Actually Jo, I probably cheat Christmas a bit, due to having a family that has a very good attitude toward Christmas. We all get together and have great fellowship as we open our gifts together on Christmas Eve. We draw names usually at Thanksgiving and each person HAS to buy whoever they drew, a present picked from the One Dollar Store! Not allowed to buy anywhere else. When they are opened one at a time, by going from the youngest child to the oldest adults (that will be me then Don) we all have some big laughs and much fun. The fun to us is not the gift, but the fun of trying to find something for $1. It is VERY HARD! My 4 kids are all grown & married and we have 13 grands 1 great grand. We usually have people we have made honarary(SP?) members that don't have families (they get $1 presents too). We eat, drink (soda), and are quite merry! LOL Don and I always give the grands money ...from us. Not a whole lot, yet enough that they are happy.