Near the Christmas tree or fire place. Remember that in the 1800 there was not any where near the concentration on presents as there is today. Christmas was a religious festival rather then an exercise in marketing. In the Netherlands for instance Saint Nicolas (not Santa clause) came on the fifth of December for the children and left Christmas alone as a religious time and a time for friends and family to get together
No, they used water.
lights, ornaments, presents, partridges.
Traditionally the presents are put in their shoes
You put presents in the stockings and "Santa" puts them under the tree.
Cause its better to put them under the tree, than in the chimney
they put the presents next to the manger.
People put presents under the Christmas tree to celebrate the festivity of Christmas. All of the children think Santa has come to their house and have given them presents. Of course, the tree seems like the most obvious to put presents.
Christmas Eve, if not before that and all the little children go to sleep and people put presents under their Christmas tree and when they wake up they get gifts.
they did not have plains back then in the 1800s
There are people who are in poverty and cannot get presents and they NEED presents. Americans, even though they do not NEED presents, get tons.
To put it plainly it was OK. It was black and white and many old people that had the plague died...
To put our presents under it!