Oh my goodness! Twas’ the night before Christmas, and all through the house, visions of Holiday Cash dance in my head. No that can’t be right! Twas’ the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Well come check out my house! Snow brings those little critters indoors!
What I do know is that it is only 5 weeks until Christmas. I can’t believe how fast this year has flown by.
Let’s forget the mouse, could you use a helping elf to bring your family some cash for the holidays? I have joined with some bloggers who want to say Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and Happy Holidays to our readers by offering to THREE (3) readers the chance to win $500 each making a total of $1500 being given away!
Terms & Conditions for the $1500 Holiday Cash Giveaway:
- This giveaway ends on 12/20/15.
- It’s open worldwide, void where prohibited.
- There will be three (3) winners of $500 USD which will be paid via PayPal, or gift card of winners choice.
- Winners must be 21 years or older to win.
- Winners must complete all entries to be entered to win.
- Full Lives Reviews will choose a winner no later than 12/24/15 via random.org. The entries will be verified and the winners will be contacted via email.
- The winners have 48 hours to respond and claim prize. If the winner doesn’t claim prize within 48 hours their prize will be forfeit and a new winner will be chosen.
- By entering this giveaway you are abiding by all laws and regulations in your country. Have Fun and good luck!
Seyma Shabbir says
I love to watch Grinch who stole Christmas!
Wendy Jensen says
My favorite Christmas tradition is our Light Drive. Driving around on Christmas Eve to see all the beautiful light displays.
Marcy Meyer says
Our church always has a great children’s Christmas program and service on Christmas Eve.
Peggy Johnson says
We like driving around to see the Christmas lights
Cathy French says
As a tradition I love to make fresh greenbean casserole, the can greenbeans are for amatuers. lol
Peggy Johnson says
We love to make gingerbread men for our tree
Marcy Meyer says
We put an angel on top of tree every year.
Ronald Gagnon says
Family get together on Boxing Day
Mandala says
Our family attends church and then have a Secret Santa gift exchange.
Cathy French says
My boyfriend and I like to stay in and watch movies on Christmas Eve and exchange presents. We don’t do the family thing until christmas day
Peggy Johnson says
One tradition we have is to ride around town looking at Christmas lights
Marcy Meyer says
We usually do a light lunch at my parent’s on Christmas Eve, to keep the clean up down to a minimum. More time for gifts! lol
blackasphodel says
Second comment for December 16 (’cause I think I forgot to comment then): I’m going to try out some new vegan cookie recipes this year.
blackasphodel says
I meant December 15.
blackasphodel says
I like decorating the Christmas tree.
Seyma Shabbir says
After cooking and eating, a little napping LOL
Cathy French says
One tradition I like is decorating our home even if we don’t put up a tree there are holiday decor items everywhere.
Kat1126 says
Our family tradition is that everyone comes to my house for the holidays. We eat lots and lots of food ad yummy desserts and tell ourselves we will “recover after the new year” Unfortunately as my kids move away (as well as the rest of the family) we are getting to be a smaller and smaller crowd
mrkasick says
I always enjoy getting together with the family.
sheri anderson says
My favorite tradition is Christmas Eve services at our church, love singing the carols, brings such joy!
Marcy Meyer says
Visiting Santa every year is something we always look forward to.
Seyma Shabbir says
Eating so much yummy food! Is that a tradition? LOL
Nichole F says
My favorite tradition is baking cinnamon rolls using my mom’s “secret recipe” for Christmas morning! They are a labor of love, but sooo delicious!!
arra odeza (@acodeza) says
BBQing 🙂 from marinating to preparing things. we never miss to have bbq during holidays
heatherctm says
I love baking cookies with my daughter every year 🙂
Cathy French says
One of my own traditions is to put decorative bows on packages instead of the cheap sticky one.
Marcy Meyer says
I have a Santa collection that I always put out during the holidays.
Seyma Shabbir says
We love to play board games or card games!
Amanda Daggett says
Thanks for the giveaway!
sara giresi says
We head to NYC to see the tree! Love it!
Cindy says
We play video games with our nephews.
Cathy French says
I think my favorite tradition is filling up a lot of leftover containers after our big feast at my ma in law’s house so we can eat on it for days after.
Peggy Johnson says
I love making gingerbread men for my tree
Marcy Meyer says
We stay in our pj’s all day Christmas day!
