Happy Hanukkah again! We’ve got candles, sufganiyot (jelly donuts that have been on the protein powder all year so they’re MASSIVE) (kidding) (but they are pretty big) and presents!
LOTS of presents for you.
As always, we’re celebrating the SBTB community and all the light and joy you bring, and today’s prize is all about being warm and comfy while you listen to all your favorite things.
Today’s prize is:
A pair of Sudio Tre headphones in white and rose gold!
Big thanks to Sudio for providing this prize! Tak så mycket, y’all!
The Sudio Tre are bluetooth headphones that are lightweight, extremely comfortable, and consistent in their delivery of excellent sound. I really, really like mine. They have a built-in microphone, and a battery life of up to 9 hours.
We’re also pairing them with:
Adorable plush lined slipper socks with CAT FACES on them:
Look at that face! You want your toes to look at you like that, right? Of course.
These socks are for women’s shoe sizes 4-10 (US), and are made of acrylic and polyester. They have plastic skid spots on the bottoms so you don’t slip.
And, finally, we’re going to include a $25 gift card to Amazon, suitable for use on books, audiobooks, or more socks – your choice!
Want to enter? Yay!
Just leave a comment telling us your favorite holiday tradition! It doesn’t even have to be a winter holiday!
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents were permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to build a blanket nest. Pillows, throws, a pet! We want everyone to get cozy for this giveaway. And if you should happen to fall asleep in your little nest, we won’t wake you.
Comments will close Thursday 6 December 2018, at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
Winner update: Congratulations to Evie! Evie, be sure to check your email inbox and spam folders.
Don’t forget to enter the rest of our Hanukkah-palooza giveaways!
We get a live Christmas tree every year and I help my dad decorate it. I do this while wearing gloves since I’m allergic to tree sap and Douglas Firs always make me break out.
Decorating the tree and listening to holiday music
Happy Hanukkah!!!
I love sledding (weather permitting). Especially because of the speed, the creativity of turning just about anything into a sled, and my inability to stop. This usually results in throwing myself off moments before the inevitable crash.
My favourite holiday tradition is having a big family meal with all those I love most and exchanging books. This is shortly followed by escaping those I love most and curling up with my book under the twinkly fairy lights – heaven.
Taking the kids to look at lights around our neighborhood
Taking the kids to look at lights around our neighborhood
Decorating the sukkah!!! 🙂
Lulav and etrog for sukkot
Just sharing the time with my family and friends is THE BEST, whatever we do 😀
My husbands family celebrates Xmas eve with a meal together, followed by (attempting to) singing Xmas carols, then the youngest child will read Ch.2 from the gospel of Luke and then the presents are passed out and opened.
It’s a lovely way to share Christmas.
Making our grandmother’s fruit cookie (love ’em or hate ’em) recipe with my sister, while the “White Christmas” DVD plays in the background.
Watching Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas with my Jewish, pagan, and atheist friends on Christmas Eve.
Helping prepare Christmas dinner (and then eating it).
Getting your choice of dinner and dessert for your birthday! Even if it means grilling outdoors in January or using the oven in July. (Yes, your birthday is a holiday!)
I am by myself for the first time in many years so I am looking to create new traditions. I think one of them will be just sitting down to review the past year-good and bad-and being thankful for it.
Also, my cat and I will be having a lovely Christmas dinner picnic in the living room floor. 🙂
My favorite thing that happens most holidays is playing board games with family after dinner.ff Since I am blind I’m usually just a wild card and answer questions for either team… unless it is a trivia game and they sometimes fight over me. LOL I think those slippers would be the closest I would get two having a cat… They are banned from my household.
Christmas Eve, the kids, husband, and I all open our new Christmas jammies, and drink hot chocolate while watching a movie. Then, kids are off to bed, and the husband and I share a bottle of wine while wrapping the remaining gifts. Makes my heart happy.
