Why is that Mel, Is it a religious thing?

(You don't have to explain if you don't want to - just being nosy lol!)
CQ - nope not a religious thing.

In a nutshell - its feeding the fat cats of society and for the most part, has stuff all to do with family gatherings. We feel that christmas should be about spending time with family - not having a mentality of "oh if I go see nana today, I'll get a present".. we want our kids to spend time with their family because they love them, not because there is something given to them IYKWIM?

We don't celebrate other "special days/holidays" either, eg, valentines day, easter - because we aren't of the religion (for those interested we are closest to neo-pagans) that celebrate them for a specific reason, and not just get caught up in the commercialised crap that the materialistic world wants you to get sucked in to.

In a nutshell of course

Are you sorry you asked now?