Visited us also. It is a tradition that I had never heard of until moving to NKY.

 

Kind of like chili and cheese on your spaghetti and goetta?! :thumb:

Kind of like chili and cheese on your spaghetti and goetta?! :thumb:

Those I had in Cincy previously. No St Nick until I married a NKY Catholic and moved to the right side of the river.

St. Nick visited the PV house overnight and left a bag of Lindt chocolates and tangerines.

 

I absolutely love this Christmas tradition!

 

Anyone else hang their stockings?

 

My wife's family is 100% German, yes we do, but she uses shoes.

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We always did it. We would put shoes out, as opposed to Christmas stockings, to receive the gifts.

I agree with you. It's a thing among populations of German Catholics. Less so the further away from Bavaria your ancestors came from.

 

My wife's paternal grandparents came from Borger, Germany. Kind of far away from Bavaria and brought the tradition with them.

 

My wife's paternal grandparents came from Borger, Germany. Kind of far away from Bavaria and brought the tradition with them.

 

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I really just meant further from Germany, but yeah, I hear you.

We use shoes. Still nothing in mine. :cry:

We use shoes and we have no german in our family. Irish mostly.

We use shoes. Still nothing in mine. :cry:

 

To be candid, I made myself $152 happier at Pier1 on Saturday. Maybe he figured I'd had enough joy in my life for a while.

We use shoes and we have no german in our family. Irish mostly.

 

German, Irish, Scotch and Cherokee here. Ex is Italian/Irish. I celebrate everything. :lol2:

We use shoes. Still nothing in mine. :cry:

 

Maybe you shouldn't have removed your odor eater insoles! :lol2:

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Just kiddin' RM, I couldn't leave it alone. If I was your neighbor I'd bring you tons of candy.

We use shoes and we have no german in our family. Irish mostly.

 

Scots/Irish on my side, growing up we never celebrated St. Nick day/night.

Maybe you shouldn't have removed your odor eater insoles! :lol2:

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Just kiddin' RM, I couldn't leave it alone. If I was your neighbor I'd bring you tons of candy.

 

:lol2:

I was ready!

 

I always wondered about this tradition as well. When I was a kid, it seemed nobody other than our household did it, even my fellow Catholics (who were pretty much all Irish Catholics for the most part in my hometown).

 

Weirdly, though, it seemed my Mom was more into it than my Dad. My Mom was raised Lutheran, and her people came from the north of Germany, one side of them from a North Sea island called Pellworm.

 

My Dad's family was always Catholic on both sides, Moravian (Czech) and Bavarian. Paternal Grandmother's folks were from Bavaria and she always seemed into it as well. So I just don't know.