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My dad and I were driving to the movies when I asked about the tradition of gift giving. This quickly became a conversation about why certain holidays are on certain days. During this conversation, my dad brought up the point that Christmas isn't even on the proper date. I went home and did some research, including:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas#History
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-small/the-origins-of-christmas_b_1140254.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-steves/the-roots-of-christmas-fr_b_4460062.html
and came up with this information.

The date December 25th was chosen by the Roman emperor Constantine to correspond with the pagan holidays of the Feast of Saturnalia and Yuletide. Both of these are celebrating the solstice. The emperor believed that if he changed the date to correspond with the holidays that the pagans already celebrated, he could convert more to Christianity. 

Now my birthday is coming up, and when I think about birthdays I think about gifts, which makes me think about the conversation and the further research. I found this pretty interesting, and hope that you did too.