How did you used to spend your Christmas Break?

Ghost Econ · 12-22-2022, 11:36 AM

Just thinking since I'm working from home and my daughter got bored for her Christmas break about an hour into it on Monday. Her only outlet is gymnastics 3 days this and next week, but now she sprained her ankle and is stuck at home until school comes back (yay me).

I honestly don't remember what I used to do on Christmas breaks. I know we had them and I assume I just sat at home playing video games and watching Sportscenter, The Price is Right and Nickelodeon. I only really have vague memories of the times we'd go to grandparents, but that didn't happen nearly as much as my memories want me to believe.

So how did you guys spend your holidays back in the day?

Lathum · 12-22-2022, 12:23 PM

Playing with the new loot, video games, street hockey, friends and cousins houses, probably annoying the shit out of my parents.

albionmoonlight · 12-22-2022, 12:37 PM

Post-Christmas-Day: playing with loot

Pre-Christmas-Day: video games, friends, watching random bowl games.

Swaggs · 12-22-2022, 12:43 PM

Playing video games, playing football and/or basketball (snow = football, dry - basketball), friends at my house or going to theirs, watching sitcom re-runs.

miami_fan · 12-22-2022, 01:08 PM

If we weren't visiting family, family were visiting us. That meant mostly playing outside with cousins and friends,video games, board games and the occasional trip to a theme park.

rjolley · 12-22-2022, 01:33 PM

Christmas break meant being outside everyday playing in the snow. We'd play football, ride sleds, snowball fights...whatever we'd come up with. Once Christmas came, it was all about playing with what I got and checking out the cool gifts everyone else got.

BYU 14 · 12-22-2022, 01:38 PM

Sledding, playing Football in the snow with friends, playing with gifts and checking out what your friends got, watching as much Football as possible, sleepovers, etc. Definitely never got to the point where I was bored and back to school always came too fast.

Young Drachma · 12-22-2022, 01:47 PM

As a kid? It was a blur, mostly family stuff and playing with my new toys.

In college? I used to never go back home, I'd rent a video game system from the video store for the weekend, get food I like and just veg for that week. It was fun.

NobodyHere · 12-22-2022, 01:48 PM

I back in the day I mostly played video games.

Nowadays I mostly play video games.

JonInMiddleGA · 12-22-2022, 01:59 PM

Best I can recall, kidhood break was just playing with the new stuff and integrating it into the old stuff.

Early teen era break was more gaming oriented I think, and then later teen was mostly the same with maybe a hangout or two with friends, mostly listening to whatever new music each of us got.

Ksyrup · 12-22-2022, 02:35 PM

HS and college, I mostly worked. Before that, I assume video games, Strat-O-Matic, shooting hoops outside until it became unbearable, and hanging with friends/GFs.

Lathum · 12-22-2022, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Young Drachma

In college? I used to never go back home, I'd rent a video game system from the video store for the weekend, get food I like and just veg for that week. It was fun.

I remember one year in my 20s I lived in TX and decided not to go back to NJ for the break. I hunkered down, bough all kinds of crappy food and bee and played online poker for about 18 hours a day. So much fun.

GrantDawg · 12-22-2022, 05:33 PM

Walking in the woods. Hanging out on the wood bridge over the creek with a Walkman on my ears. Sneaking cigarettes. Then I turned 9....

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Izulde · 12-24-2022, 06:56 PM

Video games, reading, playing with toys. Watching Rankin-Bass Christmas specials. Chatting on IRC.

Until my grandmother passed away, we used to go up north every Christmas Day to my grandparents'. Christmas Eve Day was the family gathering - massive and at our house when I was a kid. Then as people died or moved away, we had smaller family gatherings at one of my cousin's houses. In the evenings, we'd open our family presents and then go to bed to get up bright and early the next morning for the trek north. We'd stay there about a week and then head home.

