Does Anyone Buy Themselves A Christmas Present?

[PLFXpert 0]

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While others will be singing and going to church, my family will be drinking and scheming. We have a twisted sense of humor.

I think our famlies would get along just fine.

For us, it's always been about the vino and the laughs on Christmas Day. The presents stopped when I graduated high school (they gradually decreased through high school)--and it's been even more fun ever since.

The only "gifts" we bring now are really hilarious, ridiculous things that provide a ton of entertainment.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[LadiDadi 0]

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Really, I'm tired of all the frantic consumerism and commercialism around Christmas. It should be a time of Peace, harmony, and family. Instead it has become a time of stress, waste, and greed.

I couldn't agree more. We've started a tradition in my family a few years ago. We all use the money we would spend on gifts for each other and, instead, buy farm animals. Heifer Project is one of many places where you can buy a cow or a goat or a chicken or even a hive of bees to people in developing or impoverished countries. We make these donations in each others's names. We get each other smaller, more meaningful gifts and spend the bulk of the Christmas money on the donations.

Even my sister's children are starting to get in on the act. Her son is too young to really get into it but last year I sat her 7 year old daughter down at the computer with me and told her she had a hundred dollars to buy whatever animals she wanted to give to a family to help them. Of course she wanted to meet the animals first but she was really excited about the process and understood why we were doing it. That it was part of her Christmas gift to have the money to be able to give someone something life-sustaining.

Just one suggestion...

If you can't laugh at yourself, I'll be happy to do it for you.
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Be like the cupcake and suck it up.