Nice, isn't it? Congratulations to you.
True for us this year, too. We have previously overdone Christmas and birthdays in epic proportions. Not this year. Super strict budget, frugal gifts and plenty of homemade stuff, too. The Hubs and I have a $10 limit for each other and that's only because the kids want us to be able to open a gift, too. So, I'll take the kids to get the Hubs and present and vice versa. Their budgets for each other are $15 (in years past it would have been like $40). Our budgets for each child have been slashed to 1/3 of their former overdone consumeristic glory.
If we didn't sell enough stuff to fund it, we won't be buying it. It makes the holidays a lot less stressful. Less to buy, less to wrap, less stress. I've even found some super cute handmade wrapping ideas on pinterest. We still have plenty of wrapping paper from prior years such that we won't have to buy wrapping paper for at least 5 years. By the time we run out, we'll have perfected the art of homemade wrapping, so we won't be paying for paper that gets torn up and thrown in the trash.
