Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for December 15, 2024

Don’t forget the Gift receipts, so everyone can go returning after Christmas

Joan’s refrain is too true!

Painfully true.

We give gift cards, since it’s so hard to shop for our family. It may seem impersonal, but it’s better that they buy what they want.

The “new” Xmas standard.

Cash and a gift just to make it a little personal.

Make a donation to a charity in their name

Clever.

great song! :D

That’s 1 old cash register. And when they spend like that, they’re surely getting more than a single bill. And MINE sure go far, from Wilmington Delaware to Southwest Missouri.

And they are exhausted and broke.

Wife asks me what I want, then buys me what she thinks I should have. She also buys herself what she wants and labels it from me. She buys presents for our daughters; I give them money in a card (which my wife picked out.) Wife wraps the presents and does the cooking; I watch football and eat. 36 years of wedded bliss!

This is what happens when you allow materialism to be the focus of what should be a joyous time of year.

The head on the bear Joan is holding is on backwards. Don’t think I’d buy that – especially at the price it appears to be,

We live 5 hours away so it’s easier for us to transfer money to their banking accounts – no worries on thefts or loss in the mail/packaging systems.

Be like the kids tired, my brother-in-law stated no more cash or gift card’s, just simple buying, for me no idea, retired do not go much, most stuff comes from someone else they do not want. No idea if some mall that busy. Where I live at mall to the east is grew different owner, mall to west the owner does not care dying.

“Hark, the Herald Tribune singsAdvertising wondrous things.

“God rest ye merry, merchants,May ye make the Yuletide pay.

Angels we have heard on highTell us to go out and buy!"

One of the many things I like about being Jewish is that I don’t celebrate Christmas and thus don’t have to spend most of December scurrying about buying gifts for family and friends. I do enjoy buying them gifts one at a time for their birthdays and other special occasions.

You’re literally “buying into this”. Step back.