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Old 12-03-2011, 07:52 AM
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kapatt
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Whooo Hoooo.... Congratulations! I am very happy for you.

It sounds like you will have an interesting challenge this year of making Christmas special without spending money. My husband and I enjoy challenges like that. In our 31 years together, we have tried to make Christmas about family and dong for each other rather than about the expense of a gift. We have given each other coupons for back rubs, apple pies (wrapped in the sunday comic section of the newspaper) and other things to make the other one feel special. (laughing....I've thought about giving him a whole day with the remote...but we haven't had to get that desperate.) We do have some money for buying presents for each other this year and we sat down and discussed what we would buy. We are spending the same amount of money on each other. Part of his gift from me will be metal fence posts for this next spring when he pus up fencing for his next field. He doesn't know it but I'm going to make him an arm-chair caddy for his remotes, glasses and pens.

We do have adult children and we hope that they will get here for Christmas, but we've always tried to teach them that Christmas is more about being kind and caring for each other than it is about opening wonderful gifts.
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