Swedish Christmas vs American Christmas Traditions

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[@vh7008]

Yep, that's right, DON'T MESS WITH THE HOLY "KALLE ANKAS JUL" :))

[@johananostam8655]

Emily Hericson jcgjhjjrtifkvn khy

[@TreeFolkDruid]

except it has been censored to death, tomtens verkstad and the camping is also like 20% of its original length

[@kemering]

Samme i Norge også. I tillegg til "Tre nøtter til Askepott" og "Reisen til julestjernen". 23. desember er det "kvelden før kvelden" med "Grevinnen og hovmesteren"🎅

[@novanettle7497]

Sometimes they try to sensor out some stuff that hasn't aged well and a good 80% of the Swedish population has a collective aneurysm 😆

[@klarajonsson8761]

I sverige sänds grevinnan och betjänten vid nyår

[@AdrienneGilson]

The Donald Duck thing is so true! I had a Swedish exchange student in 2018 and she made us look it up on KZbin and watch it. She was also sad she had to wait until dec 25th to open presents so we let her open her stocking on the 24th

[@kappolito]

What about the day before christmas eve, when so many swedes spends their evening preparing the ham, decorating the christmas tree, and playing Bingolotto (bingo). Well that's a part of my traditon:) Love it!

[@vilmalindvall3977]

Up-staying-night... uppesittarkväll, YES

[@zeldabusan]

In my family in Sweden we never had christmas stockings..when I was a child my mother gave me and my siblings one christmasgift under the bed on christmaseve and then around 6 pm we got the rest of our christmas gifts 😉 Thank you for the lovely video 💗🎄 kram

[@osaniss]

Im swedish too, we got 2 gifts in the stockibgs hanging on the bed, then gifts under the tree like 2 Hours later and then the rest on the evening

[@TheGitarrlillan]

We didn't have stockings either, but we didn't get any morning gifts. All gifts came with santa in the evening after Kalle Anka, julbord and porrige. My parrents and another family swapped santas with each other so one went to one house and the other went to the other. So noone was gone when santa came.

[@alexandralund5512]

We write rhymes on the presents, like a riddle, so the person who get it has to guess the gift before opening it.

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

Lisa brought this tradition to me and I have to say, it's one of my favorite traditions now.

[@StarshipTrooper4231]

Alexandra Lund "Här har du en lampa, din jävla slampa." Det är min favorit.

[@klever891]

HAhahaaha lite för kul xD

[@GhostSamaritan]

Gör alla det? Har aldrig gjort så i min familj.

[@adeliasallhag]

@@GhostSamaritan inte jag heller... Tror inte att så många gör det. Känner ingen som gör det 😂

[@NathalieHoran]

In Norway, we make rice porridge and hide an almond in it. The whole family search for it in their bowls, and the one who finds it in their own bowl gets a prize (like a marzipan pig, or some candy like a chocolate santa, or even a small gift). Also, when it's time for presents we are really excited, but we don't just go crazy and open everything. We like to take our time and notice the stuff our family members get as well :-) When it comes to television, it's tradition to watch "Tre Nøtter til Askepott" which is an Eastern European production about a girl which is sort of Cinderella and she gets 3 wishes. It's very cute and from the 70's. We also watch Disney - Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck things. Then we might watch a Norwegian film also from the 1970's which is called "Reisen til Julestjernen" - journey to the Christmas Star in English. It's supposed to be in the Medieval ages and it's about a princess who wants to find the Christmas Star and she gets lost. It's a very nice and emotional film :-) I wish you all a merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

[@billigmad3720]

We do the same thing in Denmark with the rice porridge and almond. Probably not surprising :) And we watch Disneys christmas show at 16 PM.

[@MadSwedishGamer]

When we do the porridge thing the one who gets the almond will supposedly get married during the coming year.

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

We also do the porridge and almond in Finland. And the Donald Duck!

[@klarajonsson8761]

Where I live in sweden we put a cinnamon rod in the porridge to taste good but its good luck if you get it in your bowl

[@cats_is_the_life]

In Sweden if you get the almond you have to get married next year

[@bebba]

There's two things I would add in our Swedish tradition: 1.The importance of light and candles. It's like pitch black from 3 pm in Stockholm and from 1 pm in the north. I think that's why we light a candle every Sunday (and not only in church). We also put up a special light in our windows, we call it "adventsljustake" (electric lights, images here: tinyurl.com/adventsljusstake). I would also guess this is a part of why the Lucia tradition is such a big thing here. Just imagine a winter landscape in a total darkness and there comes a choir, walking in white dresses with candles in their hands (and Lucia in front with a crown of candles) singing and - bringing us light -. Incredible beautiful. Another great thing with in Sweden is our classic fika, which goes to another lever during December. We have special christmas pastries that we only eat during this time of year. Lussebullar (saffron buns) and pepparkakor (ginger bread cookies) is two examples and we drink mulled wine. Very hygge ;)

