scaegles, I'm the same way. When I was young I always said "I don't want to be a yuppie, just able to afford the option."
We do well enough, and I am such a firm believer in undelayed gratification, that if I really want something then I already have it. Your only hope is to buy me something I didn't realize I wanted, and since I am pretty self aware that is difficult.
Also, I am not tempted by wrapped presents. Put a present under a tree with my name on it and I can ignore it until the following Christmas. One thing I can do that causes Lani much angst is leave a Chinese restaurant without opening my fortune cookie. Eventually she'll ask if she can open it for me and I'll say "sure, but then it's your fortune" which means she won't want to open it, but we can't leave until the fortune is revealed. It used to drive my sisters nuts that I wouldn't shake presents under the tree.
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Originally Posted by MousyGirl
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
The year my parents and I got food poisoning...Lorene didn't get it because she had something else for dinner that night. All I can remember was seeing the snake around my neck and then what seemed like endless barfing. This has carried on into a phobia of snakes.
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Something seems to be missing form this anecdote.