Me neither.

My family have enjoyed gift free Christmases for decades.

Instead of ugly, needless and glutenous consumption, instead we celebrate Jesus Christ with a nice dinner together. We all cook something we know the family will enjoy. We set a seat at the head of the table for Jesus to join us and we relax.

During the meal we each discuss one act or teachings of Jesus Christ that helped us during the year.

Nobody is stressed and there's very little washing up because most of the serving dishes leave with the family members who brought them.

Home-made gifts for my entire family! Like the good ol' days!

I'm still going to buy some things for the family. I'm happy to say that all the gifts have been purchased from small businesses. They really got screwed over these last few years....and the online purchasing has made a slowly dying industry for the small businesses. They can't compete with the cheap prices (yet cheap quality).

I have been doing that since the early nineties. I hated the plastic gifts, and the excessive candy and alcohol. Sometimes other people would give gifts for the kids (always cheap, mind you). The kids would end up in tears because the gifts usually break on the same day. For a while, I encouraged my kids to make stuff for their siblings, and some wonderful wooden trucks, puppets and boxes were the result. I have since banned trees (I don't like cutting live trees down and I despise plastic ones) and bought decorations (what an absolute waste). I'll allow holly or ivy cuttings from the garden if anyone is bothered. The bought cards were disingenuous and I don't want to receive any (What am I gonna do with them?), although I have a lovely collection of homemade cards in my safe. My wish is to have a very quiet happy day. We do eat a nice roast, however. I suppose it comes off as grinchy, but the best Christmas I can imagine is with my family, not a celebration of corporate profit.

I was thinking of assembling a large packet of NIH, CDC, FDA documentation on how effective ivermectin is, the damage caused by remdesivir, VAERs data, and maybe some org charts showing the conflicts of interest w/ investments and like Fauci and his wife being his oversight.

Taking this packet to Kinkos and printing it off really nice in a semester final report style of binding, (expensive) and wrapping them up all nice and sending them out to the woke folks I know with a nice card.

"I was going to spend this money on a gift but felt you could use this information more."

I only have one sister that I exchange gifts with, but we each give a gift when we come up with some handcrafted thing we think the other will enjoy, and we don't worry about whether or not it's Christmas or birthdays.

You could shop at your smaller businesses or if you don't know what to buy people get a gift certificate for that business. In my townwe have a lot of little gift stores.

Funny, I was just talking to a buddy who said he's doing the same thing. Wait a minute....