My Christmas lights and small parols are finally up, as I courageously welcome the holiday season like the rest of our anxious kababayans. Know more:
MY Christmas lights and small parols are finally up, as I courageously welcome the holiday season like the rest of our anxious. I admit I had to do the Yuletide decorating gradually, as brain-fogged me couldn’t initially remember where I had stashed all the holiday accessories and trimmings, and because I didn’t want to shell-shock the power bill just yet.
Shopping for Yuletide presents for friends and family has admittedly been a little painful with prices of consumer goods having risen dramatically in a span of just six months. There were a few times these past few weeks that I’ve been to the mall when I thought to myself that I should’ve bought the items I wanted to gift some people, maybe way back in the February.
But Filipinos being who we are, we will still spend a lot this holiday season, never mind if we blow the 13th month pay or Christmas bonus , or max out our credit cards. It’s just a season we enjoy to the hilt, when we gather with families and friends to eat, drink and make merry. The survey also showed that Filipinos will spend an average of about $569 per household for Christmas, of which 51 percent will go to Christmas food, 8 percent to Christmas decorations, and 40 percent to Christmas gifts.
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