Holidays and Gifts and such
Sep. 18th, 2007 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiI've already started buying some holiday gifts or thinking about what I'd like to get. We're trying a new experiment this year - Brian and I set a dollar amount of what to spend on each other. Yeah, this is what we should have been doing anyway. I like to buy gifts for other folks and I get carried away.
I'm trying to go by a new standard this year with gift giving. If you are not my spouse and you are not my family please DO NOT GET ME A HOLIDAY GIFT.
If you must do something please:
-Spend some time doing something fun with me that we love to do
-Make me something: a cookie, a mix CD, something crafty
-Donate to a charity of your choice
Each year I find that I need "stuff" less and less. I love to buy things for folks when I happen upon things that are perfect for a particular person at any time of the year. I'd like for people to do the same for me too at this crazy season of consuming.
I wonder how many gifts are given out of obligation rather than fun and excitement? Not so much the "oh God, I have to give them a gift" as much as the "they are giving me something, so I need to find something to give them" . . .
I'm trying to go by a new standard this year with gift giving. If you are not my spouse and you are not my family please DO NOT GET ME A HOLIDAY GIFT.
If you must do something please:
-Spend some time doing something fun with me that we love to do
-Make me something: a cookie, a mix CD, something crafty
-Donate to a charity of your choice
Each year I find that I need "stuff" less and less. I love to buy things for folks when I happen upon things that are perfect for a particular person at any time of the year. I'd like for people to do the same for me too at this crazy season of consuming.
I wonder how many gifts are given out of obligation rather than fun and excitement? Not so much the "oh God, I have to give them a gift" as much as the "they are giving me something, so I need to find something to give them" . . .
