I'm not really noticing any change in spending. But it's more and more online, especially this year with me in a cast. Christmas is about the gathering of family and friends at this time of my life.

I've never been caught up in the commercialism of Christmas. Presents wasn't a big deal in my family, perhaps because we're SDA.

I do give tokens of love, but don't go overboard. I love the docorations, the lights and smells, but from a very early age, I knew there was no Santa Claus and reindeer, received one large present, a bike, a doll, superskates, one year the Easy Bake Oven and I knew who gave it to me. But it was never about the gift giving.

We celebrated the birth of Christ with a flurry of pagents and song. It was more about learning my lines or verses to the songs and getting in costume for the nativity. We had oranges, nuts and peppermint and red velvet cake after dinner with family and friends. Life went on past Christmas, so getting presents wasn't the goal of the season. That's the tradition of Christmas I remember and celebrate, not the gift giving. Of course, people who know me find it so strange that I have such a laid back attitude about it all.

IM SPENDING LESS. PERIOD.

For at least the past five years, I have avoided getting caught up in the spending frenzy of Christmas season. Sticking to the original meaning tor observing this day is much easier this way.

Instead, I wait for the beginning of the year at the beginning of tax season when the stores are getting ready for inventory and I always find the best deals of the year because they don't want to pay taxes on that inventory so they are more willing to part with it at rock bottom prices!

no, I am not doing a lot of spending for x-mas....it is not able gifts.....it is about the birth of Jesus Christ....Can I get an AMEN......?

To me Christmas is about giving to others. So I am giving as much at Christmas as I normally do. I am giving to charitable organizations, to members of my church, to my children, my grandchildren, my sibling, my nephews, neices, great neices and nephews and my friends, to the fire victims and a Mexican family that doesn't have anything for the holidays. I am also giving of my time especially at church.
I could care less what, if anything, I get. I already received the greatest gift ever--Christ. He makes all things possible. All day my grandkids have been singing, We wish you a happy birthday, we wish you a haapy birthday, we wish you a happy birthday, dear Jesus, our king.