My favorite holiday tradition occurs on Thanksgiving. It’s just the kids and my husband for dinner, we chose some years ago to downsize to just us at this holiday, and our local zoo is free that day. While my husband deals with the turkey, the girls and I visit the zoo on a day when it’s very sparse in attendance. If the weather is cold, we do the inside animals for the most part, getting far closer than we can during busy attendance days. We have lunch there, and by the time we head home, the house smells of turkey!
I love having the big Passover meal and trying to get through the whole Haggadah with everyone in your family chatting, getting distracted and enjoying the slow process of eating a meal.
Listening to Christmas carols in the car when we travel to Christmas dinner.
My favorite holiday tradition is making gingerbread cookies with my kids every Christmas Eve!
Fresh crab on Christms Eve.
My six year old is kind of obsessed with creating traditions and rituals so i’ll be interested what he invents. I love running a turkey trot on Thanksgiving (sadly had to skip this year) and baking and giving away Christmas cookies to my sons’ teachers, friends, etc. Because cookies! And sharing!
We get together with my mom and brother on the 23rd to decorate the (live) tree, wrap presents and eat roasted chestnuts
In Germany we celebrate the life of Saint Martin by having little lantern marches/parades through the towns, which end with a bonfire (for example on a sports ground), where the tale of Saint Martin sharing his cloak with a beggar is re-enacted. The children usually make their own lanterns in kindergarten and primary school, and there is lots of singing and (for the adults) mulled wine afterwards. I love it!
Baking and decorating cookies with my nephews when they were young. Now, one of them has asked me to do the same with his little guy. I guess it meant as much to him as it did to me.
Advent calendars! While the men in my house have Godiva chocolate advent calendars, I made my own this year with skin care samples from my favorite all-natural skin care store.
Because its Chanukah, lots of fried food, in particlar making and eating latkes – both potato and sweet potato.
A couple of nights before Christmas (whenever we can get everyone together for a free night—which becomes harder and harder as our children have grown up, have jobs and social lives that don’t include Mom and Dad), we’ll get in the van, swing by Starbucks for a hot drink of choice (mine’s hot chocolate with whipped cream), then drive around the neighborhoods looking at Christmas lights. While we’re driving around, we drink our drinks and listen to Christmas CDs—the first one of which HAS to be Elvis’s Christmas album.
Holiday baking (& eating in general)!
Hmm. Making Christmas cookies with my daughter. We write up our list of cookies and then decide who is making which. I always think of my best friends mom when we do this since she taught me how to make them. It is my favorite part of the Christmas cycle.
My favorite Chanukah tradition is my mom’s fried chicken and latke dinner! it comes but once a year (for good reason – all that oil!)!
I miss Easter egg hunts from growing up. My mom would come up with elaborates puzzles and clues for a treasure hunt instead of running around blind. It grew harder as we grew. We need some new kids in our family to carry it on.
Making Christmas cookies with friends or a group of us always go and see the Nutcracker.
On Christmas Eve, the whole family (now including kiddos) puts on our pjs and watches White Christmas. Egg nog (or something a little stronger) all around. And usually someone cries at the end. Every year. 33 years and counting.
I am not a big Christmas person. In fact, I usually dread this time of year. However, seeing the my daughter’s excitement is fun. She has enough excitement for both us!
During Christmas season (the day after Thanksgiving until New Year’s Eve) members of my family make every dessert they “known for.” Fudge, cookies, brownies, pies, truffles…. It’s a calorically terrible, but amazingly tasty time of year and I love it!
There is a local Catholic shrine in our vicinity, and every year they do a massive lights display. We started taking the kids there on Christmas Eve when they were young, so they could work off some of their excitement. And even now that they’re teens, we still go every Christmas Eve.
I like putting up my “junk” Christmas tree every year. I don’t have a fancy theme or color-coordinated decorations–it’s just a bunch of ornaments I’ve purchased, received, or inherited, and somehow it all comes together in a happy mess!
Making Christmas cookies