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!
Holiday baking, especially Christmas cookies!
Officially “declaring Christmas” by watching A Muppet Christmas Carol (and then watching it a few more times over the course of the month. You can never have too much Muppet in your life).
Baking. Baking and baking and baking, those yummy warm mounds of deliciousness – eggs and sugar and butter…mmmm, butter. Cookies and cakes and pies. Brie in puff pastry. Sausage and cheese balls. And making turkey tetrazzini with the leftovers. Best tradition: a turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwich for breakfast on December 26. Always.
Holiday tv shows and movies. Watching Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman and White Christmas always brings a smile.
My family has been collecting ornaments from a holiday village for years. I love the day we get together to organize the town, debating which shop should go where this year, and sprinkling fake snow over the whole thing to create the perfect winter scene.
Making Christmas cookies and getting together with my sisters to watch The Sound of Music
My favorite holiday tradition is the epic Thanksgiving Monopoly game and the reading of the journals on New Year’s — it’s a time to reflect, when the carnage of the games are done for the season.
Making a Gingerbread house! Of course, after a few days, it cannot be eaten, but so lovely to look at!
Happy Hanukkah!
Baking cookies with my mom and sisters the weekend before Christmas – we laugh so much and generally just have a blast!
Decorating Christmas cookies (the same recipe since my mom was little) with my mom and sisters, and a few friends, too!
I always love tormenting my husband with this golf ball ornament I made in 2nd grade. He is TERRIFIED of it. I think it’s the googly eyes. In any case, every time I decorate the Christmas tree, I hang the ornament over his computer monitor for a day. It’s a testament to his love for me that he stoically puts up with it while devising ways to destroy it.
Every year since my son was born my parents come stay Christmas Eve at my house so we can all be together Christmas morning. I love having the whole family there in the morning to relax and enjoy each other before we need to deal with the extended family at Christmas dinner.
My favorite holiday tradition is the Day After Thanksgiving, I guess known to others as Black Friday. My friends and I get together and everybody pools their leftovers from Actual Thanksgiving, and it’s like a different meal altogether!
My favorite holiday tradition is one I can’t do anymore. When I was a kid, my mother would put on a wonderful Thanksgiving feast with minimal help. That night, while the household slept and It’s a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story played on the downstairs TV, I would clean the kitchen so she could wake to a fresh world. I loved it for the late night and the nostalgic movies and feeling like the Mr Clean version of Santa Claus.
Cleaning my own kitchen for me just isn’t the same.
Every year my mom makes candy, fudge, cornflake wreaths (like rice krispie treats, only with a ton of green food coloring), home-made peanut butter cups, and listens to Christmas music while she does it. And on the day of their tree trimming party, she makes Wassail, which makes the whole house smell like Christmas.
I enjoy setting up the tree with my kids and going to see the lights in our little town.
for Christmas it is putting the ornaments on the tree. Every ornament was a gift or handmade and each one has a story or memory our family associates with it.
Listening to holiday music. My first Christmas in the US (as an exchange student) was just an endless loop of classic Christmas songs. I know there are people who hate it, but it reminds me of my host mom who adores everything about Christmas.
I have two holiday traditions that are favourites! One is that, I own a boutique with my mom, and I grew up with her owning small businesses that I worked on and last minute sales happen on dec 24 so because we’re working on Christmas Eve we have a sneaky bottle of bubbles or special coffee going to keep it festive. My other fave is watching it’s a wonderful life and the ear without a Santa Claus.
Ever since my now 24 year old son was a toddler we’ve had a family baking day between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We still do it but now the kids are much more help and we can do more interesting recipes. Think we’re gonna try a bourbon fudge this year.
My favorite holiday tradition is all about Christmas Eve. I cook up a large batch of chili, leave it simmering on the stove, while we go to Christmas Eve service. Then we come home, eat the chili, and read to our girls (who are now in their 20s!) The Night Before Christmas. We end with sprinkling out some ‘reindeer food” outside, and leaving cookies and milk out for Santa.
Watching my kids check out their stockings. Now that they’re older, the presents aren’t as exciting, but I still get a kick out of seeing them empty out their (giant, knitted–those suckers expand for days!) stockings on Christmas morning.
My favorite holiday tradition is everyone getting to open 1 gift on Christmas Eve, but it’s always the same gift: matching PJs. Then we all change into them, so we’re extra cute and matchy on Christmas morning.
Christmas cookies!
Every year for Valentine’s Day, my mom writes is each a poem, usually about what’s happening in our lives. They’re always pretty crafty too. A couple of years ago, she turned them in to a photo book as well.
Making Christmas dinner. Ours a loot of work but there’s lots of people around and everything smells great.
Happy Hanukkah!
My fave holiday tradition is taking ornaments out of the box and remember where they came from and why they’re special.
Decorating the Christmas tree since every ornament has its own special memory
Baking the same cookie recipes I’ve made my entire life – hershey kiss peanut blossoms.
For Christmas Eve our family dinner consists of all finger foods and appetizers – mini meatballs, cheese and crackers, shrimp, etc…
And then we open gifts!
Everyone sitting around the fire – reading! It happens! for an hour or so, but I love Christmas afternoon.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking. No matter the holiday or occasion, I have the cake pan, muffin pan and cookie cutters needed. I loved it as a child, and I love passing along the tradition to my nieces.
Making cookies with my mom. We’ve got a cookie recipe that goes back several generations and it’s fun to make and shape the cookies. My kids each get their own day making cookies with grandma. My adult son comes home to do it.
My parents started allowing my brother and I to open gifts on Christmas Eve rather than waiting until the morning, and it’s probably my favorite thing of the past 20 years. We travel to other family members’s homes for Christmas, so it’s nice not to be hurried on Christmas Day.
My mom bought my daughters a North Pole Communicator from Hallmark. It looks like an old-time microphone. When you turn the dial, you “talk” to someone from the North Pole each day from Dec 1 to Christmas. There’s a new cartridge each year, so the girls have fun sharing info (and I get the info too-great for last minute Christmas ideas!)
Happy Hanukkah!
One of my favorite traditions is playing games on New Year’s Eve.
Whoever is in town goes out to get a live tree in the backcountry. My dad is the only one of us who can tie a decent knot so if he isn’t available it makes the drive home with a loose tree on our roof… interesting.
Having mochi on New Year’s Day. I little bit of Japan to start the New Year!
I have a new one this year that I hope to keep up forever. I was invited to a Facebook Jolabokaflod. It’s an Icelandic tradition of exchanging books on Christmas Eve and then spending the evening reading and eating chocolate. On Facebook, you give your email or regular address (depending on ereader or physical book preference) and types of books you like and then books you buy a book for someone and someone buys a book for you. If anyone wants to be invited, I can send you an invite. I will be having prosecco along with my chocolate and reading.
Most holidays have my favorite part: communal eating! I love my moments alone but eating together with others is the best.