Gifting to excess
Dec. 17th, 2019 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gailmom77I have this habit, and have for several years, of thrifting throughout the year for gifts, and then also buying gifts in November for the holiday...and ending up with like 20 gifts for my kids and co-mom.
Not. Exaggerating.
Every year I mean to get a notebook and keep track of who I've already shopped for, and every year I either forget completely, or start to and lose the notebook.
I'm hoping this coming year will be better. I added some shelves over by my gift wrap area so I can use those plus the cabinet above the wrapping center to hold gifts (instead of in a large Rubbermaid I can't see into and routinely forget exists). I also *just now* realized that the cabinet is metal.
So, ya know. I could USE A MAGNET to hang the gift list so I won't lose it. *facepalm*
I'm not dumb, but sometimes it takes a while for my brain to make a connection.
Seeing the list of gifts for each person this year has just driven home that this excess at Yule thing really doesn't match my values. Neither does the "new stuff" shopping that happens right before the holiday; especially so when I already have gifts for that person.
I'm sure if I tell myself "no new things" I'll break that and then some. So I'm thinking "one new thing" purchased right before, so I can be sure and have a something that matches my giftees desires close to the holiday should work.
If I can find the discipline. ;)
Not. Exaggerating.
Every year I mean to get a notebook and keep track of who I've already shopped for, and every year I either forget completely, or start to and lose the notebook.
I'm hoping this coming year will be better. I added some shelves over by my gift wrap area so I can use those plus the cabinet above the wrapping center to hold gifts (instead of in a large Rubbermaid I can't see into and routinely forget exists). I also *just now* realized that the cabinet is metal.
So, ya know. I could USE A MAGNET to hang the gift list so I won't lose it. *facepalm*
I'm not dumb, but sometimes it takes a while for my brain to make a connection.
Seeing the list of gifts for each person this year has just driven home that this excess at Yule thing really doesn't match my values. Neither does the "new stuff" shopping that happens right before the holiday; especially so when I already have gifts for that person.
I'm sure if I tell myself "no new things" I'll break that and then some. So I'm thinking "one new thing" purchased right before, so I can be sure and have a something that matches my giftees desires close to the holiday should work.
If I can find the discipline. ;)
