When You're Broke over the Holidays - and what to do to survive

 

We didn’t plan on being broke. It just kind of happened. At the height of the recession, we could barely make ends meet, and Christmas was coming.

The holidays had always been full of planning and traveling, gift exchanges and shopping… until we had no money.

The internet is loaded with ideas about finding contentment in the season, or how to nurture joy in a more simple holiday. But what do you do when you have no money during the biggest gift exchange in the world?

Read the rest of our story on my post for Money Saving Mom.

Have you ever had an experience like this? What did you do?