Many Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and other Asian immigrant families are preparing to celebrate the Lunar New Year by filling small envelopes with money. Exchanging cash gifts with relatives and ...

Some people consider them unimaginative or even thoughtless — the equivalent of stuffing some cash in an envelope ... to give a gift card this Christmas? To guarantee your money won’t go ...

She said: “My children are now in their 30s, but I still hang envelopes on the Christmas tree with gifts inside. When they were younger they often contained money, but these days I tend to ...