After christmas, do people trade their gifts.
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No Way! God gave me His Son and there is no way I'm exchanging that gift for a bunch of junk from the mall. I don't know what you are playing at, but take that weak tea somewhere else.
Lol.. gifts as in the ones we give each other. Most give knowing you might take it back get something else. My wife told me before Xmas some mother got the family what ever she could think of because they didn't ask for anything haha. So.. there are times.. "what is this? I don't like blah blah blah" haha
Let me get this straight, you have some kind of day in which you are forced to buy people gifts whether they want them or not? What did the CEO of Macy's become a dictator?
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Merry Chri... Happy New... Months ahead? With no merrymaking or gift giving, unless you want to, but that's prolly, prolly a sin so we shouldn't... Happy Epiphany? The one with the three wise men, maybe more, found Jesus and brought him frankfurters and mirth. 
An invitation to dinner is a gift. A call, an email, a visit, a plate of homemade cookies. Christmas cards are becoming rare but the concept shouldn't.
My dear wife had (what I thought is) a great idea for gifts: "party in a bag" - a small selection of comestibles (some commercial, some homemade) to enjoy with others. One for each of the neighbours, one for the post office staff, and one for the garbage truck driver... and yes, I was running down the road in subArctic temperatures trying to catch him.
Brasspen was talking about exchanging gifts and selling them, that was the post I was replying to. So you make a food gift and they in turn sell it? Wow. I did not know there was a whole black market for home made gifts.
Nice to know you are not forced to buy gifts, that is good to know, you can also make the gifts.
Since the context is returning gifts you don't want, what a shame someone spends all that time making a gift that someone else doesn't want.
That's wonderful! My husband showed me a little box he got of nuts, cookies and fresh fruit. A little Amish girl gave it to him at work and it really touched his heart. On the other hand God blessed us and we were able to buy my nephew a Carhartt jacket. He graduates this year and is hoping to be a pilot, he's learning the mechanics of planes now so he could use a warm jacket.
Well I grew up in a different era. I had an elderly aunt. There would be times she would give my sister and I plastic watches as gifts, we were teenagers and we said thank you and we kept them. Any little thing she had laying around she would gift us and we would accept it and keep it. Then one year she decided that we were old enough and she gave us each a set of dishes. Which we politely accepted, we were still teenagers but we were taught that you politely accept what is given to you and you do not return it. She's long gone on to her reward. Years later I still have all of those dishes, they are no longer available and I could get a good sum of money were I to sell them. But my aunt who wasn't a blood relation, gave them to me. When I pass I have no children to give them to, I'm not sure where they will go. But for now they sit beside my box of silverware another aunt, also not my blood relation, gave me until I find a place to display them. Those two gifts will always carry memories of my aunts and are priceless.
Not to act holier than thou but I was taught it was rude to trade a gift unless there was an issue like size. My uncle used to give to his wife's family, her brother had two kids. Every single thing they bought their parents returned. My uncle stopped that quick and just handed them money to go get what they wanted.
No longer do people give gifts, they just hand each other money on Christmas.
Like you had said, each gift from specific people has that value right there.