Celebrate with the #SheSpeaksTraditions Giveaway. Win an Etsy Gift Card & Thankful Tree!
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Nov 07, 2018
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:
A Thanksgiving Tree
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!
Years of Memories
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
Cooking Experiments
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
A Christmas Pizza
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
New Year's Signature Cocktail for Two
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
What's your favorite holiday tradition? Tell us for the chance to win a $50 Etsy gift card and a Thanksgiving Thankful Tree!
*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.
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by mamachris | San Jose, CA
baking holiday treats to share with friends, neighbors and schools; white elephant/Kris Kringle gift exchange; and buying each of the kids a new ornament for the tree that they will take with them if/when they move out on their own
by stringer1 | Somerset, KY
My favorite is putting up Christmas decorations
by KellyAnneReviews | PORT ST LUCIE, FL
I actually enjoy cooking all day and watching the parade and football!
by Megan2899 | COTTAGE GROVE, MN
Doing the wishbone with my son!
by moos2me | Hancock, MD
opening christmas gifts cmas morning and doing stockings, watching the parade, cmas movies and music, cmas dinner
by ksutherland | MODESTO, CA
My favorite tradition is watching holiday movies with hot cocoa and a fire in the fireplace!
by ginnyfal | WEST BOYLSTON, MA
Over 50 years ago, my parents had a fan in the wall above their stove. My parents told my siblings and me that a bird came to live there on Thanksgiving and that the bird reported to Santa Claus whether we were good enough. So we did not have "elf on a shelf;" we had "bird in the wall." We still talk about the bird arriving on Thanksgiving.
by Jojaby | GLENMORA, LA
Meeting up with all my family at my Grandma's
by mosam11 | CINCINNATI, OH
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with a friend!
by Ritzy25 | Oklahoma City, OK
We put up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving and every year we do lots of baking and we make a ginerbread house.
by DaisysMomma | SOCIAL CIRCLE, GA
We go through our stockings on Christmas Eve.
by CrunchyBeachMama | Erie, CO
Baking with my family!
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by aneube | BARRINGTON, RI
We open a gift of new pajamas and an ornament every Christmas Eve.
by gakusan | Newburgh, NY
I love picking the recipes for cookies and baking them and frosting them.
by emma0420 | SARASOTA, FL
My favorite tradition to kick off the season is the Venice, FL annual Holiday parade. It is held yearly the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We have friends who come and watch with us. We also have my Father in law over on Thanksgiving and he helps us decorate our Christmas tree. This year we are starting a new tradition since my FIL now lives at a memory care facility. He will spend the night with us and wake up to presents under the tree and an orange and piece of chocolate in his bowl he's had since childhood on the table. This was something his parents did each year when he was growing up so we will be continuing it.
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