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What are your family traditions? (not christmas)

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Manchestermummax3 · 31/07/2025 09:56

Good morning MN!

This is a question my counsellor has given me. Some major life changes happening shortly (house move, just me & the children). 🏡

She's asked me to think about some new traditions that I might like to incorporate into my new 'home/life'.

Not including Christmas, I’m keen to know what things you do throughout the year or are a regular event in your family?

I'm finding having my own choices still quite challenging! 😔

I have 1 under 5 & 1 over 16 for context. I'm almost 40.

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CastorPollux · 31/07/2025 12:02

Family grill night. Two plug in griddle/hotplates on the centre of a huge table with various ingredients in bowls all around them. Think chopped peppers, mushrooms, onions, strips of steak, chorizo and prawns. We all sit around it throwing bits on, cooking and eating as we go.

Pizza nights.

Spring - planting potatoes to pull them up in the summer. I have a picture of this every year.

Halloween - carving pumpkins, making cakes and watching a scary movie with candy.

CaptainCallisto · 31/07/2025 13:46

Ihopeithinkiknow · 31/07/2025 11:22

I love this and I love the fact that if your son goes on to have kids when he is older that it will pass down to them because it’s all he has ever known lol in a few hundred years a family will be sat around on the 16th dec questioning how this day became sausage sandwich day haha

I love that idea!

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Manchestermummax3 · 31/07/2025 14:09

Thank you!!
I appreciate you all sharing your family traditions! ❣️
I also love how so many now adult children still continue them!

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GameOfJones · 31/07/2025 15:32

On your birthday you can request whatever you like for breakfast. DD2 had a cheeseburger this year!

On Shrove Tuesday it is always pancakes with bacon and maple syrup for dinner. We've had it every year for at least 10 years.

I will always cook a Full English breakfast on New Year's Day. It's the only day of the year I cook one at home.

I realise now all mine are food related. 🤣

LadyDanburysHat · 31/07/2025 15:37

These are all so lovely, and the best ones are the ones that come about randomly. Like sausage sandwich day.

In our house everyone gets a box of maltesers on their birthday as part of their presents. We also do an annual trip to the beach on 2nd January, which came about accidentally.

Timeforatincture · 31/07/2025 15:56

CaptainCallisto · 31/07/2025 11:05

Oh! We also do the pub legs game on car journeys. You count up how many legs each pub would have (so the Queen Victoria would be two, The White Hart four etc), and keep track of how many you've passed. If it's something like The Smugglers, or The Coach and Horses where it's not specific, you get twelve legs for a group. It's great on long journeys!

Yeah that's pub cricket! Each leg is a run, and if you get a pub with no legs (eg the crown and anchor) that's a wicket. There's a pub just outside Farnham called the Shepherd and Flock!

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