Christmas Presents

[Allegra360]

Like most people we do not have the money to purchase a lot of gifts for our families.  Our (mine, dh, and ds's) Christmas is very simple.  We don't celebrate Santa Claus or have a Christmas tree (I do not look down on people who do--it is just a choice that we made for our family).  Instead I build a nativity set the night before Christmas and the wise men bring my ds 3 presents in honor of Jesus' birthday. 

For all of the children (nieces and nephews) I bought really nice books from Books-A-Million.  Many of the books were on sale so it didn't cost very much.  I spent less than $80.00 on 7 children.  All of the books are hard back and have great art.  I am also going to make hard rock candy and marshmallows and place them in gift bags for the older people (i.e. parents, brothers, sister).  For my momma I bought her an ornament that has all of her grand children's names on it.  So for 9 families I I spent $100. 

That makes me very happy!

[MSugarKane]

Nov. 15, 2008 at 8:33 PM

Excellent job! I find Christmas to have turned to be way too commercial over the past 30 years. I try my hardest to spend as little as possible and do things for people rather then buy them things. I can't stand having credit card bills in January that take up to June to pay off .  And then in June the things you just paid off are either broken, torn, lost, or being thrown out.  

[krispaulding]

Nov. 17, 2008 at 6:31 AM

That's a really great job!  We don't do Santa either, but we do have a tree.  We also only buy 3 gifts for the kids.