The older I get, the more I find myself moving away from the secular part of Thanksgiving/Christmas. I still buy presents for Christmas, but I think more and more about the birth of Christ.
My daughter and husband and their 4 kids, she home schools they are Baptists, decided two years ago to not do Christmas as it’s a pagan holiday, tree, Jesus was born in March, etc.
My husband and I were sad at the time, husband died suddenly last October so no more Xmas’s with him and few years before he died.
I’ve accepted it- we still get together like in January and just have dinner. So I don’t buy now for Christmas and I do understand how they are seeing Christmas now vs years ago.
It has become over rated with over spending for many folks. Buy gifts to get gifts. We have lost the reason for the season for the most part.
I will still go down to husbands family on Christmas day as we have always done.