Does money make life easier? Yes.

Does money make you happier? No.

Of course, there are tons of aspects of both of these questions and answers that I’m not covering haha. It’s really not that simple. But the purpose of this episode is, “What if you wanted to make the holidays special without spending any money or without spending as much money…would that be possible?” ABSOLUTELY!

You’ve likely heard this before, but the holidays should never cause you to go into debt unless that’s a choice you want to make and have carefully considered. If you’re using the points from the credit card and paying that credit card off, if building credit is part of your financial plan then go for it! But what if it isn’t? Or what if you are cash only? What if you need to spend less? There are SO MANY options still for how to make the holidays special.

You can also incorporate these things along with your usual money spending or high ticket traditions you have.

There’s a chance you’ve heard many of these-but my hope is that one or two really stand out as “I had forgotten about that one” or “We TOTALLY are doing this!”

Listen in for the 8 categories where you can be very creative this holiday season. 

You might be surprised that this list of more actually ends up creating less. Creating a slowdown and intentionality in how you go about this season. On your terms. 

Episode mentioned in this: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-66-how-to-prepare-for-an-upcoming-holiday/id1548296622?i=1000581906385

Advent Devotional by Devoted Motherhood mentioned: https://devotedmamaco.com/products/hallelujah-advent-devotional-1