QotD: Black Friday

When do you start your holiday shopping? 

It depends on what we have to spend. For the last ten years or so we haven't done much for Christmas, just put up decorations, have the usual meal and give a gift or two to my sons. That's it. We might spend $200 if we have it and will buy gifts a few weeks before Christmas. Mike and I don't buy for each other, because we buy things for each other all year long. Our credit card debt (from years ago--we don't often use them now) is such that we can't do much for Christmas. Our bills are ALWAYS paid first and we have a lot of those. Another bad thing is that our winter property taxes are due a few weeks after Christmas. In the county where we live, we pay property taxes in August and December.

A Christmas with extravagant TVs, computers,tons of clothes and so on? No such thing at my house. The last Christmas I remember like that was when I was 16 or so.

I hope next year I'll know enough about sewing/embroidery to make gifts.