"The average American spends between $800 and $2000 on this season alone."
(please ignore that crashing sound - its the sound of my jaw hitting the floor) My entire Christmas budget is under $200 - it's all I can afford! That's why I tell people don't expect gifts from me, although I might send a card or something - I get things for my kid and whoever I'm dating at the time, and the obligatory office exchange present. Christmas has depresssed me since I was in my teens, because of this culture of "you must buy everyone you remotely care about a present or prove yourself to be a scrooge." I quit celebrating it altogether until Aaron was born.
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Date: 2003-12-02 08:09 am (UTC)(please ignore that crashing sound - its the sound of my jaw hitting the floor)
My entire Christmas budget is under $200 - it's all I can afford! That's why I tell people don't expect gifts from me, although I might send a card or something - I get things for my kid and whoever I'm dating at the time, and the obligatory office exchange present. Christmas has depresssed me since I was in my teens, because of this culture of "you must buy everyone you remotely care about a present or prove yourself to be a scrooge." I quit celebrating it altogether until Aaron was born.