Is it a year of scaling back for Christmas?
I keep hearing people say that they’re not doing gifts at all this year, are giving smaller/fewer gifts, or are exchanging with fewer people. In our case, we’ve scaled back on the number of people that we’re giving to, and also (it seems) on the total number of presents per person. Yet I’ve still managed to spend about the same amount of money ;)
Have your gift giving habits changed this year?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Voted for other – sending 5 Christmas cards to family, other friends get an e-mail, 6 ornaments to family members bought on pre-christmas sale (have done this since 1st child born 33 years ago), instead of ‘regular gifts’ for 2 grandkids – opening investment accounts that will be a lasting gift, not a 3-months & it’s outgrown/broken gift. That’s it – no little gifts for something to open, no gourmet foods for drop-ins, no over-the-top christmas decorations. Plain & simple and full of love for us.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Things are about the same for us this year…we couldn’t scale back anymore without ignoring the season altogether.