Hi i have a problem christmas is here and yet i have no money for anything i can’t even get my girls a gift. We live paycheck to paycheck just to pay the bills that need to be paid. I mean i realy know its hard foreveryone but its wrost this time a year. It breaks my heart to see everyone getting everything they realy don’t need and here i am,i can’t get my girls or husband anything they need. it just feels good to let it out even if its only on paper.
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i have money, not loads, but im aware that it cant buy happiness. before we are born on earth we have nothing, and after we die we have nothing. that means that bill gates will have as much as a poor person will after he dies. i find it a good way of looking at it. :D it works for me. I'm sure there are many rich people out there who'd want what you have, and that is a FAMILY who im sure love you just as much as you love them. Many take that for granted. my dad passed away last year and well, no amount of money can bring him back. at the end of the day, it's just stuff. "A contended mind is a perpetuous feast". if ur contented within you'd need no amount of presents and 'stuff', lol, to make u feel fullfilled.
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I don't know if this can help, but it is a previous post: "You Want to Make Christmas Special for your Children, but you are short on funds. I have noticed that several people are in the same situation. I am so sorry that you are facing such a situation, and I have a few suggestions that might help. I hope that something here might help to brighten your holidays. Some ideas: *Make a “gift certificate” entitling the child to pick out any item from a store. Then take them to a store where everything is only $1. The fun for them is in picking it out. *Have your older children choose one toy they would be willing to part with and wrap to give to a younger child. *Check with the local public library to see if they are discarding any books for free or for a quarter. Then give a “gift certificate” promising to read it with the child ten times, so you can mark off how many times you have read it. * For Christmas trees, —have your Christmas one day late—often there are free or discarded trees that you can pick up and use. * For older children, by a one-use camera from a dollar store (usually $4—but set aside $3 for developing) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Or make your own toys: Out of items around the house: http://familycrafts.about.com/od/toys... http://www.sciencetoymaker.org/ http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org... For these you will need a printer and paper, but often libraries will let you print some: http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/artscraftsideaskids/3dfoldingmodelsp apercrafts.html Other toys to make: Make a piggy bank by decorating a formula can, cutting a slit in the top and saving frozen oj tops for coins; Make a bowling game: buy one of those soft bumpy balls and then empty several plastic soda bottles; Make a dress up trunk: buy a lot of fancy scarves from a second hand store, take some old high heels of yours and decorate with glitter glue, put them in a box with a top wrapped in gold foil. (My two love to get them out and “dress up”); ask a local appliance store for some of their empty refrigerator boxes. Cut out windows and doors, make the top pointed like a roof, use dollar store poster paints to decorate like a house, car, bus or rocket. Or use a smaller box, cut it out like a TV, makes some sock puppets, and have the children put on shows for each other.