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Holidays are often celebrated by giving gifts to friends, family and neighbors. Holiday gifts are a lovely way of showing your appreciation on these special days. Different holidays have different significance but they usually involve spending time with the person or people you care about. Cards, gifts and shared meals are prominent on these days. Family dinners give people a chance to catch up with each other and what is happening in each others lives.

Christmas is probably the most important festival in the Western calendar for Americans and Europeans being not only a Christian festival but based on older pre-Christian traditions as well. In most countries people are given one or more days off work to celebrate Christmas which gives them a chance to spend time with their family. Children in particular love Christmas and get very excited in the run up to Christmas. Christmas customs such as hanging a stocking over the fireplace and carol services are very popular. If you only give a present on one occasion a year, then Christmas would be it. Presents are given to celebrate Jesus Christ's birthday, but even non-Christians celebrate Christmas. Christmas gift wrap is available for wrapping Christmas gifts .

Easter is another holiday gift occasion and tends to focus on symbols of rebirth and growth which is why chocolate eggs are given at Easter. Easter is another Christian holiday which is based on older pagan traditions. Thanksgiving and July 4th are specifically North American holidays and are celebrated by North Americans at home and overseas only. Thanksgiving commemorates the original Pilgrim Fathers settling in the States and is celebrated with pumpkin pie and turkey traditionally. It has links with the harvest festivals held in other countries so gifts of food are appropriate. Independence Day, celebrated on July 4th celebrates America 's independence from England. This is the ultimate American holiday so patriotic and US-specific holiday gifts are appropriate.

Holiday Gifts - Valentine's Day is a great occasion for giving romantic gifts . This is a chance to show your loved one how much you care, or surprise someone with an anonymous card or gift. Couples spend this day together and celebrate with a meal or a day out and singles can have the excitement of working out who their secret admirer might be. Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day are both holidays for showing parents how much they are valued. For parents, the chance to put their feet up and have someone else do the chores for a change would be gift enough. Usually though children (both young and of adult age) give their father or mother cards and gifts on these days. If you can't be with your father or mother on Fathers' or Mothers' Day, then why not order a gift online and have it delivered. Flower gifts can be ordered and delivered through the Internet, and there are now online florists who can deliver overseas through local branches.

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