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We still have a week and a half before Halloween, but Christmas lights and holiday wishes are slowly starting to pop up around here. “Season’s Greetings,” we’re supposed to say…but in my mind I’m thinking, “Wallet Eatings” in relation to all the money I will once again have to dish out.

Christmas is an expensive affair. You try to get gifts that people want, but you also subconsciously feel the need to reach a certain budget. You wouldn’t want to get them a gift that’s too cheap, for fear of devaluing your friendship. But at the same time, expensive gifts that are resourceful are just as wasteful. What a dilemma.

Here’s what I would do…if I really cared about giving gifts that mattered. It’s all about what’s in my closet and what I don’t want. Wrap up the old and it’s almost like new! There…Merry Christmas, friend.

Gift-giving should be a purely emotional event. Don’t buy gifts based on what you think the other person wants or deserves…buy them what you think they’re worth.

For instance…

For the friend who only calls when they need something–give them $2 in quarters, and the priceless advice of calling someone else.

For your friend who has no other friends, give them a Neopet that’s been raised to the point of constantly chirping for attention and tell your pal: “Look what I have to go through with you, jerk!”

For your friend who never pays you back, buy them a package of post-it notes and write “IOU” on ever single one of them.

And as for the people you don’t really care about, just pretend like you never knew they existed. So the cost to you this Christmas: an average of $3 per person!

😀