What shall I do?

January 4, 2008

So far compacting hasn't been as hard as I anticipated. However I look ahead to birthdays, baby showers (everyone I know is pregnant, hehe), anniversaries, trips out of town, Christmas and I am forced to make some decisions on how to handle these situations. I figure if I think about it now, when the time comes it won't be as hard to stick to an already made plan, instead of heading out to the mall.

Birthdays: gifts=homemade or buy used, party supplies=as much as possible use stuff we already have, none/limited paper products, make decorations, use internet to get ideas/print decorations, cards=homemade

Trips out of town: limit eating out, buying trinkets, really think about purchases. Ok I am not going to even attempt

Christmas. But I have one idea...instead of giving gifts to extended family, we adopt a child or buy an animal or something along those lines, possibly we adopt a local family and give them "Christmas".
Taken from "THE RED NOTEBOOK"