Christmas Fun Questionairre - I'm having a nosey moment!!

[Sparkler]

Which best sums up your Christmas?

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey?
2 - Real or Reusable Tree?
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags?
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em?
5 - Christmas at home or away?
6 - Big family get together or quiet time?
7 - Open presents before or after dinner?
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech?
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter?
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert?
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day?
12 - Do you celebrate New Year?

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1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Fresh
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Reusable
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? recycle
5 - Christmas at home or away? Home. Am going to find out about going away next year though - would love to try it one year
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? Famly get together but unfortunately not by choice - lol!
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? BEFORE
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? No, but did get pressurised into watching it one year with MIL
9 - What do you have for your Christmas Starter? Prawn Cocktail
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? Good old Christmas pud with brandy sauce and cream
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? Get together with in-laws, our turn to have them to ours this year will be about 20 or so of us, 9 of which are under the age of 10 - gah!!
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? No, I hate it!

1. Fresh
2. Reuseable, but would prefer real
3. paper
4. recycle
5. away but staying at relatives
6. big family thing
7. before
8. no
9. don't have one( unless you count chocolate)

10. Xmas pudding and cream 11. Same as Xmas day, but cold meat and bubble, Loads of family, eat drink and be merry 12. no

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Dunno, Dad does dinner
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Resusable
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? Recycle
5 - Christmas at home or away? Away (always)
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? BFG
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? Before
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? No, never - could couldn't make me.
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? I'm hoping prawn cocktail
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? Creme Caramel hopefully
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? Me and dd hang out with family, dp the annual poker tournament (which he always wins)
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? Usually have a couple of guests, nothing big.

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey?
No turkey, chicken in this house
2 - Real or Reusable Tree?
Reusable tree
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Depends if I can be arsed to wrap and what shape present is, normally bit of both
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em?
bin
5 - Christmas at home or away?
home or parents
6 - Big family get together or quiet time?
immediate family gathering
7 - Open presents before or after dinner?
before
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech?
no
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter?
prawn cocktail
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert?
a box of heros!
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day?
Same as every other day..
12 - Do you celebrate New Year?
No

1-Fresh crown
2-Reusable
3-both
4-recycle
5-home
6-quiet time
7-BEFORE!!!!
8-Pah-never
9-Starter?No thanks i'm saving room for dessert.
10-Pavlova or christams pudding
11-Avoid the in laws
12-Not now we have a son and i'm 35 weeks pg.

1 - Fresh (not turkey though)
2 - Real Tree
3 - Wrapping paper
4 - Christmas cards - recycle 'em
5 - Christmas at home
6 - Quiet time (on Christmas Day; busy rest of time)
7 - Open presents before dinner
8 - Queens Speech - yes
9 - Don't do starter for Christmas lunch
10 - Christmas pudding for me
11 - Boxing day - my parents and DHs parents coe over for afternoon/dinner; our siblings may do to
12 - New Year - not really these days

1. fresh turkey
2. Real tree
3. Wrapping paper (brown paper with ribbons which are reusable)
4. recycle christmas cards
5. Christmas at my mum and dad's home (which was my home for 10 years)
6. Big family get together
7. The children open a few presents before dinner, the rest afterwards
8. Don't watch the Queen's speech
9. Usually smoked salmon from our annual hamper (from my mum's work) for starter
10. There's usually a Christmas pudding from the hamper but we don't normally have much.
11. Boxing day we see family, go for a walk, generally relax.
12. Normally I do celebrate new year, but with a 15 month old and no babysitter, we're staying in this year - next year we're hiring a cottage somewhere with some friends.

Gladdens my heart that nobody (as yet) watches the Queen's Speech.

Am lol at - "Do you watch the Queens Speech? nope - dr who every year though"

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Fresh

2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Real if I can get one..only one place left in town with them and it was closed today!!

3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? FT Newspaper

4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em?
Bin

5 - Christmas at home or away?
Home but with all my closest family shipped in

6 - Big family get together or quiet time?
Both

7 - Open presents before or after dinner?
Durrr, before breakfast!!

8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech?
No

9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter?
Prawn cocktail with irish wheaten bread

10 - What do you have for Christmas desert?
Bird's trifle because I love it and christmas pud for the rest

11 - What do you do on Boxing Day?
Bake fresh bread and have a buffet fandango

12 - Do you celebrate New Year?
Drugs and dancing

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? fresh
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? both this year (real one in garden resuable indoors)
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? recycle
5 - Christmas at home or away? my parents (10mins away)
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? big family get together
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? before (but not all of them they are spread over 2 days)
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? no
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? prawn cocktail / pate
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? too full
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? all the inlaws here
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? not since the dds arrived

1. frozen
2. reusable tree
3. mix of both but mostly wrapping paper
4. recycle if we can - but mostly go in ds making draw as council is funny about taking them
5. away - we visit family on the day but they are all in same town so no more than 15 mins driving each way. We also drop in on friends.
6. not big get together - just parents and 1 sibling each and we see one lot in morning and one in afternoon.

7.we open throughout day. Ours at home in morning and then go to my parents and open presents there. Then go to dp's parents late afternoon and open more there.

1. no - don't tend to watch any telly at all.

9 & 10 we don't have one and we don't tend to have pudding either as turkey and trimmings fills us all up. 11. Boxing day - we either go out somewhere with extended family (e.g. zoo) or we stay at home, but nothing pressurised and all easy going. 12. NY always goes wrong for us () so we tend to have a couple of friends over for a quiet meal or just laze around.

