Dec 26...

So the holiday spirit is almost over, the bills will be rolling in, you log into your bank account and you notice that you’ve exhausted all your funds, you log into your credit cards account and you’re grimacing at your bills and all the money you just blew.

I know you’re probably reading this and saying to yourself, what is the big deal? Well, January first is right around the corner, so that means the rent is due, the car and insurance payments, the cell phone and the gas bill is due, and don’t forget the electricity. Oh the beauty of the holidays??? To me, the holidays are just extra spending days that someone high power designated to break the pockets of poor people. The poor gets poorer while the rich, well, they get richer.

Unfortunately for me and probably for you too, everyone wants something. The girlfriend, the kids, the parents, they all want to be honored on that day. It’s like a simple phone call or an e-mail better yet an e-card doesn’t do it anymore. See, I am guess I am partially lucky. It’s been a while since I’ve had a girlfriend during the holidays, it seems like we break up right before thanksgiving and hook back up right after Valentines Day. Lol. The thing is most women simply could not stand the "embarrassment" of being humiliated, hearing their female-friends brag about the toys they got for x-mas. Of course, the children would never mentally survive in this day and time. So the poor black man feels that he MUST submit to the myth that you need to buy a gift for the kids.
So last week, I called some of my family members who might be expecting a gift from me, especially my little sisters Erminah and Emma(she’s my god-daughter, she big bro got her something nice for her first x-mas. I asked them all what they were getting me for xmas, couldn’t ask Emma since she’s just now starting to crawl, but they all said they didn’t need to give me a gift because they have no money. So I said ok, would it be alright if didn't give you guys any gifts this year? And they all started to whine” why Blake, why?” so I said because I don’t have any money. Well, I finally convinced Erminah but she did say not to forget her birthday. So, I guess I am off the hook for now. But here me out folks, I think it’s extremely important to talk to our kids and educate them about money. Most kids are skilled and quite educated on consuming, but the science of money is much more complex than the several thousand ways one can spend it.

But if you are one who cares about the gifts and the glitz, by all means, do your thing. I am not saying that you shouldn’t. If you have it, flaunt it, ain’t that what they say these days. Well, even if you’re going to spend all of next year struggling again, because instead of using your assets to empower you, you much rather spent what little money you might have had on I-Phones and X-Box 360s and made their already bad credit worse. So please, don’t worry about my little blog entry, just go crazy with the holiday shopping.

Last I check though, Merry Christmas was still acceptable.