Christmas shopping
I'm trying to get better about updating this, but wow. Couldn't have picked a worse season, could I have? I'm also trying desperately to come in under budget with my gift-giving this year, but balancing a checkbook has never been my strong suit. Plus, being a blue-collar girl in today's economy, I feel totally out of place at shopping malls, where every twelve-year old is dressed more fashionably than I am. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's important to be on-trend while you're running the gauntlet of junior-high). It's been so long since I bought clothes anywhere besides a discount retailer that, after I bought presents for my Dad and my sister at Brookstone, I had an overwhelming urge to stop into Abercrombie & Fitch to get sweatshirt for myself and I don't even like Abercrombie! This is what happens when you're brand-name deprived!
The rest of my gifts will be homemade chocolate truffles. My boyfriends an I picked up some old cigar boxes from a local convenience store for a dollar each, and we're going to load them up with chocolates and maybe peppermint bark and almond brittle. Cheap gifts and you get to keep the box!
The rest of my gifts will be homemade chocolate truffles. My boyfriends an I picked up some old cigar boxes from a local convenience store for a dollar each, and we're going to load them up with chocolates and maybe peppermint bark and almond brittle. Cheap gifts and you get to keep the box!