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What would you do with an extra $1000? Pay off those holiday gift purchases? Maybe take a January getaway to somewhere warm? Or will you put it away for a rainy day?
Submit your response on the Brighter Life facebook page on what makes your holidays brighter. It could be the snow, your friends, family, the holiday spirit; those feel good movies we all love to watch, baking or anything!
Pets Make My Holidays Brighter
Brighter Life offers practical tips and tools to help you lead your best life from money to family and health to career. We too believe in living life to the fullest and were asked by A Brighter Life to help kick start the event by sharing what makes our holidays brighter.
The Holidays are a time to reflect and stop to think about what is important. We have had the opportunity to travel the world over the past few years and have missed many a holiday with our families. We may have been navigating the streets of Mumbai or studying Muay Thai in Thailand over the last couple of holiday seasons, but what we looked forward to most was the online conversations that we had with our parents on Christmas Day.
Nothing can replace family and that has never rang more true to us than it does to us now.
Our Youngest Nephew is Growing Up fast!
We may be living a life of travel but it means nothing without having a family to call home or to have people missing you while your gone. We have longed to have the cash to be able to fly home on a whim during our never-ending voyage while building our dream of becoming full time adventurers. We had this notion that we needed to be constantly on the road to be professional travellers, but we are slowly learning that we may be able to have the best of both worlds in the near future.
This year we are lucky enough to be home for the Holidays.Â
No Holiday Abroad this year!
It has been a transition for us to say the least. We haven’t learned how to balance being home and visiting the ones we love as much we should, but we have enjoyed being able to call our parents on a whim or stop by Dave’s parents for a quick visit on our way home from a meeting in Toronto. We are still stuck in our solitary lifestyle that we have grown accustomed to over these past two years and we have to break that cycle. We forget that friends and family are just around the corner.
Luckily we have clued in before it’s too late. Having missed some parties by some very close mates and failed to hook up with our dearest friends, it is our number one mission to brighten the holidays by visiting family and friends and reconnecting with the ones we love.
Giving Presents makes our holidays brighter
Nothing will make us happier than to exchange our $10 surprise gifts with my brothers and sisters on Boxing Day and enjoying Dave’s mum’s turkey on the 28th of December. Our nephews and niece have grown to young adults and we can’t wait to hear about their plans for the future. I’m looking forward to giving my brothers a hug and having heart to hearts with my sisters. One of my favourite memories is snuggling up on the couch and watching holiday movies all day as the smell of turkey fills the air and that is exactly what we’ll be doing this year.
We think that holidays are the most important time to re-evaluate where your life has taken you. Ours has taken us far far away and it is time to make sure that we never let ourselves drift too far again.
So head over to the Brighter Life Facebook page and enter now for chance let them brighten your holiday. Remember you can enter every day from December 15 to January 5, so share your share your story.
