How Do Americans Celebrate Christmas? US Christmas Traditions Explained
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- 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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For many years I had a Holiday tree (artificial) that stayed up year round. I decorated differently for each Holiday.
January - read Apple tree
February - Valentine's Day decorations
March - St Patrick's Day
April - Easter
May, June, July - Patriotic to honor Memorial Day, Flag Day, Armed Forces Day, Independence Day.
August, September, October - varied , but Fall and Halloween decorations showed up in October.
November - Thanksgiving decorations
December - Christmas
Other parts of the house might also get decorated.
I love going to Christmas Eve church service and seeing the live nativities around the city.
That is super nice
When I was a kid, we would go to Christmas Eve church service and it was a very quiet service with just the pastor talking up front. Most of the lights would be turned off and they would give us each a lit candle to hold. Eventually we would be instructed to blow them out.
Ever since them whenever I smell a candle that has just been extinguished I think of that service.
@@BillGreenAZ I 100% understand the nostalgia coming from scent. It’s such a powerful sense!!
This is so good. A popular one around here are the model trains! Merry Christmas and happy holidays Wolters!
I do like those
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
Oh my God I’m dying it’s true and you could never get the Christmas tree picked out brought home and put into the stand without at least one family argument 😂😂😂
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.
When I was little my mom drove me around looking at Christmas lights on houses and now I do the same with my kid.
I remember they played Christmas music in July for like a week here for that whole "Christmas in July"
Sounds about right :)
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.
Super video. Endlich wieder Weihnachtszeit🎄🎅🎁
Danke!
I can tell you guys had a lot of fun with this video! Feliz navidad, Mark!
Thanks Lean!
Your energy itself is making me feel the Christmas spirit! Thanks for the video and happy holidays :)
My family doesn't really celebrate Christmas so my tradition is to jump around with friends and spend christmas with them. Always both fun and sad hahaha
My family stopped using family photos for our Christmas cards. I’m a photographer, so I just go out and shoot snowy scene somewhere
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.
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 😇 !!!
Christmas has waged war on Thanksgiving and Halloween. When people say happy holidays you offend the hard core Christmas lovers and is a hot button topic on the most conservative of news networks. The most wonderful time of the year is not all fun and reindeer games here in the US. However, Christmas in the US is a spectacle and is definitely something people should come and enjoy.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year, Wolters.
We have watched Muppet Christmas Carol for 21 years in a row. It's a great movie and a great tradition
Love it!
Spot on with Christmas Traditions in America. I might add your favorite Christmas Sing -alongs, Midnight Mass and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Also, playing the Christmas Gift Exchange Game. Merry Christmas !!! Happy Holidays !!! Mark, Jocelyn, Caleb, Liam , Mom and all of your family and friends in the UA-cam Community🎁🎁🎁 Harriet and Jim.
Hey mark, Great video and Merry Christmas to you and your family
Thanks Tobi!
Merry Christmas Ho ,Ho, Ho !!! 🎅 🎁🎄 To my favorite family of " travelling elves " 👨👩👦👦 😘
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.
Merry Christmas to mark & family
Merry Christmas!
My town's fairgrounds has a drive-through Christmas light display. They counted over 100,000 lights. It's kind of cool.
Hopefully they can have their annual Christmas parade & that drive-through simultaneously.
This is so beautiful!🎅🎄🦌
Greetings from Germany
I store I visit here in Australia has elf on a shelf as well as all the accessories for it including plastic vomit and plastic pee stain or something similar.
You forgot to mention radio stations playing non-stop Christmas music between Halloween and Christmas
Very true :)
That's the most irritating part of Christmas in the US. The radio stations get screwed up for 3 months. 😂
driving around to look at lights has always been a great activity. In California, there are SO many places that do Christmas Light installations like the LA Zoo, the Living Desert in Palm Springs area and more.
I know these are American traditions but it's pretty much the same in the UK. That's a positive thing in my opinion. Having been to a few Christmas days in America the only difference is the open house concept where people walk in and say hello (maybe that's just a Rhode Island thing?) .Generally you expect an invite in the UK.
We have an open house party each. Hristmas to have people just come by. This year it's going to be in the driveway. But hopefully a good time
Though the milk and cookies for Santa get replaced with brandy and a mince pie (in general - household attitudes to alcohol permitting) for Father Christmas
great video!
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....
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!
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.
this video is super duper good. Now i now more about American christmas tradition and also learn many new fun fact
My husband had an Elf on the Shelf. I'd never heard of it in my 41 years until we started dating. Now married with 2 kids and he still has those elves he moves around for our daughters. They love it! I just had a "belt on the shelf" growing up 😂
HahahaH
😆I loathe that damn elf. Caleb thought it was ridiculous when he was small. He went thru a phase where he wanted to be a doctor and I remember finding the elf with a bunch of my sewing pins in it. Looked like a voodoo doll. Cracked me up!