[@myviking1792]

from 3pm... you not looking high enough. I still live in sweden and i don't see the sun for like a week in december, Kiruna has even less daylight. :D

[@sarahkey6284]

I just loveee your culture. I lived there for a few years and it warms my heart when I read your words and remember those beautiful sightings. I love your food too! But I am worried about the change of this beautiful culture due to increasing numbers of migrants who just don't want to follow and accept Swedish culture... They want to keep their own and someday suppress the original one... I am just so sad when I think about that...

[@bebba]

The idea of our "culture being changed" is not a realistic analysis of "our situation". I can maybe give you some comfort in the fact that our midsummer traditions are intact! Swedes (and migrants) still eat our pickled herring and dance around the midsummer pole pretending we are frogs without ears (but we DO have tails!). I promise, we are A-OK over here! So please, don't be sad when you think of Sweden. I would rather see you putting that energy in to thinking of all the people who suffers from war. It's a million times more sad to think of all the people and children who have two choices in life: to stay in a war zone and see everything/everyone you love get killed/destroyed or to jump in a small boat with no saftey and try to get a cross a big ocean with no certainty of knowing if you and your kids will survive it. Have a nice day! Love from a Swede (who are totally fine and don't need you to worry)

[@emmajonsson5891]

I remembered that we had advent calendars instead of stockings. So we got a small gift every day until Christmas and we also had chocolate calendars.. oh and when you're a kid "Julkalendern" is a must to watch, a TV show which is only around 15 minutes every morning like a countdown to christmas and it's different every year

[@philosoaper]

Probably the most notable difference is that in USA Christmas starts after Halloween with absurd amounts of tacky multicolored flashy lights, and by the time you get to the 26th, the trees come down. In Norway, it's much much more subtle and it's traditional to put the tree up and decorate it on the 23rd and have it up until early January. We also don't have mingy manges everywhere.

[@minnaminna2062]

Well said.

[@eating-rocks]

I've learned that you put out the porridge for the gnomes, to be on good terms with them so they'll take care of your land. Kinda like trick or treat but with spirits and the trick is a bad year. But maybe the tradition is different in different parts of Sweden

[@urbankotto9685]

True.

[@vide1930]

True! :)

[@Belonderiel]

Yeah, it was really important to stay on their good side. They helped out with the animals as well, and lots of other things. One of my favourite stories about the gnomes and Christmas is about a family that tried to play a little prank on their gnome. On the porridge you left out for them you were supposed to put a dollop of butter (Because fat=luxury back in those days), but the family for a laugh put the butter in the bottom of the bowl instead one year. Bad idea. When the gnome came for his porridge and saw no butter on it, he immediately went out to the barn and killed their best cow. Then he came back and ate his porridge. As he came to the bottom of the bowl and realized the prank they pulled, he felt bad about the whole situation. So he went out and got a new cow for the family, but left the dead one as a reminder not to mess about like that again. These gnomes were not the jolly kind, in fact they were known to be quite cranky...

[@jarls5890]

I think the lore here is that the gnomes actually took care of the farm animals throughout the year (and thus why he lived in the barn). And if you did not give him a meal on Christmas eve - he would not take care of the animals or even make them sick or kill them.

[@TheGitarrlillan]

The old lore was that you put it out for the house gnome, but nowadays it has migrated to be for santa instead.

[@masen2979]

YOU DONT MESS WITH *KALLE ANKAS JUL* Okey

[@pikamikutv5787]

Tack för att du sa det för jag blev så upprörd

[@WXIWXI]

hi hi. Svensk tradition!

[@erikandersson6145]

Kalle Anka is holy in Sweden. Tradition

[@sofiesweden]

Don't forget that in sweden the Santa often hands the gifts over, while looking the children deep in their eyes, and asking very seriously if they have been good or bad, and the children have to say yes, I've been good to get the gift, not knowing IF Santa will agree on that... 😱😜😂

[@ailsaDV]

Hello! My Swedish girlfriend is trying to teach me and my British family the Swedish “snapsvisa” ‘Hej Tomtegubbar..’. She thinks it sounds hilarious but we’re learning... slowly hahaha , maybe you should try and teach Lauren in one of your videos? 😂😁 Love your content xx GOD JUL OCH GOTT NYTT ÅR!! ❤️❤️

[@bmm7132]

Thank you for sharing. I learned a lot from both of you and I love the stories that you're both told about Christmas and Santa and Donald Duck and porridge,...

