This year, I got all my Christmas shopping done early because there was very little thinking I had to do. I just threw money around. Kind of awful and artless, I know. But thoroughly appropriate!
1. My mom asked for a new dishwasher. I said, why not get a fridge at the same time so they match? So there was a check for $1×00.00 for two appliances and installation fees. She can now shop at her leisure to get what she wants. I told her to get a fridge with a bottom drawer freezer so she doesn’t have to bend over all the time to get things out of the crisper drawers of her current fridge. Unfortunately, that ups the price a lot on a new fridge.
2. My cousin from Korea got married, so her $500 gift card is a combination wedding gift/Christmas present from me and my sibling. (She lives near me now.)
3. Another cousin from Korea just had a baby. So she gets a Babies R Us gift card and a handknit baby blanket. (She also lives near me now and consults me on what English name to give her kid.)
4. My sibling’s gifts include a gift card for toys for my nephew since I really have no idea what age appropriate toys to buy them. And then my sibling does not have to pony up for any of the gifts listed above, but will share in the gratitude for all them.
5. Boyfriend has asked me for nothing, but I found a small token present for him under $20.
6. This entire time I thought I owed my friends in Boston a wedding gift for missing their wedding, but while they were visiting me, I mentioned something about still needing to get them a present. They told me that I *had* sent a present, a red Le Creuset item off their registry, but I had completely forgotten this, so now I still have money leftover from what was budgeted! YAY!
And since I don’t have to participate in any silly secret Santa office crap, I’m overjoyed with having to buy nothing else for anyone else but me!
At this moment, I just need to think about my sibling’s birthday present in February, a gift for a friend’s birthday in December, another baby present for friends in NYC, my dad’s birthday is in March, and a baby shower/birthday present for a mommy-to-be-friend who shares my dad’s birthday. I am skipping her shower because it’s inauguration weekend and the prudent travel thing to do is not go to New York. But all this stuff can be frugally bought out of my regular budget for the next 3 months.
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New appliances totally add vslue to property so I think they’re a worthwhile investment. My boyfriend’s new condo has all new appliances and they are so awesome. The crisper keeps our veggies much longer than our previous fridge. A great gift IMO.
Ack, I didn’t get the promised blankets to you in time for the birth of your cousin’s baby! I mailed them on Saturday, so you should have them soon.
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You give much nicer gifts than I do. I wish you were my friend, although I can understand why you wouldn’t wish the same for me ;P