Once upon a time, my wider family decided Christmas had become a competition, and we needed to downsize it. So at my sister's suggestion (and if you knew my sister, you'd understand why this was a bolt from the blue) we agreed to limit spending on a gift for any one person to $5, and that purchases from second-hand shops were fine. The idea was to be creative, not stingy. Everybody entered the spirit of the idea, and it really was exciting to see what people came up with.
If Christmas has become a consumer nightmare for you, here's another suggestion for getting off the treadmill (and the video is worth watching for its own sake - it's very clever).
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