Christmas Unwrapped
J Gardener
It happens every year, doesn't it? You think that you've been really conscientious, by doing all of your Christmas buying early and finding all the bargains you could. So, you think you'll have all of December to savor the holiday joy, while your friends are out shopping, at the last minute. Then, with Christmas right around the corner, you go to wrap your gifts and you realize the one thing you forgot-the wrapping paper. The expensive wrapping paper, more expensive, now that Christmas is upon you.
We always resent it, don't we? On the one hand, we want the presents we put under the tree (or, rather, the presents that Santa Claus leaves under the tree) to be beautiful, colorful and dazzling, in their wrapping. There's nothing more exciting in those early hours of Christmas morning than a pile of gorgeously wrapped gifts, ready for opening.
On the other hand, it's always painful to watch the children tear the wrapping paper to shreds, as they rip into their gifts, anxious to begin playing with their toys. If you don't snap a photo of all of the gifts, before the kids get to them, all the work that went into choosing the paper and wrapping the gifts will just be a distant memory.
And what's left is a huge mess. Someone, usually Mom and Dad, has to clean up all the paper and leave it for the garbage truck, to be carted off and forgotten, to be dumped with all of the other detritus of Christmas somewhere.
All that effort and all that cost are gone in the blink of an eye. Then, when the Christmas bills come in, and we expect to be proud of the way we stuck to our budget, we're always surprised by how much we went over. Part of that extra cost is that darn paper.
So, why not consider leaving some of those gifts unwrapped, this year? Your budget will be safer and your time will be better spent, as Christmas approaches, if you don't have to wrap every gift that's left under the tree.
It could be easy to explain to your kids. After all, Santa Claus fills the bag on his sleigh with toys for all the boys and girls in the world, right? How could he possible wrap every gift? And if he did, he'd have a hard time telling who gets what, wouldn't he?
Face it-your kids don't really care about wrapping paper. It may make a beautiful picture under the tree on Christmas morning, for about five minutes. Then, the paper becomes confetti as the kids rip into their new toys and gifts. So, if you choose to leave Santa's gifts unwrapped, then no one will really be upset.
You can save time and money that way, and maybe a forest, somewhere. That sure wouldn't upset Santa Claus, would it?
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