One son gave us a "movie night" (dvd, popcorn, candy and blanket). My daughter gave me a Yoda Lego set, a spring coat and thermal socks. My oldest son gave me nothing. My husband gave me nothing. My job cut my hours so I'm losing $600 a month, which I found out on Christmas Day when I was at work serving people who shop on Christmas day.

Amylou - I want to see the pants!

A small rum cake from a coworker. Perfume, two cookbooks, a bottle of wine, slipper socks, two mugs, a padded kneeling thing for gardening, a snow plow attachment for my garden cart, gag gift toilet paper. I think that's it. My daughter said she would get me something later, after she got a job but I told her not to worry about it.

From my sisters I got

Apple chips

A new drinking mug

Ornaments

A teacup decoration

Refrigerator pickles

I gave them a variety of their favourite nuts and dates and Mandarin oranges. I try to honor their request to only give food items. They have a hard time honoring my request in return. I warned them that I purge all of my unused or unappreciated items once every 3 years. Don't go looking for the stuff I tell them. It likely will be gone.

Our children don't give us gifts. We give them a few dollars each.

Dh & I don't give each other gifts or cards. We just get what we want and need when we want and need it.

From some of my children, five coloring books, a tin of very nice colored pencils, an electric neck and shoulder warmer, a nice throw with a horse on it, a box of assorted greeting cards, 2 blocks of salt for my wild deer, 2 calendars, a winter flag for my front yard with birds on it, a weighted blanket, a plastic basket filled with all kinds of useful things such as several cans of pumpkin, lots of liquid hand soap, a lighter, a flashlight, and batteries for it, candies, tea towels, note pads, a nice big envelope of Christmas cards for next year, my favorite brand, a Merry Christmas cow bell, and some vitamins. I still have more gifts coming from my other daughter and family and another coloring book is coming by mail from a long time lady friend. I possibly have forgotten some things, but that is my haul as well as I can remember.

Sue

We don't exchange gifts anymore. We really don't need anything and it was becoming too challenging to come up with ideas. I do send some gifts the the grands and everyone gets a check to buy themselves whatever or go out and have a really nice date night. DS did bring a bottle of eggnog from PA., and DD stopped by with a tray with an onion tart (DH loves onions) some pfeffernusse cookies and a bottle of wine. I bought myself a Shark robot vacuum cleaner for the upstairs of the house. That's it.

We agreed to exchange small, grocery-store gifts within our small bubble only. It was nice. I asked for chocolate of any sort except white, and received bars, chips, cocoa, and a small bag of assorted bite-size candy bars. Wonderful!

Oh, and we each bought ourselves one "indulgence" gift. Mine was a new set of bedsheets -- special because they are grown, spun, woven, sewn into sheets totally in America. Natural unprocessed cotton, with yarns thicker than typical moderns sheets so even though it's only 140-count, it feels soft and clean. Should last for years, too.

This year has been rough on my family, too many have lost jobs because of COVID. So we agreed not to exchange gifts between families. I did break the rules, though, and got each of my Great-Grans a little something, it's hard for little ones to understand some things. And I told them definitely NOT to get me anything, I have everything I could want or need. All I really want is for them to be happy and have their needs. Including jobs.

Rusty

DS#2 gave me a couple of gifts, only one that could be wrapped, though. First of all, he noticed that my Joy of Cooking is holding on by a wing and a prayer and a piece of clear packing tape. Second, he researched ordered my gift, without telling anyone (never did that before! The only reason we found out is he is still on my credit card and DH and I were questioning an Amazon charge. DS had to get up earlier than normal to whisper to DH.) The third and wrapped gift was a bookbinding repair kit! Love it! I can use it for my Mastering the Art of French Cooking, too!

DH unwittingly gave me a kind-of-related gift. A local fellow has a new book about a local architect that I wanted, and I wanted it from the local bookstore. (Not that I usually attach strings to my requests, but this year I definitely wanted to support local as much as possible.) When DH called the bookstore (there’s a gift in itself, he would much rather not have to talk to someone!), they told him they had one copy in the store but they were only taking orders for now, because a book had already come back with a poor binding issue. They are contacting the publisher to see if it was a one-off or if there was a printing problem. They are a very pro-active bunch there. The funny thing is, I got a book repair kit! We also found it amusing that a book about an architect, by an architect, should have construction issues, and it’s not even Frank Lloyd Wright.

Phone calls from 2 of my 3 sons and a card from the missus. That was it! That was enough!!

The personal care products I talked about in another post. That's it. I agreed with my parents that we wouldn't exchange gifts this year because they are both in poor health and we don't need anything. I wrapped and shipped a bunch of small things for them to open which they did on a Facetime call with us. It was a gift to see them since we couldn't travel this year.

