Christmas On The Cheap

I have had to budget this Christmas. Usually, I just race out on Christmas Eve, grab various things from various shops in this mad-like rush reminiscent of that game show on TV called Supermarket Sweep (is it only Australia that gets crap shows like that?). Rarely do I care too much about price tags or whether its worth the money or not. If I found it in time, and its something that they kinda wanted, it was good enough for me. This year, however, I had to carefully budget using a series of lists, economic diagrams, and compiled qualitative data in order to remain within my "allocated Christmas spending money". When you're trying to do Christmas "on the cheap", you begin to see that Christmas isnt just all tinsel and fruitcake.