[ccmay]

32 percent of shoppers want to spend less than they did during the 2005 holidays.

Sure they do. My wife says his every year, then goes out and blows more money than ever before on crap we don't need.

-ccm

[linda_22003]

That's just a matter of discipline and priorities. We hit the wall on "crap we don't need" last year, and gave everyone certificates from the Smile Train - for our close friends and family, we spent $250 per, on surgeries to fix cleft palates in children. We told our friends that if there was anything they needed more than that, we would get it for them.

So far, no one has said they need, or want, anything more than that.