[@susannalamsa8223]

In Finland santa doesn't come from North Pole. Santa come from Korvatunturi and Korvatunturi is real place in Finland. And it's funny we call santa in finnish "joulupukki" which means christmas goat in english.

[@elinutaniq]

It's funny, but its not wrong! Before us Scandinavians/northerners adapted the idea of Santa people dressed up as goats instead of Santa :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Goat

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

HAHAH Christmas goat? I'm dying ahha

[@Asa...S]

Speaking of the Christmas goat, you should check out the Christmas goat in Gävle, it's a huge goat, and a lot of the years it has been burned down, so there is always this "Will the Christmas goat survive until Christmas?"-worry/curiousity each year. It even has it's own insta accont gavlebocken.

[@lindalaakso6975]

I was just going to say that santa actually lives in finland :D

[@susannalamsa8223]

Yeah he does live in Finland and he has a village up in Rovaniemi where you can visit him and get a picture woth him

[@luciajancarova9314]

It's so cool that you have the Lucia day! It's actually my name haha and we have this holiday in Slovakia, where I come from, too. The girls get dressed in white and go from house to house and they sweep the dust from the corners of the rooms. It's for swiping away the bad luck and to bring health to the household. But nowadays it's only done in countryside.

[@lillamy2896]

In Sweden christmas was a pagan holiday first. It didnt have anything to do with christianity or jesus. Thats why its called jul

[@fredrik83]

Wheel (hjul) of the seasons or the year goes around, so now we´re on our way up again to the light (ljus). And like Jesus.. it´s probably also from the middle east, like measure time

[@lillamy2896]

Its a myth that the word comes from wheel. The earliest evidence is from the finnish language and means fiest.

[@fredrik83]

Well.. all the nordic countrys use it. And the Danes did trade with the people along the finish bay . But why copy a word from there then? people have celebratad it for centuries.

[@lillamy2896]

Well I guess my historybook is wrong.

[@fredrik83]

I ´m with you Caroline however i would like to know if it has anything to do with the Celts and the rock circles (before the Roman expansion) though the boats are much younger here.

[@doreenngo2268]

A video from you guys always puts a smile on my face! Thanks!

[@2cleverbyhalf]

In the USA lots of more secular families that do not have little kids open presents on Christmas Eve so they can sleep in, or because we've got extended family to go visit on Christmas. We watch It's a Wonderful Life every year.

[@pyro1324]

Forgot about "Dagen före dopparedagen" when you dip bread in the ham broth on the 23d.

[@JodieC26]

I am a Canadian with Swedish roots and really enjoyed this video. I can relate to almost all these traditions. Thanks for sharing.

[@mogelpi]

Thank you for all the knowledge!

[@Serenitypeaceforall]

Enjoyed your Christmas Video. Warm and fun! Would love to see more from you two. Merry Christmas Dharma from Denmark

[@daw7563]

The Disney/Donald duck tradition in Sweden roots from a time (before 1985) when there hardly was any Disney broadcasted, so Swedes and their kids were starving Disney content. Thats my take on it. In later years they have changed the last bit to promote newer Disney productions. Many adults fall asleep during this as it's a break from all the Christmas work lol.

[@erikandersson6145]

Before cable-TV in Sweden

[@p.stroth5084]

Love to watch the children at Christmas. Getting the family all together is the best.

[@traceytrifonlofgren5374]

As an ”american” living in Sweden (born in the US, lived most of my life in Sweden), I have noticed a big difference in how we celebrate Christmas Swedes versa Americans (my families). My Swedish family is more about “close family and same traditions year after year. My US family is more “open house” and not as “strict” about doing it the same year after year. This also includes the food 🤪. The Swedish Christmas Smorgasbord (smörgåsbord) is basically the same every year (and we also have it for Easter, and part of it for Midsummer). About the Christmas stockings. In Sweden this is a fairly new tradition, taken from the US and Great Britain. With that said,, I love celebrating Christmas in both countries, as long as I am with my loved ones.

[@naturenut7695]

Great video! I agree so much with your comments of the commercialization of Xmas in America. The real reason for it gets lost in all of it. And unfortunately you see the worst come out in some people when it should be there very best. I love giving to the less fortunate at this time of year. Presents for the children, groceries for the family so they can be together and have a Merry Christmas. And I hope the two of you have a very Merry Christmas and thank you for all you do. I really enjoy the letter y'all send out every week.

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

A beautiful way to celebrate

[@wushu955]

I just loooove your videos. So much fun!

[@RedBar3D]

Your videos always put a smile on my face! God jul!

[@PanTheConcerned]

once my uncle said “I’m going out to get the newspaper”. Everyone knew he would come back as santa but he came back before santa! We’ve had the same santa for years now and I still don’t know who he is...

