The Ultimate Christmas Tag

Last updated on 30 January 2024

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It’s nearly Christmastime! So it’s time for the Ultimate Christmas tag!

I saw this Ultimate Christmas Tag on a friend’s blog (since been deleted), and I thought this was such a fun tag to do! Over my blogging years, I’ve only done the odd blogging tag here and there, but I really like the idea of them. They’re a great way to get some ideas going (even for future posts), and also connect with other bloggers around the blogosphere.

This tag in particular is definitely getting me more and more (if possible) into the Christmas spirit. If you want to do this tag too, the questions are in a handy ‘copy and paste’ format at the bottom. Enjoy!

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1. What is your favourite Festive Movie/s?

Definitely has to be Love Actually. Although I do love Elf … because who doesn’t, amiright?

2. Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?

Neither. Normally a typical Christmas goes something like: get up reasonably early and opening our stockings (thanks Ma and Pa for still doing this even though I’m 25), head to church for the morning Christmas service. Then we head home for a leisurely afternoon, which includes the main Christmas dinner around 1:30 pm. After lunch is the time we do presents, which apparently isn’t normal. But it’s all I’ve even known, so it is what it is. After presents, it’s lounge around time while we semi-regret having eaten so much. Dinner might happen eventually, but it’ll be late and it’ll be leftovers.

3. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?

On Boxing Day the extended family usually gets together to have a giant Boxing Day picnic somewhere. One year we were all set to go when it started bucketing down with rain. Instead of bumming around in the house, we took our picnic out to the hay barn, set up all the rectangular hay bales in a circle, and had our picnic on blankets listening to the rain on the corrugated iron roof. It was sad at first, that we couldn’t do our usual picnic, but now it’s one of the best memories I have of Christmas.

4. Favourite festive food?

Gingerbread. And cola de mono, which is Spanish for ‘Monkey’s tail’. It’s an alcoholic drink, and it depends who makes it as to what it tastes like, but it’s quite a milky sort of drink. We have it every single year at Christmastime and have as long as I can remember. My Mum and her side of the family all grew up in Chile, where the drink is from.

5. Favourite Christmas song?

As in song, or carol? I actually really like the Little Drummer Boy song, especially the version that Pentatonix do. Other than that, gotta be the classic Christmas song from Michael Buble. Yeah. You know the one. You can’t beat it.

6. Favourite gift?

Books. Or book vouchers. Some people don’t like getting vouchers, but I love it! Mostly because I would prefer someone get me X-amount in vouchers because then I can wait for a sale and get more books out of the money. If they just bought me a book, then I’d only get one book. Christmas tactics, at its best.

7. Favourite Festive scent?

I love the smell of the pine from the tree. I also love the smell of gingerbread and roast dinner. They’re such classic Christmas smells to me!

8. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?

We try to head along to a midnight service at church. They usually start at about 11 pm, and then at midnight, we all say Merry Christmas to each other, before heading home for a late sleep. While we’re waiting for 11 pm, we usually play games and eat Christmas snacks.

9. What tops your tree?

When I was about 12 I made this hilarious-looking cardboard-cone angel out of a Fish Fingers box (possibly foreshadowing my own love of Doctor Who? Fish fingers? Custard?). It had material wings and a halo too. My family think it’s hilarious so often put it atop the tree. This year, however, I put my foot down. Now we have either a pretty wire glittery angel or a glittery star, and it’s 100% better.

10. As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for but never received?

I feel like I never really asked for anything outrageous. Each year my sisters and I make lists (still do) of all the things that we would like, and my parents usually went with one or two things from the list, and then handed the list on to my Grandparents. Most of the time as a kid it was probably toys and books – to be honest, I really can’t remember.

One year my sister did the typically cliched thing of asking for a pony, and while there was no way she was going to get one, later that year we did look after someone’s horse for a month or so in our paddocks. So she kind of got what she wanted, even though the horse did have to go back eventually.

11. What’s the best part about Christmas for you?

Hanging out with the extended family. I have a lot of cousins – on both sides – and no matter where we are for Christmas, with Mum’s or Dad’s side, it’s always a lot of fun. I think now that my sister and I are young adults, as are the majority of our cousins, it’s a lot more fun hanging out with them.

Throughout our teens it was a tad awkward – we didn’t really know how to hang out like we did when we were kids but we couldn’t do fun things like head down to the pub on Christmas Eve, or stay up late drinking cola de mono with the adults. It’s definitely a lot better now, and it’s my favourite part about Christmas for sure.

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The Ultimate Christmas Tag – Copy and Paste

1. What is your favourite Festive Movie/s?
2. Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
3. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?
4. Favourite festive food?
5. Favourite Christmas song?
6. Favourite gift?
7. Favourite Festive scent?
8. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?
9. What tops your tree?
10. As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for but never received?
11. What’s the best part about Christmas for you?

Let me know if you do The Ultimate Christmas Tag!