Good morning world. Did you do the "black Friday" shopping? I did not. I have not been out on a black Friday in a lot of years. Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, what do they have in common? Consumerism, promoting shopping, spending money for Christmas.
I remember as a teen the first time I heard that Christmas had turned commercial and into spending. As a kid, I also remember my Dad getting onto my Mom about her spending at Christmas time. Dad would set a budget of spending. Mom would ignore it. She wanted us to have a lot of things as she and Dad grew up in an orphanage and did not get much for Christmas.
When the boys were very little, we did not have much money that year for Christmas. We took $20.00 to the 88 cents isle in Walmart and shopped for them. We bought Christmas candy for their stockings. It was the best Christmas!
That was about 13 or 14 years ago. The boys are wanting guns and bows for hunting, camo gear, and such now. Although one of them has asked for a radio control truck.
As time goes on, I want more and more an old fashioned Christmas! We do go out and cut down our own cedar tree. Most years I decorate with cedar branches and pine cones. Homemade eggnog. Each year the boys decorate Christmas cookies. Watching Christmas movies and reading the birth of Christ!
But what to do about presents? For almost everyone else, I do homemade, lotion bars, scrubs, and such. But the boys? I am going to have to think on this one.
How do you celebrate Christmas? I will be thinking about mine these next few days.
Be blessed and be a blessing,
Just some of my thoughts and actions,
Elizabeth
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