In the ohmigod-it’s-less-than-two-weeks-til-Christmas spirit, a link and a thought.
Should you go into more debt to fulfill the present duty? Or just stress out and stay up late making awful homemade presents that everyone will feel obliged to keep forever, despite their suckiness? **
Here’s someone pondering the presents=debt problem. Here’s something that 4932 people want to do and 309 have already done.
* Originally by Toronto, covered by The New Pornographers. Used as a title, because, well, it’s playing right now.
** As a poor art student, on the day before Christmas break 2003 started, I stayed up all night painstakingly making 
Basquiat inspired paintings for each of my family members. They were terrible. But it’s the thought that counts, right?
