Comments on: Spending quality holiday time with family – fun and frugal ideas http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/spending-quality-holiday-time-with-family-fun-and-frugal-ideas A Journey to Financial Independence and Finding Meaning in Life Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:11:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: moneyloveandchange http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/spending-quality-holiday-time-with-family-fun-and-frugal-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-694 moneyloveandchange Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:06:42 +0000 http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/?p=264#comment-694 Jason, Thanks so much for your comment! After writing this post, I realized that I had forgotten to mention charities. Although we are not donating more money than usual to charity, we are donating used toys locally. We are also tuning out the major consumer hype of the holidays. The kid is getting about 5-7 things for Christmas (which we picked out months ago), and my husband and I don't get each other anything. It's nice to see another kindred spirit! Jason,

Thanks so much for your comment! After writing this post, I realized that I had forgotten to mention charities. Although we are not donating more money than usual to charity, we are donating used toys locally.

We are also tuning out the major consumer hype of the holidays. The kid is getting about 5-7 things for Christmas (which we picked out months ago), and my husband and I don’t get each other anything. It’s nice to see another kindred spirit!

]]> By: Jason from Money Theory http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/spending-quality-holiday-time-with-family-fun-and-frugal-ideas/comment-page-1#comment-692 Jason from Money Theory Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:35:21 +0000 http://www.moneyloveandchange.com/?p=264#comment-692 Wow, what wonderful tips! My fiance and I are really making a point to be frugal this holiday season. Instead of buying each other a bunch of stuff, we are donating to our favorite charities in each other's name. We've started doing this for some of our family members too and they love it. On Christmas day we are going to drive around and look at lights which is always a lot of fun. Then we'll probably just stay home after and have a nice frugal meal with sparkling cider. We both get a bit frustrated with the massive amount of consumerism that takes control of so many people around the holidays. So we really just want to take it easy, not spend too much money, and be grateful for being able to just spend time together on the holidays. Thanks, Jason <abbr><em>Jason from Money Theorys last blog post..How to Travel on a Budget (Part 1)</abbr></em> Wow, what wonderful tips!

My fiance and I are really making a point to be frugal this holiday season.

Instead of buying each other a bunch of stuff, we are donating to our favorite charities in each other’s name. We’ve started doing this for some of our family members too and they love it.

On Christmas day we are going to drive around and look at lights which is always a lot of fun. Then we’ll probably just stay home after and have a nice frugal meal with sparkling cider.

We both get a bit frustrated with the massive amount of consumerism that takes control of so many people around the holidays. So we really just want to take it easy, not spend too much money, and be grateful for being able to just spend time together on the holidays.

Thanks,

Jason

Jason from Money Theorys last blog post..How to Travel on a Budget (Part 1)

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