I don't spend much as I don't have a family! Well, my brother & his family live interstate, & my sister lives in Kuwait. Over the spending season, I tend to hide from the heat & sit around eating prawns (shrimp, yum, my To-me-From-me pressy) & listen to music etc.

I buy a few token pressies for friends, & make cards, pressies & decorations as gifts.

I give my 11 year old niece & 15 year old nephew a small pressy & a gift card from a department store as I don't what they want. I don't want to make the same faux pas my aunt made with my teenaged brother decades ago! The last time I got a list fom my sister-in-law my 8 year old niece & 12 year old nephew wanted strange stuff I'd never heard of, including CDs that had explicit lyrics warnings. As I'm too old to go thru all that again, I just send them $50 each.

What a mean aunty - ya should buy kids zillion dollar stuff, sez the advertising industry.

Nope, sez I, I prefer giving money to charities who can put it to better use. Tho I do a little for the Retail industry, as I normally manage to buy myself a few tiny christmas decorations to go with my tiny 6 inch/15 cm. tree.

sandra