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How many of you still participate in gift exchanges with family/friends during their holidays?

Perseids18 5 Oct 6
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I do the prezzies at Xmas, doesn't have any connection to religion for me, it's a time of a family get together. I also do chocolate at Easter, again no religion just CHOCOLATE!

I am totally 100% the same....would be a pity to exclude ourselves from the fun!

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I do. Christmas is actually a pagan holiday anyway, as is Easter. What do snow, pine trees and holly have to do with a baby being born in the middle east? Or rabbits and eggs with resurrection? I also like to celebrate Halloween, another pagan holiday.

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Among my friends Christmas is just a gift giving holiday. It has no religious meaning whatsoever!

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I look forward to the whole holiday stuff and decorations.. especially the lights. I send gift cards to my family as they live in Canada. My kiddos get thier presents under a grand tree just like most people.

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Not recently..

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I do still exchange gifts. I just go along with it all.

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i love giving gifts. i give one gift to my guy every night of chanukah and he always runs out of gifts to give me before the week is through. but it's more fun to give anyway!

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No. Holiday gifts are for kids, not adults.

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I give the children in my family gifts at christmas and on their birthdays although increasingly, those gifts are submitted via paypal. Who knew that paypal is preferred over cash?
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If I attend a party with a white elephant gift exchange I will participate because that shit is fuuuuunnny

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I do! Giving gifts has been hyper commercialized and far removed from religious depth in meaning for decades.... Same reason i get kids jelly beans and chocolate bunnies for Easter! LoL

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Seeing how it's only my sister and I left of our family, I do this.

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I do. It is my kids after all.

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I send my children and grandchildren checks. I refer to it as end of year money and never mention Christmas.

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The holidays have been a very difficult time for my family for the last few decades. It wasn't until the arrival of my son, that the holidays started to become positive again.

camne Level 7 Oct 7, 2018
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The kids will get gifts, but the adults may not.
Holidays...are a bit tricky with my family. We are estranged so it feels awkward to be jolly together.

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Heck yeah I love Christmas it has nothing to do with religion for me it's just about love and family

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I do. I like getting presents... and so to increase my chances of getting cool stuff, I try to be thoughtful with the holiday gifts I get for friends and family.

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Sort of. I may exchange gifrts with one of my sisters. We live together. That is about it. We sign the gifts as being fromt eh cats....

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I do. I view it as a cultural thing. I lived in an Asian country for a year and there were three main cultural groups. At that time they were all tolerant of each other (historically not so much and I’m unsure of how it is today) so they would all celebrate holidays together with the person whose holiday it was as the host. So culturally Christmas is my holiday so I celebrate and don’t expect anyone to believe in order to participate.

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Not in years. Love the lights though.

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I do.

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I was super duper uber Mr Xtian as a teen. I suggested we stop giving gifts and make charitable donations others enjoy. My parents agreed and my shift to agnosticism hasn't impacted that much.

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