I live in the country miles out of town. I don't own a TV. I choose what I want to look at on my internet & the radio station I listen to is one that contradicts the materialism aspect of Christmas & since I don't have any family other than my daughter who lives across the country.....I don't get involved in the buying of THINGS that are totally useless.

I bought myself something that I have wanted.....it is an antique that this sweet man in the antique show heard I was looking for & he had one so he brought it in & sold it for an amazingly reasonable price. As for the few gifts I do give to others they always are something that I have made or painted.

I LOVE my simple life & wouldn't trade it for anything that I have previously experienced over the past 60 years