I’ve been collecting beer can, bottle, crowler and pint coozies. I’ve amassed over 200. These will be distributed as my “white elephant” contribution.
Dear Christmas Thread,
I started ordering stocking stuffers for the childen sometime in October. By early November, I was all in on husband gifts. For the past 1-2 weeks I have been diligently shopping, watching for boxes, opening boxes, hiding presents, checking stockings for white space, I just started wrapping presents, and there was a bonus round of J. Crew shopping sprees first for 1 kid as a Christmas present, then a capsule wardrobe for the other kid since she apparently doesn’t own pants, and then I went a little crazy on myself.
Around the same time period I also went a bit crazy with diagrams and thought experiments for product design at work (by crazy I mean I sat for hours doodling things I wasn’t asked to doodle but I couldn’t stop doodling).
In summary, I love Christmas so much it makes me nuts every year but then I’m dead before Christmas ever gets here because I’ve burnt myself out. Overspending has also occured.
With yawns,
-Tiff
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I’m Skipping Christmas this year.
But yeah, I remember that craziness when the kids were young.
My company adopts a few families every year, and this year I am going to have my kids be involved, we are going to look at the list and pick out some of the items to go buy. I’m lucky in that my kids really seem to be aware of others already, and want to help people who have less than they do. I just need to provide them with opportunities to do so.
As for what I’m going to get my kids…no idea. It gets harder every year, as they gravitate more toward video games and less from toys. It makes the whole thing feel a little less magical.
My kids loved doing the angel tree every year. My daughter has continued the practice by “adopting” her bff’s kids every year, which I finance. (Bff is single mom with not a great job.)
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