I am not a big fan of the Holiday's. There is all this pressure to give gifts to all manner of people and it just isn't reasonable to spend money like that. But it can make you feel inferior or something.
When my husband was alive and very ill we had to give up Christmas. There just wasn't any money for it. My kids were teenagers so old enough to understand. Instead of gifts, we sort of had a party on Christmas Eve. Junk food and cards and games and music and lots of laughter.
Take all the hype out of it and we actually had more fun. Even though my husband has passed on, I still do the party and no gifts.