It is the beginning of September, so why is my mind already thinking about Christmas? Maybe because it is stressful and I try to get myself geared up for it? Monday night I had a crazy idea. I wondered if I could have a commercial shopping free Christmas. This would mean that I wouldn’t get up at 4:00am on black Friday to do any shopping. Sorry Cate!
Would my friends and family think I was lame? This would NOT mean that I was unable to give gifts at all this just means that I would have to make the gifts I gave or find ways to offer service. This would mean I would probably be making a LOT of dried fruit and earrings. I could also give hours of service like haircuts, back rubs, babysitting service. I think I could do it, but should I?
I would of course still send out my personalized Christmas
card and I would still have to buy fruit to dry and pay postage for some things
I need to send. I can think of some that
would have a hard time with it like the little ones but I think that we could
work out something. I will have to think
a little bit more about it and if I decide to go through with it I will have to
give everyone a heads up. This isn’t
because I am dirt poor; I am just tired of collecting stuff. I have too much stuff and I don’t want any
more stuff and when people give stuff they expect stuff in return. I also think that the gift
card shuffle is a bit of a joke too. I
give you a Petco gift card and you give me a Trader Joe’s gift card. It is just silliness. You get me?
I remember there was a family I knew back in Minnesota and
they were LDS but their mother was a convert from Judaism. She said that growing up they never got
presents for Christmas and that on Christmas they had a birthday cake for Jesus. I think that may be taking it a little far
for me. While the idea is sweet, I don’t
eat cake and everyone is overloaded with sweets anyway. I just think that Jesus is
probably a little disappointed with how out of control things have gotten on the day we are supposedly celebrating his birthday. I found this picture online…
I
just thought it was funny but a little extreme in my opinion though.
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