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What’s on the Menu for Easter Dinner?

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We usually have larger dinners for major holidays, sometimes a ham or sometimes a turkey. But we thought about it, and we decided to do something a little different for Easter this year.

We purchased what we needed to make awesome subs!

We are going to bring our cooler out of storage, pack it up with all of our items and hike out to a remote spot along the lake to dine. I am so excited and I hope the weather is beautiful tomorrow. There’s something about simplifying things that I find romantic. Who needs a big spread at the dinner table when you can have an awesome view and an opportunity for the family to bond. 🙂

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Gift Certificate-paresis? What’s that?

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What exactly is “gift certificate-paresis”?

Maybe there is an actual word for this condition, but for now, I will use “gift certificate-paresis”. “Paresis” is the medical suffix for “slight paralysis” which I found at Study Shack.

It occurs when you receive a gift certificate as a gift. You are excited to get the gift and are grateful, but when it comes time to spend it…you freeze. You don’t know what to buy!!

Here you have in your hand essentially free money, and you don’t know what to get. I once spent 1/2 hour in Walmart trying to find something to buy with at $10.00 gift certificate. But, if I go in there normally, I can easily spend $50.00 on essentials.

Why does that happen? Are some of us so uncomfortable with spending “free money” that we just do not know what to spend it on? Maybe for some of us the thought of spending the money on whatever you want just is too much to comprehend.

Sometimes, the human mind is very interesting 🙂

Article included in the Nineteenth Festival of Frugality over at Punny Money.
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