Are you able to spend more for christmas?

This is a great discussion,and Christmas is a very good topic,and I know we have more money this year then we did last year since I am now working at Wal Mart,and I know we are both hoping you can find a job so we will have even more money for things like Christmas,and I know we are finally finishing up the legal crap for your new married name ,and I think we will be able to spend more on Christmas this year then last year even though we do not have a lot of people to buy things for,other then parents and each other and friends,I know Christmas will be here before we know it,and it will be our first Christmas as a married couple,I love you with all my heart and soul,have a great day,good luck with all of your mylotting goals,and Happy Posting.

I will have less money this year than last but it is ok. I will make ends meet and it will be good. I have enough money already saved for Christmas dinner,. I save coins all year and change them out before Christmas. I always have enough to buy turkey, ham etc . I also buy little gifts throughout the year. Last year my kids and I decided to buy just little gifts for each other and spend more on the children. This we did. H==If you have love then you have everything for Christmas. Remember that the reality is that Christ did not just appear in a nice warm stable. He was born into the filth and muck of animals in that stable and in the world. Dirt was all around him but He was born so that we can have eternal life. If we have love then we have everything.

I seem to be having less to spend every year. This year I doubt I'll be able to get more than the very basics for my immediate family. It's so depressing. I used to love spoiling people at Christmas. I always feel so guilty, even when people say they understand.

This year I want to take to the time to be really thoughtful with the people I care about and give a more personel touch. You know the saying, It the though that counts? I pretty much true. I appreciate gifts that people time the time to think about me as a person and not just a number.

I think it will be about the same for me. I have the two girls to buy for plus my b/f plus probably his family. They always get us stuff and it would make me feel terrible not to get them anything. I'm going to go ahead and start buying a little here an there that way I can be ready. Last year I run around like a nut trying to finish up.

We are definitely in a tighter financial situation this year than we were last year as for the first six months of this year my husband didn't get to work any overtime. Thankfully, though, he is getting it back now so that is helping us financially now. We also have moved into our own house this year and with that has came bills that we weren't used to having. We actually owned our home for a year before we decided to move in. As far as gifts that I've already gotten, I've probably got about half of my Christmas shopping done thanks to Amazon giftcards. I've been buying gifts 25-50 dollars at a time as I earn free gift cards.

I'm not a big spender but I give gifts that are affordable and useful to my friends and family. Sometimes I prefer a personalized gifts that I made and I often get a positive feedback from them. It's not how expensive your gifts are. It's the thought that counts.

I am hoping. I have been putting a little extra in the Christmas account the last few months. So we might have a little more, but not a lot more. I do have a couple of online things that I am hoping will be ready to pay off around Christmas so that will help too. But we will not have as much as we did in previous years, last year was a particularly bad year. I am hoping this year will be better.

So far this year, I am actually behind on Christmas shopping compared to where I usually am. I do not have even one gift bought yet. I am not sure how our budget will be as we get closer to Christmas, but I do know that we will somehow manage to give the kids a nice Christmas. Somehow, things always seem to work out for the best.

I would say that I will have about the same or a little more to spend this year than I did last year. Most of the money I spend goes to buying gifts for my two daughters and my niece. I try and buy all the adults a little something but for the most part in my family we all worry about the kids before we do the adults.

I purchase all my gifts for others at tag sales, auctions, and book sales throughout the year, never spending more than a few dollars for a gift. I'm really put off with the commercial side of Christmas, and I refuse to go into debt over a holiday.

Christmass for me as an unemployed individual is not just spending much money to buy gifts. The important thing which I can spend is not money but TIME. TIME to be with our families and loveones. With this Global crisis that our world is facing we must be very smart in saving our money because we don't know what the future will hold.

I spent more this Christmas because of the presence of balikbayan visitors. They came here to celebrate Christmas so there were more gifts to buy. BUt the the best essence of Christmas is togetherness and celebrating the occasion with my loved ones who are always away from me.This Christmas I will spend less because of the financial misery affecting the world as a whole.

Oh Christmas? I have money for that, but on the day i dont have it. I already used it buying items. Gifts? oh when we exchanged gifts, just only from that. Nothing else, Christmas actually is just another day for me. I remember last year, it was the time when my sister leave bnecause she going to other country and im really so sad.

I actually can spend a lot more than year then I could last year. Last year I was still a college student and my only sources of income were online earnings as well as a small tutoring gig on the side that paid me about $20 a week for two hours of work. It's not like I was getting rich or anything but I wasn't so poor either. I just had to be really, really wise about how I spent my money. This year, I'm actually employed at a full time job where I make an OK living on. I'm definitely not poor and I'm not rolling in the dough either I'm just trying to save as much as I can. I like knowing that I have all of this extra money on hand. I don't want to go out and completely blow my paychecks on stuff I just do not need at the moment. I take any measures I can to make sure that I'm saving as much money as I can when I make my purchases. So this year, I will be able to buy more but it's not like I'm planning to buy outrageous gifts this year. I plan to make maybe one or two high priced purchases but nothing else. I'm not planning on spending more than a few hundred on gifts even though I know I won't be spending that much to begin with.

no because my hubby has been out of work since august, so this year i have been super busy making a ton of gifts for christmas and looking for sales and that sort of thing.

I do earn the same amount of money compared to the last year, but this year I spend less because my husband works in a different country. So, I don't have to pay for the family related things which we used to spend together. Anyway, now I am having a small amount of money in my account from mylot. I am working on it to collect all the money from mylot to be used to buy Christmas gifts for my family.

i don't really spent too much on gifts every chirstmas, cause what i do is that i always prepare a list first, a gift list, i seperate all those people whom i should give gifts in categories, close family, distant relatives, friends, office mates, and then from there i set a budget how much i would spend for each of them, for those in groups like officemates and my niece and nephews i try to buy items that are unisex and in bulk so i don't need to choose so many for each of them and it also avoid being envy with what i gave the other. then you can also do some innovation for your christmas decorations at home, last time i did a DIY christmas decors using papers and boards, there is a lot of craft in the internet it is cheap, simple but nice. I hope i helps you in some ways. Happy Holidays!!!

Last year was a bad year for me I was hardly able to buy anyone gifts because of the financial situation I was in. This year I am not much better off financial, but it will be a better Christmas since I have been saving and buying gifts all year. I decided after Christmas last year I wasn't going to let that happen again and the only way to do it was to begin planning and saving at that time

I will spend the same as last year or maybe even less. I have not brought any gifts and will not buy until a few weeks before Christmas. Hopeful by then there will be lots of Christmas Sales.