Something to think about

It really bothers me that people start setting up for Christmas before Thanksgiving. I think Christmas is idolized WAY TOO MUCH! Frankly,
I want to challenge Christians this year by saying "how many Christians celebrate Christmas any different from a non-believer?"
As Christians are not supposed to be "of this world"

"Dear friends, I warn you as 'temporary residents and foreigners' to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls"
-1 Peter 2:11

Something to think about.

We started celebrating Christmas a little different last year and will follow our new tradition this year. We actually sold our Christmas decor last year, most of it has nothing to do with the REAL meaning of Christmas anyway. Then the money we normally would have spent on buying gifts (STUFF) for our friends and family (who actually aren't in need of such things and are overall well off ) we took that money and purchased food and hygienic items and other such things and gave them to a homeless shelter so that those in actual need had what was necessary to survive. I actually talked to someone in our town who appeared to be homeless one night. He was riding his bike in a heavy snowfall, December night and I asked him if he had a place to stay and if he needed anything. Turns out he was not homeless, he just didn't have much. The part that struck me was that as I conversed with him he told me how he doesn't have much, but still tries to help out others bc he knows several homeless people. He said that several homeless people die every year and he personally knew people who have lost their lives because they couldn't survive the bitter cold in their homeless state.  When I got home that night, I walked in the front door of my home balling my eyes out. My husband was like "what's wrong, what happened?" I narrated the conversation I had with the man on his bike. We decided we would never celebrate Christmas the same way ever again.

The Christmas traditions of this world are not even biblical. Christians are supposed to take care of the widows and the poor, so does that mean homelessness should not exist?
What God are we following?