[MonkeyMama]

Same as always - which isn't much.

None of our family or friends are particularly into *material* Christmases. Except for Grandma, which is why we don't really buy the kids anything. Between "spoiling rotten" Grandma, and whatever free stuff my spouse scores during the year, we don't really spend much on them. & they get 10 times the presents I ever did as a kid. Which I am not particularly thrilled with, since I don't much care for the materialism of the whole thing.

Anyway, we don't plan to spend much of anything. But that's quite usual, for us.

We always host Thanksgiving at our house - potluck. Doesn't strike me as an expensive thing either. Can usually score a free turkey, and our family is so big that everyone brings a dish, and we eat quite well! No plans for anything different there.

We generally don't really go to any holiday parties (kind of goes along with just keeping it low key. It's that time of year everyone goes crazy, and we try to keep it simple as possible). I did notice last year there were less party invites. I am sure this year will be more of the same.