Crystal Gomez says
We like baking a ton of cookies and decorating them all different ways!
Daniel M says
decorating the tree together
Mandala says
My favorite holiday tradition is exchanging presents (Secret Santa) with family and close friends.
arra odeza (@acodeza) says
baking cookies 🙂 especially the ginger bread cookies.yum!
Amanda Daggett says
On Christmas Eve my whole family goes over to my mom’s house and we have a great dinner and we exchange our gifts and party all night.
michie2003 says
christmas tree
Marcy Meyer says
We always give scratch-off lottery tickets, for fun, at my in-laws.
Charlotte says
Opening one present on Christmas EVe.
cottagebunny says
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together
with friends and family all at one place and
celebrating together by having a lovely dinner together.
Cathy French says
Our holiday traditions aren’t real exciting but its fun to give and get gifts from loved ones
heatherctm says
I have several other traditions, but I’m not sure I have enough to keep commenting every day! Hehe. We always make salt dough ornaments every year of my daughter’s hands and feet. This year we added another set.. 🙂 Both of my daughters will have the tradition now.
Marcy Meyer says
I still watch some of my favorite Christmas shows from my childhood, like Emmett Otter’s Jug band Christmas.
Seyma Shabbir says
We love watching The Grinch who stil Christmas – It is so funny!
Claudia (@cdmtx65) says
Decorating the christmas tree and baking cookies together
Geeky Sweetie says
I love driving through the countryside and looking at people’s decorations and lights in their yards 🙂
Dawn Monzu says
My favorite holiday tradition is…our whole family spends the night together at one of our houses! We have a HUGE slumber party, and it is a blast! We play party games, play pool, and just sit around and talk/watch television. I have come to cherish it. God bless and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Mary Cloud says
Our favorite tradition is picking one night to gather on the couch and watch some of our favorite Christmas movies.
Marcy Meyer says
Singing Christmas songs while decorating.
Peggy Johnson says
we love to go christmas caroling
Marcy Meyer says
We try to choose a child, or two, off the giving tree to donate presents to.
Janice Dean says
Making a gingerbread house with the grandchildren.
Cathy French says
When I was a kid our tradition was to go out to eat at a buffet instead of the traditional family feast.
Anna says
Baking cookies.
Jenny L says
my favorite christmas tradition actually occurs on christmas eve. we make cookies and other snacks as a family, open a family gift that includes pajamas for everyone and a movie/game for everyone to enjoy together
Sandra Watts says
Mine is the family gets together and exchanges gifts on Christmas Eve. Ususally something homemade.
Marcy Meyer says
We always watch A Christmas Story on the TBS marathon.
Sheri Newell Anderson says
My favorite tradition is to go to Christmas Eve services at our church and sing carols, it fills me with much joy!
Kitty Iecvan says
I love baking pies with my family.
Denisa Ivascu says
I love baking with my mother.
heatherctm says
I love our tradition of baking cookies for santa 🙂
Sarah VM says
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies.
Marcy Meyer says
We always put candy canes on the tree.
charj says
My favorite holiday tradition attending holiday concerts.
Peggy Johnson says
We love to make gingerbread men for the tree
Seyma Shabbir says
We love watching christmas shows and cartoons with the kids!
Marcy Meyer says
We exchange names in my extended family.
heatherctm says
Aside from the other things, We love to fight up the house every year with pretty colorful lights 🙂
sheri anderson says
My favorite tradition is to go to the Christmas Eve Service at our church with my precious family, what joy that is, thanks!
Amanda A says
My favorite is baking cookies with my husband and kids and then after decorating our Christmas tree. It’s so much fun:)
Marcy Meyer says
I always make chocolate kiss cookies and chocolate crinkle, or what I call, snow-on-the-mountain cookies.
Seyma Shabbir says
We love to sing Christmas songs!!!
sheri anderson says
We love going to Christmas Eve services, such a time of joy, thanks!
Myrna Kasick says
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with all of the family.
heatherctm says
My family loves to cut our own tree every year!
Marcy Meyer says
We always get together with my mom’s side of the family, the first weekend in December.
Cathy French says
A tradition we used to have (but not anymore) was secret santa.
Seyma Shabbir says
I love to bake baklava during the holidays!
