I am so annoyed!
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| Fri, 11-18-2005 - 12:10pm |
WHY does everyone in the world (except you lovely folks and a few other dear friends) think that $15-20 is a "nothing"?
I am so sick of Christmas already, and it's not even Thanksgiving. First, there's dh's family's gift exchange. There are four of us in this family, so we have to contribute four gifts. At $15-20 a piece (the stated "limit"), that's $60-80 out of our entire $200 Christmas budget. Now add the white elephant they're planning at dh's work, and we've hit $100--fully HALF our entire budget, for stupid gift exchanges where nobody really wants what we spend all that money on and where we don't really want to participate.
ARGH!
Everyone says, well, it's only $20. It makes me see red.
With $100 I could make 20--twenty!--beautiful baskets brimming with teas, homemade soups, handmade soaps, candles, and carefully chosen yard sale finds. Enough to get nearly everyone on the list, with items they can really use and that I've put real effort, thought, and love into.
Instead, I'm buying five stupid gifts that nobody's really going to want anyway.
And the remaining $100 will be used on the gift baskets.
And that leaves us zip, zilch, nada to spend on each other.
I feel so angry about it!!!
Thanks for letting me vent.
Heather

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Hi Heather,
For a "boy" basket, what about something like a car basket--a bucket, cloths, a windshield scraper, etc from the dollar store? My brothers have received such baskets from relatives and they enjoy them.
Best!
sl
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