Another GREAT VIDEO!!!!
Mark, Did I see you on It's a Southern Thing, "Bless Your Rank" - Cookies?
That was us. Liam and I were watching the live feed and had to comment
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...
Must say it’s easier to to decorate than to un decorate by far. Great video!
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.
Living in Florida two unique ones.
We have a 1 ton sandcastle Christmas 🎄.
Christmas boat parade where people decorate their boats.
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.
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.
I get way more excited for all of these things than my husband does (he's Ukrainian, so Christmas is in January), so our compromise is that I wait until Dec. 1, and do it all myself😂 just gotta try to make it magical for the kids!! Merry!!🎄
Christmas luminaries are one my favorites.
Those are nice.
It's not Christmas until Hans drops from the Nakatomi Towers.
Amen! And spoiler for a bonus video on Monday ;)
Many people put up a creche scene. Under the Christmas tree, on the mantle, or somewhere else.
Pro elf on a shelf. Happy holidays.
Great vid but a bit bittersweet for me, as I no longer do some of these due to most of my family passing away or being out of contact and my daughter is in her 20s now :( Definitely not down with the Christmas in July or decorations out in Sept/Oct though- I like to enjoy the seasons and holidays as they come instead of skipping ahead, such a pet peeve for me!
I’m British, the best tradition for us is that many or most people stop work on 24 December and don’t go back to work until 2 January. The Christmas tree was a German tradition imported by Price Albert, Queen Victoria’s German husband in the nineteenth century. Maybe German immigrants introduced this tradition to the US?
We will be around your way for Christmas next year
I just think Elf On The Shelf is creepy.
I'm all for these other traditions though!!
Happy Holidays to you and your family!!
We are not elf on the shelf fans.
In latinoamerica we leave the christmas tree till January 6.
Now I can watch that movie yeah in a new light🕯️
Don’t forget giving Tuesday -on behalf of all the nonprofits - please don’t forget giving Tuesday. It’s a day in America where are we encourage people to donate to their favorite organizations and help those less fortunate. It’s a moment to reflect and be grateful that you were able to provide a nice holiday for your family and to help someone else.
I had no idea
Where did you get the Prairie
Gardens van at?!. I live near Champaign and love to go there!
At prairie gardens 😀
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,
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?
Merry Christmas. 1st
Thanks Kris
@@WoltersWorldShorts I didn't know you had a shots channel...oh it's on like Donkey Kong.
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?
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.
im not sure why i get so happy and sad at the same time seeing this
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.
The only tradition I had not heard of is the pajama one.
They sell sets at some stores
When my old dog was alive, you could not put the Christmas presents out early. He would rip the wrapping right off all the packages. Westies be crazy
Ralphie!!!!!!
Poor Santa in your video got factory cookies with his milk.
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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 🇫🇮
Can you do a video on The DON'Ts of Visiting North Korea?
Now Mark...how come Home Alone was not mentioned....
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.
Most of them are 🇬🇧British traditions
Merry Christmas btw 😁
Fun Facts : Santa Claus was created after Odin ( Nordic God)
Elf on the shelf is weird.
Sounds like the USA just makes up new traditions every year. They are great at marketing the new fad (tradition). It would be interesting to see what year a new tradition actually started. Elf on the shelf 2005.
It's how we roll
There's a weird popping sound in the audio. I had to turn off the volume because it was annoying my wife also.
I dont hear it. Maybe your speakers are going out to pasture.
The popping is with the text coming in and out
@@SherriLyle80s Well good reason to buy another tv.
@@WoltersWorldShorts Great video though...even when muted thank you.
@@WoltersWorldShorts FYI: I like the sound effects!!! Especially with a Christmas video. It seems VERY fitting.
80 inch TV for 20$? WHERE???
Have to be honest Christmas in the USA is a disappointment, it’s a one day thing then back to work
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 🤔
USA is far to christmassy for my taste. If I had to watch Christmas stuff in stores from July or even from November I would be overfed and ready to throw up come Christmas. I my family we put up decorations on December 1st, and when the kids were small we decorated the Christmas tree on December 24. But a Merry
Christmas to you and your family. Greetings from Denmark. 🎅🤶🧑🎄🧑🎄
I am over Christmas by Halloween 😆
My whole life blind about Christmas ⛄ just to be told now that Christmas is killing and survival to be white and proud
I'm anti Elf on the Shelf.
It’s ironic that we go from thanksgiving to stomping over people to save a few bucks
Your T shirt is offensive
You obviously don't know the movie
@@ProfessorWolters True, we love your videos and subscribe, we don't understand why Americans have an obsession about causing pain to others or buying guns for 15 year old for Christmas
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!
All these things are fun and nice but most people forgot that we are celebrating Jesus Christ's birth 😔
A friend told me that a deeply rooted Christmas tradition in America is to commit mass shootings, is that right?