‘Unusual’ Christmas traditions you wouldn’t believe

Are you the family who likes to pull out Monopoly, or settle down with a whipped hot chocolate and a film?

Or could your family gathering extend to close friends to make a Christmassy party that is full of laughter?

For some, however, Christmas isn’t a day to enjoy with loved ones – whether they’re family or not.

One posted to Reddit: “If I’m not at work I choose to spend Christmas on my own, which I suppose is unusual.”

Another added: “Christmas tradition [is] spending all of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day visiting family individually because nobody gets along.

“Roll on Boxing Day where I will be in the pub for 12 hours actually relaxing.”

Another, albeit more merry, Christmas tradition is where a son and father “paddle in a lake” on Christmas Day.

One nuclear family like to follow their own traditions. “We have our Christmas dinner in the evening on Christmas Eve,” the post revealed.

“Normally, it’s just us and the kids… no one else, though. On Christmas Day… no one [is] allowed to visit, and we [don’t] travel.”

Instead of having extended family over, this family spends the whole day in pjs, eating leftovers from the day before.

“We visit or entertain [other family members] from Boxing Day onwards,” the poster added.

Somebody else noted: “Me, my brother and my dad buy each other whiskey for Christmas.

“My mum, on Christmas Day, opens all the whiskey (six bottles) and organises a blind whiskey taste competition with us trying to match the whiskey to the bottle.”