Frugal Friday
Oct. 27th, 2023 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change as we proceed. Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
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With that said, have at it!
Black Friday Stinks (Like Rotten Eggs)
Date: 2023-10-28 08:39 pm (UTC)I've thought about trying to buy Christmas presents and all food and supplies for a month, hopefully keeping my family out of stores as much as possible for the Christmas season. The rampant materialism drives me nuts.
Re: Black Friday Stinks (Like Rotten Eggs)
Date: 2023-10-28 11:32 pm (UTC)For my immediate family one of our escapes from this has been Yule. We celebrate Yule and are the only ones in the entire family to do so. It has turned into a very pleasant occasion with "ridiculously homemade" food (as my wife likes to call it) and the exchange of some very thoughtful often home produced gifts.
HV
Re: Black Friday Stinks (Like Rotten Eggs)
Date: 2023-10-31 11:01 pm (UTC)I enjoyed doing it that way. The parish we attend now uses the Gregorian calendar for holy days, so if we tried to celebrate Christmas on the old calendar, we'd be messing up the cycle of feast days.
I'd like to buy as much of our food and supplies, plus Christmas gifts and gift wrap, as we can in November. Then we can spend as little time as possible in stores in December. We just had a very expensive, but necessary, home repair so I have to see if we can afford that in November. If not, we can try again next year!