Got the shopping done!

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We spent the weekend finishing up our Christmas shopping. We're totally done and it's not even December 1st.. that's awesome for us. Usually we're scraping at the end of the month to figure out how we're going to afford to finish shopping. I will admit we put a good portion of the shopping on the credit card.. it wasn't much at first, only a couple hundred.. but then something unexpected happened... We went shopping for phones for the twins. We got my daughter a new phone for her birthday last week and it's horrible. It's the worst piece of junk on the planet. My husband has already had to reset it twice. They've been asking for iphones for a couple years now. My son has been wanting any sort of apple product, last year it was an ipod, this year he still wants the ipod or an iphone... but he knows that's pretty much not going to happen. These products are beyond expensive. But hubby found a deal. If we put the twins on our Verizon plan we can add 2 iphone 5's for 99 cents each per phone. Granted we're paying full price for the extra lines and we'll have to up the amount of data we're getting so our bill will increase a good deal.. but the upfront cost is $2 plus tax to get the phones. So we went down to the Verizon store to get that set up, and there was a problem with changing our account. Apparently Verizon finally realized we had an outstanding cellphone bill from a few years ago. Awhile back when we had Verizon things got tight and we let the phones get shut off. We ended up switching to another company for awhile, but last Christmas we went back to Verizon and they must have forgotten that we owed them money because they had no problem setting up the account for us. But that bill finally caught up to us and it was a bit of a doozy... $800. We put that on the credit card to be done with it and so we could add the phones to our line. It feels good to have one of our larger bills taken care of... but now we have to focus on getting that credit card debt paid down... On the plus side we don't have to spend anymore money on Christmas and the credit card is not charging interest for the month of December, so we've got all month to make as big of a dent in that bill as we can before it starts charging us interest on it. How's your shopping coming along?