• PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Biggest retail month is December. You want to piss off the corporations? Cancel the presents part of Christmas. Tell your kids its because of Trump. You’re gonna raise them right, you’re gonna hurt the corporations, your pockets will be heavier, you will feel bliss because you’ve let go of the materialistic mindset. Not gonna happen but its sweet to dream.

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      5 days ago

      No no, we did it. But only kinda. We do one big gift and that’s it. Last year it was recycled laptops for the kids. Cost me $125 and it’s been their best Christmas.

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        5 days ago

        This is a great idea. But only used stuff from the community with cash.

        That helps the community and your kids will get an awesome Christmas.

        My wife is a hard one to budge, but I’m gonna talk to her about it.

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          4 days ago

          I have a stack of laptops with 1165g7 processors in them. The Intel XE graphics they have onboard and 65watt package makes them easy replacements for their switches.

          The 125 was new mice, skins, and a screen replacement.

          And I slowly was grooming them into playing on steam when ever we could, little did they know they were building their steam libraries while farting around for Christmas :)