The first Christmas after Mom died and Dad was in a memory care facility was the worst. I was in my townhouse in Vegas and it felt like just another day. No presents. No company. Just me and the dog, and the large Christmas tree I put up and decorated (which tree broke after the dog accidentally ran into it while we were playing fetch and sent it crashing to the floor)

12-22-2022, 12:43 PM	#4
Swaggs Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000	Playing video games, playing football and/or basketball (snow = football, dry - basketball), friends at my house or going to theirs, watching sitcom re-runs. __________________ DOWN WITH HATTRICK!!! The RWBL Are you reading In The Bleachers?

12-22-2022, 01:08 PM	#5
miami_fan Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Land O Lakes FL	If we weren't visiting family, family were visiting us. That meant mostly playing outside with cousins and friends,video games, board games and the occasional trip to a theme park. __________________ "The blind soldier fought for me in this war. The least I can do now is fight for him. I have eyes. He hasn’t. I have a voice on the radio, he hasn’t. I was born a white man. And until a colored man is a full citizen, like me, I haven’t the leisure to enjoy the freedom that colored man risked his life to maintain for me. I don’t own what I have until he owns an equal share of it. Until somebody beats me and blinds me, I am in his debt."- Orson Welles August 11, 1946

12-22-2022, 01:33 PM	#6
rjolley College Starter Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Roseville, CA	Christmas break meant being outside everyday playing in the snow. We'd play football, ride sleds, snowball fights...whatever we'd come up with. Once Christmas came, it was all about playing with what I got and checking out the cool gifts everyone else got. Last edited by rjolley : 12-22-2022 at 01:34 PM.

12-22-2022, 01:48 PM	#9
NobodyHere Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2013	I back in the day I mostly played video games. Nowadays I mostly play video games. __________________ "I am God's prophet, and I need an attorney"

12-22-2022, 01:59 PM	#10
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Best I can recall, kidhood break was just playing with the new stuff and integrating it into the old stuff. Early teen era break was more gaming oriented I think, and then later teen was mostly the same with maybe a hangout or two with friends, mostly listening to whatever new music each of us got. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

12-22-2022, 12:23 PM	#2
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	Playing with the new loot, video games, street hockey, friends and cousins houses, probably annoying the shit out of my parents.

12-22-2022, 12:37 PM	#3
albionmoonlight Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: North Carolina	Post-Christmas-Day: playing with loot Pre-Christmas-Day: video games, friends, watching random bowl games.

12-22-2022, 01:38 PM	#7
BYU 14 Coordinator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: The scorched Desert	Sledding, playing Football in the snow with friends, playing with gifts and checking out what your friends got, watching as much Football as possible, sleepovers, etc. Definitely never got to the point where I was bored and back to school always came too fast.

12-22-2022, 01:47 PM	#8
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	As a kid? It was a blur, mostly family stuff and playing with my new toys. In college? I used to never go back home, I'd rent a video game system from the video store for the weekend, get food I like and just veg for that week. It was fun.

12-22-2022, 02:35 PM	#11
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	HS and college, I mostly worked. Before that, I assume video games, Strat-O-Matic, shooting hoops outside until it became unbearable, and hanging with friends/GFs. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

12-22-2022, 05:33 PM	#13
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	Walking in the woods. Hanging out on the wood bridge over the creek with a Walkman on my ears. Sneaking cigarettes. Then I turned 9.... Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

12-24-2022, 06:56 PM	#14
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	Video games, reading, playing with toys. Watching Rankin-Bass Christmas specials. Chatting on IRC. Until my grandmother passed away, we used to go up north every Christmas Day to my grandparents'. Christmas Eve Day was the family gathering - massive and at our house when I was a kid. Then as people died or moved away, we had smaller family gatherings at one of my cousin's houses. In the evenings, we'd open our family presents and then go to bed to get up bright and early the next morning for the trek north. We'd stay there about a week and then head home. The first Christmas after Mom died and Dad was in a memory care facility was the worst. I was in my townhouse in Vegas and it felt like just another day. No presents. No company. Just me and the dog, and the large Christmas tree I put up and decorated (which tree broke after the dog accidentally ran into it while we were playing fetch and sent it crashing to the floor) __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

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