Oh, it seems that we can never see the end to all the holiday shopping!
I am an early bird so I did my Christmas shopping early. Most of the gifts that we are supposed to give to our godchildren and the children in the family we already bought in October. As the days went by, we realized that we still need to get more gifts as there were still baptisms and birthday parties to go to. And so the shopping continued. The other day, we went to the store again to get a couple of toys and a dress for a godchild who has come over from a different city just to visit us.
And the holiday shopping is really very tempting with all the promotional products around. There are bundling promos as well as buy 1 take 1 or even 2 or 3. Imagine the savings. There are great discounts too, as well as being able to get a certain item for very cheap as long as you are able to reach spending of a certain amount. Like last Christmas, we can get the memory pillow at half the price if we can purchase something worth P500.
Just the same, as with anything, control is the key. There are so many temptations around and with the convenience of the credit card, it is so easy to go the abyssmal route of so much debt.
So as with anything, my holiday message is, EXERCISE RESTRAINT.