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Basics |
What Decemember holiday do you celebrate? | |
Do you celebrate more than one? | |
Do you celebrate with your family? | |
Or with your friends? | |
Do you like the holidays? | |
Before the holiday... |
When do you start listening to holiday music? | |
When do you start shopping for holiday gifts? | |
When do you start decorating for the holidays? | |
How do you feel about stores start decorating BEFORE thanksgiving? | |
How about before Halloween? | |
If you had a store, when would you start? | |
Do you know what Black Friday is? | |
Do you go shopping on Black Friday? | |
Do you really get the best deals on Black Friday? | |
Is it worth getting up early and pushing through crowds? | |
Traditions |
What's your favorite holiday tradition? | |
Does your family (or you) have any weird holiday traditions? | |
Are there any traditions you wish you had? | |
Is your family (or you) very traditional? | |
If you had to get rid of one tradition, which would it be? | |
If you could add one tradition, what would it be? | |
Are there any traditions that you've stopped doing as you've gotten older? | |
Any that you've started as you've gotten older? | |
Any that you'd pass down to your children? | |
Any that you think EVERYONE should do? | |
Any that you think NO ONE should do? | |
Whats the weirdest tradition you've heard about? | |
Do you... |
Go caroling? | |
Give money to the salvation army? | |
Donate money to another cause around the holidays? | |
Spend the holidays with your family? | |
Do the decorating? | |
Hang christmas lights? | |
Light the menorah? | |
Bake holiday cookies? | |
Drive around to see the christmas lights? | |
Have annoying neighbors? | |
Give gifts to your family? | |
Give gifts to your friends? | |
Give gifts to your neighbors? | |
Believe in santa? | |
Believe that people are friendlier around the holidays? | |
Believe that there should be world peace? | |
Where do you... |
Go holiday shopping? | |
Go for the holidays? | |
Go to get your christmas tree (if you have one)? | |
Hide your holiday presents? | |
Exchange gifts with your family? | |
Exchange gifts with your friends? | |
Exchange gifts with others? | |
Gifts, presents and surprises, oh my! |
Are you exchanging gifts with anyone this year? | |
If so, with who? | |
Who gives you the best presents? | |
Who gives you the worst presents? | |
Who do you like to buy presents for the most? | |
Who do you like to buy presents for the least? | |
If you had a million dollars, what's the one gift you would buy for you? | |
If you had a million dollars, what's one gift you'd buy for someone else? | |
What gift do you want the most this year? | |
What gift do you want the least? | |
Are there any gifts you get every year that you love? | |
Are there any gifts you get every year that you hate? | |
How many people to you give gifts to? | |
Do you make your gifts or buy them? | |
Do you spend too much money at the holidays? | |
Or not enough? | |
Do you prefer homemade gifts? Or bought ones? | |
Do you prefer gift cards? Or real gifts? | |
Do you prefer gift cards? Or cold hard cash? | |
What's the best present you've gotten for someone else? | |
Have you done all your holiday gift shopping or making? | |
How much longer do you think it'll take you if you haven't? | |
When did you start? or When do you plan on starting? | |
Whats the worst part about holiday gift shopping or making? | |
How much do you spend on average buying or making gifts? | |
Does that come out even to what you recieve? | |
Is giving better than recieving? | |
Is it the thought that counts? | |
Have you ever really gotten socks or underwear as a gift? | |
Do you like to wrap gifts? | |
Do you wrap all your own gifts? Or get someone else to do it? | |
Do you wrap anyone else's gifts so they don't have to? | |
Do you know anyone who hates to give gifts? | |
Do you know anyone who hates to recieve gifts? | |
Favorites |
Holiday food? | |
Holiday cookie? | |
Holiday drink (soft)? | |
Holiday drink (hard)? | |
Holiday song? | |
Holiday decoration? | |
Holiday story? | |
Holiday movie? | |
Holiday memory? | |
Holiday smell? | |
Holiday weather? | |
Holiday sound? | |
