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08-01-2011, 11:47 PM
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Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
Just imagine, we're only a little over three months away from Christmas shopping season. 
How is your family coping with the current economic crisis? Have you cut back on Christmas spending over the past few years?
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08-02-2011, 12:23 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
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Originally Posted by Charnock
Just imagine, we're only a little over three months away from Christmas shopping season.
How is your family coping with the current economic crisis? Have you cut back on Christmas spending over the past few years? |
Last year we had to cut back on Christmas spending.
I'm not sure what we'll do this year.
We live on a pension check from where I worked for 32 years plus my wife and I both collect Social Security. We live on what is about 2/3 of our 1997 income and it gets tighter and tighter as the income stays the same and the expenses/costs keep rising.
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08-02-2011, 12:52 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
I am pretty sure this Christmas will be the same as the last.
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08-02-2011, 05:55 AM
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of 10!! :)
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
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I am pretty sure this Christmas will be the same as the last.
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How many people do you buy Christmas gifts for?
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08-02-2011, 06:49 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
years ago we decided to de-commercialize Christmas, we make it about having a nice dinner together, exchanging small, inexpensive, but thoughtfull gifts, attending a Christmas play or musical, and just being together as a family.
there is no pressure, no hustle/bustle, just pure unadulterated enjoyment and peace.
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08-02-2011, 07:00 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
We spend very little. We try to have a family dinner and the kids play games. I try to buy a nice ham once a year and it is at Cristmas time. Quite expensive for our income but my kids look forward to it. They love the American way of fixing ham. That is a real highlight for our family. Some years if we have the means we cook for those that have nothing and invited them to have dinner with us.
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08-02-2011, 07:20 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
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Originally Posted by Amanah
years ago we decided to de-commercialize Christmas, we make it about having a nice dinner together, exchanging small, inexpensive, but thoughtfull gifts, attending a Christmas play or musical, and just being together as a family.
there is no pressure, no hustle/bustle, just pure unadulterated enjoyment and peace.
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I like it!
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08-02-2011, 07:21 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
We spend very little. We try to have a family dinner and the kids play games. I try to buy a nice ham once a year and it is at Cristmas time. Quite expensive for our income but my kids look forward to it. They love the American way of fixing ham. That is a real highlight for our family. Some years if we have the means we cook for those that have nothing and invited them to have dinner with us.
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Sounds great!
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08-02-2011, 09:33 AM
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of 10!! :)
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
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Originally Posted by Amanah
years ago we decided to de-commercialize Christmas, we make it about having a nice dinner together, exchanging small, inexpensive, but thoughtfull gifts, attending a Christmas play or musical, and just being together as a family.
there is no pressure, no hustle/bustle, just pure unadulterated enjoyment and peace.
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I like this idea too! 
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08-02-2011, 10:10 AM
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Re: Will You Cut Back on 2011 XMas Spending?
We started cutting back a few years ago as well. I think the principal of simplicity has been lost for quite some time now but is making a quick come back as a result of the economy...
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