Okay, so... I know I'm only 1 in a million people who get the holiday blues but I hate family-related holidays.

Today is Father's day and I'm in my mid-30's and have never once bought anything for my parents on these days. The same goes for wife on Valentines though we usually do cook a fancy dinner. We also go all out for anniversaries too but it's because my wife and I are closer to each other than we are to our families. Even then, with me and my wife, we never buy extravagant things because we know it's just not worth the hassle. All told in fact, there's like $50 a piece that gets broken up between B-days and Christmas for each other. Anniversaries are usually fancy food and sex and the bill comes to about $50.   
My wife and I both have anxiety around familial relations in general and as such, it's all I can do to wish a Happy Father's/Mother's/Grandparents day/Birthday to the fam. I dont even buy B-day presents for anyone but my wife. Usually it's just a "Happy Birthday, Dad/Mom/Brother etc." 

We do celebrate and buy gifts for everyone at Christmas and it is an extremely stressful and horrible time of year because of the expectation and obligation.

Expectation of gift giving, spending money, obligation of engaging in the various industries that have been built around "Spend this money and buy this gift on X Day because capitalism wants you to spend money etc." always stresses me out. Like, my family doesnt expect anything and they know it stresses me out so they accept it. Why are gifts so expected in this culture? Is it because industry wants you/expects you to spend $$$$ or what? It's just so stupid that we expect people to conform to this trend of "You cant show your fam that you care without throwin' out some dough" on some junk that Daddy/mommy/spouse etc. is gonna use rarely. 

They say you can't put a price on love. When it triggers extreme stress and anxiety and even contacting people who you talk to 5 or 10 times a year causes extreme mental breakdowns, yeah... you can easily put a price on it. I love every member of my family. I just think we need to stop all of this familial obligation nonsense that goes on. It's maddening.