Are you American??

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This year, my plan is an American Christmas, I know I will never get the American movie Christmas that I so desperately long for!!!

Things just seem so much bigger, and better, the dream is to spend a Christmas in Vermont, and I want to go to bronners Christmas store....and I want an absolutely insanely decorated house!!!

I want American Christmas ornaments etc, if any of my fellow Christmas fanatics are state side - I’d love to do Christmas ornaments swaps, or if there are any recommendations of where I can buy things, I’d love to hear them!

I know exactly what you mean! I like the way they dress in the Christmas movies- leggings, big socks, colourful polo neck under a Christmas sweater that's all oversized- it looks so cosy and comfy!

I watched far too many Ch5 Christmas Movies last year.

Before the Dream American Christmas , it was the Dream Victorian Christmas (which would only have worked if you had a draft of staff doing the work behind the scenes )

The Dream American Christmas seems to involve a lot of cupcakes , cookies with sprinkles , hot chocolate, eggnogg .....makes me feel a tad queasy thinking of eating that.

But the decorations, the neighbours popping round with gift bags, the snow (which is either lovely settled and doesn't stop you getting from A-B / blocks the road and cuts off entire villages/starts to fall at just the right time on Christmas Eve ) rather than grey drizzle and damp.

I bought some Christmas items from QVC years ago (company called "Mr Christmas" ) from the USA, they are lovely . My DS was obsessed with Barney the Dinosaur films, they always did 'proper' Christmas in BarneyLand

Pottery barn kids now has an UK site. I ordered gorgeous quilted stockings from there in the sales for next year. Their decorations are lovely. I also love their Halloween stuff.

I know what you mean! I think my obsession must come from watching Home Alone at the age of 10, for around two years it was all I would watch.

I'm an American and Ip'm not going to ruin your fantasy

What would you have for Christmas dinner? I'm not American but in my experience the usual turkey dinner isn't a tradition there (unlike Thanksgiving!)

I grew up with Christmas ham in my region of the US.

I'm guessing you want an American TV Christmas that's based in the NE US.

I am from the southwestern US so wearing coats and jackets and seeing snow is definitely foreign to me. Last Christmas 2019, it was in the '70's and we had the a/c on.

I'm also Mexican American so my family does have ham for Christmas dinner but we also eat the traditional tamales and champurrado (a chocolatey hot maize drink with cinnamon) and presents are opened on Christmas Eve at midnight after Midnight Mass. Some Christmases, we've been known to have brisket bbq that's cooked low and slow over mesquite.

My point is that American Christmases are quite varied around the US. Thanksgiving is a bit more standard around the country.