After toying with changing Christmas traditions for a few years, my family and I have decided to forego Christmas gifts this year. It's kind of exciting, to tell the truth--the prospect of not having to shop and wrap and ship gifts because the calendar says it's time.
I love giving and receiving gifts, but am finding it more pleasurable to do so on birthdays or random occasions.
One family is going to a local theater production of Annie in lieu of gifts. Some people agree to give gifts to people in need instead of exchanging gifts with friends and family. We are going cold turkey and hoping to find other ways of being together--with the time we'll save by not shopping.
Among my friends, we all seem to agree that a meal out or at each others' houses is a great substitute for wrapped gifts.
I feel liberated today without the prospect of frenzied shopping, and without the worry of whether or not the receivers, especially men, will even like my choices.
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