Given the lack of funds is a subjective issue – one does not have enough of the season’s latest collection of boots, but another has to walk at all barefoot. The following are three different situations that each can apply to their own state of failure. Every nabaguma level includes four Christmas pre-forces – Christmas tree, decorations, holiday dishes and gifts – with suggestions on how to celebrate the solstice sweetly and nicely while sitting in your financial hole.
Level 3
It could be better. It is possible that you were at work this year and did not receive the expected end-of-year bonus (any of their famous thirteenth salaries), or that you celebrated November 18 so patriotically that there are no free funds in the account for juicy roasts or gifts to relatives. Tenerife will also be left out this year. Nothing crazy.
Probably, this is a good reason to feel the belt tighter and thus push your loved ones closer.
Christmas tree: Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how precious you are! But not so expensive that a person from level 3 of this article could not buy you.
Decorations: Although you and your neighbor have an annual competition to decorate your yard more luxuriously, this time you may have to make humble concessions and not have to buy new, even more powerful chains of light. It is possible that last year’s shining deer and polar bears can be put together in unprecedented and witty compositions. The savings can be redirected to the purchase of a spruce.
Festive dishes: You may have a feeling this year that “if the tables aren’t breaking out of abundance, it’s better not to celebrate at all,” but it needs to be overcome, and maybe that’s a reason to do something different. What about a Scandinavian Christmas? The Nordic countries are always committed to stability and prosperity. So you have to get in the car and drive to the unofficial Swedish embassy on the outskirts of Dreilini. There, under the big pylon with four yellow letters, next to the shopping maze, you can have a delicious, Scandinavian dinner and feel like you’re on a holiday trip.
Gifts: If you are already bustling through the whole of Riga to Dreiliņi, then here for a little money in the yellow shopping bag you can read all kinds of valuable trivia for the nearest family of relatives.
Level 2
This year it’s close. Inflation is slowly but diligently scraping your capital, and electricity prices are firing as fast in space as Ilona Mask’s missiles. You may have left a little for small but heartfelt gifts, but this amount has already been spent on the purchase of an additional electric heater in the winter of early December. stiff. To make ends meet, you don’t even have to wait for an invitation from the store’s self-service machines, but you start emptying your loyalty card savings yourself. Nothing will get better next year or next year.
Christmas tree: With an ax on the trail after your stick. Both you will help the “Distribution Networks” to clean the tracks under the big electrical networks and you will take a walk in the fresh air. Then both as few bulbs as possible and, if any, only LEDs are energy efficient.
Decorations: Why buy that plastic waste from the Christmas industry again when you can celebrate the holidays more cleanly. For example, cut snowflakes together. To make them look stylish contemporary, the paper for the work can be quickly washed away with watercolors of different shades. After the holiday, you can save some flakes in the family album as a nice and unusual memory.
Festive dishes: Three basic pillars of modern Latvian cuisine: round gingerbread, mandarins and gray peas. These brown biscuit rolls have been a stable value for years, which is quite economical, but in terms of taste it does not lag behind the gingerbread with almonds, saffron and fig-mist the most exotic ingredients.
Mandarins – these are orange sunflowers in the winter sun, which around this time costs almost the same price as potatoes.
After the crispy gingerbread, snack on the juicy mandarin and do not need to drink at all. Gray peas, in turn, gave way to folk traditions and magic (you, the poor reader, have to eat a lot of coin-like peas, then there will be a lot of money), as well as can cook a full pot cheaply. If the bacon seems too expensive and fatty, then you can simply smear the peas with sour cream or even ketchup. We also eat gray peas only once a year.
Gifts: Kids, this year we’re giving you socks and pens! You have already been given an electric heater.
Level 1
It has happened. You are as naked and poor this year as the newborn baby Jesus was wrapped in blessed diapers. In the best case, you will be able to collect money for monthly bills. If not, then hopefully the Internet will turn off last.
But even though the wallet is empty, the heart is full of festive joy. Therefore, there is no need to hang out – it is possible to celebrate the holiday without money at all. You just have to do it wisely and with a free mind.
Christmas tree: Spruce costs money, but you have no money. However, in recent years, the representatives of the neighborhoods have started to decorate the constantly growing yard spruce trees beautifully. Maybe you can go to such a place and, in parallel with the beauty of decorations, feel the warmth of heart for the selfless work of the local people for the common pleasure?
Decorations: If you have come out to the central Christmas tree of the neighborhood, then do not rush back to your cold apartment. Pull up the snowballs and fold them into a small pyramid with an empty middle. Put a candle inside (fluffy is the cheapest) and ignite it. You will have a simple but aesthetically pleasing holiday illumination.
Festive dishes: It is safe to eat what you usually eat on holidays, because if you think about it, there are people in the world who have nothing to eat at all. That is why everyday food is valuable and auspicious, and if it is a holiday, it is automatically a holiday food.
Gifts: If it were possible, you would give your loved ones the most precious things in the world, but this time you don’t have a penny. You have to look for another solution that costs nothing but gives a lot of pleasure. Give yourself your work! Do it – find a small box with a lid. Then cut small leaves and attach a string tail to each. On each strip, write a gift service that you will perform, such as a massage. Head massage, foot massage, shoulder massage … Put the cards in a box and on top of the lid so that the tails stay out. Then change into a executioner and go to friends who do not know that they will draw their best massage of their lives tonight. And who has dared to visit at Christmas in recent years, so be sure to consider yourself a gift!
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