11 Ways Southerners Celebrate The Holidays That Seem Crazy To Everyone Else
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11 Ways Southerners Celebrate The Holidays That Seem Crazy To Everyone Else

Does anyone really roast chestnuts over an open fire?

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11 Ways Southerners Celebrate The Holidays That Seem Crazy To Everyone Else
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It is truly the best time of the year. From family Christmas cards to ugly sweaters and Santas in every mall, each household has their favorite holiday traditions, the south especially. Here are a few of the south's most common.

1. Horse and buggy rides through the Chick-Fil-A parking lot

Enough said.

2. Visiting tons of Christmas tree farms

Grab the four-wheeler and pick out a tree.

3. Cutting down your own Christmas tree in the woods

The tree farm didn't have the perfect one, so you find one yourself.

4. Your tree consists of at least one "southern" item

Cowboy boots, deer heads, and flannel ornaments fill the tree. Sometimes, shotgun shells and beer cans are decorations too, depending on your home life.

5. One word - poinsettias

The favorite southern holiday decoration.

6. Jackets in the morning, shorts in the afternoon

If you live in the south you may as well bring two outfits everywhere you go. The weather is very indecisive.

7. Driving through neighborhoods to look at their lights

Maybe this isn't just a southern thing, but most of the Santas are wearing cowboy hats.

8. So. Many. Sweets.

If there's sugar in it, you can bet every household has at least two of them.

9. Christmas at the beach


After the presents are open, it's beach time!

10. Sweet potato everything

Sweet potato pie, casserole, chips, fries. Literally, everything.

11. Praying for a white Christmas

Even though you know it's going to be AT LEAST 70 degrees Christmas morning.


When the weather is warm it's hard to get into the Christmas spirit, at least there are some things we can do to help. It's the season of giving... deer meat to all your family members.

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