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If you are lucky enough to have two dimes to rub together, take one and try to nudge down your credit card debt a little and buy some food with the other.
Screw shopping and giving gifts for Christmas! It's totally against everything Jesus stood for to spend money on a bunch of useless crap when you can instead give the kids a good meal and some family time together. Perhaps take the kids to a soup kitchen and volunteer for a day.
Meet people and give them some love and companionship and hope for a day! THAT is what we should all be doing during the Christmas season!
And for God's sake (no pun), please do NOT buy one of those poor Christmas trees that just spent ten freakin' years growing so there would be cool homes for birds! It is a travesty to take them into our homes and to "decorate" them, generally ignore them, then throw them unceremoniously into the dumpsters come New Year's Day.
Screw the federal government and their balance sheets!
PLEASE DON'T GO SHOPPING FOR CHRISTMAS!
TRY TO FIND THE SPIRIT IN WHAT YOU DO, NOT WHAT YOU BUY!
