Most people think it is odd since we are Christian that we do not celebrate Easter. We celebrate Ressurection Sunday, celebrate Jesus, and all that he gave up for us. Easter is not a Christian holiday and never was. If you do a google search all kinds of interesting information comes up about how a lot of holidays were turned Christian. Its roots are Pagan and the buying of Easter candy, gifts, and toys is just commercialism at its finest. We will go to church on Sunday (we attend here ) and enjoy a day together in the sun (I hope). I will cook the ham we have in the fridge and then plan the next weeks worth of meals that involve leftover ham. lol
My weekly challenge is budgeting related. We go through phases in our budgeting. From right on to umm overdraft fees. We have tried so many different versions and are working really hard on communicating with each other on what is going on in the account. We did a recent overhaul of our budget and created a zero dollar budget. We are also actually using the categories and such in Quicken to track things better. Our goal is to have an $1000 emergency fund and 3 months of living expenses saved should something drastic happen. We are also using this calculator to snowball our debt. I sometimes wonder if we will ever see the end of the student loans. I guess I should actually post a goal huh? Okay goal is this: To actually reconcile the account this week so that we can transfer the extra to our savings adding to the emergency fund. What tends to happen is we "forget" to transfer and hit Starbucks one too many times.
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Just wanted to tell you thank you for posting about the traditional holiday. This will be the first year I have looked at it differently.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty much against any holiday that produces so much waste. I was going to hold easter at my house this year and was overwhelmed by all the PLASTIC I would have to buy to host the party starting with the eggs right down to the plates and cups. The stores are overwhelmingly sickening with all their supplies. After 50 years or so, don't we ALL have enough plastic eggs yet? We're getting new windows and doors this weekend, so we cancelled. Phew!
ReplyDeleteYes, it does create a lot of waste and I feel the same way about Xmas. We do celebrate Easter. We dyed our eggs with "natural" ingredients (will make blog post soon), try to make healthy treats, and grew our own grass for the Easter baskets ;) We try to keep it simple with a family/friend brunch or dinner.
ReplyDeleteGood luck getting out of debt! We've used the $0 budget for years, and are thankful to ONLY have the student loans hanging over our heads at this point ;)
Allison... I think you are the yin... or the yang... to me ;)
ReplyDeleteLoved the post! We also feel the same way about the "Holidays". Because we only see family at the "holidays" we do celebrate in a minimal way-mainly with a meal. But we do our best to make keep the focus on God's birth, resurrection et cetera. It's amazing how many christian families think we are nuts and depriving our kiddos!
ReplyDeleteAllison, I am really glad to see you on here and appreciate hearing your Christian perspective:)
ReplyDeleteYour perspective on commercial holidays is something I share with you and am trying to find more meaningful ways around the consumer cash in that they have become.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you posted about budgeting, that is a great sounding plan and I will definitely use that!
Umm, I haven't even STARTED paying on student loans yet, long story, huge monkey on my back. So as you see it as a a deep dark tunnel, I see you as hugely inspirational!