Speaker 1: I want to take this time to go back back
Speaker 1: to the good old days when my mom was here,
Speaker 1: when my family and I might extended family, were all
Speaker 1: super close. I've had Christmas is where finances have been
Speaker 1: difficult and hard, and we've had Christmas Is where it's
Speaker 1: been great. It feels like a big hug when you
Speaker 1: walk into your house and it smells like pine and
Speaker 1: it smells like Christmas and cookies, and it's just what's up.
Speaker 1: Welcome to another episode of cheek Ease and Chill. As
Speaker 1: you know, I am your host cheek Ease. I hope
Speaker 1: you all are having a beautiful Monday. Let's start this
Speaker 1: week off on the right foot as we inch closer
Speaker 1: to the holidays. I thought it'd be super fun to
Speaker 1: do a festive episode so you can learn a little
Speaker 1: bit more about how I spend them, and towards the
Speaker 1: end of the episode, I'll be sharing some gift giving
Speaker 1: tips for those of you who still don't know what
Speaker 1: to get for your significant other. So pour yourself a
Speaker 1: glass of quito so you can get ready for this
Speaker 1: episode of cheek Ease and Chill. I want to start
Speaker 1: off by saying that I love the holidays for me
Speaker 1: it's just getting together with your family, and it's so
Speaker 1: much more than the gifts, you know, especially for like Christmas.
Speaker 1: And I know it's super busy. It's a crazy time
Speaker 1: with the shopping and hosting and deadlines all that stuff,
Speaker 1: but I think it's beautiful and I think we just
Speaker 1: all need to just slow down and say, Okay, what
Speaker 1: did we accomplish this year? And now we get to
Speaker 1: sit down and appreciate what we accomplished and get ready
Speaker 1: for the new year, you know. So for me, I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to spending time with my nieces and nephews.
Speaker 1: I feel like Christmas is for them, for them to
Speaker 1: open up their gifts. And I love to spoil everybody,
Speaker 1: and I always tell them every year, I'm not buying
Speaker 1: anyone gifts this year because I too busy, But I
Speaker 1: always end up spoiling them all and getting more than
Speaker 1: I should. But I don't care. That's what Athena and
Speaker 1: Anina and a sister is four, I think to spoil,
Speaker 1: So I totally enjoy that and I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see their smiles on their faces. And I'm taking them
Speaker 1: all to the snow this year, so I'm super excited.
Speaker 1: I got us a nice cabin and we're all going
Speaker 1: and I'm just super super I can't wait. I'm super excited,
Speaker 1: you guys. I know I said I'm super excited like
Speaker 1: a million times, but I am. I'm like, I want
Speaker 1: to have a white Christmas. So anyways, I thought that
Speaker 1: it would be nice to kind of just share what
Speaker 1: I like during the holidays, what we eat in my family,
Speaker 1: what we're going to eat out there in the mountains.
Speaker 1: I want to take this time to go back back
Speaker 1: to the good old days when my mom was here,
Speaker 1: when my family and I might extended family were all
Speaker 1: super close, and I was young, I was I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think my best Christmas Is were like anywhere from
Speaker 1: seven to like fourteen, maybe sixteen years old, and we
Speaker 1: would always get together a Grandma's house. I actually have
Speaker 1: a picture and I'm probably gonna share this year on
Speaker 1: social media of all the cousins together at Grandma's house
Speaker 1: in our pj's. The house always smells like that lies
Speaker 1: and Grandma was there with all my tas making the list,
Speaker 1: showing them her little recipe. She never gave them the
Speaker 1: full secret. She would just show them. You know, this
Speaker 1: is I'll never forget one year, we were again at
Speaker 1: Grandma's house and we were waiting. It was because we
Speaker 1: opened our gifts on at midnight, so basically they like
Speaker 1: in the morning, you know Mexicans we do that. We
Speaker 1: were at Grandma's house, like I said, and they put
Speaker 1: boxing gloves on all of us, my cousins and I,
Speaker 1: and we were all they just made us fight each other.
Speaker 1: And I'll never forget because they put me with my
Speaker 1: cousin Karina. My cousin Karina is my theo Gus's daughter
Speaker 1: and who I've always been really close to, and they
Speaker 1: put us together and she kicked my ass. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you, she's two years younger than me. But they
Speaker 1: just made us like, you know, just it was all
Speaker 1: play fighting. But some of us. I didn't get mad,
Speaker 1: but some of my cousins did get upset and they
Speaker 1: started like kind of fighting for real. But then they
Speaker 1: calmed us down and they're like the winner got money.
