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first xmas with no credit cards

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  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    Gorgeous_George wrote: »
    Kids remember your love and the time that you gave them so much more than the landfill that they unwrap on Christmas morning.

    GG

    Not sure if this thread is a wind up but i thought i would highlight this post from gg which is one of the best for a long time.
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    Gorgeous_George wrote: »
    Kids remember your love and the time that you gave them so much more than the landfill that they unwrap on Christmas morning.

    GG

    Try giving them an apple and a bag of nuts every Christmas for the first 16 years of their lives, they'll bloody well remember that.:D
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    ad9898 wrote: »
    Try giving them an apple and a bag of nuts every Christmas for the first 16 years of their lives, they'll bloody well remember that.:D
    Yeah, when they're talking to their therapist in twenty years time it will be "we were so poor - one year I only got an iPod and a PS3, all the other kids looked down on me"
  • SingleSue
    SingleSue Posts: 11,718 Forumite
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    Must admit, it strikes me as a pee take too.

    If not, then my children are perfectly pleased with the presents they have received yet my budget was £15-£20 per child (yes I went over budget!), my parents had a budget of £20 per child and both my brother and sister spent £5 or less per child.

    Christmas has never been done with credit cards or loans and christmas is paid for at the time it happens and not into the following year.
    We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
    Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.
  • mummytofour
    mummytofour Posts: 2,636 Forumite
    Mien have a had cheap xmas and I don't think they even noticed lol. Shows how much kids really do or don't need IMHO.
    Debt free and plan on staying that way!!!!
  • pickles110564
    pickles110564 Posts: 2,374 Forumite
    xmaswoes wrote: »
    i knew this year was going to be tugh, just never realised how much so.....first year in ages iv had to buy the kids the basics, no expensive stuff this year.....of course the kids didnt show it.....my little soldiers..but how hard is it going to be for them to go back to school with no top of the range gear.......i hate the banks.....all i needed was another !0k card which would hav given me the chance to pay off the 60k i owe them.....im dreading next xmas already
    If there was no name on this I would have put this piece of work down to Mewbie.
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
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    pickles110564 wrote: »
    If there was no name on this I would have put this piece of work down to Mewbie.
    Well its easy to get a different log in name, as I think you know Pickles.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    pickles110564 wrote: »
    If there was no name on this I would have put this piece of work down to Mewbie.


    Bit harsh - Mewbie's both more literate and more subtle than that.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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