I'm not going to give an exact amount, but we didn't use credit for anything--everything was carefully budgeted way in advance, and I only went over a teensy bit. (Jeff's fault!!!!) Soooo...I'd say we feel pretty good about it.
We don't feel pressured to fulfill our kids' every wish. We buy what we can, stuff stockings, and call it a day.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
Nothing on credit this year - Thankfully. Though I posted "Over One Thousand" I should clarify it generally includes an essential large purchase for myself and my wife. Last year an espresso machine, and this year a shuffleboard and a foosball table.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
George - as in curious
Linear Mode
