Holiday Spending Quotes

In January we start saving money, getting out of credit card debt, funding our retirement accounts, and we're doing wonderful. Then, every single year like clockwork, starting in November, all of you fall into this trap that says, 'I have to buy this gift... I can't show up at this party and not have something for everybody.'

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

The Jews spend at Easter.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.

Christmas is the biggest holiday in numbers - in terms of gross amounts - because you have one and a half to two months.

I am not crazy about bags or watches. For me, anywhere I go for a holiday or for work, the first thing that I go and buy are shoes.

We never splurge on Diwali. How much can you spend on yourself? As it is, we do that throughout the year, so why not do something for others during Diwali?

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

But I do believe in living life to the full and so I have no problems spending money on travel and holidays.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.

Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.