I got my Christmas bonus today and I realized that that bonus will be more than the total I am going to pay for gifts this year. Can it be true? I am going to make out with a positive cash flow during xmas?

After I got my close friends to join my no gifts for adults xmas, we stopped with the gift exchange in that circle. Last year, my siblings and I decided to do the same and only buy gifts for the nephew and have a nice dinner for the rest of us.

I wish I can give my siblings some money to help them out because they always seem to struggle around this time of year, but if I do, they will just end of giving me something. It would be hypocritical to give something in this world where people give because they were given.

The only big pool I have to shop for is the office group. Though everyone knows that it is not required, but the environment is that everyone in the department buys everyone a gift. It's better to buy the gifts instead of answer the questions why I don't care for xmas.

Scrooge me this, scrooge me that, xmas is too damn materialistic.