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[quote=Anonymous]We do several weeks of low key Christmas celebrations. We are non-Christians, non-White, immigrants.  We do several easy peasy entertaining at home with different groups of people.  Easy store bought food or home cooked meals.  Minimal gift exchanges because none of us need gifts and we make it very clear in our invites.

We do the drive-through of a Christmas Lights park in the weeks before Christmas. We used to go for a late night movie show that got dropped during COVID.  A bunch of our friends get together for something fun to do outside the home - so we all go and grab a lunch or get manicures etc together.

We put up a small fake Christmas tree and buy several gag gifts for each other and one big gift for each of us.  We only buy and exchange gifts for one relative's family.  But, seriously, except for kids, no one needs gifts. If you are buying gifts for more than 8 people - your life is very complicated.  Do a secret Santa and be satisfied with only one gift.

We start putting together the annual giftcards and letters for our children teachers/coaches/tutors  before Thanksgiving and give it to them as our sincere thanks. We do not give anything for Christmas.  We give gifts to our trash collector, lawn guy and maid service.  That too happens during Thanksgiving. We do not think that giving it during Christmas is appropriate since it is not an even exchange of gifts because we have a social or family relationship, and we are just thanking them.

We have a special breakfast for our family on Christmas morning and we open gifts.  We make treats for birds. We go for a walk on a trail behind our house and sprinkle sunflower seeds. We take our dogs to the dog park when it is a pleasant day.

We usually will get our favorite takeout a few evenings before Christmas, and watch something on TV together.   We have a lot of people drop in for get togethers etc and it is all very low key casual.  We just make sure that no one is alone. In our case it is basically "come over to our house and bring a friend". We are ok if you drop in for even 15 minutes.   We are totally unashamed to order in/take out pleb food.   We are super chill about food.  Though we do keep nice wine/beer/booze at home.

We host a number of potlucks with some group of friends.  Again, very low key entertaining with enough food and drink for everyone.  Usually some entertainment is also planned - watching a game, watching some movie or show, pool, games, cards, karaoke etc.  We also keep around 5-6 wine bottles (with nice satin wine bags) so that if we are invited somewhere we have a hostess gift. [/quote]

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