Wendy Williams discusses the Christmas Present Controversy:
“When is Christmas Giving Excessive? What is Enough?”
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It becomes excessive when the only concern for Christmas is buying expensive gifts to please everyone. You need to teach them the importance of spending time together and collaborating on different activities like baking. Make Christmas a fun time of year without having to go overboard with presents.
spending beyond your means
Christmas giving is excessive when people spend more than they can afford. Budgets are key!
To me, giving becomes excessive only when you feel you have to rather than when you want to. It is the spirit of giving that is important rather than how much is given.
You should go into debt to give your family tons of gifts that will be throw to the side in a few hours. Instead give several meaningful gifts rather than gifts just to have gifts.
I think Christmas gift giving becomes excessive when its all about material things and there’s zero holiday cheer. ALso if youre going above your means just to buy presents then its gone to far.
Christmas giving is excessive when you are in debt from your spending. If you can’t afford to pay for your purchases without using credit cards, you need to rethink your gift-giving. It truly is the thought that counts.
Honestly with the prices now a days we only give to immediate family for gifts..Sometimes I like to make a basket of goodies to friends
If your going in debt that’s too much. I think you should set a limit on either the total amount your are going to spend or the amount on each person and stick as close to that as possible and buy all means take advantage of sales and coupons but to buy to impress is not good.
Christmas should not be stressful. You take care of your kids first and then if you have enough then get other people presents.
I think people need to determine themselves what is excessive, with consideration for helping those less fortunate also
Christmas is excessive when you try to win a person’s affection by bombarding them with gifts instead of telling them you care by getting them a few gifts selected by you that have a personal meaning in each one of them.
I think Christmas spending is excessive if you go into debt or charge it all. You should only give what you can afford. We set a Christmas budget for how much to spend on people and who gets gifts each year. If they want a $100 item but we only budgeted $50 then we only spend $50.
Hm, this one is tricky but I think in terms of what a parent gets their children, it’s pretty much up to them. It seems a little… I don’t know, I cant seem to locate the right word… mean for lack of a better one, to post a picture with so many gifts under a tree up. I guess I don’t think it needs to be quite so rubbed in that so many things were gotten when so many go without. Imagine if half of those were donate to one of the many collection for the less fortunate places out there. However, it’s really up to the mother when it all comes down to it. I do think some of the backlash she received was just too darn mean though. Not so much what Wendy said, she was cool about it, just expressing her thoughts, but on social media. She was pretty much torn apart but you know what they say about opinions 🙂 If you can do it, do it, but if you do, it might be nice to sort of shhh about it because you are kind of spoiling the heck out of the kiddos and not helping those who cant or don’t do the same.
Merry Holidays to you all!
Shelly H.
Merry Christmas to you to Shelly! The Chief Blonde
How you doing? I have three grandchildren and they do have everything! So hard every Christmas to shop for them. Im so disappointed in this generation of parents and kids. My kids were happy with boards games, pjs; simple items. Just sad.
Merry Christmas!
When you care more about getting then giving!!!
I think people can get caught up in buying gifts and really forget the true meaning of christmas but how is it my right to judge .
I think that you need to have a budget for the holidays and not go over it in order to get extra gifts for your family.
When is Christmas giving excessive? When a parent buys too many presents they cannot afford and the children don’t appreciate it all connie danielson
About 8 years ago I got completely overwhelmed with gift giving and really cut it down to very few people and very thoughtful gifts. I’ve not lost friends over it, so I guess the best thing for Christmas is to be there for your friends, not filling their house with stuff.
Christmas is excessive when you get overwhelmed and don’t feel the “Christmas Spirit” anymore.