Fascinating Stories of Christmas Customs & The Art of Talking with Children - SYSK Choice

831.977 - 858.042 Brian Earl

so it wasn't until we get to this period of the late 19th early 20th century that christmas became a major gift giving holiday prior to this christmas gifts were something that would be very very small children would get gifts in their stockings that they leave either at the end of their beds or on the mantle adults would give each other gifts to some extent but maybe not much they'd usually be handmade items and they'd almost never be wrapped you'd always just give it over to the other person