Speaker 1: So then they would give us like agancias, like piggy
Speaker 1: banks that my grandparents throughout the entire year would fill
Speaker 1: up with coins and quarters and just money that they
Speaker 1: would get from the casino. They loved going to the casino,
Speaker 1: so all year they would do that, and they had
Speaker 1: a piggy bank for all the grandchildren and they I
Speaker 1: would give it to us on Christmas and we would
Speaker 1: break it with the hammer outside and you know, we
Speaker 1: sometimes would come out with like, I don't know, hundreds
Speaker 1: of dollars of just coins. It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: I missed those days, to be honest, I missed those
Speaker 1: types of Christmas is where we all literally got together.
Speaker 1: But it's nice. It's nice to look back and have
Speaker 1: those memories. And hopefully one day I can do that
Speaker 1: with my nieces and nephews with my own children. But
Speaker 1: for us, it was just important to eat, chilling our pajamas,
Speaker 1: watch movies together, and just enjoy, you know, enjoy each
Speaker 1: other's presence. My mom one year, she was always really busy,
Speaker 1: you know, with work or whatnot, and I would always
Speaker 1: do like the Christmas shopping for her. She would give
Speaker 1: me a list and kind of an idea of what
Speaker 1: she wanted to get each of us, and I'd go shopping.
Speaker 1: But there was this one year, I think it was
Speaker 1: like two two and nine where she went shopping by herself.
Speaker 1: She says, I want to do it myself. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go and I said, okay, cool, and she says,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wrap them too, I'm gonna wrap them this year.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, awesome. And I guess what she did.
Speaker 1: She went shopping, which I thought was really cute. She
Speaker 1: got all of us things that you know, reminded her
Speaker 1: of us, which it was really nice and um, but
Speaker 1: she didn't have time to wrap anything. So she put
Speaker 1: all of our gifts in one big gass box and
Speaker 1: she didn't even wrapped the box. She just put it
Speaker 1: under the tree. And she's like, okay, put our names
Speaker 1: on them. So we each had a big box and
Speaker 1: in them were just things that she went to the
Speaker 1: mall and bought for each of us. I'll never forget
Speaker 1: because it was just so sweet because I knew how
Speaker 1: busy she was, especially that year, traveling and everything. Um,
Speaker 1: that was one very very special Christmas. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: have a few of those. Um. Even when before, even
Speaker 1: before Jennie rivera was Jenny River and we were living
Speaker 1: in Compton, you guys, we didn't have money for Christmas.
Speaker 1: And she bought a little tree that sat on top
Speaker 1: of a speaker and she decorated it and that's all
Speaker 1: we could afford and literally I had one gift under
Speaker 1: the tree. But it was just so nice to know
Speaker 1: that she went out of her way and to get
Speaker 1: us that one gift. It was always mom trying to
Speaker 1: make everything so special, not even just on Christmas, but
Speaker 1: also on Valentine's Day. On my mom would even make
Speaker 1: us baskets for Easter. It was just so cute. She
Speaker 1: would go to store and pack it up, but it
Speaker 1: was just like a big, old like basket full of
Speaker 1: stuff for us. So anyways, here I am going down
Speaker 1: memory lane. This is funny. Okay. So I was fourteen
Speaker 1: and it was when like pages were in like beepers.
Speaker 1: Some of you may know, some some of you may not,
Speaker 1: but uh everyone was getting a page and had a
Speaker 1: pagre and if you had it, you were cool. And
Speaker 1: I remember I had been asking my mom for one
Speaker 1: forever and I was fourteen and she gave me my
Speaker 1: first page or you guys. It was blue, like a
Speaker 1: baby blue color, and oh my goodness, I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, you're the best mother ever.
Speaker 1: I want to be a cool kid at school. And
Speaker 1: even though we weren't doing that well financially during that time,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, my mom always figured out a way
Speaker 1: to give us what we really wanted. So I'll never
Speaker 1: forget that time. I was so excited I started crying
Speaker 1: at a joint um. And then I don't want to
Speaker 1: say the worst gifts because it's funny, but one of
Speaker 1: the gifts that I'll never forget that I was kind
Speaker 1: of like what the heck. I was at my dad's
Speaker 1: house and his mom, who was always very different I'll say,
Speaker 1: with us, my my siblings and I. She didn't really
Speaker 1: like my mom too much. She gifted all my other
Speaker 1: cousins on my dad's side these I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I remember there was like they all got toys and
Speaker 1: cool toys, like I just remember them having cool toys.
