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another s/o Christmas gifts
Anyone NOT exchanging gifts this year? Am I the only one who is not doing gifts this year?
Do you count baked goods as gifts?
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Re: another s/o Christmas gifts
we are cutting WAY back!
I would consider baked goods gifts...I made Oreo truffles last year for Rick's family Christmas (our gifts to his aunts and uncles)
I just can't NOT exchange gifts - I love Christmas too much!
I think baked goods are more of a token than a gift, but still appreciated
For us, a mortgage and paying for IF treatments, has dwindled our savings.
Larry and I will probably not be or if we do will set a small limit. We have done this a few times. I have to with family, I love the holidays too much.
I have done a variety box of baked goods before. I will probalby do this for people we are not buying for, but will still be at events.
We rarely exchange gifts for the holidays. We'd rather celebrate the season of family and friends by being together than spending money on material things we don't need.
I usually bake a cake for each of the family dinners, and I do send out Christmas cards.
A and I are buying a Keurig (sp?) for our kitchen this year, since that'll be easier than cleaning a whole pot once baby comes. But we'll probably buy it before Christmas. We need a new laptop too (both of ours are old and slow), so we're going to buy one good one. But we would have done that anyway, it just happens that after Christmas sales are generally pretty good on electronics
We do fill stockings for each other with candy and usually Starbucks gift cards since we both go to sbux in the mornings before work.
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I'm not saying you don't have a valid reason for not exchanging gifts, I totally get it. But you asked about the baked goods and I gave an honest answer. I don't doubt that it comes from the heart, I was just giving my thoughts.
Ok, I just misunderstood.
Sorry.
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I misunderstood and thought you meant for just each other.
I love Christmas and go crazy, but we only have to buy for our parents and my sister. I do pick up gifts for my friend's kids (in California) and now that my new 'nephew' is here I'll get him some stuff.
I'm torn on baked goods being gifts or not. For my family we put together plates of cookies/goodies a week-ish before the holidays and deliver them around. So while I do give out baked goods as a gift, it's not like something we'd open Christmas morning.
That being said, I think baked goods are always a welcome, thoughtful thing to do. I don't think anyone (especially with the house) would give you the side eye for not buying gifts.
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This is kind of how we are, too. Even if it's something small, or even immaterial, like a free night of babysitting or offering to clean someone's house or putting together a book of my favorite recipes (I want to do this for my brother), I want to do something. For me, that's part of the season. We save $100/month specifically for Christmas ($25/paycheck for each of us) and we spend it because we love it. If we didn't save every month, there is no way we would do as much as we do.
I don't necessarily consider baked goods to not be a gift, but I always do them as a token for the group when we get together. I do send boxes in the mail to friends who live further away, but it's never intended as a gift since we don't really ever do gifts for friends.
That said, I realize that everyone is different and I never expect a gift and often tell people to not buy us gifts (even though I know most won't listen), especially if I know they do not have a lot of money to spend.
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This is pretty much what I was trying to say
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Thanks ladies. It is just hard to see those post of what others are getting each other when I am here trying to rack my brain how not to come to someone's house empty handed. I feel, well, left out.
I did have a holiday account that I would set aside $50/mo but that was stopped b/c all of it when to the house. I plan to re-start it next year.
MAYBE I can convince DH we can possible do a small gift exchange or a secret santa but he was adamant about not doing gifts this year b/c of the house.
We haven't really exchanged gifts with each other the last couple years, we've just done stocking stuffers. (We also haven't really done bday gifts either.) Usually it is more that we can't think of anything than a monetary thing. DH talked about doing gifts this year but like I said, I have no idea what I'd ask him to get me nor what I would get him.
We do exchange gifts with other family (parents, siblings, and my grandmother).
Regarding baked goods, I think it really depends on the family/social circle. I personally wouldn't truly count it as a gift, but myself nor other family members are huge bakers. But it is a nice token if you can't do gifts.
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I wish my family would do a secret santa. I tend to get some random token items (plates, random gloves, etc) from my dad's cousins and my immediate family isn't really into gifts. I think a secret santa would be much better than getting a few cheapo things, if we're going o spend the $ anyway (i usually make cookies for my dad's cousins, who are all in their 70s).
I think C & I are going to buy a bed this Christmas. Last year we got a vacuum. We're cool like that.
I told B I wanted a new lawn and patio area for Christmas and my birthday...he said he would consider it :-)
A few years ago, my parents gave us our dining room table and chairs for Christmas and our next birthdays. It was awesome.
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