Marcy Meyer says
We put an angel at the top of our tree.
Cathy French says
I like that part of our holiday tradition is making and serving foods we don’t eat the rest of the year
Marcy Meyer says
Another tradition is putting up outside decorations at our house.
Seyma Shabbir says
My favorite tradition is playing games, we usually play pinochle.
Shannon says
My favorite tradition is making home made spaghetti on Christmas Eve.
Ronald Gagnon says
Boxing Day when the whole family gets together
Kelly O'Malley says
We used to do fondue every Christmas. It was so much fun. We would all sit around the table and because the food was more interactive there was a lot more talking going on, versus the silent eating. It was always so much fun.
Peggy Johnson says
Decorating the tree with my husband
Marcy Meyer says
We love watching Christmas classic movies.
Tawny says
$500 would help make a very, very merry Christmas! I hope yours is too for being such giving, caring people.
Seyma Shabbir says
Eating my moms homemade candied yams. I love it with pecans!
Maegan Delorme says
My favourite holiday tradition is going to church with my whole family, and then going back to my moms to open our christmas eve pj’s.
Peggy Johnson says
I love baking cookies with the kids
Francine Anchondo says
Christmas eve pizza
heatherctm says
Every Christmas Eve the little Santa elves deliver a package to our doorstep with pajamas made for our children. (Specially packaged with elf wrapping paper and ribbons and glitter all over the place to show they were there) They show up right in the middle of us reading “Twas the night before Christmas”. It’s a nice tradition that we continued from when I was a little girl. 🙂
Marcy Meyer says
Another tradition is using an Advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas!
Seyma Shabbir says
We make homemade candied yams and biscuits!
Peggy Johnson says
All our extended family get together for a big Christmas meal followed by gift giving and pictures
Marcy Meyer says
We always watch the classic Christmas movies.
Stella says
Our tradition is to bake greek christmas cookies with honey and walnuts, they are called ”melomakarona”. My daughters wait for them every year and they are counting days! 🙂
Sarah VM says
Our favorite tradition is making gingerbread men and a gingerbread house every year.
Marcy Meyer says
We always look through our stockings last, after opening presents and seeing what Santa brings.
Patricia Thomas says
We have a Sweetly Serious tradition right before we open gifts, we read the Story of Baby Jesus Birth in the Book of Luke, NT. Several Times during the Christmas Holidays, We all get together and watch That Hilarious movie, The Christmas Story! “I want a Red Rider BB Gun”! “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out”!!!!! LOL Warm Ginger bread, Hot Spiced Tea and Rich Coffee There’s just nothing better!
Seyma Shabbir says
We make homemade biscuits with flour, yogurt, butter, salt, and herbs.
Cathy French says
I’m running out of ideas for my favorite holiday traditions. Each day a new comment to open the rafflecopter. We do love having classic holiday foods for our feast
Marcy Meyer says
We put decorations from my childhood on the tree, as well as things the boys have made.
Tawny says
My favorite family tradition is our driving through the snow to the country to see my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins at my grandparents’ house for Thanksgiving and Christmas to enjoy every food imaginable. It was so cold outside, but so warm in front of the fireplaces inside. I really miss it!
Cathy French says
My favorite holiday tradition is a community cookie/candy tray we share with everyone in the family. One person usually bakes several different varieties and the rest of us contribute one or two and them everyone gets a tray
april says
My favorite is getting up on Christmas morning, sipping on hot coffee, eating homemade cinnamon rolls, and watching the kiddos open presents.
Marcy Meyer says
One of our traditions is eating yummy cinnamon rolls Christmas morning.
Tawny says
I could spread a lot of love and happiness with $1,500. Ministry, a working washer, food for a good family meal, money toward replacing my cousin’s totaled car & hospital bills, the list is endless. All needed. Wonderful gift.
Cathy French says
One tradition is to spend Christmas eve alone and share the Xmas day with relatives
Marcy Meyer says
Hanging the stockings
wen budro says
My favorite tradition is watching a holiday movie together while eating leftovers.
Eileen Richter says
Driving together to see the area lights down by the Capital as a family is something we look forward to as a tradition.
