Comments on: Financial Crisis? Make Your Holidays an Event http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/10/12/financial-crisis-make-your-holidays-an-event/ Bridging the gap between saving money and investing Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:52:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gail http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/10/12/financial-crisis-make-your-holidays-an-event/comment-page-1/#comment-456705 Gail Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:22:36 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=2987#comment-456705 With no grandchildren, as we’ve grown older our gift list has grown much shorter! I try and make some of the few presents that we give and I cash in any credit card reward points and use them for presents and a nice night out for hubby and me. Lots less charging this year(we had been building a house the year before) so much less on the reward cards, but so far a $25 visa gift card and a $25 Borders card will give us our favorite kind of night out–a simple meal and hanging out at a book store.

Our neighbor was having financial difficulties last winter and was telling us she ONLY spent $200 for presents on her 3 year old. That was more than we spent for everybody and everything last year! Spending what you can afford and put aside is the way to have a lovely Christmas where you can truly remember what christmas is all about.

I just remembered that I put our Christmas club on automatic deposits of $10 a month last year so we have over $100 saved which is all we need!

]]> By: Kelly http://www.pfadvice.com/2008/10/12/financial-crisis-make-your-holidays-an-event/comment-page-1/#comment-456567 Kelly Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:03:12 +0000 http://www.savingadvice.com/blog/?p=2987#comment-456567 These are wonderful suggestions. We have two toddlers and want to minimize the focus on receiving toys for Christmas and rather focus on these types of traditions. With our extended families, we have drawn names each year and it is a lot of fun. And, we are begining to do the same with the cousins. These past few years we have used elfster, which is always fun. We start early, like August or September, so we can be thinking about the person we drew and we can be creative. I suggest this to all my friends who feel the pressure at the holidays.

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