Does anyone get Christmas carollers?

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I've just seen a post on fb about someone getting Christmas carollers last night! Do people still do this

saw quite a big sally army brass band and carollers in the city centre last year - they were great

Never seen carolers in my life I thought it only happened on tv. Well I've seen the ones in city centres but never the door to door ones.

I go carolling! There’s a hand-bell group in the village so we go out with them and sing at various points, ending up with mulled wine at the pub. It’s so lovely, and people are always hugely appreciative, though we don’t collect any money but gratefully accept mince pies!

too bloody cold here (not uk)

when going outside makes you gasp, it's too cold for carolling

People from a local church sang outside our door a couple of years, we hurried to give them some money but they weren't collecting, they just wanted to wish us a happy Christmas!

Thankfully not. I can't imagine anything worse.

Not anymore but I used to find it very lucrative when I was a child

We have santa on a sledge that comes round one evening near to christmas which has been happening for as long as i can remember.

Lovely tradition and kids love it. Run by the rotary group who collect for charity.

It was how I got money for Christmas presents when I was a child 70s) Very lucrative.
I've never had any come to my door as an adult though.

Salvation Army every year. I love it.

@Babdoc, what a lovely post !

Not for a few years, and when we did it was just kids singing, 'We wish you a merry Christmas' - just the chorus - and expecting money. I'd give them a quid, but if they'd bothered to sing a proper carol nicely I'd have given them more.

Last year there was a school choir singing in John Lewis - it was lovely.
I love the Sally Army bands, too.

We don’t. Thankfully.

I asked in our village as I thought the church choir might. I was told no one answered the door anymore so they gave up. I like the idea of not collecting, just singing for fun so I might look at reviving this next year (new to running a church choir so I may be a bit overenthusiastic. )

We have the salvation army. They're really good. Everyone comes out and stands outside/walks up and down as they go. Its really nice.

Not visiting the house but there are carollers in the foyer all Tesco as well as in the shopping centre in the nearby city centre. We've also seen them at the garden centre and the Xmas lights switch on. I remember going Christmas carolling door to door as a child but that doesn't happen now. I don't know when it stopped.

I've never had carollers or Santa with elves as pp mentioned. When I lived in SE London about 12 years ago, we would get Jehovah's Witnesses on Christmas Day morning! We would be opening presents and about to sit down to a late breakfast and then they'd knock at the door. I lived there for 3 years and it happened every year. Since moving I've lived in various places in and around London and now recently live in a small village and no one has ever come around since then.

One year when I lived in a not so nice part of a big city I had a dad turn up with what I’d assumed to be his young daughter and he was forcing her to sing. It was all very sad. I surmised from the way dad acted and looked he was an addict of kinds possibly wanting to obtain money for said addiction. It was freezing out, I felt so sorry for her.

Other than that, nope no carollers.