Christmas traditions and what Brits love about Christmas

What are some traditions of Christmas that have stuck in your household?

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00:00there has been a little bit of pressure over time yeah felt that they needed to compete to keep up

00:07with people i guess my best advice is no know what it is you want to get out of your christmas if you

00:13want to have a house full and you want to get everybody together but lots and lots of people

00:16choose to have christmas in a much smaller way just them by themselves even by choice

00:22spend the day as ideally you want to spend it um because it's spending the time not spending the

00:29money that's the thing that people will remember as grown-ups i can't remember any christmas present

00:34i received since i was about eight and that's generally true so if you can spend anything

00:40spend time with the people that matter to you i wonder i don't know this but i wonder if the

00:44christmases perhaps brought out the silliness in us all again to really lean into that what we

00:51remember as kids making us feel safe and special and joyful at christmas time um we kind of want

00:57bring that back and design that in for our own family so you know get your santa hat on turn

01:02wham up on the stereo and and that's the christmas i'll be having anyway you gov research has noted

01:08that 12 of respondents to a survey found that they do not enjoy anything about christmas highlighting

01:15the range of feelings people associate with the season while every family has their own festive

01:20routine some traditions shared across the country have origins that stretch back centuries

01:26take the christmas cracker it was invented more than 150 years ago by london baker tom smith who was

01:33inspired by the french bonbon during a trip to paris after adding paper mottos and later hats and

01:41small gifts smith patented the device in 1847 that created the crackers trademark pop a sound meant to

01:49mimic a crackling fire as for christmas dinner turkey didn't become the main event until after the second

01:56world war before that most families served beef or goose with turkey reserved for the wealthy a detail

02:02that gives scrooge's gift of a turkey at the end of a christmas carol added significance wider access to

02:09fridges and lower prices eventually made turkeys the nation's favorite and finally santa claus the modern

02:16figure traces back to saint nicholas a fourth century monk from the region of modern day turkey celebrated

02:23for his generosity and gift giving a legacy that spread across europe and eventually shaped the santa we

02:29highlighted this as a kind of a light that we know today

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