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[Marp]

I just spent a little time adding up what all the cookies and goodies for the family cost this year and was shocked. It was more than what I spent on gifts. The idea of giving everyone their favorite for Christmas is now over -- starting today.

I have taken a reasonable number of the various cookies and bagged them for family members and others that I routinely give cookies and I arranged to take the rest to a local soup kitchen in the morning. There are dozens of different cookies sitting there and it is more than any individual needs. They do not need full recipes of a single type of cookie.

From now on family members are going to get their favorite cookie for birthdays and other "celebratory" occasions, no more doing them all at one time just because it is Christmas. It is just too costly. I could have over-fed a family of four for a week with what the chocolate, nuts, fruit, peanut butter, eggs, butter, etc. cost this year. Can just imagine what it would cost next year with prices expected to escalate to record highs.