Christmas was a great time on the rural farm, but there were no expensive gifts, nothing fancy, and nothing store bought. There was however, lots of family and friends gathering together for talk, laughs, and chit chat, lots of love, food, singing Christmas carols, and home made gifts.
When my grandmother was a child, none of the kids ever got any store bought gifts. Everything was homemade. Common gifts were things the kids needed anyway such as crocheted mittens, crocheted hats, and scarves. The mother would work throughout the year, crocheting, sewing, and knitting, to make gifts for all the children for Christmas.
Then when it was time to open presents all the children could except something such as mittens, a tobogan, or scarf.
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