awww I wish things were better for you :( Do you get along with your siblings okay? ummmm I like to think of christmas as a way to say thanks to someone~ More than that really, just doing things we normally don't as a family that affirms how much we care for each other~
I plan on celebrating it much differently when I have a family of my own. I've heard of people where the family goes out to give presents to strangers in need on christmas. There was also a time when we were given some money and asked to buy something for someone as a gift.
I kinda hope I can use my house as a place for others to come~ giving them meals and a place to stay just to serve them. It wouldn't be all the time, maybe if it was important. I would try and be unpredictable about presents~ so that the kids won't think christmas means getting things. I might try this hourly thing where each hour we'd do something as a family, and open something before it ends. Each hour we'd do that til the last~ :P I might even put a note and say where something is XD