Happy St. Nicholas Day (no advertising thread)

Dear users, dear authors,
how do you celebrate St. Nicholas Day? Do you celebrate it at all?
I hope you have a great time.

We don’t celebrate it ourselves, but we make sure to celebrate St. Nicholas Day properly for our little boy.

Grandma is coming over for coffee today. St. Nicholas visited the kids last night and left them little gifts;) but we don’t really celebrate the day. It’s kind of hard during the week when everyone’s at work.

Where we live, it’s more of a Krampus celebration. So there’s a big Perchten parade, and at the end, St. Nicholas arrives with angels (white and black) and hands out a little bag to every child.

It’s always a great experience for young and old alike.

For dinner, we’re having the traditional “Grättimaa”; it will be 1 meter tall. We’ll eat it at our son’s place. For the children, there was the boot; that’s when the pre-Christmas chocolate started back then.
In the city there are lots of St. Nicholases, and the children get mandarins, nuts, and gingerbread. 

Wishing everyone who stops by here a lovely day

Jana

Since I don’t have kids yet, I don’t really celebrate St. Nicholas Day... I don’t think it makes much sense for adults to give each other chocolate back and forth :)

When I was a kid, either someone dressed as St. Nicholas would come by on the evening of December 6, or we’d put our polished boots out on the 5th, and they’d be full by the morning of St. Nicholas Day. 
We once thought we were so clever that we put out ALL the shoes we owned... But unfortunately, St. Nicholas knew there weren’t that many kids living there, so each of us only got one filled boot :D

In our circle, we already celebrate St. Nicholas on the evening of December 5th. That’s when St. Nicholas stops by for most people. We tend to skip Knecht Ruprecht, whom I remember quite well from my childhood. But he can actually be quite funny. (I even got to play Ruprecht once, and we all had a lot of fun that evening.)

  In our family, in the evening the children only put a plate of cookies and a glass of milk (we normally only drink milk from mugs) in the fireplace.
Our kids know full well that Mom grabs the milk and cookies, but they still stubbornly stick to it.
  In the morning, they’ll find a few sweets and a small gift. I’m really proud that our kids join in the fun even though they know who puts the gifts in their boots. Dressed-up St. Nicholases, on the other hand, are unpopular with both of our kids—no matter how many gifts they bring. That’s why both children refuse to take part in club events for St. Nicholas Day. :-D

Here at the office today, every colleague got a Lindt chocolate St. Nicholas :-D It was a huge hit! ;-)

Other than that, I don’t really celebrate much, since I’m alone during the week anyway—maybe I’ll make myself a little cozy tonight....

Since we don’t have kids, it’s just a normal day for us. Back when I was an employee, I used to get a little something from my boss or coworkers on St. Nicholas Day as a token of appreciation. Of course, that’s no longer the case—now I’m the one giving out little gifts to my customers on St. Nicholas Day. ;-)

I’d love to celebrate St. Nicholas Day, but unfortunately I have to work :(
My daughter is celebrating today with her dad and grandma. Luckily, since we live in a multigenerational household, there’s always someone around :)
And this morning at the hotel (I’m on a business trip), I found a little chocolate St. Nicholas figure outside my room, and that made me incredibly happy.

Ever since my daughter moved out, I only really notice this day now as a stage on the way to Christmas :-).