Fresh turkey
Real tree
Wrapping paper
recycle
Home
Big family get together
Open before dinner
Watch the Queen's speech (me and my mother only!)
Smoked salmon
Christmas pud
Cold turkey and salads. A walk.
Hate New Year!

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Fresh
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Real
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? Paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? Recycle
5 - Christmas at home or away? Home
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? Bigger the better
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? Both
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? No
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? Chocolate from stockings
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? Chocolate from stockings
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? Bike ride/dog walk visit family
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? Yes

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? - Frozen
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? - Reusable (qty 5!)
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? - Wrapping Paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? - Recycle of course
5 - Christmas at home or away? - Home
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? - Us plus both sets of parents
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? - Before
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? - Occasionally
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? - Don't have one
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? - Christmas pudding or another sort such as sticky toffee pudding
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? - Pretty much the same as the day before!
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? - No, in bed for about 11pm

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? - Neither pork or beef

2 - Real or Reusable Tree? - reusable

3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? - Wrapping paper

4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? - recycle

5 - Christmas at home or away? - home

6 - Big family get together or quiet time? - quiet time

7 - Open presents before or after dinner? - before

8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? - no

9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? - no

10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? - fruit salad if anyone wants it.

11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? - go to inlaws for dinner and afternoon

12 - Do you celebrate New Year? - no dh on call.

1. neither - fresh chicken or lamb
2. Reusable tree
3. wrapping paper
4. recycle cards
5. Alternate
6. Alternate
7. After breakfast
8. If my mother is staying
9. Whatever I feel like preparing - melon
10. Christmas pudding
11. Go to the Boxing day meet
12. yes

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Am veggie, but the rest fo them have fresh.

2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Real.

3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? Bit of both.

4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? Girls have them for cutting up, so re use.

5 - Christmas at home or away? Actual day is away.

6 - Big family get together or quiet time? Family.

7 - Open presents before or after dinner? Before.

8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? no.

9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? No starter.

10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? Xmas pud or trifle (proper trifle )

11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? Stay at home and eat more.
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? Only dh and I- nice meal and drink at home.

1 - Fresh
2 - Reusable
3 - Wrapping paper
4 - Recycle 'em
5 - Away (well, at my mum and dad's which is pretty much home really)
6 - Big family get together
7 - Open presents before dinner (usually at about 6am )
8 - Never have, never will
9 - Prawn cocktail
10 - Mince pies for me, xmas pud, chocolate log or tunis cake for everyone else
11 - Chill out, eat leftovers, watch the DVDs we were given as xmas gifts
12 - Not since DD (single parent, no babysitter)

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey?

Fresh this year after last year's disaster with a frozen one!

2 - Real or Reusable Tree?

Real and massive!
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags?

Wrapping paper, I love the wrapping!

4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em?

I just keep them to keep hold of addresses but I have made my own in the past by cutting up the old ones.

5 - Christmas at home or away?

Home - though I once spent a fab Christmas in Poland with oodles of snow.

6 - Big family get together or quiet time?

Last couple of years it's been a quiet one. We don't have big family christmases as we're a small family. My mum is going to Devon this year!

7 - Open presents before or after dinner?

Before - as soon as we get up. And on at midnight on christmas eve!

8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech?

No but my dad used to record it and then edit it to make her say stupid things!

9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter?

Champagne at about 10 am

10 - What do you have for Christmas desert?

Christmas pudding and pavlova.

11 - What do you do on Boxing Day?

Last year I spent 4 hours scanning old photographs, this year I might just veg in front of the tv

12 - Do you celebrate New Year?

Yes - usually go to a club, this year am spending it with family.

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? - Fresh
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? - Reusable
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? - Wrapping paper
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? - recycle
5 - Christmas at home or away? - home
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? - Christmas lunch with my parents and brother, Boxing day with DH's 2 Brothers and their families. Goodness, I thought it was quiet but maybe not!
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? - both. Father Christmas presents before lunch, family ones after. (seems we are in the minority on this one - what horrible parents we are[fwink}
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? - if we remember so probably not!
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? - nothing, main course is big enough. (But then I personally never have a starter, I prefer pudding)
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? - Christmas pudding and brandy butter.
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? - Family get-together
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? - No. Quite apart from baby sitting being a nightmare, I don't like it.

1 - Fresh Turkey or Ham
2 - Real Tree
3 - Wrapping paper
4 - Christmas cards, recycle
5 - home or away - varies
6 - Big family get together
7 - Open presents before
8 - Alt Queens Speech
9 - starter varies
10 - desert - at least 4 choices
11 - rest
12 - yes

1 - Fresh or Frozen Turkey? Fresh
2 - Real or Reusable Tree? Real
3 - Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper (plus one reused gift bag for brother to take presents away in today)
4 - Christmas cards, bin 'em or recycle 'em? Let 'em hang around in a pile for six months, finally get round to recycling
5 - Christmas at home or away? Almost always away, at home this year
6 - Big family get together or quiet time? Both - only have a small family
7 - Open presents before or after dinner? Again, both! It'll take DD all day to get through hers
8 - Do you watch the Queens Speech? No, zzzzzz.
9 - What do you have for you Christmas Starter? Don't have starters, I don't think they 'go' with Christmas dinner
10 - What do you have for Christmas desert? Chocolate roulade, can't stand Christmas pud
11 - What do you do on Boxing Day? Depends on where we are, this year taking the in-laws to my parents' house for lunch (parents and in-laws have met twice before, and will be seeing each other two days in a row, might be 'interesting')
12 - Do you celebrate New Year? Not really, this year will be escaping the noisy neighbours by staying at my parents' house!