I've been watching old Christmas shows on hulu.com tonight. I watched a Hill Street Blues from 1982. A Mary Tyler Moore from 1970.
Before computers, before Wii, before so much *stuff* ... check out this Donna Reed Show from 1959 where the Stone family finds the "real" Christmas in the midst of what passed for consumer madness back then.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/77903/the-donna-reed-show-a-very-merry-christmas#x-0,vepisode,1,0