I Told My Family That Starting October 20th, I’d Stop Buying Christmas Gifts for Anyone Over 18—Grandkids Only. This Is What Happened

I Told My Family That Starting October 20th, I’d Stop Buying Christmas Gifts for Anyone Over 18—Grandkids Only. This Is What

night’s sleep. It was the familiar exhaustion of having too many things on the list and feeling as though every single one of them was somehow my responsibility.

I finally had to ask myself a question I’d been avoiding:

When did giving Christmas gifts stop feeling joyful and start feeling like a job?

Why I Chose October 20th to Make the Announcement

October 20th might seem like an oddly specific date to make a Christmas announcement.

But for me, it was the perfect point in the calendar.

Halloween decorations were

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