quiz: Give like santa or spend like scrooge ?

[Kyle]

If you answered mostly B's: You are Ebenezer-Empathizer
Your holiday philosophy in two words: Bah, humbug. You resent the crass commercialization of the holidays and the near-unrelenting pressure to spend, spend, spend -- on loved ones as well as loathed ones (should they be the boss, surly service workers waiting for The Annual Greasing of the Palm, and so forth). Guess what? We sympathize, and even empathize, with you to a certain degree: Undeniably, there is a pressure to purchase at this time of year than can be off-putting in the extreme.

It might be a good idea to consider if some of those you most resent giving to can indeed be cut from your list -- without dire consequences; i.e., being the only one to snub your superior in, say, a small office in which holiday gift-giving is a well-established ritual you've long participated in may simply be foolhardy: Yes, being an adult is full of compromises -- were it not so. But for false friends and other ''dead wood'' on your list -- you may wish to consider the ax.

As for those you truly do wish to give a token of your affections or good wishes, realizing that there is no ''standard' of spending you must live up to will help free you of any resentments on that front: You don't have to knock yourself out getting everything on sale, to look like you're spending ''required'' amounts. Simply appreciating you do have some latitude in how much and to what depth you wish to dive into the ''purchasing pool'' should help buoy you.


I'm not really against the whole christmas thing...
but it's supposedly the birth of christ or whatever...and i don't beleive in god...
kinda contradicts my beliefs...
I guess i just go along with it because of tradition...