What does it really say about our society that we have allowed every holiday to be turned into

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4. Agreed

I have spent the last several months decluttering. Who really needs 6 sets of dishes?

I have gone through the house 3 times...and getting ready to make another sweep.

For Christmas...we only bought for the kids. BUT...everything was purchased second hand and the result was that the kids got REALLY nice stuff...stuff we couldn't go into the store and purchase new because we didn't have that kind of money. It wasn't easy to find what we were looking for, but we did. We didn't go into one Big Box store and purchase anything.

We had a nice family dinner and that was our gift to each other.

One thing I have been noticing...my friends are now scouring the thrift stores, yard sales and flea markets. They love that we have replaced all of our frumpy furniture and filled it with painted, fun vintage and antique repurposed furniture and now they are doing the same.