Why I need to budget for Christmas throughout the whole year!
It is the 4th of December right – how many
Christmas parties have you been to yet?
How many gifts have you had to buy for pre-Christmas
gatherings?
My answer – too fucking many!
My tree is half up, my house is themed
Semi-Christmas/Semi-something else, and my kids have already had their share of
Xmas gifts - We have only just stepped foot into Decembers door.
How bloody ridiculous!
Don’t get me wrong, I am not the Grinch of Christmas, I actually
freeking LOVE Christmas! So much so that I start planning it in
November.
But I do think we are getting a little bit away from what we
had as a kid – Santa used to throw out lollies at Parades and that was about as
much Pre-Christmas excitement we had.
And that was enough! That was
until the lolly scrambles were banned due to too many PC precious Mums and
Dads.
These days we are buying $5 gifts for every Christmas party
our kid has to attend. We could be
spending up to $50-$60 even before our kids have set out the plate of cookies
for the Big fat Man (Am I even allowed to say ‘Big Fat Man’ – you know, living
in a PC world and all)
And then there is always that handful of Mums/Dads that end up buying their kid a $50 gift, while all the other kids sit around in the circle watching this spoilt little brat wave their prized possession in front of all the other kids who’s mums and dads actually followed the rules.
And then there is always that handful of Mums/Dads that end up buying their kid a $50 gift, while all the other kids sit around in the circle watching this spoilt little brat wave their prized possession in front of all the other kids who’s mums and dads actually followed the rules.
Bring back the Lolly scrambles that almost took an eye out –
that’s half the fun right? Dodging
imminent injury and winning a prize for the courtesy?
Chucking kids in fairy costumes with drag queen make-up and
sending them down a stretch of road waving to the crowds is enough!
Having Santa throw a bag of sweets at the heads of
unsuspecting 2year olds is enough!
Opening gifts on ACTUAL CHRISTMAS is enough!
Participating in the tradition of Advent Calendars stating
the religious reasons behind Christmas is enough! (totes not preaching, but the
ridiculous amount of Advent calendars with no particular meaning except to feed
your kids more garbage is beyond me!)
Eating mounds of deliciously fattening and ‘mid-day nap’
inducing spreads on Christmas day ONLY is enough! Let’s face it, we don’t need the pre-feast,
our asses are letting us know all about it!
Let us not bring this up at the Jingle Jingle Rad Xmas
party, but I will enjoy bitching about it after!
Be Rad - Janine
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