Monday Teeny Poll
By Glinda
A full sixty-seven percent of you wrap your gifts for the holidays!
Wow, I feel like a complete slacker now. I will wrap for the kids, because I know how much they love tearing that paper off, but the adults get bags. Sorry. Maybe you are happy that you don’t know me in person. But, I buy really, really pretty gift bags that have all sorts of 3-D ornamentation on them. Does that make it better? And besides, I feel a bit more “green” using the bags because they are reusable. Or, perhaps I’m fooling myself because I want to think I don’t suck because I don’t wrap.
This week, the question is about money. And kids. And moms. Now by the moms giving up stuff, it would mean the moms giving up let’s say, Chanel lipstick and buying Cover Girl, while the kids still got stuff from Hollister and Abercrombie. Bascially, mom getting off-brand so that kids can have name-brand.
December 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
I mainly use bags because they are reusuable. You make them special by how you stuff them, different color tissues, sprigs of greenery or flowers, floaty ribbons. I bought a lot of the white ones so I can use them different times of the year. About the gift, most parents do that anyway…
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Two questions:
What kind of “without” am I going? Groceries? Or a 2009 Lamborghini?
And what kind of “trendy” are we talking about? An iPhone upgrade? or jeans that were manufactured this century?
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I would agree that it depends on what I’m giving up, and what the trendy item is. If I’m giving up going out to lunch for a week or two, that’s fine. If I’m giving up something that is important to me, it would be a different issue.
I consider bags as wrap. 😉
My wise mother gave us enough money for school clothes so that we could buy one or two trendy items, OR quite a few reasonably priced items. I learned pretty quickly that the chemin de fer jeans wore out just as fast as the Levis, and it was a shame that I only had ONE pair. Sigh.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
I plan on keeping myself and my kids to the same level of splurge. Mind you, I only have one and half kids right now, and I may change my mind, but it seems fairest to me. I wouldn’t mind giving up anything for my kids, but I think the right thing to do is show them that everyone gets a little spoiling now and then, but for the most part everyone has to hold back.
If I can only afford to splurge either me or them, I might splurge them, but just now I kind of feel like I might just put the money in the bank and spoil no one! Of course, at this point my son likes the cardboard box better than the expensive toy so I’m less inclined to spend a lot on him!