Christmas brings with it happiness to all. Homes and public places will be beautifully lit and decorated. There is a festive atmosphere everywhere. People spend a lot of money on meaningless things during Christmas. It is high time we examined whether the money we spend to celebrate Christmas is worth it.
Other than the tasty food cooked and served on Christmas day, everything else, including the expensive gifts and entertainments, seems meaningless. Celebrating Christmas has now become a financial show off. Christmas has lost its religious aspect and people nowadays treat Christmas as a time to spend money. Christmas will become more meaningful if we can stop doing the following things:
Christmas Presents for Grown- ups
The Christmas gifts we buy for our adult friends and relatives are mostly useless to the recipient. Gifts for adults are expensive, and you don’t want to be burning through money that you can barely spare on something when the recipient either has the gifted item already or has no use of it. The only options available to you are to gift the same item to somebody else. Giving gifts to children is acceptable since the children can’t buy those items on their own. Seeing the children open their gift boxes on Christmas day is sufficient to make anyone happy.
Buying Christmas Presents for Each and Every Friend and Relative
Christmas celebration should be more focused on the getting together of all the family members and not on giving presents. Some people buy expensive presents just to show how wealthy they are. Instead of buying so many presents for all your near and dear ones, if every member of the family buys just one gift for another member of the family, everybody in the family will get a gift and there will be more closeness among the family members. In this case, you will be saving both money and time. Remember that the gift you buy for another person may, perhaps, be totally useless for the recipient.
