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!
Pumpkin pie for breakfast the day after Thanksgiving
Listening to Jim Reeves’ 12 songs of Christmas! Growing up, my mom loved this album. Sobshe played it every christmas. Now Christmas doesn’t officially start for me until I’ve heard this album
We split holiday time with the kids with my husband’s ex-wife. I love all of the normal kid Christmas stuff, but my husband and I have started doing our own low-key mini-celebration when we don’t have the kids. We exchange stockings, go out for lunch, and just spend the day cuddled up by the fire. It’s a nice little calm treat in the midst of the holiday craziness.
Cooking and baking with my family. Especially making my moms praline recipe!
Every Christmas Eve I make snickerdoodle cookies with my daughter to leave out for Santa. It is an old family recipe, and I love being able to pass that down to her.
Putting on that holiday weight from all the social events. I mean, you gotta bulk up for the winter, right?
Besides the decorating tree & house, and baking lots and lots of cookies, I love the holiday tradition my sister started with her family, where everyone gets new pajamas for Christmas Eve – even a visiting Auntie! <3
Every year on Christmas eve I go to the local pantomine in the afternoon with my children and our friends. Afterwards we head home for supper before i spend the evening with a few glasses of champagne and watch Die Hard (one year i’ll manage to pick a different film!) until everyone is asleep and i can take out the presents.
The whole day is stress free after the chaos of the buildup and getting ready. I love just sitting all cosy and peaceful in the house with the tree lights twinkling.
Every year I promise myself I will wrap my presents in small manageable amounts as I buy them, then every year I end up wrapping them all once at the very last minute while watching Grosse Pointe Blank. I’ve started to look forward to it in an odd way.
Every year, we do New Year’s stockingswith our best friends. Of course, these are not your normal stockings. My family tradition is that you buy at the largest pair of pantyhose that you can find, cut the legs off, and then stuff those. At one point, I have gotten a basketball in my stocking.
Lighting Chanukah candles. Followed closely by my grandma’s oatmeal cookies (making and eating).
Doing holiday puzzles with family is my favorite thing
My favorite tradition growing up was going to pick a tree with my mom. That and going shopping with her. So reall my favorite was just spending time with her.
I love making latkes with my grandmother this time of year. We eat them with sour cream and a little dill. So delicious.
I always enjoy putting my Christmas tree up on Thanksgiving morning. That way, it’s done, and I can enjoy it the rest of the holiday season.
My family lives in Florida and we go to the beach the day after Christmas. Thanks!
The family gift exchange ia my favorite. It always has a theme. One year it was you had to buy it from a gas station, another year the gift couldn’t contain plastic. We like a challenge 🙂
I love, love, love decorating the house for Christmas. It puts me in such a great mood.
Everyone else’s comments sound so fun, wholesome and loving. Wow. Mine… aren’t. Can’t say they’re my favorite but they are memorable: mom & dad arguing over the tree decorating EVERY YEAR and dad throwing a hissy fit & quitting before it was done. Which then meant the three of us could do the rest in relative peace & quiet. (He was really only good for putting up and taking down the tree and should have stopped there. But no.)
Other than that, finally admitting defeat over having back-to-back turkey holidays and happily switching out Christmas for an all-Italian feast stands out. Much better overall, really. And the leftovers rock.
I make tamales (when time allows)/enchiladas &tres leches cake for Christmas Eve.
My favourite holiday tradition is turning on the Christmas music on Dec 1 and having Christmas music through to the first week in January.
Since I was little we stay inside in our pajamas all day on Christmas and no one comes to our house. Full disclosure I do this on some days that are not Christmas, too…
My fav Christmas tradition is getting a read tree.
I love making fancy granola just before Christmas and then giving batches of it to my co-workers and family members. It tastes great and is fun to make.
We eat donuts on Christmas morning that were left by “Santa” so those who do most of the domestic labor (ahem! the women of the house!) are not rushing around cooking breakfast and can instead relax and enjoy the morning. A *feminist* and practical tradition!
Watching “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street” (You have no idea how thrilled I was to find the latter on DVD, many years after it stopped airing.)
I like the Finnish tradition of preparing a boatload of food for the Christmas Eve meal, and then eating leftovers during every meal on Christmas and only cooking new stuff when the old stuff runs out. No one is chained to the kitchen during the holiday, only in the days preceding it. 😉
(I don’t like my family’s tradition of cooking more of the same as the old stuff runs out. Enough is enough. Too much of the same good thing and it loses its specialness.)
My favourite Christmas/Winter tradition is watching the Muppets Christmas Carol – the one with Michael Caine as Scrooge-. I used to watch it as a kid with my brothers and when I moved to another country (UK to the US) I went out and bought the film just so I can re-watch it every Christmas!
My favorite Hanukkah tradition is going to a Hanukkah concert located downtown. It’s free to the public, and it is so nice to bring so many Jewish people together.
Those socks are so cute. I keep thinking about buying some like that for people in my family.
I love how my family stretches the holidays out. Usually my parents and I have a small and usually kind of fancy Christmas Eve dinner and do some present opening. Then we go up to NJ to my brother’s house and have brunch and open so many presents and are relaxed and hanging out together.
After decorating my house, sitting in my living room with all the lights twinkling, music playing, enjoying some hot boozy beverage and petting my dog.
Making too much food on Thanksgiving, having competitive Easter egg hunts, watching the ball drop on New Year’s.
Listening to the Jimmy Buffett Christmas Island album with the kids on Christmas.
We have friends who host an all day family-friendly all-neighbors-welcome open house on New Year’s Day. Now that we have kids, New Year’s Eve isn’t really a big thing, but New Year’s Day is a blast- we kind of just drop in and out periodically, everyone who comes early is still in pajamas, and it’s just super chill.
My husband and I’s private Christmas. Since the holidays are so busy we like to take at least one day in December for just the two of us. Usually this celebration involves exchanging our gifts to each other, him making one of his five star dinners and me mixing some sort of holiday cocktail. It’s a nice little reprieve from how busy the holidays can get.
Sleep-in days!! (no, I don’t have kids – why do you ask?)
My favorite holiday tradition is sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee watching the kids open their presents. They are all grown or mostly grown now but I still love it.
Julekake – Norwegian Christmas bread with cardamom, candied citron, and dried fruit. It’s a very fine-textured bread that makes divine-tasting toast.
Homemade cinnamon rolls in the morning.
Christmas crackers, chocolate oranges, cutting down Christmas tree.