One custom that seems to have been carried on in my family is that the Christmas tree IS NOT PUT UP UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE... it's supposed to be a surprise. Gifts were always small and personal, under the tree but usually for immediate family only.
THE COMMERCIALIZATION of CHRISTMAS really bothers me. And in the years I worked retail Christmas was ruined for me by the time it came. Now I think of the Christmas holiday as a time of materialism and excess, far from the true nature and meaning of the original holiday.
Update Dec 2023 LINK https://clevelandhungarianmuseum.org/
