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Klarkashton

(3,238 posts)
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:45 PM Nov 2024

This year we are giving cash as gifts for Christmas.

With the idea that it will be used for necessities.

We have no interest in supporting the economy in our own little way. If the Christmas sales are down even a few percent it would be a gigantic shock.if others did this too.

Fuck the system.

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This year we are giving cash as gifts for Christmas. (Original Post) Klarkashton Nov 2024 OP
We aren't doing gifts. onecaliberal Nov 2024 #1
That's good too. Klarkashton Nov 2024 #3
Fuck Christmas. I'm doing nothing. CousinIT Nov 2024 #2
Why Not Give Necessities Instead? SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 #4
That's good too. Klarkashton Nov 2024 #5
If I could only get my wife to see it that way tinymontgomery Nov 2024 #6
I'm not sure what that's supposed to accomplish. TwilightZone Nov 2024 #7
You can do what you'd like. Ok? Klarkashton Nov 2024 #8
I'm asking that any gift be given to Ukraine PortTack Nov 2024 #9
Fine idea. Klarkashton Nov 2024 #10
I too, won't support any of the tRUMP economy, so, no spending, or at least minimal. Anything that helps the moron SWBTATTReg Nov 2024 #11

CousinIT

(11,189 posts)
2. Fuck Christmas. I'm doing nothing.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:46 PM
Nov 2024

NOTHING. Other than taking time off work. That's it. I'm done.

 

SoCalDavidS

(10,599 posts)
4. Why Not Give Necessities Instead?
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:47 PM
Nov 2024

Don't let the person being gifted, go out and purchase a non-necessity which supports the economy.

Offer to pay off someone's utility bill. Give toiletries.

tinymontgomery

(2,803 posts)
6. If I could only get my wife to see it that way
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:48 PM
Nov 2024

She like to buy stuff for the grandkids and great grandkids. She did vote for VP Harris but doesn't get upset like
I do about the loss through she is depressed.

TwilightZone

(28,835 posts)
7. I'm not sure what that's supposed to accomplish.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 04:51 PM
Nov 2024

We shouldn't use Trump's behavior as the basis for our own. We correctly chastised him when he was hoping for the economy to fail for political gain.

A decline in the economy would generally impact those who are most vulnerable the most - minorities and other marginalized groups, people in poverty, people in the lower and middle classes, and so on. Wishing them financial harm, even if indirectly, just to spite Trump seems a bit misguided.

SWBTATTReg

(25,088 posts)
11. I too, won't support any of the tRUMP economy, so, no spending, or at least minimal. Anything that helps the moron
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 05:22 PM
Nov 2024

coming in is out of the picture in my book. I am voting w/ my pocketbook.

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