Treasure Jar

What did you get for Christmas? Have you finally mastered the art of gifting after all these years?

New clothes? Toys for your children? A new bag? Tech toys? Kitchen gadgets?  Dinner ware? Personalized pub mugs? Baked goodies? New shoes?

Or perhaps a new lease in life like what some of our brothers and sisters down south got.

I don’t know if it is considered as new lease in life if they survived but their family members did not. Yes, knowing as I am quite obsessed with knowing details when things like these happened, I read articles, watched videos, discussed when someone’s willing to listen and thought about them. I prayed for them too.

So now I ask again, “What did you get for Christmas?”

The answer depends on what values you treasure most: family, love, friendship, peace of mind, and being a channel to be able to help others are just a few things that may give satisfaction not just for Christmas but for the rest of the year.

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There have been a lot of gifts given and received that are great and practical like things that can be used for daily activities (like food containers and kitchen gadgets, wholesale insurance, gift certificates) such as there are those that are not practical.

I would not want to enumerate what the not-practical gifts are but you probably know what these are.

There is really no need to give lavish gifts like some people do. This year like last year, we gave small baskets of goodies with fruits and home-baked muffins. We even gave away candies to the children who come a-knocking on the gates for some Christmas tokens.

Gifts for the kids were wishes came true: they were asked what they needed and these were given to them. Yes, they knew what they were getting for Christmas 🙂 Corny but then again, at least they like what they get, right?

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