Seyma Shabbir says
One of our traditions is biscuits.. ususally homemade unless I get lazy…
Ronald Gagnon says
Boxing Day get together with whole family for supper and games
Cathy French says
We really don’t have too many holiday traditions but we do make sure the Christmas Eve is just for the two of us and we celebrate with others on Christmas Day
Cathy French says
We’re not putting up a tree this year but a favorite tradition is the decorating
Marcy Meyer says
We always leave Santa cookies and milk.
Michelle Armstrong says
My favourite holiday tradition is going to my in laws on Christmas Eve with the rest of the family and opening all our gifts.
shawanda davis says
My families favorite holiday tradition is sitting around the table telling what we are thankful for
Eileen Richter says
My favorite tradition is going to CHristmas Eve service together, singing silent night by candle light. Then home for a soup and lasagna dinner.
Cathy French says
Fave tradition would be spending Christmas eve with my boyfriend for nice dinner and gift giving then go to his mothers on Christmas for a feast and more gifts.
Marcy Meyer says
Putting up our decorations after Thanksgiving.
Karen Giasson says
My favorite tradition is just getting together with my family. That includes 5 children and 8 grandchildren.
Sandra Watts says
Mine is having dinner with my family. Everyone goes to my parents. It is nice seeing everyone together again.
Kathryn K. says
My favorite tradition is spending the holiday with my family.
Tara L says
My favorite tradition is opening presents Christmas Eve while we watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
suzi says
our favorite tradition is eating homemade sticky buns on the floor while opening our gifts Christmas morning.
Elizabeth says
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Elizabeth says
When I was a kid, we’d gather around the Tree on Christmas Eve and sing Christmas Carols!
Seyma Shabbir says
We love to watch home movies and play cards!
Cathy French says
My favorite holiday tradition is our community cookie/candy platter. My boyfriends’ cousin bakes several different cookies and we add our homemade buckeyes and everyone in the family then gets a tray with samples of everything.
Marcy Meyer says
Making Christmas sugar cookies and putting the tree up.
Debbie says
having the family together
Lisa Davis says
The holidays are really rough on me and I prefer not to think about them.
Cathy Philipps says
We get a new ornament for every family member and put them on a special tree
kelli says
every year, we go to my aunt’s house & we always play a game of spinners. i love it! we also eat the same foods every year which is so exciting to me. especially since we only have those dishes once a year.
Judy Thomas says
My fave tradition is putting up the tree on my daughter’s birthday- December 1st.
Renee Simmons says
From Thanksgiving to Xmas! We look for local holiday activities to go to as a family. Xmas shows & making homemade ornaments with the grands. TY for the chance!
Seyma Shabbir says
We love to watch old home movies and look at old pictures!
Amy C. says
I enjoy when our family puts the tree up together. It’s fun to pull out all the ornaments and reminisce.
Tawny says
All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins, and some of our friends always got together at my grandparents’ house in the country. We had a huge meal with everything imaginable to eat, lots of laughs, and lots of love. Now it’s just a few of us cousins and my mama left to get together for a smaller meal.
Shawanda Davis says
My fav holiday tradition is having everyone around the dinner table say what they are thankful for
Tara O. says
My favorite tradition is driving around to look at Christmas lights!
ssjmommy says
Our favorite family tradition is gathering as a family and opening gifts followed by a family lunch together.
Debbie Petch says
Every Christmas, all my relatives and friends from across the country goes to my sister -in-law’s house for a big party!
aluckyfish says
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas morning, turning on the Christmas music, opening up sparkling cider and pastries, and opening gifts with everyone I love!
Adriana Gonzalez says
My favorite holiday tradition is when my family and I prepare & cook the food together and the Guests bring dessert.
Michelle S says
My favorite holiday tradition is we write what we are thankful for on our tablecloth and save it year to year.
Sandra Watts says
My favorite holiday tradition is all the family gathers at my parents home for a nice dinner and gift exchange. It is nice to see family during the holidays.
Candie L says
I love it when we do our cute super hero stockings. Thank you
Elizabeth says
Our favorite Holiday tradition is gathering the whole family for an early morning Christmas Breakfast, and then racing home to start the Turkey 🙂 We, adults, always exchange names and open our presents 🙂
Renata Marchionna says
In the largely Roman Catholic Poland, Christmas Eve begins with a day of fasting and then a night of feasting. The traditional Christmas meal is known as Wigilia
Rob B says
Our tradition is baking brussel sprouts