November 29, 2006
Aiming for a Spiritual & Sane Holiday
Here are some tips that I received a while back which I wrote down in my journal and I keep going back to every year as a reminder of where I can go if I let myself get carried away by the holiday shopping spirit. IÂ’m sharing this in the hopes that it might help someone to think differently about the holidays. My other motivating factor comes from working at an investment back and seeing how people many people file for personal bankrupcy in March and April from not being able to pay their christmas shopping bills.
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Posted by: oddybobo at November 30, 2006 08:59 AM (mZfwW)
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Nice ideas -- I can't wait for tomorrow's post.
Posted by: Ogre at November 30, 2006 10:26 AM (oifEm)
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Well, one good thing comes out of starting life dirt poor... We couldn't give expensive gifts even if we had wanted to. We could barely put food on the table.
For that matter I was considered a grinch when I requested to the families that maybe we should do a round-robin gift giving, instead of having to buy gifts for parents and siblings who were old enough to understand that we didn't have the money to buy stuff. (for me feeding my kids wins out over gift giving every time - don't know why that is)
What amuses me now, the very people who were annoyed when I said I couldn't afford all those gifts are now parents themselves (with much larger incomes I might add) and they find themselves to be too strapped for cash to be buying all those presents. Ha!
Yeah, Christmas has never been one of my favorite times of year for just this reason. OTOH - I have never over spent either... people just got what I could afford. *grin*
Posted by: Teresa at November 30, 2006 12:58 PM (5UR9t)
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Excellent suggestions one and all. One other I would add is to start them at the first of the year so by the time the holidays roll around you are not overwhelmed. Buying gifts throughout the year can help alleviate some of the cost at the holidays as well.
Posted by: Tink at December 02, 2006 12:53 PM (11q5z)
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I like the tips, thanks)
Posted by: Rob at December 05, 2006 12:39 AM (wMSNf)
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