Each year Erica and I alternate Christmas decorations. My year is a blue, white and silver Christmas that’s quickly becoming reminiscent of the early 2000’s. Erica’s year is devoted to her favorite movie series, Star Wars.

Star Wars ornaments, Star Wars stockings, Star Wars wreaths, Star Wars wrapping paper. It’s like a Merry Death Star in our home.

This isn’t unusual. We’ve been doing this for years and I think we’re on our 4th Star Wars Christmas in the 11 years we’ve been married.

We are doing something unusual this year for Christmas.

This year we are budgeting for Christmas with Cash.

Not actual cash mind you. We did that once back in 2011 and hated it. This year we’ll put 99% percent of our purchases on reward earning credit cards. We’ll still shop online for the majority of our purchases as well.

The Cash is there in our checking account, specifically budgeted to pay for Christmas presents.