How can one mark Christmas in SL?

Considering that most sims have been choked with Christmas trees and Santas since mid-November, when Christmas does actually come, it's hard to see how anyone will be able to tell.

I just set up a Festivus pole and be done with it.

Put up a giant Mennorah. That's what I'm thinking about doing.

Conversely, do a Christmas twist. Like...Christmas in Hawaii, and litter your sim/parcel/whatever with palm tress and sandy beaches and whatnot. So you'll stand out from all the snow covered sims.

For myself, i bought a menorah from Parallax and set it up so that I could celebrate Hannukah.

For my partner, I bought a lovely tree & wreath from Bobbysocks, and i bought some wonderful prim lights (wish i could remember where from, but i'm not online to check... i just remember that 20% of the cost was to be donated to a children's hospice). I put a box prim textured to look like a gift wrapped box under the tree for my partner. I set the permissions to no mod & no transfer so she can't "take" it. The actual gift will go in another box (so she can't see what it is) and be placed into the first box. On Christmas day, i will change the permissions to allow her to "open" her gift.

Here are some ideas for how you can mark Christmas that won't be like everyone else:

Put up a palm tree on your property and decorate it with Christmas lights. Have a Corona Christmas.

Remove everything from your land, cover it with snow, and make snowball throwers available for free. Post a community snowball fight in the classifieds.

Turn your property into an ice skating rink.

Build an interactive gingerbread house.

Subdivided your property into 12 parcels, and create the Twelve Parcels Of Christmas.

Set up a large number of different Christmas displays for your property (this will take a lot of planning; maybe be ready for next year?) and every day from your chosen starting date, change everything on your property. Make it look like changes are occuring in preparation for Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day itself, have Santa kicking back in his La-Z-Boy recliner sipping hot chocolate, relaxing after delivering all the presents.

Build a giant stocking and create floors and rooms inside of it, and replace your house with it. Decorate the interior as you see fit.


Some of these ideas are more difficult than others, but hopefully it will have you thinking in creative, non-traditional ways, to come up with something that reflects your personality and makes your property unique rather than a cookie-cutter same-as-everyone-else's experience that you'd rather avoid.

i'm just wondering what 3-hour span of daylight on the grid to consider 'christmas' on christmas day...

I've got kind of an "anti-Christmas" build going on, if anyone's interested... The Island of Misfit Toys. It's a work in progress but it's coming along pretty quickly! If you want to check it out, it's under 'Picks' in my profile. I've also got menorahs & other non-traditional holiday fare for sale, such as a Tentacle Xmas Tree... haha.

Meh. In RL in my neighborhood, we've been seeing Christmas stuff out since before Halloween!

I have only two holiday decorations out. One is a Yule tree in my skybox on Wailele Isle, by the fireplace. The other is a Yule tree in the entrance hall of my home in Magenta. Both are undecorated evergreen trees.

lol Nyoko

Me too. I put my metal pole out, and I'm ready for the airing of grievances. I gotta lot a problems with you all!!

LMAO... bring it on!

Oh. My. God.

I have to ask how much of this is just commercialism and materialism.

You want a real Christmas event? Then you will recreate a stable with horses, goats, and hay, and a model of the Christ child with a golden halo around it, and a star glowing in the sky...


Ohhhhh, sorry, I'm losing 90% of the people, who seem to have no idea what the holiday is for anymore.

Hint: It's NOT about getting lots more plastic crap under a dead tree to stash in your garage.

If you're a Christian, act like one. Otherwise butt the hell out -- it's not meant to be a moneymaking venture for you. And no, I'm not a Christian either.

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What the heck does "real christmas" have to do with the first christmas as your example layed out? Just because the goats and the hay and the kid with the halo happened on the first Christmas, why does it have to be recreated every year for it to be a real christmas?

My view of a real christmas (for me): gettin drunk on egg nog, watching A Christmas Story, looking at some trippy lights on strings, and eating candy canes.... all of this.. under 10 dollars.... and .... priceless..... for everyone else's christmas there's mastercard.

For me Christmas is more a nice being together with people I care about... and if I have to give it a meaning, I rather go back to the originally "Jubel Fest" and celebrate that the days will get longer again, which means moving forward to spring and summer again... .

Ermm... no, I am not an Christian either as you may have guessed

Morwen

I hope this year, as in years past, we have the Winter Holiday building extravaganza and the snowball fight with the Lindens.

Was it not Saturnalia?

If I am correct that was Roman celebration (December 21th). The celebration I am pointing at is more a North European celebration and decorating our house with green (Christmas tree and alike) find here it origin. Christmas was from origin not a Christian celebration. The chance that the day that Jesus was born was really December 25th is really small (if he has existed at all, but that is another discussion and not one we should have here I think).

Morwen

Put up a 101 prim xmas tree, made it snow, changed the grass on my skybox to snow, some prezzies, a snowman ......... All I need now is a bath full of eggnog ... actually, make it a bath full of Pernod & coke

Don't really care what you do, just don't call it Winterval, Winter festival, Holiday season, Winter holiday or any of the other feeble alternatives, IT'S CHRISSSSSTMASSSSSSSSSSSS !!!!!

(thankyou Noddy)

- U2

Winter Solstice: December 22, 2006 - 00:22 UTC

The true reason for the season. Everything else.. is just rampant commercialization of one millennium or another, and the "slapping on" of religious or secular meanings, stories, legends, and activities. But if you need a reason to throw a party.. people have been doing so within a week of the solstice since before recorded history.

Of course we also have the Spring Equinox.. which many celebrate with passover or Easter or whatever.

I just wanna know what happened to the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox.. They deserve parties too!

As Christmas is coming, I'm slowly turning my land to snow (with prims) and have added snowmen, a christmas tree, and a snowstorm at the Stratics Headquarters and Sandbox.

Has anyone created a nativity scene in SL yet? I've got the prims, just not sure how to go about it.

Lewis

we-ell .. the local druids have a bit of a knees-up up the road from me at Stonehenge

It's a Wonderful Life is the ultimate Christmas movie.