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Happy Holidays, dear Pandas! I hope you spent many warm and soul-healing moments with the people you love the most on this tiny blue planet this month. Though Christmas is over and we’re all enjoying our gifts, the spirit of the holiday doesn’t officially retire until next year until January 6. So let’s indulge in a bit more festive fun in the meantime, shall we?

Our snow-and-gingerbread-loving Bored Panda team has put together for you this list of the best, funniest, and wittiest Xmas Twitter posts. From weirdly hilarious family traditions and general goofiness that accompanies families during the holidays to merry memes and more, we think we’ve touched on a bit of everything. Scroll down, upvote your fave posts, and let us know in the comments what funny situations happened to you over the weekend.

Meanwhile, be sure to read on for Bored Panda’s interview with Lenore Skenazy about the importance of holiday traditions, family weirdness, and why traditions, along with spending quality time with our family members are far more important than receiving lots of presents and having stockings that are full to the brim with knick-knacks. Lenore is the president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement.

And if you’re in the mood for some more cheery social media content, definitely have a look through Bored Panda’s article about the most hilarious Christmas tweets from last year. You’ll find it right over here.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's too funny. My daughters dog attacks her stocking when they finally give it to get off the mantle. Un til then, she stares at it and howel. It is hilarious!

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Lenore, the founder of Let Grow and the Free-Range Kids movement, opened up to Bored Panda about the importance of having family traditions over the holidays. Even if they’re funny and quirky. Or is that _especially_ if they’re quirky? In short, these small, repeating, shared experiences help us stay together throughout the years.

“Quirky traditions that your family develop are a way of being and staying a unit. A tradition UNITES you. And because it comes around at a certain holiday, it threads the years together,” she told Bored Panda.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Germany, you can buy gingerbread from the end of August.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

November, hell! Try right after back-to-school and before Halloween! And on December 26th, the Valentines Day stuff is out. The damn Whitman’s Sampler bought on December 26th is going to be stale AF by February 14th! And I can guaran-damn-tee if you give someone stale candy for Valentines Day it will NOT end well for you.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the many good things about American Thanksgiving is that it serves as a bulwark against Christmas season encroachment.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So true! The store here had Christmas stuff out right after Halloween!!!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Started before halloween here this year. One aisle of halloween candy and decorations, next one for christmas.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

since when is the rampant spread of hysterical consumerism on a horizontal level illegal within the spiritual error of capitalism?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On the 'news' they interviewed a manager from Coles about why there are hot cross buns in the stores from Boxing Day and he essentially said 'we've done this for the last 6 years, people buy them, so we will keep doing so' which makes sense, yet I still want to dislike it on principle

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had hot cross buns in the supermarket on Boxing Day!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some of the stores in my area had Christmas stuff up before Halloween.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Halloween has fallen. It is up to Talk Like a Pirate Day and Labour Day (and probably also Juneteenth) to defend us from the onslaught.

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According to the childhood independence expert, it doesn’t matter what the tradition is. All that matters is that it exists and that you and your relatives stay true to it throughout all the holidays to come.

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“Anything can become—or remain—a tradition. A special food, word, song, game, way of making something or doing something,” she said.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooh, not how I see it. The list only has children who are naughty or nice (no adults at all sorry). Criminals, especially murderers and sex offenders, aren't 'naughty'. They are in another category altogether so Santa is doing nothing wrong. Just my take on it 🤷

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a million-dollar making idea. Sell a festive law enforcement officer doll under that name. (Make if fire-resistant for safety based on what I've seen onthe internet.)

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Some traditions are so deeply entrenched in our lives that we don’t actually notice them anymore and think it’s something that everyone does at home. However, it’s only when we go outside our warm and cozy social bubble that we begin to realize that every family has its own traditions. Some might differ from ours only subtly while others are truly unique.

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“Chances are you already have some and just don’t think of them as ‘traditions’—maybe some special ornaments you always put on the tree, or a dessert you make even though it takes about three hours to prepare, or a place you visit, whether that’s a home, a park, a store, a grave,” Lenore explained that these holiday and Xmas traditions can vary wildly.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you knew some of my uncles, you'll totally understand why I would love this.

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“Traditions are so important that even young kids can appreciate them more than gifts. If you weren’t going to put up the Christmas tree, for instance, that would be sadder for most kids than not giving them an extra gift. That’s because traditions ARE gifts—gifts from the past that give meaning and joy to the here and now,” Lenore told Bored Panda.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If the site it leads to proceeds to give me billions so I can get in the proper mood for my new role, I might consider it.

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Lenore also revealed a quirky but fun family tradition that they’ve had in her family for years: a talking lemon. It’s a tradition that stuck with them.

“[It’s] a lemon that dried out perfectly that, for some reason or another, we decided to keep AND decided it could speak. Okay, so maybe it sounds a lot like me,” she joked about the talking lemon.

“My sons, now in their 20s, groan when I get out the lemon, who lives most of the year with our holiday paraphernalia,” she opened up about the bizarre tradition to Bored Panda.

“But we all also love the lemon because… he talks! And he’s cranky! Makes dumb jokes! And possibly no other family on earth has a tradition of a talking lemon who comes out and complains about the holidays.”

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched the Muppets Christmas Carol this year and actually thought, "Dang, young Michael Caine looks like a snack." For those who don't know, he plays Ebenezer.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glitter is the devil to clean up but all of the ornaments on my tree are covered in it. I love the way it sparkles with the lights. I'm sure by now my vacuum has asthma.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

God help the YouTuber who sees this and thinks, “hey, climbing this would make for a really awesome video!”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And sometimes it really works. My grandsons think I have him on speed dial.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cat plotting can be dangerous or destructive! But I still love them. I only had to reset my tabletop tree every single day.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For anyone who is wondering, in British English, to 'deck' something (or someone, in this case) is to beat the hell out of it. In this particular case, John Prescott (a Member of Parliament at the time) thumped a member of the public... can't remember why.

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