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Old 11-12-2014, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by jnieman View Post
My husband and my family haven't exchanged gifts for years. Not even for the kids. We do have a white elephant gift exchange valued at $20.00. It's fun to take the gifts back and forth and see what you end up with. There is no burden to buy gifts in our family. So glad of this as I don't think we could afford to do it now.
My wife and I and family haven't either. We take vacations. When I worked most places had the " Yankee Gift Swap" as it was called between workers and it seemed the larger the company Christmas parties were a thing of the past. Besides the commercialization of Christmas came the almost out of control of calling the Christmas season something else which really became absurd. I still long to go to the mall and sit with a box of popcorn and observe the show. I would rather avoid the traffic.