http://www.gettingfinancesdone.com/blog/archives/2006/12/the-11th-way-to-save-money-this-holiday-season-2/ Your Guide to Stress-Free Financial Control. Personal finance tips. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:14:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.gettingfinancesdone.com/blog/archives/2006/12/the-11th-way-to-save-money-this-holiday-season-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 Tanja Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:49:22 +0000 http://www.gettingfinancesdone.com/blog/archives/2006/12/the-11th-way-to-save-money-this-holiday-season-2/#comment-2485 My family does something in between. We get together at someones house who arranges food for everyone (the rest of us pays around $15 to help out with the foodcosts) and we all buy one or more small presents with a maximum of $20 in total. We then play a silly game and at the end of the day, we've all had great food, a great time and a small present. It may help we don't live in the US, but things get crazy around the holidays here as well. My family just prefers a more low-key celebration and not to give X-boxes and other ridiculous expensive gifts. My family does something in between. We get together at someones house who arranges food for everyone (the rest of us pays around $15 to help out with the foodcosts) and we all buy one or more small presents with a maximum of $20 in total. We then play a silly game and at the end of the day, we’ve all had great food, a great time and a small present.
It may help we don’t live in the US, but things get crazy around the holidays here as well. My family just prefers a more low-key celebration and not to give X-boxes and other ridiculous expensive gifts.

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