Gift

"It appears that the forecast for the turnover of the retail market in December - that it will exceed last year's 3.83 billion euros and peak at above €4 billion - is going to prove accurate, while the consumers' preferences regarding gifts remained the same, with clothing and footwear in first place, followed by gift items, toys and cosmetics," the president of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce

The government, which was re-elected in June, has delayed publishing a list of the gifts its officials received in 2022, as stipulated by law, according to Vouliwatch, an independent transparency watchdog that filed a request for the list on July 18.

He refused a reward from its owner "because it was Christmas," police in Krefeld wrote.

A 63-year-old man in Germany forgot a backpack full of gifts and 16,000 euros in cash, according to AFP and BGNES.

I have my own New Year and Christmas tradition: Giving people culinary gifts I have made myself. My German grandmother’s intense appreciation of “Hausgemachte Geschenken/homemade gifts” remains with me.

The traditions of Ottoman gift-giving were phenomenal. Ramadan, the equivalent of Christmas, not religiously but in the sense of celebration, was a true gift-giving period. If one was to be invited to break their fast in an elite mansion in Istanbul, it meant that not only would the guest be thoroughly satisfied, they would also receive a parting gift called a "di?

Remember Lucy, 28, Sophie, 26, and Stacie Brooks, 25? The three sisters rose to international fame due to their successful ‘rinsing’ of men on social media on exchange for expensive gifts and treats.

Gift-giving Santa Claus has come to signify indulgence. Known also as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or just plain Santa, there’s more Greek to him than most people know.

BELGRADE - Books, paintings, photos, wine and other alcoholic beverages are the gifts that Serbian officials most often receive, show the data of the Anti Corruption Agency according to the catalogue of gifts from 2013.

It was raining cats and dogs. I wanted to hop on a bus but I didn?t have a bus pass. I had barely made myself visible to the driver through the rushing crowd, and poked my head in to ask, ?May I get in? I don?t have a pass.?

I love Christmas. I really do. I recently realized that I have not celebrated Christmas since moving back to Turkey from the United States in 2005, and I decided, on a whim, to spend Christmas in London, where I am writing this column on Christmas Day.