[@kaleidoscopeallie]

Barbie/Let's move on. ... . ohhhh man thanks for the ab workout there. I can't believe you didn't mention lutefisk! (bleeehhhhh, not my favorite invention but very christmas) glögg, peparkakor, and lussekatter! Also, christmas curtains, SOOO Swedish. For me the one huge difference style wise is how much nature is central to the Swedish celebrations. It's all about the light, (candles, advent stars/other window decor) the hyacinths, amarylis, moss, pinecones, vitmossa etc etc etc.

[@Asa...S]

Yes, and decorations made of straw!

[@shinnam]

Don't forget the liver pate, pickled herring, princekörv, turnip casserole and plain boiled potatoes. I really don't like the Julbord much. Most things are cold, or are cold by the time you eat them. The ham and Salmon are good.

[@poweredbymoonlight9869]

I like lutfisk alot! We eat it here in Finland too. Most of the christmas food in finland is the same as Sweden.

[@darleneneely6090]

So love this!I loved reading the responses.We grew up very poor.The four of us kids got to open one present on Christmas Eve.It was always new pajamas hehe.We so loved them.The new smell,the pretty colors.We wore them until they were no longer wearable haha.I carry that tradition on now with my family that now includes my grandchildren that are not growing up poor.They love it.We take a family picture of us all in our new jammies on Christmas Eve hehe.I agree that here in the US it has become very burdensome money wise and it can be very sad for many of very little means.It takes very little to create a beautiful Christmas.Love,laughter, gathering with family we don't always get to see.The little cousins playing together and stomping the hardwood floor with loud laughter.The elders looking upon the traces they will eventually leave behind as their legacy..It is the the most favorite time of my year.*raises a glass of whiskey*haha Thank you for the chat baby girls!⛄loved it!

[@Dakiniwoman]

Thanks for your video... I would love to see how you make all the Swedish Christmas foods from scratch for the Christmas Buffet.

[@2looprevil]

Sweet Lisa and Lauren .. Merry Christmas and happy new year

[@jbanderson1905]

Lisa you keep me laughing Button your facial expressions crack me up when Lisa makes her jokes.I agree Christmas has become so commercialized in the United States. Being born and raised here I love how my mom always kept the true meaning of Christmas alive in our family. We celebrate Advent and Boxing the holiday the day after Christmas. Many peace and blessings to you both h this holiday season and the New Year to come. * I just realized my autocorrect called your wife my bestie name Lauren 😂😂😂

[@jennyrintakoski4914]

We never put porridge out for Santa, but I think that's because of Tjorven. I hated porridge, just like Tjorven, when I was a kid, and I never ever wanted to leave poor old Santa this bowl of cold porridge :P Also, we never had stockings, until now, when I'm an adult. One thing I think is significant here though (maybe elsewhere too..?) Is the Chokladkalender. The little calendar with 24 small chocolate pieces in, one for each day of December leading up to Christmas! Oh, and Julkalendern. Every year we have a different "TV-show" that runs from the 1st of December to the 24th, filled with Christmas Spirit and mystery and just awesomeness (it's mainly for kids, but I always watch them. It's tradition!).

[@MaidenViking_]

in norway I heard of several thet had stockings as kids in the 80's. Leaving porridge out was mostly common here where people had farms. It was left out, not for santa, but for the little tomte/nisse/gnome that took care of the animals on the farm all year

[@tommysnuggles]

Never really thought about the differences regarding advent for example :)

[@BrandtAnnika]

You all need to remember that the tradition is different, depends in region, families etc… Me and my family doesn't have stockings.. You should have talk about our food, thats ALOT of Food!

[@jamielogan7906]

Cute! Merry Christmas!

[@bogganalseryd2324]

I agree with you ladies, merry Xmas.

[@CanadianTuBaoZi]

I like the vodka/schnapps vs milk difference lol! Great video

[@zerpderp9753]

Giving Santa Claus hard liquor!? Now we know how grandma got ran over by a reindeer. Can you imagine visiting every house in Sweden and getting a shot of hard liquor and then driving. Party Santa! Shot! Shot! Shot! 😂

[@leamasse8043]

HYGGE!! Yes! :-) It warms my Danish heart

[@erikandersson6145]

Its a differens between Sweden and Denmark

[@davidfr924]

EXCELLENT VIDEO!!! My mother's parents are from Sweden and my father's parents are from Germany, so we alternate traditions each year between them with American traditions added into the mix. So, Merry Christmas, God Yul, and Fröhliche Weihnachten to you.

