This year is the first year I am actively not participating in gift-giving. The two people I regularly exchange gifts with are in a tough spot. One just had a child. The other was out of a job for 14 months and is picking up the pieces. I used to give money to my parents, but they are “borrowing” my car and have been for a year and a half, so they’re basically being given 50 dollars a day in free car rental.
So why spend the money? I have decorations already that I just reuse, so if I spent money, it would be purely based on the pressures of culture and tradition, which is stupid.
I’m still going to pop on my Christmas movies, cook a nice dinner, and enjoy the day… but I wish people weren’t driving themselves further into debt based solely on tradition.
Yeah, I made a YT video about this.
This year is the first year I am actively not participating in gift-giving. The two people I regularly exchange gifts with are in a tough spot. One just had a child. The other was out of a job for 14 months and is picking up the pieces. I used to give money to my parents, but they are “borrowing” my car and have been for a year and a half, so they’re basically being given 50 dollars a day in free car rental.
So why spend the money? I have decorations already that I just reuse, so if I spent money, it would be purely based on the pressures of culture and tradition, which is stupid.
I’m still going to pop on my Christmas movies, cook a nice dinner, and enjoy the day… but I wish people weren’t driving themselves further into debt based solely on tradition.