Well, the shopping aspect of christmas is apparently the concept of this gift exchange doesn’t stem from the actual nature of the holiday per se, but evolved much later.

What I’m saying here is not solid historical fact, do don’t take it as that.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Christmas came to replace a different holiday that came around that time, and all that religious bullshit came much later, I wouldn’t doubt it.

So, buying presents I guess, is a part of the whole thing with coming over to someone else’s house. You don’t come empty handed to something like that, you know, so you bring something over, that’s a probable hypothesis.

I don’t think anyone could possibly say for certain why this gift exchange actually exists, but it’s there. Even hannukah has some sort of a gift exchange, which strengthens my previous point that christmas was a common holiday in which some sort of meaning was injected much later.

Well, I don’t know.

No, I’m not gonna wish you all a “merry christmas”, how’s that!