swanky restaurant. - Emily
*One lucky commenter, Tweeter or Instagrammer will be chosen at random to receive a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree (if the tree is sold out, the prize will instead be a $75 Etsy gift card.) Giveaway is open through November 25th, 2018 to U.S. residents at least 18 years of age. Entrants must be a member of SheSpeaks. If you are not a member, click here to join. Winner will be notified by email.
Update: Thanks to all who entered! Congrats to our winner, SheSpeaks member peter26.
decorate the tree
We have the same menu every Thanksgiving, and for Christmas, we fill stockings for everyone, no matter how large the crowd gets!!!
I love eating our favorite family foods every year
A memory from my childhood that I still embrace is hanging mistletoe :) I really miss enjoying the delicious holiday meals around my parents' table. As an adult, a tradition I enjoy is attending a performance of Handel's "Messiah"
Christmaz
I would LOVE to WIN this giveaway. This year I am VERY TIGHT on money and not sure what I will be able to get for gifts. I also have a new granddaughter, if I won I would use the gift card to Etsy on her. I got some things from there before she was born and they came out great. Can't wait to see if I win.
We make Pierogi and Kolaczki for Christmas....it's one of my favorite Polish traditions to do with my mom and son.
My favorite holiday tradition was (my grandfather psssed away earlier this year) decorating with my grandpa at night while my grandma was asleep so she would wake up to a decorated house. He loved Christmas.
Egg Nog and opening 1 gift each on Christmas Eve!
Every Christmas Eve going to my parents house and still opening one present with my brothers like we did when we were kids.
Going to my parents house on Christmas Eve and opening one present with my brothers like we did when we were kids
I love baking snowball cookies on Christmas Eve.
Every Christmas Eve going to my parents house and still opening one present with my brothers like we did when we were kids.
Every Christmas Eve going to my parents house and still opening one present with my brothers like we did when we were kids.
Turkey on both Thanksgiving and Christmas is our holiday tradition!