[Stingy Jack]

My wife just hit me with the worst fucking idea imaginable. She said: "This is what I was thinking we should do for Christmas this year ... we'll just buy ourselves one big thing to share, and maybe a couple of little things for each other and spend the rest on Ashlynn (our daughter.)"

Of course, my reply was: "You have to be shitting me. That would be like 4 hours of foreplay, and 30 seconds of actual sex. I want my Christmas mornings to be orgasmic, paper shredding, box ripping, new-toy playing excitement for at least half an hour!"

She said: "I figured you would say something like that."

Am I wrong? She says this the tradition that her mom and dad followed (which is understandable, since they had several children). Personally, I like to save up a bunch of money and blow it on everyone I know buying them presents (and I expect to get plenty in return, too.) This is the tradition in the house I grew up in.

So, what do you all do, if anything? Do you have any "pre-christmas" rituals, like open one on Christmas Eve? Or what?