This year, I have been hearing more about how families are starting to do just that. What ends up happening is, instead of piles of presents under the tree, there are much fewer (or none). Stockings are half full, if that, instead of full to the top. Families instead devise alternate means of celebrating the holiday--that cost much less in work and money.
Now, much of this is because the Rothschilds have drained the wealth from the system, causing companies to lay off people and cut pay for everyone else (as hyperinflation eats away at what's left). Regulations cut off whatever jobs remain. This means families are not in a position to put presents under the tree (and, sometimes not even having a tree at all, or just having an image of a tree tacked to the wall). Just putting food on the table is all they can do--let alone presents under the tree or in the stockings. Quite a few have to choose between food, home, heat, or medicine.
But, there are quite a few people recently that have other reasons to cut back. Again, a lot of it has to do with the work. They wish to skip the malls because of the pushing and shoving--and pepper spraying--to get hot items. They just don't feel like spending the whole month running around the malls, putting lights on everything, putting up a Christmas tree and decorating their homes, and wrapping gifts. Rather, they will simply get a few items, throw a few electric candles in windows and a couple of inflatables or strings of lights in their yard, and cut way back on (or skip) cards and presents. They also scale back on the parties, hoping to avoid most of the extra work and having problems paying bills and losing the weight in January.
And there are others that wish simply to return to simpler motives. As Christmas is as much about enjoying family time as exchanging gifts, some choose to focus on that aspect. And there are the ones that believe that if it is such a burden, they are well to cut back or eliminate it. A few are starting to get back to the "worship the sun" items--churches are also sponsoring "no-shopping" Christmas celebrations. And there are people that are simply doing the religious aspect, going to church and celebrating Christmas that way.
Whatever the motives, there are those who are not buying as much. Already, since 2007 I have been noticing fewer elaborate Christmas displays outside. There seems to be a minor comeback in 2011, but still the days where you would see 50 houses in a row with every possible surface lit so you could see them from Pluto are gone. Again, some of it is the electricity prices and general choosing between food and decorations. And some of it is because people are tired of the work involved (though it is fun work).
The good side is that there will always be those who choose to go all out. True, they might not be able to go all out and buy everything under the sun. But, they still splurge in time with Christmas decorations and decorate all-out. Even if the United Tyranny of Stupidity passes a law against it, there will be some that will break that law and place decorations everywhere (and not all of it will be out of spite, either). And this makes sense--as long as you do it within your means, putting up the Christmas decorations can be a lot of fun. You put up the lights, and enjoy them. You put up tinsel garland, ornaments, and the like--and almost everyone enjoys them. Ornaments, by and large, are durable and last multiple years instead of just a couple of weeks (so that's a good place to splurge). You don't gain 50 kg by putting up the decorations, and the new LED lights generate tiny electric bills and can double as security and safety lighting.
Despite the necessity of scaling back on certain aspects of Christmas because of personal finances or because you are no longer physically able to do all the work, I think celebrating Christmas is going to endure. Until mankind is forced to discontinue this by being fully enslaved, people are going to want to do things that create beauty and that are fun. And who cares if Jesus wasn't born on December 25 but the sun-god was? That isn't as important--December 25 was the date that people chose to honor and observe Jesus, whether as their savior or as someone that died trying to save us from Jehovah. And that's what really counts.