Droolicious

We are cutting back this Christmas.  I am making my daughter tutus.  She is a diva and they are super easy and inexpensive to make.  My son we are going to pick one thing that he will truly love versus a bunch of boxes of stuff.  My husband and I are not exchanging gifts to each other.  We draw names in the other parts of the family and everyone there has agreed to cut down the spending limit.  It seems universal, at least in our world, the desire to cut back and focus on the bigger picture.

I also agree on talking with your kids.  My parents shouldn't have bought us all the stuff they did when I was a kid.  I still think that learning about saving and being thrifty is a bigger gift to a child than teaching them they can have what they want, they just have to borrow the money to get it.  Credit cards are not our money is a lesson I will teach my children.  I wish someone had taught that to me.