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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw pics on Facebook of my poorest friends tree. She doesn’t work, has 4 kids with no child support. Lives off of food stamps and welfare. Her tree had about 300 presents under it . Not sure what’s in those packages yet. [/quote]

They are probably all from 5 Below. It’s not like they are AirPods and apple watches.[/quote]

I've given my kids plenty of things I picked up for free off of Craigslist in lean years, and yes wrapped a lot of "junk" from the Dollar Store. My kids have had good Christmases every year and often had no idea how I pulled it off.[/quote]

Yes, these gifts could be from Salvation Army donations and other little things. My parents went through a rough couple of years when I was little and we always had tons of presents under the tree , some donations from school or church and some cheap things from Ames and Value City. My mom would also wrap a pack of socks as a gift, a pack of underwear as another gift,etc. so we would feel like we were getting a lot of things. [/quote]

But that’s the whole point. Why are you conditioning them that Christmas must involve “a lot of things”?[/quote]

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