Money hoarding in December seems kind of counter intuitive, but considering I started my major Christmas shopping in November, I think it’s reasonable. Christmas is always expensive and even if you’ve set a budget for gifts (mine increased exponentially this year), sometimes the perfect gift appears right in front of your face… For $15 more than you were planning on spending. That being said, I wouldn’t do that for every person on my list, but it does happen and the budget needs to be adjusted rather than busted. I just have a few more people left to shop for so I’m braving West Ed this weekend (quelle horreur) to finish it off. This will be me after twenty minutes.
Grumpy cat “celebrates” Christmas. imgur.com
Needless to say, I’ll be happy to be done my shopping and out of the malls (anything else I need will be coming from the internet), and my one goal for December is to save as much as possible outside of Christmas gifts. Groceries should be better since I won’t be here for the last week of the month as I’m heading back to the West Coast for Christmas. We’re doing our mini-Christmas the weekend before I take off. I only have nine more days of work left before my (12 day) vacation!
Lord love a duck, 2013 is almost here!
Great goal ! I have never been to Edmonton but always wanted to go to the West Ed mall, is it awesome or what? And I’m all done for Christmas as well! I am so happy that I can now just relax instead of stressing about not getting it all done in time.
It’s awesome at first, but it’s a pain to get to for me and with malls like Southgate and Kingsway being way closer, I tend to just go there instead. It’s lost its lustre for me! You’re so lucky you’re done Christmas shopping, I’m getting there but not quite finished!
money hoarding actually! think that`s the first post I`ve seen these december days that goes against the stream. but good for you!
Haha thanks! I really just want to get my presents taken care of and not buy anything extraneous for myself. We’ll see how it goes.
I like it! I’m almost done my shopping too and I cannot wait for it to be officially completed so I can relax and quit thinking about it.
Agreed. It’s all I think about right now! Have to be on the lookout for the perfect present, etc. It’s draining.
Ah West Ed!!! It’s on my to do in January list!! Good luck!
I didn’t go, because I avoid that place like the plague unless I absolutely have to go. It’s 10x worse during the Christmas season!