It's not rocket science to say "I'm not spending money on office gifts for people I neither know nor like." Nor do you have to go bankrupt on buying a load of useless crap for relatives you hardly ever see.
Last year, I had no money AT ALL. None. And I bought small gifts for maybe three important people, baked a lot of dirt cheap brown sugar pies for others and still got invited to Christmas dinner, the tree still lit up, snow still fell and I saved myself stressful trips to the local, soul crushing mall. It was nice. #thepoors
Up here in the North there are no wage packet jobs for us
Thank Christ
While young married couples discuss the poverties
Of their self-built traps
And the junior clergy demand more cash
We spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt #thepoors
Yes, please, let's cancel Christmas. If you want, feel free to go home and visit loved ones, but that holiday is a fucking monument to consumerism. I know that's such a "high school rebel with a conscience" thing to say, but it's true.
If you're related to me, you're getting a homemade sock this year. Feel free to knit the other sock yourself. #thepoors
@nozer: That is actually brilliant. Then I only have to knit six socks instead of twelve. OR I could have everyone pay homage to the memory of Michael Jackson with one glove apiece, san sequins. #thepoors
@nozer: Has the Baby Jesus not suffered enough? You can be a Scrooge and call off Christmas, but for Jesus' sake, I'll just have to celebrate twice as hard. I'm gonna wear out my Home Alone DVD, gorge on Christmas cookies, and enjoy glad tidings of good beer. Consumerism never felt so warm and fuzzy. #thepoors
10/16/09
10/16/09
Take that Scrooge McDuck!!! #thepoors
10/16/09
Last year, I had no money AT ALL. None. And I bought small gifts for maybe three important people, baked a lot of dirt cheap brown sugar pies for others and still got invited to Christmas dinner, the tree still lit up, snow still fell and I saved myself stressful trips to the local, soul crushing mall. It was nice. #thepoors
10/16/09
10/16/09
Thank Christ
While young married couples discuss the poverties
Of their self-built traps
And the junior clergy demand more cash
We spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt #thepoors
10/16/09
How poetic. Seriously. #thepoors
10/16/09
10/16/09
10/16/09
If you're related to me, you're getting a homemade sock this year. Feel free to knit the other sock yourself. #thepoors
10/16/09
10/16/09