Comments on: Are you spending less on Christmas this year?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:27:50 +0000

I’m spendung less because I have less to spend. I see prices go up and never down. Why is that? GREED!

By: Shari

Shari — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:43:52 +0000

Yes. I’m spending less this Christmas. Since we are having a recession, it is a great excuse to use with the kids for needing to spend less. Their grandparents are sending individual gifts to the kids and so my husband and I will just have to buy a few group gifts for the kids to share. Hopefully, the recession excuse will work on the out-of-state relatives, too. Gift giving with the relatives has become a habit that no one really even appreciates. I am sending a worship CD and framed group photo of the kids to the grandparents. Plus, I’m including an early unwrapped gift for my mom – a Christmas historical fiction book I found at christianbook.com for only $2.

By: Nicki

Nicki — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:47:50 +0000

Yes, we are spending much less this year. We’re having an almost-entirely-homemade Christmas. It’s a lot more work, but I think it will be the most meaningful Christmas yet.

Thanks!

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:54:16 +0000

I’m planning to spend less by using my AMEX reward points to get gift cards, then use those to purchase gifts for my family and friends. Next year, I hope to have a Christmas fund like some of the others have mentioned and use cash. I’ve never done that before but that seems the smartest way to go.

By: Poor Boomer

Poor Boomer — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:44:47 +0000

This will be my fifth consecutive year of spending ZERO on Christmas.

By: Alexia

Alexia — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:41:40 +0000

No. unfortunately, we aren’t able to buy gifts this year, due to hubby (the sole bread winner) having been laid off. Now if we would have been smart and had an emergency fund (bills/utilities/food/gas) in place, and a Christmas fund (for gifts and meals and such) then we would still probably be spending just a little less…

but we didn’t! and now we have had to explain to our children that mommy and daddy didn’t save for a rainy day, and there won’t be any gifts this year.

Oh, well, what a lesson learned. and honestly God has been proving He is the Provider…over and over again. So who knows? maybe there will be some gifts under the tree?!

God is still good!

By: Ginger

Ginger — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:23:17 +0000

I have asked my family to make a donation to the 2008 Emergency Christmas Relief Project that helps to support our soldiers that have been wounded serving our country.

http://www.saluteheroes.org/

I had done a little shopping for a gift for my mom and we are sharing the cost on a new monitor for my Mamoe. Her monitor is going out. I am re-gifting to my niece the Xavix I bought for myself last Christmas. She is thrilled. It is also saving her dad from buying a Wii.

My niece is the only little one left and the rest of my cousins are grown so I don’t buy for them anymore. Graduation from high school was the cut off. I am the oldest of the group and the last one graduated last year. We all have what we need and I hate to give a gift just to say I swapped money.

Also, I have been encouraging all of my family members to stock up on the essentials of life and get prepared for hard times. I have been working overtime to build up the pantry, fix up some things in my house, and pad the emergency funds for hard times. These are more important than buying a gift for Christmas. Being together safe and sound is the best gift that any of them could give.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:39:53 +0000

I am going to spend less, but more wisely. Quality, not quantity.

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:53:12 +0000

My heart has actually driven me to spend more this holiday. I really would like to make this holiday special for some close family members. My sister is going through a divorce, amongst going through training in the Army. The circumstances have left my niece parent-less for the holiday. And she (my 3 year old niece) is staying with my mother, who is toting around a 16-month daughter of her own. Yeah, if you didn’t catch that I have a young niece who’s older than my baby sister. I help out as much as I can, and I really want to make this holiday special for the bunch, hence I’m spending a bit more this year.

By: Gayle McLaughlin

Gayle McLaughlin — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:33:36 +0000

We are spending significantly less. We are giving each other experiences and cutting back on our kids. I wrote an article on How to have a buy nothing Christmas

http://www.ehow.com/how_4611949_have-buy-nothing-christmas.html

It made me stop and think!