I try not to be a Scrooge, but I really have a strong desire to "simplify" Christmas. We worship Jesus and celebrate His birth all year long, not just on December 25th. My husband and I have had many
My family jokes that if they need something, that I am usually able to knit them whatever it is or find a way to make it using Pinterest. A few days later, we agreed that we would pray about this and see what God would do. That's when the Etsy orders started rolling in. I was knitting non-stop and couldn't keep up! I shipped birds nests and golf club covers and slippers and bunny rattles and hats all over the United States in December. My sister got orders from some people locally and I knitted more slippers and more hats and gloves and stuffed animals. A dear friend asked me if I would like to cater a brunch for her mom's group. More friends bought hats and birds nests. A random check for $20 came in the mail because I'd purchased a certain kind of toilet cleaner (weird, right!?). I love that, in a way, I was able to knit my son a guitar!
During this time, other non-monetary bonuses kept popping up. I "bought" Amazon gift cards with my Swagbucks balance. If you haven't signed up for Swagbucks yet, please feel free to use my link: http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/sarahrobinson. I used them to buy the really cool baseball bat and the throwing knives (these may end up being a temporary gift that is confiscated until he's a bit older!). I even had enough left over to buy a Polly Pocket helicopter, two books, and a guitar tuner. Then, Meijer had an mPerks offer for $30 off of my next general merchandise purchase. Woody from Toy Story costs $39.99, so just $9.99 after the mPerks! At this point, I am astounded that I've only spent roughly ten dollars of our "real" money on my children's Christmas gifts and gotten them everything they wanted. I bought them a few other things as well, but I didn't spend anywhere near the amount I anticipated.
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