Overspending for Christmas

I know that every year we all have that "I shouldn't have bought that" "that was a waste of money" type guilt. It's partially the fault of the stores as they always have things out that look so appealing and at such a good price too, even if it isn't a good price. It seems that they are bringing Christmas related stuff out sooner and sooner each year as well. This year I think I am going to use a cashback site to help me with atleast getting back some of what I spent. In this way I won't feel as guilty and will be happy to have the money coming back to me, atleast some of it. I do want to splurge, but not too much. I may should just get cash out of my account and spend it that way.

I think that a lot of the excessive spending is indirectly due to the fact that Christmas is in the winter. I know that this may sound a little odd at first, but winter is a miserable season in many coutries, including mine. With short periods of daylight, cold weather and the chance of plenty of rain and snow we look forward to anything to improve the situation. Christmas is an opportunity to brighten up the winter with festive decorations, presents, good food and many other aspects of the celebration. This offers a great escape from the depressing winter mood, so we often get carried away and overdo just about everything.

The Christmas Season would often let us feel so happy to give to a lot of people that we love that we could lost track of how much we have already spent. We just wanna make sure that each friend or family member will receive something from us.

Well, it happens in my country that is Italy, that the month of December, workers and retirees, can breathe a sigh of provides relief for their budget, as to them shall be paid in the 13th monthly salary (December in a few words to these people take exactly twice their normal salary). So this falls well off during Christmas! Lately, however, such "thirteenth" are a little thinner due to the economic crisis that is forcing people to make great sacrifices to make ends meet during the year. However, Christmas shopping, always has its charm, both for the festive atmosphere, the glittering display, gifts, and so on! Wrong, however, to go over budget, spend what you can, do not overdo it. And, by all means use the criterion!

This is definitely true because we all want to have not just an ordinary occasion but the most fabulous one as much as we can. No matter how hard we deny-how happy or how memorable your Christmas is, depends on how fat your wallet is or how rich you are to splurge for Christmas shopping. We tend to overspend for Christmas because we are heavily commercialized. I see we can still celebrate Christmas with few or minimal decorations, simple gifts to friends and family and even just a few special dishes to prepare. It's less stressful and might also save you a lot of money for future use.

Hi silverfox! Since this season happens only once in a year, I see to it that my relatives and friends would be given a gift/s. I would also have to cook something for the occasion. This is one of the time when I can spend a lot of time with my family because my forced leaves were not consumed during the year so I would take advantage of this time because I could no longer used those leave credits on the following year. But this year, until now I can not start yet with my Christmas shopping because I still have to wait for my 13th month pay. Hopefully, I could have it by Friday. Merry Christmas!

We never overspend at christmas, we just can't afford ot and can't risk getting into debt. The children and family get what we can afford ot givie them. Thankfully love and hugs are still free

I do remember years ago when I would use to overspend on Christmas shopping like there's no tomorrow. I surely regret that. I agree with you, it's best to stick to your budget and make the shopping early.

Indeed, Christmas is the most expensive holidays of all time. I don't even spend too much for myself on my birthday. I made up my list too and it's quite long. After estimating the amount of gifts I will buy and come up to be very expensive, I cut down some of them. Instead of buying a bag for my Aunt, I will cut it down to purse.