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Show - THE HERALD, Frovo, Utah, Sunday, December Christmas Presents Page 48 11, 1983 Holiday Spending Habits Can Cause Guilt You stand at a jewelry counter, shifting weight from foot to foot and sweating a little as you finger two look-alik- e "gold" chains. One is costume jewelry, a mere $19.95; the other, genuine gold, $150 and light years away from what you can afford. As on holidays past, you choose the costlier gift for a dear friend or relative. Is giving beyond one's means a sickness, a character flaw, or "Buying expensive gifts tion budget committee and chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Arizona Medical School in Tue-so- and out, from head to toe by a gift, Levenson said. "But what a lot of people remember about childhood is not accurate," he said. or going throughout the year not being around to help when a friend or relative needed you. what? The question was put to Dr; Alan Levenson, head of the American Psychiatric Associa- By PATRICIA McCORMACK UPI Health Editor seems to some a way to raake People tend to look at "Christmases past" through up for the neglect and (to) ward off the guilt, feeling if it is not an expensive gift it is not n. "We tend to generally overdo many things at holiday time "Buying more expensive gifts in such a case is part of the romanticizing that goes on at holiday time," Levenson Buying beyond your means also has something of a sense of expectation about it, the psychiatrist said. Such givers may be trying to in others the feelings they remember having as a child touched joyfully, inside and overbuying is one," Levenson said. "The association with guilt is a part of it. Some feel guilty about not staving in contact, not keeping a relationship glasses. d rose-colore- right." said. Others buy beyond their means to make a splashy im- e pression. Choosing an expensive gift becomes the easy thing to do as the buyer gives in to financial, psychological and emotional holiday pressures, Levenson said. "For most people, the key to the holidays i3 too much," he said, when asked how shoppers can break the cycle of overspending. "Know that you can't do it all and that it will help to set priorities. "Don't just add names to the Christmas card list, for example. Drop some while you are at it. "Know there are parties you can't go to because you can't do it all. Know, too, you can't give all the parties you want to." What's the best way to navigate through the holidays? "Plan early," Levenson said. "Organize it in advance. That is the only way to make it feelings, one way or the other. People who feel painfully un- ahead of Christmas. "If we can tell people ... it is okay not to do everything, we will help them take some of the pressure off themselves." Another source of stress comes from practicing gift' manship trying to outdo one another with expensive gifts, gifts beyond one's means, Levenson said. Receiving a very expensive gift embarasses some recipients, he said. In general, he said, some people are more comfortable giving and others, receiving. Most are in the middle, he said. They don't have extreme comfortable about receiving gifts of any kind may, deep down, question their own wor- have low thiness Levenson said. "Like most things we do, however, there are no universal rules about giving and giving gifts, no behavior patterns that reflect deeply on us as individuals." It is preferable to stick with amounts, Levenson said, but it is not a great character disorder to go beas many people yond them self-estee- do. Make this one the piano Christmas UP TO easier. "It is hard to think about it now but the time to get it in hand is six to eight weeks J$l 'ma s ,v V!rv . ... ! 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