What Christmas feels like these days for Boomers....

[SheilaT]

7. Two grown sons also,

ages 24 and 29, likewise not married and no grandchildren. I'm now divorced and live 800 miles away from my previous home, no relatives nearby. But I do have good friends here, and just spent a lovely Christmas Eve with two of them. We had lunch together, then saw the Muppets movie, went to Christmas Eve services at a church where one of them played bells, to their home for a light dinner, then another friend stopped by and we played three rounds of Cribbage.

My health is excellent, my parents are long since gone so I don't have that responsibility.

I also don't have TV, and although I watch as much as I want on the internet, I'm not exposed to as much advertizing, which makes a huge difference. I live rather frugally, and sometimes when I walk through a store or a mall, I'm honestly astonished at what is out there to buy. I love to crochet and embroider, and often give crocheted or embroidered gifts to people. Most of us, myself included, do not need half of the material goods that we have.