[@julianneheindorf5757]

Swedish and Danish Christmas traditions are quite similar. If I remember correctly, the 26. of December is a big day in the US for a lot of American football games. Christmas is called Jul in all three Scandinavian languages. It was originally a pre-Christian winter solstice tradition of celebrating the return of the sun and involved plenty of food and lots of mjød, an ancient alcoholic beverage. Since the Church fathers couldn’t get the Scandinavian Vikings to use the word Kristmesse - Mass for Christ, they just ended up with accepting the pagan solstice ritual. If you can’t beat them, then join them. 🤣

[@chanelmone4721]

Growing up always after Christmas Eve dinner and dessert and what not we wait till midnight to open presents.

[@joannasldr6456]

Have you introduced Lauren to Sagan om Karl-Bertil Jonssons julafton? I personally didn't grow up watching it, but watching it as an adult I think it gives us a window to the swedish christmas culture and why it might differ from, for example, american christmas culture. God jul and thank you for this funny and wholesome video!

[@Toffypot91]

Karl-Bertil Jonsson is the real spirit of Christmas!

[@MyNameHandle]

That Queer Witch I watch it every christnas along with donald ducks christmas

[@MysticaFaery]

Same here! Is pity that it wasn’t mentioned but you can’t squeeze all in.

[@anne-karinaustvik8809]

Fredrik Lemmetty : IT is not christmas without Karl Bertil! We watch it every Christmas Eve!

[@annabackman3028]

"Ska du lukta på glöggen, pojke?" 🤣 That voice! That way he tells the story! Tage Danielsson, RIP! We miss you (and Hasse Alfredsson) (I can't hear about Tage without thinking of Karl-Bertil Jonsson AND that monologue about "Sannolikt", "I dag lär vi inte våra barn att tala sanningen, nej nu lär vi dem att tala SANNOLIKT." Etc...) ("Jag har närt en kommunist vid min barm!" 🤣 🤣 🤣)

[@johannessundberg8866]

underbar video, as always! ni är bäst meeen luciatraditionen det är ju mer än bara helgonet! det är ju som en blandning av gamla svenska traditioner och inslag från italienska Lucia! finns sjukt intressant läsning om det om man vill, mvh världens lucianörd hehe

[@PowerSpirit50]

When my uncle dressed up as santa, when I was younger, I asked why he had a mask on. He must have thought of something quickly and said "To hide a scar."

[@Stuart2562]

Loved the vid. Girl with curly hair OMG. Not slatting you but neither of you said what Christmas is really about. And yes in UK its now to commercialised as well. Happy Christmas to you and yours when it comes.

[@qindalinda3434]

When my sister and I were kids, she got wax drip on her hair during Lucia. She kept on walking even though it was painful. Ouch!!

[@MsJeanneMarie]

I'm an American who's totally with you on the commercializations of gift giving. I make all my gifts for my giant extended family each year. I work myself to death every year making sure they're beautiful and special for each person. Though, the youngest person in our family is 31. Children usually get really excited about store bought gifts.

[@randyc5650]

When I grew up a long long time ago, in the 50s, in a place far away, New Orleans, we had a Christmas party on December 24th night at a friend's house where families came who were friends for generations and new families of new friends too. During the party, fathers would leave separately to do the Santa thing at their homes and come back to the party. The kids mainly played outside unless it was raining. We were also allowed to have small alcoholic beverages from small glasses about one fourth the size of a shot glass. Mainly brightly colored sweet liqueurs like Creme de Menthe, Creme de Cacao and something that was red that I can't remember. When everyone went home, way after midnight, 2 or 3am, Santa had come and our toys were under the tree. Except for the kids who lived at the party house. Santa waited until they passed out and their gifts were waiting when they woke up. Thank you girls and I hope you had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year. You have Swedish new years?

[@afullspoonofsuga6975]

I'm Swedish and the first time I met santa I cried and now I have a little panic attack as soon as I see santa...

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

Oh no! I have a feeling you are not alone.

[@kickicat628]

Same here!!! And I hate Santa decorations as well. I always have to turn them around since their eyes are freaking me out 😅

[@Caztaneda76]

hahahaha....inte växt upp ?

[@jennis4647]

@@kickicat628 that is what I do to Nutcrackers they scare the crap out of me!

[@erikandersson6145]

@@ThisColorfulWorld Scary Santa

[@KB-tg7pf]

Thank you for making this video. My husband is half Swedish, but grew up here in America. Now that we have kids I am looking for ways to teach them about their heritage, but he only knows American Christmas traditions. His grandmother has Swedish decorations and traditions, but it's hard to get her to talk about them. This video is very helpful!

[@user-lv4ov5rp6d]

Love this couple. Greetings from Izmir in Turkey.

[@maximilianbauer9539]

Wow I really got the christmas feeling from hearing the Lucia song.

