Christmas Presents

I have always hated the holidays and always felt obligated to buy others presents just because it was a holiday but now that I’m a first time mom I’m getting excited about creating traditions and memories with my daughter….situation is…I am a stay at home mom to my 5 month old.. we have 1 income now and I can’t seem to justify spending our money on unnecessary presents for other people. I want to spoil my daughter and buy for my husband and that’s literally it. I don’t feel the need to spend that on others..I could really care less about not getting anyone else anything but I’m just curious what others are doing with 1 income?

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Your daughter wants and needs nothing on their first Christmas. Our first Christmas was one of our worst ever 😂 Save it for the ‘magical years’ 3-7 and just enjoy this one for being a three ❤️

Have your daughter make stuff for others. It's a gift and an activity. 😀This is the year for handprint ornaments. As she gets older, the crafts can get more elaborate.

My husband and I are one income and we only buy for our daughters, niece and nephews because they are all small children and tell all the adults out gift to them was us being able to travel in for the holidays so they can spend it with our children 🤷🏽‍♀️

Second hand and footprint ornaments! It's so special to put them on the tree each year and see how much they've grown. And you can get supplies for pretty cheap. For your daughter, I'd focus on developmental things that you'll want for the next year. We got a few things that were a little bit too "big" and now 7-8 months later she's really getting into playing with them. It doesn't have to be brand new either, a lot of used toys before 2 are out grown and parents want it out of the house. Marketplace is great for that and it's already set up so less work for you because you definitely will want things out of packages as much as you can.

We did handmade ornaments. We put his foot print on it because he didn’t like the feel of paint on his hand and wrote his first Christmas. We only get gifts for grandparents and only spend max 30 on each one. I have younger sisters who are 19 and under so we usually get them a little something but not much. And we don’t always. We didn’t last year because we were moving and just didn’t have the money. I am due December 29 so everyone except my husband and son are getting a new child in the family for Christmas lol.

It’s totally fine to let your family and friends know “hey we cannot afford to exchange Christmas presents this year so please do not buy any presents for us.” I would get 1-3 useful and/or sentimental things for your daughter and not go overboard - they don’t need much at this age and they developmentally age out of most things pretty rapidly.

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