Speaker 1: And when I went to open my gift, she only
Speaker 1: gave me a pair of socks. And mind you, I
Speaker 1: was young. I was like seven eight years old, and
Speaker 1: I was really hurt. I was just like, what, like,
Speaker 1: I just got some socks. Now, now you give me
Speaker 1: some socks, and I'm super happy because it's just that
Speaker 1: I either have holes or mismatched. My socks always get
Speaker 1: up and like run away, you guys. When I was
Speaker 1: a child, I was like, who wants a pair of socks?
Speaker 1: They were cute socks. They had like little pink, little
Speaker 1: rufflies around them. But I was just like looking around
Speaker 1: all my cousins, I'm like, oh my god, they got
Speaker 1: cool gifts. I just got socks. But now I'm grateful,
Speaker 1: So I think it's kind of funny how things change. No,
Speaker 1: those are just a few of my memories, but those
Speaker 1: are the ones that are the highlights I think now
Speaker 1: for me. Holidays, especially Christmas, I think it's important for
Speaker 1: my siblings and I to be together, whether it be
Speaker 1: at my house or my sister's house. And I think
Speaker 1: it's also important to have a Christmas tree if it
Speaker 1: could be real. I prefer a natural tree because of
Speaker 1: the smell, and it just smells like Christmas when you
Speaker 1: walk in. Um. I have been busy, especially this year
Speaker 1: with the move and everything, and last year was kind
Speaker 1: of crazy, but I always find the time to get
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree, gets someone to decorate the house for me.
Speaker 1: I just love to have the feeling of Christmas, even
Speaker 1: like having the kisses. You know that they have like
Speaker 1: always these holiday kisses that only come out during December,
Speaker 1: the hershey kisses, And I love having those at home.
Speaker 1: There are peppermint ones which are so bomb you guys,
Speaker 1: if you haven't tried them, you need to. They're like
Speaker 1: my favorite. And having just candles that smell like vanilla
Speaker 1: and cinnamon and just all these Christmas candles all that
Speaker 1: is so important to me because it just feels like
Speaker 1: a big hug when you walk into your house and
Speaker 1: it smells like pine and it smells like Christmas and cookies,
Speaker 1: and it's just for me that is important. That's something
Speaker 1: that my mom always had no matter what, no matter
Speaker 1: how busy she was, it whether we had money or not,
Speaker 1: it was like, we have to have a Christmas tree,
Speaker 1: we have to have candies. She was all about, even
Speaker 1: though she didn't eat them. She was like, have candies
Speaker 1: at the house, have candles. I want fresh flowers. Um.
Speaker 1: So those are things that for me are now as
Speaker 1: an adult, are important. You guys know that, Yes, holidays
Speaker 1: are about food. What's well, at least for me, about
Speaker 1: food and drinks. And I have to say that for Christmas,
Speaker 1: I do like maybe breakfast cooking, but I've always left
Speaker 1: that to like my grandma. Um, this year, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to cook because we're going away but for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I love to cook. For Thanksgiving, I love to make
Speaker 1: the turkey. I either fry it or bake it. I'm
Speaker 1: really good at the like mac and cheese and the
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes, all that good stuff I love to cup.
Speaker 1: But for Christmas, I feel like I just want to
Speaker 1: chill and eat everyone else's food. Jackie Yam, I love.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss them this year, you guys, I have
Speaker 1: to learn how to make them lists. I feel like
Speaker 1: they're like easy to make, but you have to have
Speaker 1: like a certain recipe for them to come out nice
Speaker 1: and juicy, you know. So I have to ask my
Speaker 1: grandma for that recipe. But so we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: figure it out. I don't know what I'm gonna make,
Speaker 1: but for sure, some tequila with some hot chocolate. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys have ever tried that, but
Speaker 1: I like to make and then I put a little
Speaker 1: tequila and you just chill and you put some marshmallows
Speaker 1: in it and his bomb. Let me tell you real good. So,
Speaker 1: like you guys, know, those of you that listen to
Speaker 1: my podcast, I shared that I do have a boyfriend now,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy to say that he will be joining
Speaker 1: us to the snow this year. I'm really excited. Um.