[@jeanniem76]

We (in Utah) watch A Christmas Story every year :)

[@christianemeneses6604]

Adorable!

[@kencoleman5007]

That seems so sweet. Often I go to my church's prayer service on Christmas Eve, but this year (since Christmas was on a Monday), I went to church early Christmas morning through the sleet (and during the snow). It's Boston. And afterward, we did gifts and left for a family dinner at my uncle's.

[@kencoleman5007]

Is the Donald Duck cartoon traditional because of the Carl Barks duck comics (Scrooge, Donald, the nephews, etc.) being published nearby in Copenhagen-based Egmont?

[@adlibby6448]

My dad's family opens gifts from extended family on Christmas Eve and then opens immediate family gifts and stockings on Christmas morning in a more intimate setting at home. All day we eat appetizers and then have an early supper at lunch time. Usually ham. lol I think it would be fun to go to Sweden for Christmas/Yule. I love that you celebrate similarities

[@chrisjones245]

your hair is incredible

[@sgtmian]

the thing about donald duck (which i think is something all scandinavians do), it's just become tradition, and you don't mess with that. i grew up watching these movies when i was a kid, when christmas was still incredibly magical, so it just takes you back to that time.

[@__-bc4bs]

Yep, before sweden became libtarded and run over by islam.

[@LeaVeliz]

As a Swede, my family also always gives Santa a shot as thanks. Never thought it was strange. until now... However, we've never had christmas stockings at home. Lovely video :)

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

Really? lisa wasn't sure if her family was alone in this tradition. Fun to know they are not!

[@ronadecastro7141]

Just sharing, 😊 Christmas season here in the Philippines starts as early as September (once "Ber" months came in) up to January 6, where we also celebrate 3 kings.. we also have 9 evening mass (Misa De gallo in Spanish) which starts every Dec 16 up to Dec 24 and carollings too (kids will sing christmas carols in front of your house every night and after you can give them any gifts, like candies or pennies).We celebrate Christmas here in a very traditional way, and it's really fun.😊 (ps* we don't have snow here too😂)

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

Really? It's so interesting to hear other traditions!

[@ronadecastro7141]

@This Colorful World, yes! It was really interesting to hear other traditions. Thank you for your video, now I know how Christmas is celebrated in American and Swedish way..😊 I hope you can visit Philippines someday, I'm sure you'll enjoy it here 😉

[@kaia-di4pq]

A more accurate description of the change of donald duck every year would be that basically there is a new short cut of one or two new disney movies and/or an announcement of something important about to happen. and it's not only a donald duck compilation but it is shortcuts from other sweden exclusive media produced by disney, for example Tjuren Ferdinand (the Bull Ferdinand)

[@carl4385]

Today’s Christmas Eve! Happy Christmas everyone!

[@Allexstrasza]

wow you have amazing hair!

[@christinastroup5488]

I'd say I'm not American fat...I'm chunky...lol. Love the videos lady..in my family we have a friend who looks like Santa, beard and all and every Christmas Eve, our extended family get together and he hands out our gift. Since I was a young child I've always adopted a family to get them gifts as well. I feel my life is so blessed and I have all I need so I would rather give to those who can't. That makes me so incredibly happy being to help someone else who may be less fortunate. Sending love, hugs, positivity and holiday wishes to everyone!

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

That's really lovely. Toy drives are great. Holiday wishes to you as well!

[@tiliacordata7260]

We in Norway watch Greveinnen og hovmesteren on the 23. And an old Cinderella movie on the 24.

[@Greksallad]

You're not alone, we always gave santa a snaps in my family as well! Now we don't celebrate christmas with any children present anymore so we've decided to skip the dressing up as santa part, but the snaps is still always there :D

[@kevg7929]

Thank you Love the Vlog

[@forsaela]

Why are all our swedish traditions so weird?! Trying to explain any holiday or celebration leaves me laughing and once again realise we are just the weirdest group of people. I mean... Speaking of Lucia, the red band represent blood and death. All these little kids walking around with (symbolic) blood around their waist? Very uplifting 😂

[@ThisColorfulWorld]

HAHAHAH but it's soooo pretty tho.... hahahh

[@forsaela]

Yes! The cutest! 😍 I love Luciafirande! Just find it funny with all the morbid stuff in our traditions. 😅 (Also, better safe than sorry: you know you should put a little bit of butter on the porridge for the house gnomes, right? There's a tale about a gnome that was so disappointed about not getting the butter that he killed the best cow in the stable. When he got back to eat the porridge he realised the butter was there, it was just melted. So he quickly replaced the cow with the neighbours best cow 💁🏻😂)

[@viking3690]

Well, christianity and other religions in general are pretty morbid.

