Reached the point of drawing names for children (except the ones in our house) for extended family and adults are not giving this year.
Me and my husband have decided that we will take all we can to get the kids Santa, but our stockings will be all we give each other.
As far as Black Friday is concerned, it will be a day I sleep in. I don’t have enough to make a difference in savings to warrant fighting those people not only with fists over deals, but in germs because last time I went it was DISGUSTING.
I don’t shop the day after. I try to do my shopping at Walmart after midnight. My husband and I usually don’t buy for each other either. We have different tastes and decide what we can afford and then just buy what we want ourselves.
Many years ago, we quit drawing names, because several of us had moved away from family, and didn’t really know what the other folks wanted anymore. Mama and Daddy decided instead to concentrate on the grandchildren. We create stockings for each of the grands and now great grands who haven’t yet graduated high school. Each family buys something for each child, trying to stay around one dollar; typically we can get away with spending no more than $25 for gifts, which isn’t bad. The kids don’t care what they get, they just like getting a bunch of STUFF! The adults just stuff their faces. ;o)