People Are Sharing Their Family's Absolute Weirdest Holiday Traditions, And I'm Inviting Myself To The Next Gathering

Every household celebrates the holidays successful their ain unsocial way. We precocious asked the BuzzFeed Community to archer america astir the vacation traditions they did increasing up that they present recognize are really beauteous darn weird. People had a batch to stock — present are immoderate of the champion responses!

Note: Some of these responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

1. "My household enactment connected a full-fledged endowment amusement connected Thanksgiving nighttime for years called 'The Turkey Show,' and you HAD to beryllium successful it. No 1 got a pass. Those were immoderate of the funnest nights of my childhood."

2. "We play a Christmas crippled called 'Who sees the astir Christmas trees?' It started arsenic a emblematic car-traveling crippled to walk the clip erstwhile I was a young girl: You had to constituent retired immoderate illuminated Christmas histrion you saw, and the archetypal idiosyncratic who screamed 'tree!' got a point. We inactive play it 30 years later, but it has evolved into a full-fledged contention we play erstwhile taking a walk. We body-check others retired of the way, screen each other's eyes, and effort to sprint to well-known trees to people a point. Half the metropolis thinks we're unhinged erstwhile my 70-year-old parents travel barreling down the street, screaming 'TREE!' from the apical of their lungs, but we ever person the clip of our lives!"

—Anonymous

3. "We marque pizzas and ticker Inglourious Basterds (2009). I person nary thought however oregon wherefore the contented started, but if you inquire us, it's a Christmas movie."

4. "On Christmas Eve, we would spell to my grandparents,' and they ever ordered Pizza Hut's Bigfoot Pizza."

5. "Presents were ne'er exchanged until astatine slightest 8:00 p.m. connected Christmas Day. We utilized to effort to conjecture however precocious successful the time it would be!"

—fuggletim

6. "I person six older siblings, and my parents were ever disquieted astir who we were dating increasing up. Somehow, they made america judge that if you got caught nether the mistletoe, you had to archer everyone successful the country the names of everyone you kissed that year. Looking back, it was creepy."

7. "My ma sewed a tiny babe broad with multi-colored polka dots connected it, and enactment it connected apical of small babe Jesus successful our nativity scene. She kept it connected until precocious Christmas Eve, and would instrumentality it disconnected due to the fact that 'Jesus was calved now.'"

—Anonymous

8. "No 1 knows however this got started, but it’s been going connected for years. Every Thanksgiving aft we devour dinner, we prevention a tin of cranberry condiment to rotation down the stairs similar a Slinky. We telephone it 'the cranberry roll' and look guardant to it each year."

9. "Dad would marque a large cookware of a accepted Nordic blistery intoxicant that tasted similar overgarment thinner. When helium yet deemed it 'ready' aft steeping for respective days, helium made america (literal children) portion it, and would get aggravated if we didn’t privation to."

—Anonymous

10. "After my girl was born, we bonded by watching the archetypal Masters of the Universe cartoon signifier the '80s. She was fascinated by Mister Skeletor, truthful since then, she's gotten an yearly acquisition from Mister Skeletor connected Christmas — the lone time of the twelvemonth erstwhile he's 'nice.' She's received a life-sized foam replica powerfulness sword, enactment figures, comic books, and a reclining Skeletor Funko Pop. She looks guardant to it each year!"

11. "Milk and cookies for Santa, but marque it Italian. When my sister and I were younger, we would permission the accepted cocoa spot cookies and beverage out, on with carrots for the reindeer. I conjecture 1 year, Santa decided he'd had capable of cocoa spot and wrote a missive to america requesting Stella Doro S cookies and Pignoli Cookies. Milk was inactive okay, but helium wanted 2% alternatively of whole. Eggnog was acceptable, but helium had to ticker his caloric intake. We showed my ma the letter, and she rolled her eyes and laughed. Santa received his Italian cookies and sent a missive thanking us."

—Anonymous

12. "On Christmas Eve, we ever had fondue — not cheese, but boiling oil. We would dip bits of beef, mushrooms, and vegetables."

13. "My parents would propulsion a immense enactment connected Christmas Eve, and astatine 11 p.m., we would disagreement everyone successful fractional and sing backmost and distant to each different astir the commencement of Jesus Christ. We besides had a porcelain babe Jesus that we would stone to slumber astatine midnight, and everyone had to buss it. On Christmas Day, radical from the enactment would travel and spell for leftovers, but different than that, it was a mean day."

—Anonymous

14. "I grew up successful the Milwaukee area, which has a large German culture. On Christmas, we were served earthy hamburger with sliced onions connected rye breadstuff and pickled herring. We besides had these bowls of shelled nuts, which cipher liked oregon ate, but were inactive trotted retired each year."

15. And lastly: "We had an indoor excavation and would big excavation parties implicit Christmas break."

—heatherchristie1

Did you person immoderate vacation traditions that you present recognize were really a small weird? Share them successful the comments oregon the anonymous signifier below.