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One Christmas we were flat broke. We went looking for maybe a marked down tree. They were still more than we had. I don’t know where it come from but the lot manager brought out our tree. One dollar. It was maybe 3 feet high and looked like he cut the top off a big one. We proudly took it home and put it on a window seat. It didn’t need much lights and was beautiful. I’m sorry things are so bad for you but you have a wonderful reason to celebrate Christmas...the birth of our Savior:’) Times are tough for us here too but I ‘m also blessed. If you will freepmail your address I’ll
try to send you 20 dollars to help with whatever you need.

Cindy thats the sweetest post I have ever seen in here. I do believe he was he is joking.

If he's not I will gladly send him some old blankets and my leftover breadcrusts. ;^)

When I was in the Army, I used to umpire softball and baseball and referee basketball and flag and tackle football nearly every day to make extra money. That extra money was saved and we used it for our three kid's Christmas presents. I always bought my wife something, but told her not to spend money on me, to put it on the kids. After duty hours, I would go umpire two or three ball games, or ref two basketball or flag football games that the troop teams played in the various base leagues. That is one thing the Army had was good company level sports programs. Each company had its flag football, basketball or softball teams, thus lots of sports for the troops to play. We did not have a lot of officials to call the games, so we had to work a lot. I usually worked five out of seven days each week. On weekends there were tournaments and high school sports. The bummer was the pay was not real great, so the more I reffed, the more I made for the kids Christmas’ and even school clothes. Then the regular pay could go to food, car, and the other bills of life.