Gifting
Are you and your family big gift givers? Do you give practical (needed) gifts? Or do you move more towards the extravagant ones? We have generally tried to purchase items that are normally a little more pricey than we would get as a gift, or just as a regular purchase during the year. One year we redid the back bathroom. Another one we pulled out the upstairs linen closet and tapped into the water lines behind it to give me an upstairs laundry closet with a stackable washer and dryer (my favorite!!!) This year, we are looking at garage flooring. It isn’t that this is too expensive, it just requires a lot of work on our part to clean the garage out enough to take care of it. I’m happy just to paint it—but leave it to the “Man” to want the works!
This is the house we will probably die in—so it’s nice to spend a little more money here and there to make it perfect for us!