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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 327837" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">I was thinking what TM was thinking. Seek out assistance for things like heat and electric to free up some cash for other needs like groceries. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Also, I have to agree, the Christmases we celebrated with less were the best ones. You do other things to make it special, like bake Christmas cookies with the grandkids - they love decorating messy sugar cookies with different colored sugar frosting. It's so much fun. You plays games and color together, watch a favorite holiday movie or read a holiday book, stay in your jammies as long as you can make it fun. It's about the quality of the time you spend together, not the quantity of gifts, you already know that. Yes, sure, kids are wowed by enormous amounts of gifts, but how much can they play with at once anyway? </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">We are running on empty this year. I am supposed to do some baking today. I have severely cut back on what I'm making because I just don't have the resources to go buy all the ingredients. I have to reserve some money for groceries for the last week of the month. I don't get paid now until Dec 31st and that paycheck usually only leaves me about $250 for the month for gas and groceries - very tight. I can't even afford the $60 to have my snows put on and here we are getting a big storm today! </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkslateblue">Anyway, Lisa, I totally get what you're saying. Your Christmas will be something special because you love your family and that comes across to them. Merry Christmas!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 327837, member: 2211"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]I was thinking what TM was thinking. Seek out assistance for things like heat and electric to free up some cash for other needs like groceries. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Also, I have to agree, the Christmases we celebrated with less were the best ones. You do other things to make it special, like bake Christmas cookies with the grandkids - they love decorating messy sugar cookies with different colored sugar frosting. It's so much fun. You plays games and color together, watch a favorite holiday movie or read a holiday book, stay in your jammies as long as you can make it fun. It's about the quality of the time you spend together, not the quantity of gifts, you already know that. Yes, sure, kids are wowed by enormous amounts of gifts, but how much can they play with at once anyway? [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]We are running on empty this year. I am supposed to do some baking today. I have severely cut back on what I'm making because I just don't have the resources to go buy all the ingredients. I have to reserve some money for groceries for the last week of the month. I don't get paid now until Dec 31st and that paycheck usually only leaves me about $250 for the month for gas and groceries - very tight. I can't even afford the $60 to have my snows put on and here we are getting a big storm today! [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=darkslateblue]Anyway, Lisa, I totally get what you're saying. Your Christmas will be something special because you love your family and that comes across to them. Merry Christmas![/COLOR][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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