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Christmas is coming (FAST!) - and the team at Lidl would love to hear all about your family Christmas moments - perhaps from your own childhood or memories you are creating with and for your own children?

Are you a super-organised shopper, a festive fashionista in your Christmas jumper, or more of a last-minute panicker? Do you do ‘stir-up Sunday’ to create your perfect Christmas pudding or cake? Is there a tradition of choosing your tree that the whole family look forward to? What about when you were a child - are there older family traditions you recreate or look back on fondly which help get you in the community spirit?

Whatever your Christmas traditions are, Lidl would love to hear them!

Please post them on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get £100 worth of Lidl vouchers (note the winner will be sent 4 x £25 vouchers, one voucher can be redeemed per transaction).

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Family board games with super competitive people and keep scores etched in our brains for life :D

Our family do a lot of traditions I did as a child. On Christmas Eve we always hang a stocking up on the fireplace and put a sack on the sofa for Santa to leave gifts. We always leave a mince pie and a Baileys out. My children also sprinkle 'reindeer' food out the front.

On Christmas morning, stockings are left on the end of beds and the kids bring them in to undo on ours. We then open sacks in the lounge and then family presents.

When we put up the decs, it's done all together as a family.

Not a tradition from when I was a child, but one I do now is buy/make a special bauble for each of the kids.

Always have a chocolate advent and this year I'm doing a book/dvd advent and hope to do this each year.

WE GO AWAY EVERY CHRISTMAS TO SOMEWHERE WARMER

1 of our favourite traditions is to have a glass of Bucks Fizz with our cooked breakfast on Christmas Day Morning

Decorating the tree together is my favourite. We always did it as a family when I was little so it is even more special now I do it with my own. Even now my eldest is 17 I could never decorate the tree without her- and she'd never forgive me if I did!

At the start of December We attend a SANDS remembrance Christmas service in memory of our firstborn daughter, followed by a trip to sainburys to buy mincepies and a toy to donate to the food bank in memory of our girl.

On Xmas eve, we open a present in the evening which contains new pj's, put on said Pj's and cosy up to watch Elf.

We do a small Christmas Eve box, new pyjamas, a Christmassy book for bedtime and reindeer food which we sprinkle on the front lawn so the reindeer know to bring Santa to our house.

We've had the same two teddies on our Christmas tree since I was a toddler

Each year, DP and I buy one fancy new bauble for our tree to add to our collection. Each one means something special.

This year will be the first Christmas with DS, so I can’t wait to do something extra special to mark the occasion.

My fav tradition is our whole Xmas eve, the whole family's my comes round, makes really bad decorations for santa with my DS and have a nice buffet tea with a huge honey ham! Nom nom

Xmas movie - die hard. I insist we watch it while drinking mulled wine

As a child I used to get a "Father Christmas present" right at the end of proceedings. We'd open stocking presents (also from Santa) first thing, but all the others would have to wait until after the church service and Christmas dinner (and its clear-up). Then, once everything else had been opened and tidied into piles, and the rubbish thrown away, me and my sister would be given a clue as to where Santa had left his big present. It was a really nice way to end the day.

Our traditional Christmas is our 4 kids opening 2 or 3 presant each. Eat our xmas dinner then opening a few more. Then they open more 🎁 on boxing day through to new year. We love to spread the presants kids love it like this x

We would hide their Christmas 🎁 all over the house on Christma morning kids running round trying to find their presants love love love it. So emotional when they see what they got 💓💕☺x

When DS and I sit in our jammies all snuggled in together on Christmas Eve. Talking to him about where Santa might be and listening carefully for the sleigh bells (which we always hear). We have some hot chocolate and leave Santa his cookies and Rudolf his carrot. Then we watch The Snowman in bed in anticipation of the next morning. I love Christmas.

Christmas tradition for my family is all being at my mums on Christmas Eve with our Christmas pjs on, staying up late, prepping veg, cooking beef to accompany turkey. Having a tipple (of course!) listening to classic Xmas songs. Always the same, and I will carry this on with my children when there grown up.

We always open our gifts after watching the queens speech :)

It's pure tradition in our family. Christingle, mince pies and carrots laid out for Father Christmas, opening gifts in our PJs, all chipping in to make the dinner, board games, occasional rows over the games. My sister and I always buy each other the same little bag of chocolates. Amazing turkey sandwiches for tea. We all marvel about how much we love turkey but we still only buy it at Christmas!

Opening up your stocking in bed!

End of October/Beginning of November we go to the Christmas tree farm and spend a morning wandering round to pick our perfect imperfect tree. Is it too big? Is it evenly spread? Then we put our name on it and hope to God no ones moved our name or knocked it when we go back in December.

Then in December it is an absolute must in this house that We watch both Xmas series that Nigella did and drool over all the food she makes. Then also watch the one that Delia did in the early 90s which will now forever be known as 'Delias Christmas Brown'

It’s all about the food for me. I love making gingerbeead men with my dd and decorating them! I also have a little tradition of my own, where I simply have to have ‘home alone’ on while decorating the tree!
Growing up, the tradition was that we’d only open presents after dinner at 2pm. Only after meeting dh did I realise that this wasn’t quite normal! I couldn’t believe that some people open their presents when they wake up! Still, it’s installed in me now and I won’t open my presents until after dinner.
Can I start decorating yet, by the way? I can’t wait!

Carrying the girls up to bed on Christmas eve singing Jingle bells.

Shouting he's been on Christmas morning to get them up, they are now both 20 somethings and I still do this.

Thornton's chocolates for breakfast Christmas morning.

presents in pillow cases opened in nanas queen sized bed!

We always go and do the local steam railway Santa special journey, the children just adore the event, I me and my husband adore the festive drink and mince pie, a treat for all of us.

I am super organised. I have everything wrapped already. I like planning when I will get food, and from where. I’ll make lists all over the house, and go through everything again and again. I love planning the food and the wine... port, bubbles.. mmmmm..