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4 Gifts for Christmas

November 12, 2020 Leave a Comment

It’s almost Christmas time! I love everything about Christmas. The lights, the smells, shopping, wrapping, giving and cookies. Yes, give me all the Christmas cookies. I recently just learned about the 4 gifts of Christmas and I was surprised that I had not heard about this before this year. The premise of the 4 gifts for Christmas is that your child gets 4 gifts.

Something they want

Something they need

Something to wear

Something to read

Now I am assuming that this is a minimalist approach to gift giving around Christmas and honestly I was intriqued by this idea. Every year, I go a little crazy buying gifts for my children and then every year, the toys and things that they got go untouched after 2 weeks. It’s excessive and there is no need for my children to have or get more things that they don’t really a. need or b. will discard quickly. So this year we are going to stick to the 4 gifts of Christmas rule with some additions.

We will still do stockings and other traditions that we have come up with over the years.

My take on 4 Gifts for Christmas

Since I know I probably won’t be able to fully stick to just getting 4 gifts for the kids; I decided to add a few more categories. So in addition to the 4 above here are the others;

Something to do

Something to create

Something to learn

We are a big family on experiences and I want my children to get experiences instead of stuff. So for the something to do we will gift an experience. I am still unsure how I will fulfill the something to create or something to learn (maybe with an item that allows to build like Picasso Tiles or LEGOs) but it will be fun to come up with something.

So how are you dealing with gift giving this holiday season? What ideas do you have to meet the above criteria for gift giving? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below!

And because I am so excited for the holidays I decided to partner up with some amazing bloggers to offer a giveaway just in time for the holidays! Are you getting geared up for the shopping season? Do you need extra cash for Christmas?? Don’t we all?!

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