Steam games bought tomorrow morning
I’m buying myself a new weighted blanket 🥳
Treat ‘yo self!
My wife got me one of those this year. Really helping me through my covid. Oh yeah, I also have covid on Christmas day, lol. Fun stuff.
I got COVID on Christmas two years ago. You got this!
A few years ago, I had ordered a bunch of gifts for my family to be delivered to my mother’s house shortly before Christmas. The morning my flight was supposed to leave, I got an email from Amazon saying my packages were delayed until like mid-January. Given that I needed to be on a plane in a couple of hours, and it was like 3 days before Christmas Day, I ended up just printing off pictures of the stuff I bought and giving everybody a card with them in it. We had a pretty good laugh about it.
Saw people buying gifts at the grocery store this morning. Like cheap perfume gift bundles and stuff like that.
Sometimes you find out late that someone is going to give you something. And sometimes you procrastinate.
Could be stocking stuffers. White elephant party maybe. Something for the surprise holiday guest so they feel included and welcomed.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
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I haven’t had money for holiday presents in over a decade, I don’t plan to waste money on it now. Majority of “presents” end up in the landfill or as returns, to be sent to the landfill anyway, so mindless consumerism wins again.
If I give someone something it’ll be cash toward whatever they intended to buy anyway.
Not ‘celebrating’ Christmas here.
Yesterday we had my wife’s parents over for diner, they areived at noon and left 4h later so the pets could be fed. Was fun to chat and have the rest of the day off. My sisters come tomorrow with kids. Haven’t had them around to visit for over a decade. We usually go to them, as some have pet allergies and we have loads of pets. Alas, I’m unable to leave town for a few months, so we haven’t seen them for a few months now, so they decided to drop by. No decoration apart from an paper ‘table cloth’ and some chrismas cookies for the kids to decorate.
When you normally see each other almost every month, why go trough all stress for the holiday season just because everybody celebrates a nice story. (is tricked into spending loads due to ‘tradition’) We had a not so simple meal with my inlaws (my wife liked to cook something special) and tomorrow it’s soup with sandwitches and pizza (the kids would want notuing fancy anyway and it’s easy for a big group).
No gifts, apart from each others company this year, although normaly we just dig inmfor the weeks and hide (with december being the only month in the year without birthdays). We already get to stressed about all the stress in/around the grocery that’s almost in our back yard.
I will buy them and send them late, like I usually do.
give me your money instead
This is why e-giftcards exist