[@phrike7588]

Well, we also get some inspiration from paganism and norse mythology, so our traditions are a bit darker and not as strictly religious as american traditions.

[@dinahenriette6337]

in Norway we do have the same as in sweden

[@flaekon]

In my family it's all about getting the glögg nice and warm and the almonds skållade and all of the gingerbread and knäck and nuts and stuff placed on the soffbord before 3 pm. As long as we've got all of that done before Kalle Anka starts, it's all good.

[@stefanpettersson8918]

Always beutiful. And Nice. I love you both

[@PencilDrops]

In my family (I'm from Sweden btw), we eat like every two hours on Christmas Eve lol. We eat breakfast, then there's lunch, then during Donald Duck, then we eat an early dinner (because it's so much food lol) and then something smaller, like cheese and fruit, on the evening. It's just a whole day for eating xP

[@ramonag6623]

I'm officially in love with you guys

[@mikevac1978]

Italians have a fest of 7 fish's/ we have that Christmas eve. my family only has 2 Calamari and shrimp. I also like to say you two are very Beautiful

[@fannypetersson4685]

I got so chocked today! I saw you guys for the very first time here on youtube yesterday. Today I was shopping in my little home town Karlskrona in Sweden. I turn around and see you two😳 are you from here or what are you doing here?😄 I love your videos and personalities!

[@teenagewritergirl]

On Christmas eve in our house we left out a mince pie and sherry for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph by the fireplace

[@minerminer887]

Omg! Haven't seen that scene since they abolished it! Whoop!!

[@the_oslovian]

Norwegian and Swedish are quite similar and I love it 😊

[@ladysan_]

The Donald Duck compilation has become a tradition as a residue from the time back when Sweden only had one TV-channel and there was nothing else to watch. And then I guess it just... remained. Now us Swedes are very strict about our Donald Duck time on Christmas eve. If the public service broadcasting channel would ever consider cancelling it the Swedes would go berserk.

[@SuperBenkoo]

You forgot "Karl-Bertil Jonssons jul!" The best!!

[@karen7668]

in Austria we don't have Santa we have the "Christkind" which is basically Jesus as a child. We also write a letter and the Christkind comes in the evening on the 24th and rings a bell when the presents are under the tree. And we also celebrate Advent

[@emmasvanberg9427]

Karen R Do you celebrate St Nicholaus? My grandmother was from Germany (I’m from Sweden) and so we always got gifts on the sixth of December as well.

[@karen7668]

yeah we do celebrate St. Nicholaus as well :) we usually get a bag full of sweets, peanuts and Mandarins

[@thelongslowgoodbye]

I thought you guys also have Krampus

[@sabine3031]

@@thelongslowgoodbye yes we have him too they normaly appear togheter or just the nikolaus

[@feliciarivera4297]

Love that better

[@FeeyaSedai]

I never grew up with Christmas stockings. Our parents usually just brought us kids something small in the morning to enjoy for the time being. Then we got ready to go to our grandparents' house. We watched Donald Duck of course! EVERYONE watched it! Very important to not miss it in our family. Soon after that, dinner got served in the dining room. After dinner, we would light a fire in the fireplace and my grandpa would read the "julrim" on the Christmas presents and hand them out to everyone one by one. Julrim = Christmas rhyme; every present had a label with a few lines that rhymed. It was supposed to give you a hint at what's inside! For example: "This one will be good to have with you in bed, especially if you want to rest your head! Merry Christmas *person* from *person*!" and the gift would be a new pillow. I was never good with the rhymes, but my grandpa and oldest sister were awesome. Nowadays I spend Christmas with my in laws (I married an American two years ago, but we've spent 5 Christmases together so far, I believe.), and I've definitely noticed there's big differences between Swedish Christmas and American Christmas. I love the American decorating; the Christmas trees, the outdoor Christmas lights etc. It gives me more of that Christmas feeling now than I have in a long while. In Sweden I cared most for the food, but in America it has become more magical again. Plus, 25th happens to be my husband's birthday, so we get some kind of extra nice dessert after dinner! The only thing I oddly miss now, in America for Christmas, is the snow. I didn't care much for snow in the past, but now I would like it, if only for like a few days. We live in the south, so we are lucky if we even got some snowflakes, that will melt away within a minute, every 5 years! Sorry for the massive wall of text, I apparently had a lot on my mind! Thank you for uploading all of these Sweden/America things, they are so interesting and super relatable, haha.

