My wife and I have been married for 26 years and for the first 24 years it has been just us for Christmas. Because we don’t have kids we developed our own little tradition for Christmas, every year we would set aside a certain amount of money and the last Saturday before Christmas we would go to the mall and shop, for ourselves. We would wander the stores together and buy stuff. There would not be anything to “open up” on Christmas morning, but that was just fine by us.
But for the last 2 Christmases since Donna’s mom has been living with us we have had to go shopping for stuff to wrap for each other. We now go to the mall with lists and enter in the middle and then go our separate ways meeting back up at a predetermined time and place.
I think next year we will go back to a modified Plan A, we shop together for ourselves and then when we get home wrap them up to put under the tree….