Speaker 1: I got him a lot of really cool gifts, which
Speaker 1: we'll talk about, you know. Like I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you some tips later on. But I'm excited for
Speaker 1: him to open them. And I did the Christmas shopping
Speaker 1: myself this year, so I'm super excited about that. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be our first Christmas together. Guys. I'm excited,
Speaker 1: but I'm nervous at the same time because I like
Speaker 1: to look busted during the holidays. You guys, this is
Speaker 1: when I'm off. I don't want to have my extensions in.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have any makeup on. I want
Speaker 1: to be in my pj's. I want to be as
Speaker 1: full on guys I possibly can. So if you can
Speaker 1: get through it with me, then that means he's a keeper.
Speaker 1: So Emilia, you better be listening. Okay, if his friends,
Speaker 1: anyone or listen is listening to this podcast, go tell
Speaker 1: Emilio he better be all right with me looking not
Speaker 1: cute this Christmas because some people I don't know. I've
Speaker 1: seen other families that get all dressed up, and I
Speaker 1: think it's nice with their like nylons and they're two
Speaker 1: dresses and they're two high hills, and I think that's
Speaker 1: really nice. You know, my family has never been like that,
Speaker 1: so I'm not used to that, And I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe that's something that I want to do with like
Speaker 1: my family when I have kids, or it's like, hey,
Speaker 1: everyone dressed up, we're gonna take a Christmas picture. But
Speaker 1: it's always been like bsful the only guys you possibly can.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's something that I gotta change up. In
Speaker 1: a couple of years, we'll see, but for now. Uh.
Speaker 1: And now that we're talking about all this, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what are we really going to do when we're out
Speaker 1: in the mountains. Because usually the times that we've gone
Speaker 1: to like Big Bear or wherever there's snow, we always
Speaker 1: go after Christmas. This is the first time ever that
Speaker 1: we're going to be there during Christmas, so I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I talked to my sister about it. She's like, you
Speaker 1: know what, what if we just take like free holes
Speaker 1: and we take some rice and we cook it out there,
Speaker 1: or we just go to the grocery store when we
Speaker 1: get there, like the local grocery store, and just buy
Speaker 1: everything we want. You know, I don't know. I really
Speaker 1: don't even want to care about the calories. I want
Speaker 1: to eat as many cars as I possibly can, because
Speaker 1: it's just like my last chance to just say okay,
Speaker 1: and then January comes along and then I really have
Speaker 1: to get on a strict diet, you guys. But I
Speaker 1: want to have oreoles, nutter butters. Oh, the oreoles, and
Speaker 1: the milk so delicious when you like just let them
Speaker 1: just soak in the milk and you get the spoon.
Speaker 1: It's just so good. So I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: I want sandwiches with Doritos on the side and a hallepeeno.
Speaker 1: I want to eat all of it, all of it.
Speaker 1: Someone may probably like, the kids love Tody soak on well,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do them and make some beans, and
Speaker 1: media loves when I make them beans with cheese. I
Speaker 1: make some bomb mask beans, you guys, refried beans, Um,
Speaker 1: I gotta make that. And then my sister, she's really
Speaker 1: good at making choco flans. I'm gonna request that. So
Speaker 1: I'm already thinking about it. I'm gonna write all this down.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna listen to the to the podcast on
Speaker 1: my way there to the snow so I remember exactly
Speaker 1: everything I want to eat. So, as I promised, I'm
Speaker 1: going to share some gift giving tips with you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that we're less than one week away
Speaker 1: from Christmas? I cannot believe it. This year went by
Speaker 1: so quick. So if you're still undecided, time is running out.
Speaker 1: And I'm real proud of myself this year because I
Speaker 1: did all of my Christmas shopping already and that never happens.
Speaker 1: So you guys, get on it. So when shopping for
Speaker 1: your significant others, I think it is important to keep
Speaker 1: in mind obviously what they like and they don't like.
