I have mixed feelings about Christmas...it has always been my favorite holiday, and I do still want to celebrate the Reason for the Season, and I love getting together with my family, but the commercialism of the holiday has gotten out of hand. We have cut back to $5.00 gifts for our family...try to buy on sale to get something unique for the $. Other side of family we do a $20.00 gift card exchange...that has been kinda fun...do the "stealing" game with that one. But, the holidays have been not the same since I lost my husband in September of 2004, and last year my brother passed away, and this year one of my brother in law's passed away, and combine that with my father who has severe Alzheimer's and it just makes the holidays something to get through. Thankfully I have a great group of quilting friends and we have a very special Christmas celebration usually a couple weeks before Christmas...that has become my favorite part of the season.