I heard on the news today that there is less than three weeks until Christmas and I immediately had to check my calendar to be sure. Sure enough, 19 days from now it will be Christmas Eve. Yikes!
Currently we have no Christmas plans but we usually end up cooking for all of the cousins and their families so I guess we better get to planning that and I have friends in Japan that I send gifts to which I need to do ASAP. Fortunately we culled our Christmas gift list (after our immediate family expanded to 100+ people!) and now only send money to the kids (5 of them) which they use to buy things for themselves and the grandkids (13 of them!). We figure it is better for them to buy what they like instead of giving gifts they may not even want. Hubby and I don't give each other gifts anymore since we just buy what we want, when we want it, but hubby does make me a home-made card for Christmas which I look forward to each year. I don't even do Christmas cards anymore (Facebook is so much easier and faster and I'm a bit lazy so...), and we didn't decorate either (hubby's days of climbing ladders to put up lights are long past and we don't have any kids or grandkids here to need a Christmas tree--plus trees in the desert cost around $80 which is crazy considering that when we lived in Washington we just went outside and cut down a tree for the cost of a $5 permit!).
I hope your Christmas plans are coming along well...
Did you red abut the 40ish man who hung Christmas lights for a living and fell and died almost immediately? I was horrified. $80 is a lot for a tree! I would have bought an artificial one long ago.
ReplyDeleteYep falls are pretty scary and the older you get, the less you bounce so the ladder is off limits to hubby now!
DeleteYes, it's quite shocking how the holiday is sneaking up on us! My hubs and I don't exchange gifts either, but we did just buy a new refrigerator, so there's that. lol I gave away our Christmas tree which we couldn't have put up anyway with a new kitten in the house. I don't miss it. A lighted garland and a few decorations scattered about is enough to make our little house cheery.
ReplyDeleteLOL I would rather have a new refrigerator any day instead of regular Christmas gifts! When I watch game shows, I am always cheering for the contestant to win the appliances!
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