[cheebacheeba]

We have pretty much shunned "Christmas-y" stuff for the last few years now.
Like most "holidays" of this type, I find that it's largely lost it's significance to be replaced by commercialism. BUY BUY BUY SHIT. Breeds bad habits.
So we just don't "do" Christmas.

We have a gathering at which there is much food not on, but "around" Christmas...sit around talking, sharing our time, cooking together, eating and drinking and using the occasion when everyone generally has the free time to do as such. We'll just have a relaxing day, and maybe throw on some movies and music throughout.
Our gifts to eachother are food based, eg - everyone brings/makes something they enjoy preparing, we don't even stick to the Christmas theme with that.
Friends, *some* family, free time spent together without worrying about the rest of the world - This is what "Christmas" would have been like, in my opinion, before it lost it's way.

Of course, when I have a child - I'll allow for a little while some Christmas-type crap, but in all honesty I'm not going to mislead another child to suffer the eventual disappointment of the shallowness of the Christmas/Santa myth...they'll know from a early enough age to comprehend the "real" story of Christmas vs the misrepresentation of today.
I'll just say "some people do gifts", ask them what they want at the end of the year and see if I can get it for 'em.