Are you going to spend more this year on Xmas?

Mama and I haven't swapped gifts Xmas gifts in many years if we see something that we want no matter what time of the year and if the funds are available we just go ahead and get it.

Example;

A couple of weeks ago we were out and I remembered that I need some copy paper so since we were close we stopped in Office Depot and picked some up and as we were leaving the shopping center she noticed a SALE sign on the front of the Skechers sneaker shoe store and ask if I'd mind if she went in to look around and even tho I'd rather have a tooth pulled without any anesthesia than shoe shop I of course said okay.

I plopped my butt down on one of them little short stool thingies for trying on shoes and people watched while she did her thing.

About twenty minutes or so later she walks up with two different colors of the same style of those newish slipon pretied sneakers and ask me which one color wise that I liked the best and figuring that she had narrowed her choice down to those two colors I said, "just get both and be done"....after him and hawing for a couple of minutes she did get both pairs.

I got a big smooch and my Xmas shopping is now complete. :)
 

I don’t spend much but what little I do buy will most likely cost more this year than it did last year.

Our local financial guru was on the news doing a piece the other day with some interesting and numbers/statistics.

The idea was that Americans are carrying more debt but their ability to do so was due to a steady increase in disposable income.

In this area the poor are still broke but the backbone solid middle class folks are still spending. The State Fair here competes with back to school spending every year and both seem to be doing well.

I’m a little concerned seeing more 84 month car loans than ever before.

and the beat goes on…
 
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Muskrat said:
We will. My guy has taken to going out on Christmas Eve with a wad on 100’s and handing them out . This happens usually in the dollar store or walmart. The reactions are priceless and carry us for the year. This year we will pick the community where the project house is and distribute there. I want to pick some of the tiny old churches to assist with finding those folks with the greatest need. That community is a bit trickier…as I do not want us to be identifiable on a regular day .
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That is so sweet, and it reminds me to mark on my calendar the start of the (Marquette, MI) Mining Journal Cheer Club. I try to send gifts up there as many years as I can because the area is so impoverished.

When we lived in Upper Michigan, the gift tags on the angel trees in our church were heartbreaking. We bought gifts for one little boy who wanted socks and clothes. Now, money has always been tight, but I have never given a second thought to tossing a package of socks into my cart if my kids needed them, so that brought me up short. (I was a lot younger then.) We got him some toys, too.

When I dropped off the gifts at the newspaper office I noticed some wrapped packages for a little girl who had asked for underwear and a Barbie doll. I cried the whole way home—it was such an innocent, humble request. I wish we had gotten that tag.
 
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No. Christmas for us is a time of family getting together, enjoying a dinner, and just chatting and catching up. We all have what we want or need so why buy anything that might just get set aside and never used. No small grands to buy gifts for. It is only September 1st. I refuse to think about Christmas yet – I just want to enjoy Autumn.
 
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