Holiday sight? | |
Would you... |
Give up your holiday to help those less fortunate? | |
Skip your holiday dinner? | |
Give all of your presents to someone who didn't get any? | |
Spend all of your holiday baking so others could eat? | |
Spend your holiday in another country? | |
Spend your holiday with a family you didn't know? | |
Send your holiday in the hospital to spread love? | |
Give your holiday money to someone who needed it? | |
Take someone who was stranded on the holidays into your house? | |
Spend your holiday caring for the sick? | |
Memories... |
Who in your family has the most fun with the holidays? | |
Do you remember the first present you got? | |
What was your favorite present when you were little? | |
What was your favorite thing about the holidays when you were little? | |
Did you believe in Santa Clause? | |
What was the worst year for the holidays? | |
Is there anyone you used to share the holidays with that you'd like to now? | |
Are there any friends you wish you were still in touch with? | |
Any holiday traditions you wish you could bring back? | |
Deeper Questions... |
Are the holidays becoming too commercialized? | |
What is the TRUE meaning of the holidays? | |
Do you ever forget about it? | |
Does gift giving promote shallowness in people? | |
Or does it promote generosity? | |
Does money you donate really go to the charities? | |
If you could remove one aspect of the holidays, what would it be? | |
Are the holidays when you "have" to be nice? Or when you really are nice? | |
Does your family get along during the holidays? | |
Do you work from home even when you have off for the holidays? | |
This or that |
Fuzzy hats or scarves? | |
Lyrical holiday music or instrumental? | |
Sugar cookies or another kind? | |
Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer? | |
A Christmas Story or A Christmas Carol? | |
Chrismakuh or Kwanzakuh? | |
Friends at the holidays or family? | |
Lots of snow or a little snow? | |
Old traditions or new ones? | |
Religious holidays or Modern holidays? | |
Shop early or shop last minute? | |
Christmas cookies or latkes? | |
Black Friday sales or After Christmas sales? | |
Wrapping gifts or unwrapping gifts? | |
Big parties or small get togethers? | |
Eggnog or Cider? | |
Chanukah or Hanukah? | |
X-mas or Christmas? | |
And the holiday arrives! |
What time do you get up on your holiday of choice? | |
When do you open presents? | |
When do you have dinner? | |
Who do you visit or who comes to visit you? | |
Do you dress up? | |
Do you go to church/synagogue/other? | |
Whats the best part of the day? | |
Whats the worst? | |
When do you go to bed? | |
After the holiday... |
What do you do the day after? | |
Leftovers, good or bad? | |
How long does it take you to get bored of your presents? | |
Or don't you? | |
When do you take down the decorations? | |
When do you stop playing the music? | |
Do you find decorations or music after the holiday annoying? | |
Whats the worst thing after the holiday is over? | |
Whats the best? | |
How soon do you start thinking about the holiday NEXT year? | |
Do you always "promise" to do something differently the next year? | |
And then never do it? | |
What do you look forward to? | |
And New Years... |
Where do you celebrate New Year's Eve? | |
Do you throw or go to a party? | |
Do you watch the countdown and the ball drop on TV? | |
Do you wear silly party hats? | |
Or cheer at midnight? | |
How many new years resolutions do you make? | |
Do you usually keep them? | |
Is there one that shows up on your list every year? | |
But you never keep? | |
Do you kiss someone at midnight? | |
Is there anyone you want to kiss at midnight this year? | |
And the end... |
If you could tell your friends one thing to get you what would it be? | |
If you could tell your family one thing to get you what would it be? | |
If you could have one wish for the world what would it be? | |
If you could tell the world one thing about your holiday what would it be? | |
If you could make one person's holiday perfect, whose would it be? | |
If you could have one person with you for the holidays who would it be? | |
You're done! Happy Holidays! | |
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