When I was in, I noticed that most people rarely gave anything to their children at any time of the year. I saw families, including prominent hounders, that had no toys for the children including one that was around 7 or 8 and one around 12. They had some fine expensive furniture (tables and bookcases to showcase the washtowel littera-trash), but no toys or entertainment items.
And not just Christmas. I saw one mother auxiliary pious-sneer and dragging a son, around 8 years old, out in field circus during the whole of spring vacation from school for the whole day each day. No fun that week. And what about birthdays? Most regular children get something for their birthdays, which as often as not happen several months before or after Christmas. They get things around summer vacations--not just a week in another state or country doing boasting sessions and field circus. And Easter--people can and do get things for Easter, including toys (I have seen these items for sale at stores around that time of year) instead of going to the greatest wastefest of the year. Summer toys are for sale during the Fourth of July, and children sometimes get items around back to school.
Instead, the jokehovians expect nothing most of the time. They might get a new suit around the Supreme Boasting Session or the Grand Boasting Session in summer. They might get new clothes for school, and maybe field circus supplies come the new circus year in September. Summers are wasted on more boasting sessions and field circus, and that Grand Boasting Session, instead of fun trips. And they often get to do field circus on the major holidays, including Christmas Day. They don't even get the fun of putting up decorations, let alone the presents they would have gotten.