2006-11-06 12:08:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
vwcarman2.. i have a very good job thankyou i meant the exitement you had as a child and not having to worry about budgeting for everything
2006-11-06 12:46:28 · update #1
i do have to scrimp a bit. i buy small gifts throughout the year, also i save for vouchers with park (which is paid for by Nov 1), and save a little bit when i can afford it with an asda card. that's the presents and food sorted!.. it just pees me off that my bills like to arrive in December!!
I do miss the magic of Christmas which you get when you are a kid, if i didn't have any i would probably not bother so much..
p,s mrsvigorocks we don't celebrate thanksgiving in England. time of the month hey? i bet you don't turn you nose up at the gifts you recieve
2006-11-08 00:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by ♥new baby born xmas eve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How much I have to spend is related to how much I dislike the budgeting. Last year, before starting grad work at uni I had enough to buy something nice for everyone in the family and close friends (Godparents, and a mate, like an adopted brother, and his wife, and their child).
Being Father Christmas of sorts was great and a first for me. One hint, figure out how much you have like 100 pounds, and divide up among all. I spent from 3-15 on each, usually near £3. It was fun finding nice things on sale, things people could use and would like.
This year probably spend about £2, but have been saving a bit of pocket money to pull it off.
My advice: Relax, have fun, and remember that it is the spirit that counts, and the fun and family and mates, not to mention a special snog with a special someone, and if into it a bit of drinking along the way.
Life is for living, let's enjoy all we can...but we also remember those no longer on this earth in body... Mum, Da, and Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles. It is a sweet time.
[Pardon if I sound preachy, but I wanted to speak from my heart!]
2006-11-06 17:32:00 · answer #2 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christmas can cost an absolute fortune as the commercial idea of it is that you are supposed to:
buy nibbles for everyone you know
buy party outfits and shoes and hanbags etc.
decorate your entire house in tat including blow up snowmen outside
buy loads of Champagne
People forget that Christmas day is only 1 day of the year and we shouldn't spend 2 months buying things for it and then 6 months paying them off.
Tell everyone you're only buying for the kids this year and that you don't expect any presents yourself. This way you'll not only avoid having to work out what to buy for men (so hard!) but you'll not receive loads of rubbish that you don't know what to do with.
2006-11-07 00:47:01 · answer #3 · answered by Carrie S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Note: It CAN cost a fortune. But you have a choice. And you can make that choice right now as you are reading this.You can actually take that all apart right now, and get a new design into place, where you are spending within your means. You do not have to do any of the stuff you did last year, but you have to dismantle the Christmas machine right now, while it is still off-season, because if you try to vary that program one iota when the Christmas thing starts to get into full swing - forget it.
2006-11-06 12:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christmas only costs as much as you are willing to spend.
I think one of the reasons people go into debt during the holidays is impulse shopping. If you go in with a list and stick to that list as best you can, then you won't overspend and thus you'll be out of debt. It's the same reasoning used when folks say never go to the grocery on an empty stomach.
2006-11-06 13:59:43 · answer #5 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a lot of people do - costs a fortune and can be very stressful... only help is to slow down, take some personal time to breath and be realistic with the situation. Try to find the free moments of the season to enjoy.
2006-11-06 12:14:12 · answer #6 · answered by James C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No!!!! I don't let it cost a fortune. It gives me joy to give, I don't let it become a burden. I think ahead and plan it out. It isn't the celebration of my birthday or yours. It's about the birth of Jesus.
To quote a song that I love:
"what can I give?
What can I bring?
What is a gift
that is fit for a King?
I'll do my best
I'll do my part
I'll give my best to Him....
I'll give my heart."
And as for being a grown up, the magic remains because I pass it on to my children and keep it in my heart.
I hope you get your perspective for Christmas and have a blessed one!
2006-11-06 12:45:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow-what a gaggle of Bah-Humbuggers:) i admire the season-decorations, time with kinfolk, it particularly is all so stunning. so which you do in comparison to that your be sure's permit you already know to attend till Christmas for a latest you ask for in Sept. Hmm-right this is the concern. i'm in my early 30's and as a baby we did no longer get presents and stuff each and all of the time. you acquire issues at holiday trips. the vast fee ticket stuff particularly got here on the holiday trips. yet now greater people be sure kinds ought to artwork and have much less time with the baby kinds and in spite of what you may think of-maximum be sure's hate it. We sense somewhat accountable, with a view to attempt to make up for it we ought to purchase some greater issues during the year than we actually ought to. So via the time the holiday trips arrive, you baby kinds are so used to getting stuff each and all of the time it particularly is not any vast deal to get to the holiday trips. You lose many of the sweetness and magic of the season and a fabulous style of of the anticipation considering you're used to getting stuff each and all of the time. it particularly is somewhat unhappy. Ya understand in some cases us be sure's plan and prep for the holiday way in enhance and watch for that (like your nevertheless little-in spite of if all of us understand you're actually not) so cut back them some slack. the whole boost of anticipation must be relaxing for them and that they probably think of it particularly is going to be relaxing for you too. and to no longer be a depressing guss-however the financial gadget isn't great now. So a fabulous quantity people must be lowering on the holiday trips this year-to no longer be mean or make you go through as a baby, yet with the aid of fact we ought to. in case your friends are in that boat then they are going to already sense undesirable approximately this downturn because it particularly is. attempt to take exhilaration in the season this year and not make it lots approximately stuff.
2016-10-03 08:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!! I have two small children, live pay check to pay check, and dont even get shopping done till a week and a half before christmas! But when it is all done, I enjoy the looks on my kids faces. Even if it is a nightmare before this.
2006-11-06 12:11:26 · answer #9 · answered by Sophiegreeneyes 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Oh God I wish Father Christmas was real! Everything was so magical when we were little. Now all i can think about is the cynical xmas adverts in October!
2006-11-06 12:14:27 · answer #10 · answered by peeve 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