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The year-end holidays can be a frenzied and exhausting period, and it can be expensive, says the writer.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANUEL FRANCISCO
Jill Lim
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- Christmas can be a frenzied, expensive, and exhausting period, pressured by social media and commercial ads to buy, feast and party luxuriously.
- IMH suggests creating a realistic budget, limiting social events, and focusing on small pleasures to lower stress and enjoy the holidays more.
- Dickens' A Christmas Carol offers a message: rediscover joy, make amends, and celebrate Christmas thoughtfully, sincerely and inexpensively.
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SINGAPORE – “Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...”
So ranted the famous literary character who said, in response to his nephew’s cheerful Christmas greeting (“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”): “Bah! Humbug!”
