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amother
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 Today at 1:16 pm
| amother Bisque wrote: | I grewc up in the 70's and we got chanukah gifts.
I had heard that chanukah gifts came first. Then xmas took it from us, and we switched to giving gelt so as not to be like the xtians. No idea if thats true or not, but obviously, if there are great grandparents who were giving gifts, it is a custom for some. | So you are my fathers age and he also got gifts as a child. Gifts are not new.
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amother
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Today at 7:58 pm
| amother OP wrote: | | But so what? It should make no difference. I always knew that x-mas was very near, time wise to chanukah. But I always knew that that was their holday and not mine. It never occurred to me that we should get presents. It had nothing to do with chanukah. |
Peer pressure. My sisters kids get amaaaaazzzing gifts every night of Chanuka so we had to do at least one big gift and then other treats the other nights. We skip the first night as the newness of lighting the Menorah, eating latkas and playing dreidel is enough and the promise of a big gift on the second night, kept the kids happy. We skip Friday night and Motzai Shabbos as well. There are always family parties where they get some treat from a grandparent, so that takes care of 2 more nights.
Somehow we end up not the cheapest but not the most extravagant- exactly where we want to be.
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B'Syata D'Shmya
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Today at 8:01 pm
Toy industry came up with it. Like the card industry came up with giving Birthday Cards etc.
And if you grew up in the 70s, please tell me you did not get a new gift every night of Chanuka - unless your parents were wealthy.
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nylon
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Today at 9:37 pm
I grew up traditional but not frum (so public school, etc) in the 1980s and we got gifts. It wasn't always 8, but what my parents would do was there would be several presents and we would do one each night. Some were small, you would get one or two bigger presents (depending on just how big they were). My grandparents gave us gelt.
I give gifts, but nothing huge. I have non-Jewish friends and what some of their kids get, I can't believe.
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amother
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Today at 9:43 pm
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It started as chanukah gelt and many felt kids didn’t get it and switched to a gift instead.
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amother
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Today at 9:44 pm
| B'Syata D'Shmya wrote: | Toy industry came up with it. Like the card industry came up with giving Birthday Cards etc.
And if you grew up in the 70s, please tell me you did not get a new gift every night of Chanuka - unless your parents were wealthy. |
Even now who gets one every night?
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amother
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Today at 9:44 pm
| amother OP wrote: | No other chag is like that.
The only thing I can think of is that it comes out around x-mas time and people in countries that also celebrate x-mas did not want their children to feel left out.
But that must be a recent thing. I grew up in america, with no gift giving. We got a chocolate macabee every night and we played dreidel and ate latkes.
But why the gift giving? its not x-mas. |
Not everyone does this. Our kids get some gelt. That's it.
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