We don't do gifts anymore. I used to buy, pack up and mail out to the kids and gkids but stopped that several years ago. I only buy for my sister (she's local to me). I send money to the gkids who are still under 18 and only have 3 of those now. I didn't even get that out this year yet, but will this coming week. I went to the PO early last week and there wasn't a parking spot in the lot open. I went on to the grocery and then back to the PO - still no parking spots so I just went home. My sister's gift hasn't arrived from Amazon yet and looks like it won't for a number of days yet. I did order myself a canister of raspberry hot chocolate mix and will share some of that with my sister. The box (coming from Amazon) said WALMART on it. I haven't been able to find it in my W for a few years now. I also bought the new remote for ROKU. I haven't attempted to connect it yet (because I'm afraid I won't be able to make it work and then might have no remote to control it. I'm electronically challenged these days). I also bought a new space heater (with a remote for my bedroom) and more magnetic air vent covers. I didn't know those magnetic covers even existed until last winter. I added more of those to my Amazon order for my sister's gift and my hot chocolate.

Although we don't exchange gifts any more, DH gave me an orrery. Love it!

I love lottery scratch tickets and hubby and I would buy each other a couple of the $10 holiday packets to add to our gifts. I still do that, and I won $90.

I also got a nightie with cardinals on it, a pic of Tom playing his drums onto a tree ornament and the board game Sequence from a g/f.

I like baggie men's T-shirts I wear over leggings, then a fleece hoodie on top, or a long below knee cardigan with riding boots & neck scarf(either way U can't see the T-shirt. )☺

2 long T-shirts

white turtleneck

Cookies the neighbor brought over

42" x 2" thick industrial floating shelf in espresso

4 throw pillows

Little metal side table

A few items for art journaling - a scoring board, a corner rounding punch, and two books related to the craft. My brother said he is working on a wood burning picture of Santa for me.

For the first time in forever we didn't exchange gifts except I gave my DH a gift card for a favourite restaurant and he gave me lottery tickets. Our kids gave us pictures of themselves and their partners which I really wanted.

We gave them stocking stuffer things and a cheque.

Our kids normally give us things but with our house fire this year the ins company will replace everything so no point in buying us anything. And for the past several years DS1 give my DH and DS2 ski passes to an interior mountain and DH pays for the hotel and DS2 buys the dinner. But, no travelling this year. But wait until next year. We will be all over this stuff.

Jasdip, I love scratchers too. Unfortunately, I live in Alabama and there is no lottery here. 🙄 But SO snuck over to Georgia and got me a book of the $30 ones today while I was fast asleep. So far i have only scratched 3 of them but I won $50 on one.

We don’t exchange gifts, just buy what we want. I bought another Ionic air cleaner from Sharper Image. Since I got the first one I haven’t had to dust my living room! Also ordered the Ninja Foodi 5 in 1 that you can grill in.

We do give to kids and grands, but tell them to NOT buy for us, but this year they got together and got us a Skylight and they all put pictures on it

Here is my favorite...

My Christmas morning was pretty good. Children texted me pictures of the grandchildren opening their gifts, my brother called me for a nice long conversation and my amaryllis flower was open this morning giving me a lovely blossom for Christmas.

My kids got me token gifts which was great. My big gift from dh hasn't arrived yet. I asked for an elliptical. Just waiting for it to come to the store so they can deliver it.

Fluffy socks, my favorite, and a chimney cap installed (yay for slave labor! Actually, I guess it's a fair trade since I pay for their room and board). With the stimulus check, I guess the cap hardware just got paid for.

We no longer exchange gifts either. haven't in years. We do buy gifts for the grand kids. The grandkids do give out token gifts to us and other family to keep them in the spirit of giving as well as receiving. I could be something baked by them or little packets of treats they put together or a photo of themselves, things like that. This year they left fuzzy slipper socks for everyone on our doorsteps.

I did make a more expensive than usual personal purchase for myself. I detest spending money on clothes. I bought a duster style raincoat specifically designed for equestrians to cover not only myself but a good portion of the horse. But after having gotten soaked to the bone, and having to stand around that way (nothing says comfort like saturated jeans for several hours) at a place I had to go after a few weeks back, I think the purchase is justified as a present to myself. :-)

I received a battery recharger from my cousin along with a Christmas star decoration she embellished, McDonald's gift card for coffee when my other cousin and I go out for rides and a Kit Kat. My brother gave me his credit card number so I can buy whatever I want online up to $100. My younger brother sent over lottery scratch tickets, 2 cooking magazines, licorice allsorts, wintergreen mints and a box of Merci chocolates which the others can enjoy. I haven't scratched those tickets yet so they might turn into more haha.

DS and DGS came Christmas Eve day to rotate our mattresses -- and deliver specialty truffles. Each of the XL twin mattresses weighs 70 lbs, impossible for oldster us, butust like featherbeds to them. (DGS, 15, is now half an inch over six feet and 205 lbs.) DGD sent an original drawing printed on a small plate -- school project fundraiser.

We give DS and DIL a check plus funds for things the kids want (a large computer screen and pj's among others). The kids get cards with a little cash for themselves -- and envelopes of cash in small denominations to allow them to be Santa's Helpers.