it doesn't matter if one buys others gifts or if one buys oneself gifts: the main point is to
buy stuff so that the various merchants can stay in business.  hence one doesn't even
need to believe in xmas, hannukah, kwanza et al.  just buy something, secure in the
knowledge that if enuff of us do that, the recession will be over before ya know it.

p.s. I would buy poser 8 for xmas, assuming the testers finish sledge-hammering it
into shape by then.  but they've been dutifully silent as churchmice on the subject.