VIVA CC!!!
What does CC stand for? Cancel Christmas! I do NOT want to celebrate this year.
I am normally all about the holidays. I really do enjoy seeing family I don't get to see very often and I adore making people happy with the gifts I buy them but guess what? I don't want any of it this year. I have no money to spare and I hate that and it is eating away at me.
I don't want to buy presents for anyone this year because I have so many bills to pay its ridiculous. There's the every day bills that I deal with once a month but let's now throw in a ton of dental bills, the speeding ticket from last week, and the bunion surgery I'm supposed to prepare for for next year.
Christmas isn't just Christmas all by itself either. My sister Laura's birthday is December 9, Matt's birthday is January 4, and my baby sister Mary's birthday is January 10. I'm gonna puke. I can't handle all of this!
So I have four family members, two friends I buy for, my ho's (thank GOD we do an exchange because as much as I want to, if I had to buy for each of them individually, mama would be in trouble), and Matt. And I refuse to spend a penny on Matt's family. That's on him. He has to do it alone because I simply can't. I refuse to buy for his worthless brothers and I'm not a big fan of his mom so that leaves his dad, step-mom and step-dad with and sorry, but you people are stuck with Matt shopping for you too.
And I say stuck because Matt, as most of you know, is Mr. Last Minute. I can't deal with that. I can't celebrate like that. I will not pick out gifts the day before we go see someone. It shows, in my opinion. So Matt can shop for them and I'm sorry.
It really sucks that I have to equate money with how I feel about the holidays. Why can't I just enjoy them and "deal" with the lack in funds? Probably because I know that if I were to EVER say to my family or anyone else, "This year, can we just be with each other so we can both save money?" I would be talked about behind my back and then everything I bought, from there to the next holiday, would be scrutinized and picked apart.
No thanks.
So I'd like to cancel Christmas please. :) Viva CC!
I am normally all about the holidays. I really do enjoy seeing family I don't get to see very often and I adore making people happy with the gifts I buy them but guess what? I don't want any of it this year. I have no money to spare and I hate that and it is eating away at me.
I don't want to buy presents for anyone this year because I have so many bills to pay its ridiculous. There's the every day bills that I deal with once a month but let's now throw in a ton of dental bills, the speeding ticket from last week, and the bunion surgery I'm supposed to prepare for for next year.
Christmas isn't just Christmas all by itself either. My sister Laura's birthday is December 9, Matt's birthday is January 4, and my baby sister Mary's birthday is January 10. I'm gonna puke. I can't handle all of this!
So I have four family members, two friends I buy for, my ho's (thank GOD we do an exchange because as much as I want to, if I had to buy for each of them individually, mama would be in trouble), and Matt. And I refuse to spend a penny on Matt's family. That's on him. He has to do it alone because I simply can't. I refuse to buy for his worthless brothers and I'm not a big fan of his mom so that leaves his dad, step-mom and step-dad with and sorry, but you people are stuck with Matt shopping for you too.
And I say stuck because Matt, as most of you know, is Mr. Last Minute. I can't deal with that. I can't celebrate like that. I will not pick out gifts the day before we go see someone. It shows, in my opinion. So Matt can shop for them and I'm sorry.
It really sucks that I have to equate money with how I feel about the holidays. Why can't I just enjoy them and "deal" with the lack in funds? Probably because I know that if I were to EVER say to my family or anyone else, "This year, can we just be with each other so we can both save money?" I would be talked about behind my back and then everything I bought, from there to the next holiday, would be scrutinized and picked apart.
No thanks.
So I'd like to cancel Christmas please. :) Viva CC!
posted by Beth at
11/19/2007 08:03:00 AM
7 Comments:
You are not alone. At all.
I'm thankful this year that my extended family has gone the way of Paul's...no gifts. We used to do a name draw exchange, but even that was $20 a pop and there are five of us, so that was another $100 for me. Plus, I always got stuck with someone I had no clue what to buy for because they didn't want or need anything.
I'm leaving Paul's parents up to him this year, too.
Just be glad you don't have kids. You can agree with your SO not to exchange gifts if money is a crunch, but not kids. Not unless you raise them that way from the get-go and even then, at some point they start talking to friends and figure out that most people get/give gifts.
Anyhow...just lots of *hugs*.
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Sue, At
10:01 AM
IMO I don't think Xmas and family should be based on how much you can put out! Seriously.
You know I have a big family and TONS of kids. This year, b/c I started early, I'm able to buy each kid a little something. My sister can't & its no big deal. No one is gonna think different b/c she doesn't come w/armfull of gifts. Don't get in deeper trying to please everyone. Enjoy the holiday for what it is and move on Ho! lol j/k
Look, to help you get through it just think that as SOON as NYE is done then we're in 2008 & Vegas will be here in no time!
Love you!
By
*~*Cece*~*, At
10:41 AM
I'm Jewish, so I can boycott Xmas anytime I feel like it. However, Lisa feels like she has to play along. It's going to b a tough battle this year. Viva CC!!!
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minijonb, At
11:48 AM
I'm with you on cancelling Xmas this year. I just hope Eddie doesn't do what he normally does, and overspend on things we can't afford. It's taken me three years to get one of his Christmases paid off... seriously.
But yeah, on a law student's budget Christmas is the last of my worries.
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Jen, At
1:27 PM
Christmas has snuck up on me this year too and I'm dreading the bills piling up. My family draws names but I still have to buy for my nieces and nephew and I would like to buy something for KK's parents too.
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Heidi, At
6:23 PM
About 7 years ago I sat down with Adam's family (because his is large) and told them that we are all under too much stress because of gift giving. So we outed it.
That means I only have my mom, bro and nephews. Because I no longer get a bonus and I am saving for a Ho Down, I am not buying except for maybe something really small.
Don't let it get to you honey and speak your mind. They will respect you for it.
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Carrie, At
6:50 PM
I'm sooo with you. Viva CC!
I let my b/f deal with his family gifts (other than handmade stuff and cookies - that would be dangerous in his hands) and being that I'm an only child, I get off easy in the family dept. But yeah, it still sucks and is stressful and takes all the fun out of the holiday. ::sigh:: But, in 14 days it will all be over! woohoo!
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Aimee, At
11:51 AM
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