[Xylochick216]

For as long as I can remember, we've celebrated with our neighbors. All of our neighbors have no family in town, so we were pretty much each others' surrogate families. We have fondue for dinner and exchange gifts with each other. All of us "kids" are around the same age (youngest is a freshman at college, oldest is 29), but now most of us are married some have kids. It gets bigger every year, but we play cheesy games like picture telephone and just hang out. One year my neighbor sat on the porch playing Christmas carols on his trombone for the whole neighborhood. Everyone got a kick out of that.

My husband and I have started exchanging ornaments on Christmas Eve. He only owned about 5 ornaments when we got married (as opposed to my 200+) so we give those to each other before we go to the neighborhood party.