Luckily we don't have to deal with that gift nonsense as it's not a part of the tradition here, in fact it's frowned upon. I do love Christmas, I love spending time with my family, relatives and friends, the sheer atmosphere of it, though most of all, food. You have no idea what Christmas meal is until you see what we do, prepare, better yet. Your Christmas is more or less all about gifts, ours is all about food. Each household prepares over 10 kg of lamb along with dozen types of pastries and other baking goods, plus several traditional dishes. And that's just the gist of it, we do share some of it with less fortunate of course.