Holidays and Other Times

Time

Did you remember to Spring Forward last night?

Do you change your smoke detector batteries with the time change? Do you turn your mattress?
Do you have any software on your computer like Atomic Clock Sync to keep your computer clock accurate?
Do you have Daylight Savings Time in your area?
Do you prefer a nighttime sky or a daytime sky?
Do you think that Spring Forward/Fall back should be abolished?

Favorite thing about Daylight Savings Time?

What things do you use Spring Forward/Fall Back to remind you to do?
What time is it there?
What time zone do you live in?

Seasons

Do you change what your sheets or bedspread looks like by the season?
Do you have any rituals or ways that you celebrate the change of seasons?
Do you redecorate seasonally?
Do your reading habits change by the season?

Does your town have any festivals for the season?

Have you ever had a spring fling?
Have you ever had a summer romance?

How do you store off-season clothing?

If you were a tree, what would be your favorite month of the year?

Tell me one thing you haven't done this summer that you would still like to do before Labor Day.

The best thing about this season is ______________.

What is your favorite/least favorite part of this season?
What seasonal chores do you do?
What seasonal chores do you dread?
What seasonal decorations do you put up?

Weather

Describe the most intense weather you have experienced.
Describe the perfect weather

Do you like storms or do they scare you?
Do you like to take walks in the rain?
Do you need to buy new clothes because the weather changed?
Do you prefer rain or snow?
How's the weather?

Is your part of the world "windy" very often? How do you feel about the wind? (I'm not talking gentle breeze here either!)

Snow: Love it or Hate it?

What is the closest you have come to being in the midst of a natural disaster? Tell me about all those close calls with hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires you have had.

What weather frightens you?
What weather phenomena do you enjoy most?

Generic Holiday Questions

Are you doing any holiday crafting?
Are you in the holiday spirit?

Describe the sequence of events on this holiday
Describe your holiday home
Describe your holiday menu

Do you attend church or religious observances to mark this holiday?
Do you buy gifts through out the year or just in time for giving?
Do you buy traditional candy for the holiday or more modern variations?
Do you buy your children special holiday clothing?
Do you celebrate _________?
Do you decorate inside your home for the holiday?
Do you decorate the outside of your home for the holiday?
Do you decorate your home for the holiday?
Do you do any special holiday baking?
Do you do any special holiday baking? If so, when do you start baking?
Do you ever try new recipes on holidays?
Do you give cards to family members you live with?
Do you go to special holiday sales?
Do you have any family traditions?
Do you know anyone who has a birthday on this holiday?
Do you send out cards for this holiday? To how many people? Do you serve traditional foods for the holiday?
Do you wear any special holiday related clothing to work?
Do you wear holiday hair ornaments?
Does your child believe in ___________? (Santa, the Easter Bunny) At what age did they stop believing?
Do you believe in ________ ?(Santa, the Easter Bunny)

Have you ever been in a holiday parade?
Have you ever worked on a parade float?
Have you ever written a newsletter to enclose in cards?
How does your town celebrate this holiday?
How many pairs of holiday socks do you have?
If you could bring back any tradition that seems to have faded into the past, what tradition would you bring back?
If you could create a new holiday, what would it be called and whom or what would it honor?
If you could script this holiday at your home, how would you like it to go?
Something you will do before the end of the year to celebrate a holiday or bring family closer together that doesn't involve spending money?
What custom from another country do you wish would be adopted here?
What holiday jewelry do you have?
What holiday movie or program do you watch every year?
What holiday song do you hope they stop playing?
What holidays do you celebrate in your home this time of year?
What is it just not _______ without?
What is the best song to celebrate this holiday?
What is your best memory of ________?
What is your favorite ________candy?
What is your most vivid memory of _________?
What is your pet's reaction to the holiday?
What parade would you like to go to?
What recipe do you always make for __________?
What symbol of the holiday do you most like?
What symbol of the holiday do you not understand?
What was the most memorable thing about _________ this year?
What was your mother's specialty that she always made for_______? Do you make it now?
What was your worst "holiday" disaster?

Who does the cards in your family?

Will you be going to visit family for the holiday?
Will you have special holiday parties?

Would you ever get married on this holiday?

Gifts

Are you giving any homemade gifts?
Are you good at choosing gifts?
Are you good at wrapping gifts?
Have you ever received the "perfect" gift?

What gift are you excited about giving?
What gift are you worried will be taken "wrong"?
What gift do you want but won't get?
What gift does someone want but you won't give it to them?
What gift is most meaningful?
What gift that you have received has been most memorable?
What gift that you have received has been the most special?
What gift will be the biggest hit?
What gift will you buy yourself if you don't receive it for the holiday?
What gift would you buy yourself?

Birthdays
Did you have birthdays at home when you were a child or did you go somewhere (skating rink, fast food restaurant, etc)

Do you ever hire entertainment for your parties?
Have you ever given a surprise birthday party?
Have you ever had a surprise birthday party given for you?

Homemade cake or bought birthday cake?

How are birthdays celebrated in your family?
How do you celebrate your birthday?
If any singer could "play" a concert just for you and your friends for your birthday, who would you choose?

Most elaborate birthday cake?

What special rights does the birthday person get in your house?

When was the last time there was a birthday party FOR you?

Christmas

Are you dreaming of a white Christmas?

Did any of you go to any "doorbusting" events this morning? Special sales and give aways for those who shopped in the early morning hours?

Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

Halloween

Are vampires real?

Carve pumpkins or paint them?

Do you "help" your children eat their Halloween candy? (or do you sneak it? Or "tax" it)
Do you believe in ghosts?
Do you believe in vampires?
Do you believe in witches?
Do you dress up in costume to greet the trick or treaters?
Do you dress up in costume when you take your children trick or treating?
Do you inspect your children's goodies for anything suspicious?
Do you pass out the candy to the trick or treaters or do you just allow them to help themselves?
Do you take any of your pets out on Halloween night?
Do you take your children around the neighborhood on Halloween night or do you prefer to take them elsewhere?

Have you ever seen a ghost?

What are your rules for your children's consumption of Halloween candy? (all they can eat? 1 piece in the lunch box? ?)

Patriotic Holidays

Do you know what Patriot's Day is?