Which Holidays Do You Celebrate?

[Medusa]

On Canada Day I put out my flags. Around Christmas I listen to the music and may buy the foods that are on special. Remembrance Day, Nov 11th, is always observed.

Aw, that's really nice. I used to love those type of flags; for spring or as you do, to mark a certain day.

You know, I'm dying to make an "I ♥ Earth" flag. It's a take from an animated show my adult child and I used to love called, Invader Zim.

He's a little, inept, alien living on Earth, trying to blend in, pretending to be human, while he plots to rule the planet. It's really cute and my child and I identified with the "stranger in a strange land" aspect such that they have the symbol of The Irken Army (the alien's home planet's army) tattooed on their wrist.

Anyway, Zim has an "I ♥ Earth" flag in his front yard and I've always thought it would be fun to have one of my own because people will simply assume it's a "crunchy hippie" flag when it's actually about my feeling out of place in the world most of the time. The delicious irony is that the flag will actually work; people will think it's "normal." LOL -- That's a common line from Invader Zim, "I'm normal," or "That's normal you know."

 

[hollydolly]

Didn't know that. Why?

After our revolution it was not celebrated here, not a recognized holiday for 100 years or so. Considered too British.

https://www.grunge.com/297205/this-is-why-scotland-banned-christmas-for-400-years/

Christmas wasn't reinstated in Scotland until the 1940's by which time my parents had gown out of childhood and had never celebrated Christmas nor been given Christmas gifts as children.. so when we came along, we didn't get any either.. they didn't see the necessity for Christmas toys..

ETA.. I should add that this is why Christmas is a big deal for me now.. and has been since my DD was born... I absolutely went over the top completely with gifts for her...

 

[Capt Lightning]

Didn't know that. Why?

After our revolution it was not celebrated here, not a recognized holiday for 100 years or so. Considered too British.

The origins of the prohibition of Christmas in Scotland date back to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Led by the minister John Knox, the country followed the trend begun by Martin Luther in 1517 and officially split from the Catholic Church in 1560, and traditions like Christmas began to be viewed by the new Protestant Church of Scotland as extravagant celebrations that misinterpreted the teachings of the Bible. The church suspended all Christmas celebrations, but Scots weren't really on board. Christmas is fun, and they didn't like being told they couldn't enjoy it anymore. The Scottish authorities encountered such resistance to the suspension of Christmas that the Parliament went so far as to make celebrating it illegal in 1640. It became a crime to observe the "Yule vacations," and the law was indeed enforced. That's right: People were actually put in jail for celebrating Christmas in 17th-century Scotland. How's that for a war on Christmas?

According to Parliament records, another "Act discharging the Yule vacance" was passed in 1690, claiming that the holiday "hath been a great interruptione to the course of justice in this kingdome." So people didn't get the day off. Everyone had to work on Christmas Day and wait until Hogmanay, on New Year's Eve, to party. The obvious real injustice is banning Christmas, and the laws didn't last. They were ultimately repealed at the beginning of the 18th century.

Although the Scottish Parliament revoked the ban on Christmas in 1712, the Church still frowned upon the holiday for centuries, and most people wouldn't so much as hang a wreath in their homes until the 1940s.

Christmas did not become a public holiday until 1871 and boxing day in 1974.

 

[Medusa]

The origins of the prohibition of Christmas in Scotland date back to the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Led by the minister John Knox, the country followed the trend begun by Martin Luther in 1517 and officially split from the Catholic Church in 1560, and traditions like Christmas began to be viewed by the new Protestant Church of Scotland as extravagant celebrations that misinterpreted the teachings of the Bible. The church suspended all Christmas celebrations, but Scots weren't really on board. Christmas is fun, and they didn't like being told they couldn't enjoy it anymore. The Scottish authorities encountered such resistance to the suspension of Christmas that the Parliament went so far as to make celebrating it illegal in 1640. It became a crime to observe the "Yule vacations," and the law was indeed enforced. That's right: People were actually put in jail for celebrating Christmas in 17th-century Scotland. How's that for a war on Christmas?

According to Parliament records, another "Act discharging the Yule vacance" was passed in 1690, claiming that the holiday "hath been a great interruptione to the course of justice in this kingdome." So people didn't get the day off. Everyone had to work on Christmas Day and wait until Hogmanay, on New Year's Eve, to party. The obvious real injustice is banning Christmas, and the laws didn't last. They were ultimately repealed at the beginning of the 18th century.

Although the Scottish Parliament revoked the ban on Christmas in 1712, the Church still frowned upon the holiday for centuries, and most people wouldn't so much as hang a wreath in their homes until the 1940s.

Christmas did not become a public holiday until 1871 and boxing day in 1974.

That was very interesting; thank you for sharing it.

 

[Raddragn]

The few we celebrate are the traditional ones. Halloween is my favorite. While I'm not religious, I thoroughly enjoy Christmas - thinking up and giving gifts to my family is really fun for me. I luv it. Thanksgiving is celebrated - we like Thanksgiving dinner The rest are acknowleged, but not especially celebrated

 

[Medusa]

The few we celebrate are the traditional ones. Halloween is my favorite. While I'm not religious, I thoroughly enjoy Christmas - thinking up and giving gifts to my family is really fun for me. I luv it. Thanksgiving is celebrated - we like Thanksgiving dinner The rest are acknowleged, but not especially celebrated

I love Halloween too.

 

[Jamala]

Christmas was celebrated as early as the fourth century, suggesting that it had almost nothing to do with Jesus Christ and almost all of the traditions are taken from pagan celebrations for the winter solstice known as Saturnalia.
No date was recorded for the birth of Jesus. The long and the short is, I celebrate both.

 

[Tempsontime65]

The ones that don't cost me money.

 

[Supernatural]

Our birthdays (March, May and July, including remembering hubby and son), Mothering Sunday, St Patrick's Day, Thanksgiving, All Hallows Eve, Guy Fawkes Day, St Andrews, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Hogmanay, New Year's Day & Wise Men Day (is when we take decorations down). That's all for now.

However, we used to have a full calendar before son and husband died. We had the day we first met, the day we got engaged and our wedding day plus the birthdays of ourselves and munchkins.

Birthdays growing up were a huge part of our calendar year.
There were 2 birthdays in January
Valentine's Day until Papa died on the date
An engagement in February
March just one which too frequently got combined with Easter
Nothing in April, thankfully lol!
May had another Mother's Day plus 6 birthdays
July there was a birthday and a wedding anniversary
August was quiet, just holidays and finally
September, two wedding anniversaries
Added to this mix were the regular holidays plus some religious observances.

Put it that way, it was extremely busy plus the amount of turkey roasted meals we went through was huge...