Giving, Saving and Spending Tags from mamaroots's shopWe have some pretty major expenses coming up next year and therefore have been under extreme save mode for some time. I have been keeping my money in a saving account and it is fun to watch that amount grow as we add to it each pay period.
We are fast approaching that time of year when we end up shelling out all of our hard earned cash on gifts for others. I love giving presents but all to often in the past couple of years I feel like we have given quite expensive gifts that were not necessarily wanted by the recipient, not that they were not thankful for the gift but they never really used it or wanted it in the first place. This year the extended family (on my side) have decided to do a secret Santa, I love this as Christmas has become increasingly more expensive as cousins have added spouses and children into the mix. Now all the adults are put into a hat and only have to buy 1 gift each. Children will still get gifts from everyone.
Fifteens from google images.Today at my work my team are having a bake sale for our "Adopt a Family" I have made Fifteens and Hollywood Cakes, 2 recipes that my Nana gave me. Fifteens are a Northern Ireland favourite and Hollywood Cakes I have never heard of outside my family but they are yummy!
My husbands family were not up for the Secret Santa so we have to figure out something different. Inspired by the bake sale I am making the men in the family a tin of homemade tray bakes each. I ran this idea past the hubby yesterday and he is all for it. Now I just have to figure out what to get/make the women! Oh yeah, since we will not be visiting them at Christmas time this year we will do all of this at Thanksgiving (under 2 weeks).
Piggy Bank with Ladybug from lindaneubauer's shop
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Good ideas, Ashley. We've done our big spending and are saving a lot to compensate (it was mending a roof, so it was urgent...)
ReplyDeleteWe've made a lot of chutneys and jams for the men, and some Christmas hangings for the women - but I could do with a few more ideas myself!
Hi Ashley, how are you doing these days? Such a lovely pink piggy! The picture made me smile :). Saving is good - I think it gives more meaning to life and to things.
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