Speaker 1: If they're into sports, what are they a foodie? Are
Speaker 1: they tech savvy? Fashion? Because there's some you know men
Speaker 1: in my case, guys and my significant others, a man
Speaker 1: that is not into fashion, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: He's more of like it's really hard to shop for
Speaker 1: close for him, so I don't even go there. I
Speaker 1: know he likes shoes, I know he likes hats, I
Speaker 1: know his hat size. Um, he's not really a sports guy,
Speaker 1: so it's important if he likes sports, all that stuff,
Speaker 1: you have to write all that down for me. I
Speaker 1: need to make a list, priority lists, and then the
Speaker 1: second I always have that like, Okay, this will probably
Speaker 1: I could do this on Amazon dot com. I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I always go I cannot go shopping without a list,
Speaker 1: So it's super important to just think about those things
Speaker 1: the primary things. Another thing that I think is super
Speaker 1: cute for your significant other is a perfumer a cologne,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's something that for me, it's like,
Speaker 1: I want my man to smell good. So if I
Speaker 1: like the cologne, he better like it because well I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be smelling it, right. So I like to also
Speaker 1: do baskets with their favorite foods, with a cute little cologne,
Speaker 1: some gift cards or favorite stores I don't know, Home
Speaker 1: Depot or best Buy, I don't know, and putting a
Speaker 1: little basket together I think is something easier for me,
Speaker 1: I think, than to do individual gifts. But I mean
Speaker 1: it was pretty easy to shop for. To be honest,
Speaker 1: for the men that are listening, I have some tips
Speaker 1: for you, as a woman and as a woman that
Speaker 1: loves to be surprised. I think it's important for you
Speaker 1: not to overthink it when you are buying a gift
Speaker 1: for your girl. Don't go over there buying her pots
Speaker 1: and pants if she doesn't ask for them, okay, because
Speaker 1: she doesn't feel like, oh, you're buying them for me
Speaker 1: so I can cook for you. It's kind of like, no,
Speaker 1: make sure, I don't know, like even as easy as
Speaker 1: getting her a gift certificate for a manicure and pettic here,
Speaker 1: we all need a petticure, a massage. I don't know
Speaker 1: whoever she gets her hair done with, get her a
Speaker 1: certificate like here, I'll buy you know you, I don't know,
Speaker 1: one time to go get your hair down or three
Speaker 1: months or whatever. Things like that go such a long way,
Speaker 1: and I think it's important that you know, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what's gonna make her happy? Think about her. For me,
Speaker 1: it's I'm so like easy to please in that area
Speaker 1: where I'm like, okay, just buy me things that I need,
Speaker 1: like my socks, like candles, like white bees. Even baby wipes,
Speaker 1: you guys, are so important because I use them every
Speaker 1: single day. So it's like if someone were to give
Speaker 1: me a box of baby wipes, I'd be so happy
Speaker 1: because those are expensive. So men, when you're shopping for
Speaker 1: your girl, just think about what will make her happy.
Speaker 1: We will make her smile. Think about like I don't know,
Speaker 1: even like her favorite place to go eat. I think
Speaker 1: those types of things go a long way for us women. Yes,
Speaker 1: persones are nice. Yes, diamonds are nice. I'm not saying no.
Speaker 1: But even if you can't necessarily afford that this year,
Speaker 1: it's just the littlest things that make a smile, even like, oh,
Speaker 1: he he remembered my favorite type of chips, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like to me, it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's so cute. He knows I like hot cheetos. He
Speaker 1: bought some hot cheetos. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: like go all lavish to make her happy, at least
Speaker 1: not a lot of the women that I know. I think.
Speaker 1: It's just it's the thought that counts, and for you
Speaker 1: to go out there and get it yourself for her,
Speaker 1: you know. With that being said, Even a gas card.
Speaker 1: You guys, we all need gas every single day of
Speaker 1: our life. It's that simple. I just think those little
Speaker 1: things I'm telling you go a long way. So gifts
Speaker 1: for him, ladies that are listening again, if he's into sports,
Speaker 1: it's important that you get him a jersey, a cup.
Speaker 1: There's all kinds of stuff that I've seen sports stuff.
Speaker 1: If he's not into sports, is he techi? Does he
Speaker 1: like um, I don't know, get him a new pair
Speaker 1: of air pods if you can. If not, another thing
Speaker 1: they like home deepot, if they like, oh these guy stores,
Speaker 1: even if they're like games I love. Honestly, I really
Speaker 1: like gift cards, and I know a lot of men do,
Speaker 1: like my brothers. When I give them stuf, they're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah, just give me some cash. And
Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like cash is a little like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like unthoughtful, I guess. But gift cards, I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of like, oh, they know what I
Speaker 1: what I'm into, you know. So I think it's important
Speaker 1: to know your man. And again, a lot of them
Speaker 1: need underwear, new briefs. Give them some briefs. They need them,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna, you know, see them, so you might
Speaker 1: as well get something you like. My brothers always appreciate
Speaker 1: socks again Cologn's, but it is important to know your
Speaker 1: significant other and not just get something that you think
Speaker 1: they're like. It's really pay attention to what they really love.
