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RE: Gone Fishing?
Let me ask you then, how many presents/gifts will you get for others this holiday? Dandays and I never get gifts for each other, we don’t get them for others either. I take that back, when we first got married we bought gifts for my family from Costa Rica because we were in a white elephant exchange with them. I didn’t want them thinking we were Scrooge’s either but now I don’t care anymore. It’s a shame what Christmas has turned into- all a marketing/consumerism ploy to feed our narcissitic, glutenous wants of More More More.
So, how many presents are you giving this year Scrooge? Haha
Too many by the sounds of things! Umm... well wifey love the Christmas giving thing. When our kids were younger she would set a budget for each of them. Then once we'd spent that, she would go buy them more stuff.
Luckily it's not as bad now the kids a older. We usually just give them some cash and a token gift.
But yeah... like I said tooooooo many!
I used to love Christmas shopping too- super guilty! Within the past couple years I’ve changed my tune drastically. Although, I have the luxury to do so being we don’t have kids. I think if you have kids it’s much harder to come to my realization (opinion). That’s not to say we don’t celebrate though. @dandays and I write some stuff to each other and send out cards, along with plates of treats to people. So I guess we still be giving gifts too :)