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I don't actually save up for Christmas

November 6th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

and I am guessing I am the only one here that doesn't from the blogs I have been reading. We just fit it into our usual budget and call it good. I guess we just don't feel the need for as many items under the tree as other people. While we will decorate and will wrap gifts, they tend to just be the little items we would have bought eventually anyways.

My big issue with saving up for Christmas is that the more money available for Christmas, the more money gets spent. For example, one year I managed to get DH to agree to only using the Christmas bonuse from my small firm. I thought it would cut the spending. I underestimated the generosity of my employer. It was a very merry Christmas.

The thing is, we just don't need to be getting all that stuff at once. I tend to appreciate items more one at a time than in one big pile where it may take you a month or two to use everything.

I guess that we allow ourselves so much spend money throughout our day to day life that its not that big of a deal to have lots of Christmas presents. Not that I mind, I am glad we can get items as we want them.

However, I am the person that has been told all my life that I am not allowed to buy anything after October or anything in the month before and during my birthday. I don't tend to have a lot of items I want and I have a tendency to buy them when I want them. Maybe I am just a party pooper...

That said, I love the holidays. I love decorating for them, cooking for them and getting together with people I love. I even like to watch the holiday specials. I have even put holiday decorations on my gift lists so that people could buy me a little something (since some people really love to buy people things).

Course I am known for buying people things whenever I see something they would like so maybe I just don't like being restricted to shopping for a specific holiday. Ah well, I always knew I was a little strange. :P

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5 Responses to “I don't actually save up for Christmas”

  1. thriftorama Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 11:19 pm 1226013541
    1226013541

    I don't have a special christmas fund either...

  2. gamecock43 Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 12:12 am 1226016739
    1226016739

    I don't save up either. I dont know if its good or bad. I just have to many other things I save for.

  3. monkeymama Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 01:45 am 1226022318
    1226022318

    We're pretty much the same way - we just don't spend that much.

  4. dmontngrey Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 05:21 pm 1226078504
    1226078504

    I don't save either, but I do shop year round. I'm the odd ball where I finished most of my Christmas shopping in the after Christmas sales last year! Not much I've had to get for this year. Most items were yard sale finds or reward point cash-ins.

  5. whitestripe Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 09:05 pm 1226091954
    1226091954

    i also don't save up - the last few years we haven't actually done much for christmas. but even when we have decided to buy gifts for people, i just count it in my day-to-day expenses.

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