Focus on experiences rather than gifts.<\/strong> Let\u2019s be real. Kids lose interest in toys extremely fast. A few hours after opening presents my kid\u2019s excitement is gone. And on Christmas morning they are more interested in unwrapping gifts than the actual gifts themselves.<\/p>\nDo fun things with your kids that aren\u2019t expensive. Bake cookies. Go sledding. Watch Christmas movies together. Read books.<\/p>\n
Shift the focus from gifts to memories.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re on a limited budget you\u2019ve got ten weeks to plan and find deals. If you use some creativity you should be able to plan an amazing Christmas on a small budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I saw a post on Facebook the other day stating there was only ten Saturdays left until Christmas. While part of me was highly annoyed that we\u2019re being sold to ten weeks before Christmas, the other part was thinking \u201cHoly Cow! There\u2019s only ten weeks until Christmas.\u201d While I won\u2019t be baking Christmas cookies or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[425,522],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cultofmoney.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}