Speaker 1: And that goes I'm telling you a long way now
Speaker 1: talking about people that quote unquote may have everything. I've
Speaker 1: gotten that quite a bit. And I used to think
Speaker 1: that about my mom or I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you can buy herself anything. What can I possibly get her?
Speaker 1: But I think sometimes we're thinking of something super expensive
Speaker 1: because you feel that people that have money want branding things,
Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily true. Um My mom was that
Speaker 1: type of woman that was just like she was happy
Speaker 1: with the smallest things, with a devotional for instance, a book.
Speaker 1: She loved that. She loved candles. She wasn't into flowers
Speaker 1: really too much, like when you gifted her flowers. She's
Speaker 1: just like buying flowers for her home. But like when
Speaker 1: you gave her flowers, she was kind of like, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's just it's not even about branding things. It's
Speaker 1: more of the little things that count. Like I would
Speaker 1: always give her a get certificate to go get a massage,
Speaker 1: you know, and she loved that because anyone that's busy, anyone,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter if you're busy or not busy
Speaker 1: or whatever. Everyone and anyone appreciates a nice massage, a
Speaker 1: day at the spall think about things like that, dinners,
Speaker 1: a concert ticket, um music. Everyone likes music, you know,
Speaker 1: what I mean, like think of like outside the box.
Speaker 1: It doesn't necessarily have to be expensive to make someone smile. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're on a budget, which I completely understand, especially
Speaker 1: after the tough year years, should I say that we've
Speaker 1: had um I think the pandemic came and really put
Speaker 1: a lot of things into perspective and made a lot
Speaker 1: of things difficult. So if you're on a budget, we
Speaker 1: all know this, but we really need to believe it
Speaker 1: that Christmas and the holidays are to spend time with
Speaker 1: your loved ones, to show your love, not with just
Speaker 1: giving gifts, but just giving someone your time, your quality time,
Speaker 1: even a card expressing your feelings and your thoughts about
Speaker 1: that person, about how grateful you are for them. That
Speaker 1: is something someone can keep forever and it's priceless. My
Speaker 1: sister one year, I was having difficulties um financially, and
Speaker 1: she went to Michael and got some sped out some
Speaker 1: ornaments and she filled them up with cute little I
Speaker 1: think it was like comfetti and stuff, and she made
Speaker 1: each of us a special ornament. Yes, it was already
Speaker 1: Christmas and everything, but we had it for next year
Speaker 1: and I thought it was super cute. She says, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry you guys. I don't have a lot of money
Speaker 1: this year, but I thought it was so thoughtful to
Speaker 1: make something handmade and it was so beautiful and it
Speaker 1: meant so much to me because it was a picture
Speaker 1: of me and my mom and Mikey with his dogs,
Speaker 1: so it was just and Or and Luna, so it
Speaker 1: was just really nice. I think that sometimes when you
Speaker 1: make something handmade, it's something that can last forever and
Speaker 1: will it's a memory for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: So even cooking something, baking something for someone that's beautiful, Okay, cookies,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I said earlier, like gift baskets their
Speaker 1: favorite foods. You know, you can literally spend twenty bucks
Speaker 1: on on a basket and just put their favorite foods,
Speaker 1: and that that something that people will appreciate. I mean
Speaker 1: people that really know the meaning be hind what holidays
Speaker 1: are about. And if they don't appreciate it, then they
Speaker 1: should not be in your life. Okay, um, I hope
Speaker 1: that these tips helped you, guys. I don't consider myself
Speaker 1: a professional, but I will tell you that I've had
Speaker 1: Christmas is where finances have been difficult and hard, and
Speaker 1: we've had Christmas is where it's been great. But the
Speaker 1: most important thing at the end of the day is
Speaker 1: spending quality time with those that you love and creating memories,
Speaker 1: because that's what stays forever. Well. I hope that you
Speaker 1: guys enjoyed the tips and that you guys have a
Speaker 1: wonderful holiday. I had a blast with this episode. I
Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed and learn something new about me,
Speaker 1: and I hope that this helps steer you in the
Speaker 1: right gift giving direction. By the way, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear about how you love spending your holiday, so you
Speaker 1: can tweet me your traditions or just an update. I'd
Speaker 1: love to know. Even tweet me a picture of your tree.
Speaker 1: I'd love to see that too. My Twitter is Cheeky
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