Being unemployed at the holidays for most people means less under the tree. While we all want to open lots of new stuff on Christmas day there are up sides to a minimal Christmas.
First their is the love/hate relationship with shopping. We love to share with others but hate all the going and looking for a better price and the wrapping and shipping. With a minimal Christmas there are no malls, no all night wrapping sessions or the stress of finding just the right gift or running all over to find a specific item.
It also gets you off the hook for buying presents for nieces and nephews who already have too much stuff and you never know what to get for them.
Next is Christmas day. You can open your gifts and clean the place up before Noon. In our case that means we can be at Grandma's in time for Dinner.Unfortunately, there isn't any football on Christmas day so having free time just means hanging out with the in-laws.
The down side of having fewer things to wrap my wife feels the need to revive a practice they have in her family of wrapping everything. That includes candy canes, chap stick and even AA batteries just to fill up the stockings on Christmas morning. Have you ever tried wrapping or opening a gift wrapped AA battery. It is basically all tape.
So now that we are ready for Christmas my wife also has more time to bake,. If I can keep her from giving it all to the teacher, neighbors and co-workers I might actually get to try some of her treats.
Merry Christmas
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