[@beccajohansson8120]

Vet inte riktigt hur jag hittade eran kanal, men hit kom jag. Och jag måste bara säga, WOW. Ni verkar helt sagolikt underbara och härliga! Måste kolla mer videos :D

[@chanelmone4721]

I’m in New York and last year for Christmas I went to see the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center with my boyfriend while my son was with his father this year we’re going to do a Christmas Eve and make it a family thing at least I’m hoping to do that ( it’s supposed to rain ) and maybe go to the Empire State Building ( what I thinking of the weather may be an issue though). Better than staying in like we have been. A friend of mine who lives in Manhattan said he always goes to see the tree every year on Christmas.

[@Mazzified]

Spot on

[@bengthallberg9805]

Earlier, Christmas Eve was the ONLY time there were animated films on TV

[@minnaminna2062]

In Finland we watch "Samusirkan Joulutervehdys" (Jiminy Crickets' Christmas Greeting). I think you know it by name: From All Of Us To All Of You. It has been a tradition since ever.

[@springy179]

I’ve lived in both Southern California and Alabama in the United States. In both places, tamales are a traditional food for Christmas Day. My favorite! :)

[@ellenlandin264]

Hello!!! Don’t forget the ”Uppersittarkväll” you have to look at bingo lotto the day before Christmas with your family!!!😻

[@christopherx7428]

A few comments on Swedish Christmas: 1. The status of Donald Duck comes from the very, very socialist times we had in the 1970s and 80s. Disney was popular but banned in the state TV channels as it was "commercial" (a word that was used as an insult in those days). Normal childrens programs would show Bulgarian doll movies or things like that. The _only_ time in the whole year that anything from Disney was shown was one hour on Christmas Eve. In those days we only had 2 TV channels so everyone, starved for what they wanted to see in children's programs, watched it and it became a tradition amongst those who lived then. The younger generation today, used to a multitude of TV channels with Disney shows anytime, don't understand what the big hype is all about. 2. We celebrate on Christmas Eve as the tradition in Germanic countries was that a day ended when the church bells rang for evening service, around 6 o'clock. Then the new day started, not at midnight as we count it today. So Christmas day started on the evening of Christmas Eve and thus we, the Germans and some others in NE Europe celebrate on that day. 3. A Christmas table is certainly not only something you get at the restaurant! We make our own at home and in our family it usually consists of 4 types of herring, eggs, home made hard bread, cured salmon ("gravlax"), salmon made in the oven, a big ham (lightly smoked), a meat paté, smoked meat, e.g. mutton, a few types of sausages, hot meatballs, "Jansson's frestelse" (potatoes, onion and anchovis with just enough milk to cook the potatoes made in the oven), ribs, hot small sausages and then 3-4 types of cheese and ginger bread for dessert and probably a few more things I have forgotten. Somehow we manage to get full. It must be the beer and shots of spirits we have with it... Each family has their own version of a Christmas table, but herring, ham, meat balls and Janssons is probably in nearly all of them. You normally have 5 plates of food: First herring, then cold fish, after that cold meat followed by the hot food and last of all the dessert. Before the dessert you might want to put in an extra plate with your overall favourites! Christmas day is usually a quiet day for contemplation and Boxing day is normally when you go visit someone if you want to do that during Christmas

[@KeinAlias]

In Germany we also put our shoes outside on the 6th of december. The next morning it is filled with chocolate or oranges and nuts. That person who brings it is called Nikolaus. On the 24th evening comes Santa, like in Sweden, but with milk and cookies. He's called 'Christmasman'. Oh and we write wishlists too and celebrate Advent. The 25th and 26th is just hanging around.

[@ahparker.033]

I live in Great Britain, and we always celebrate on Christmas Day, however we always have a big Swedish feast on the 24th as my family is half Scandinavian!💞

[@annabackman3028]

You seem to have picked the best parts of two words! 🥰

[@MaidenViking_]

Norwegian traditions are pretty much the same as in Sweden (except for the food as we're eating pork ribs, dried sheep ribs or lutefisk) And also besides the Donald Duck part, there is two films from the 70's that "everybody" is watching christmas morning. And when the clock turns 5 in the afternoon on christmas eve, the church bells starts ringing, and "sølvguttene" (translated to the silver boys) sings traditional christmas carols on national tv. And that is also the most common time people starts eating christmas dinner. Also a tradition in Scandinavia (and maybe Finland and Iceland too) that I don't think I have seen other places, is advent calenders on TV. A TV-show (mostly for kids) that will send one episode each day counting down to christmas.

[@anned1474]

I am an American in the US and wanted to leave pretzels and beer for santa when my son was six. My kid wasn't having any of it. So cookies it was, haha. Thanks for sharing.

[@paulinebrus7580]

hahaha that OI came very natural XD ;)

[@tibbyaslund7455]

I'm so lucky living in Australia as my family and i celebrate 3 cultures worth of traditions for Christmas: Swedish 24th, English 25th and Australian on boxing day