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Show ar i 05 1 ToenExaminer i!i i p I V ft OnTho Not I The news page written by and for tl."W!"'!!l. Wf WeberDavis teens Lakeside Review py; i'MDHk TTSZ3 4 e t M t phonei fW14 7754951 Thursday. December 1 8, 1 907 Giving without going broke v By NICOLE BYBCE Holiday 1K to be Jolly, but is also the season giving. And for teenagers, giv ing become more and more difficult - not because teenager are selfish, but because we live en such a tight teenager budget We work bard at making a living Hipping burgers for minimum wage or telemarketing for a couple dollars more titan minimum wage (just to name a few of the many tedious teenager Jobs). A teenager's income on average barely exceeds $300 a month. Subtract gas money (which seems to keep rising), the car payment, the Insurance payment, the lunch money, and w hat is left? Not a whole lot. So what can we do to participate in this generous holiday when our pockets seem to be a never-endin-g black hole? . Christmas can be easier on teenagers' budgets when good planning strategies are used. These strategies are not only a way to get Christmas giving taken care of, but also a way to show your personality. ' first Tm album offers gift3 for ears By LAURAICC STEPHENS IX csofep0ttwft there is any CD you must If this holiday season, Collin Rayc's The Gift" has to be it It starts out on a slower note, with "The Christmas Song" and "I'll Be I lome For Christmas," which has a definite '50s or '60s influence, quite unlike the usual Collin Raye style. The next song, titled "It Could Happen Again," is a very touching song about a Christmas in 1914 when World War I was stopped in an unofficial cease-fir- e to celebrate . ' . Christmas. This song also includes a vocal by Johnny Cash. nnH the 4.mjo Family This song is unbelievable and moves back into the usual Collin Raye style. It's a nice change from all the usual Christmas songs that you find on all die other holiday albums. . The next song is The First Noel, followed by Away In A Manager, in which Raye sings a duct with his daughter, Britanny. I think that this is a nice touch, and it makes the song a lot more touching to have a child singing Budget: All your savings. ' Many teenagers solve the problem of a low income by arranging their priorities. They take their allotted money and buy for their family: Mom, Dad, grandmas, grandpas, brothers, sisters, and who ever else is among the elite. If the money can stretch far enough, then they worry about friends. The closest fi iends usually come first, and then those that gave presents See BUDGET10 o part of it. "While Christmas is followed by Winter Wonderland, which is absolutely perfect. The Beach Boys sing backup on this song. ' The next song is Angels We Have Heard On High which is followed by "Little Drummer Boy," a touching and very cute song, which is followed by "Silent Night in which Raye sings another duet with his daughter, , , Britanny. ' The album ends with the quite unnecessary instrumental version of The First Noel and O Holy Night in my opinion, this is the worst thing oft the album because it is boring and . pointless. You sit there for five minutes thinking, I swear that I just heard this, but it had words, didnt it? i ; I think that this is a fantastic album. It is a wonderful combination of traditional Christmas carols that we have sung since we were children and new songs, melodies and harmonies. 1 'Treshly fallen H snow. JL Dazzling light displays. Your empty x wallet. And those same familiar songs played on the radio over and over again for a month. Yes, its Christmastime. Christmas - an awesome holiday j filled with giving and love and ail that good stuff. Chestnuts roastin on an open fire, and Frosty the Snowman g down thumpety the streets of town. But for some teenagers, its more like the are burned and Frosty is . chestnuts thumpety-thumpin- g on their brain. Stress during the yuletide. Its j actually pretty common. Stress comes from many sources during the holiday. Traffic, hectic , shopping malls, providing gifts for " If you enjoy this CD you might want to try Jim Bnckmans album, also titled The Gift, which features Collin Raye singing the title song The Gift, or , check out Collin Rayes Greatest Hits album, which was also recently released. . . , thump-thumpin- Lauralee Stephens is a freshman at Weber State University and plans to study journalism. She graduated from Northridge High School last spring. budget ' dough, and handsome ransom!, Its something that a lot of teens plain awful. And now we have the just dont have. But fear not, good t teens, I have hunted down some ,special addition of the winter-" . weather to worry about. great cheap ideas. ' This causes many wrecks and First is the rock paper weight. A, . great conversational piece. problems often leading to traffic ' Or when youre done reading this jams.' In fact, maybe youre reading this article in a traffic jam. If you section, fold the paper into a nifty sailor hat. t are, honk your horn twice. On a more personal note, I , . No, really. I mean it. I could be , in the car in front of you. would suggest meaningful poems. I have written an example: Roses are I spoke with several students at ' Northridge High School about what red, grass is green, J didnt have ' ' cash to makes their holiday season hectic. ; buy you anything. ' Or perhaps a clever limerick . The ones who didnt shove me in a tickles your fancy. There once was garbage can gave me some good . 'v a kid with no money. No moolah,, points on the Christmas stress no dough for his honey. So he factor. ; Matt Gaskil, a junior, said: The bought her some gum, and he felt holidays are hectic for me because ' really dumb, but this woman just Im too lazy to get a job. So I have , thought it was funny. i See? That was easy, and free. ,no money to buy gifts for friends and family. Thus, I feel like a Unless you count the paper you . wrote it on. And the gas money it chump. ' took to buy the paper, and the , Strangely, mostpeople I talked to shared this same opinion. Not ; burger you picked up on the way there. And then it comes to about ' the part about the chump, the part $8.50. about not having money. Money,' Another cheap gift idea I cash, moolah, pesos, bucks, loot, , - - Lets face it, traffic in Utah TX correspondent , oil a friends. By BLAIR HODGES - ' um teens o o . . Meet the mystery moderator in 8 p.m. each StandardNET at on Wednesday www.standard.net. Whether the moderator shows up or not, its your open hour to chat with your friends and fellow TX. readers. The Bottom ypo 48.5 percent of all traffic citations are given to drivers ages 16 to 25. 'COPY By SCOTT STEPHENS TX correspondent the thought of through dull, pointless and painfully boring movie sends chills down your spine, then hold off for a ' week and go see a movie worth seeing: As Good As It Gets. If Opening Dec. 25, it will entertain you, make you laugh and keep you totally glued to the movie screen. The movie stars an and very offensive ' romance writer (played by Jack Nicholson), a waitress (played by Helen Hunt) who is dragged into Nicholsons obsessive-compulsiv- e It ; ' Gets weird tod wacky life, tod a gay , neighbor (played by Greg Kinnear), who is to artist - what a coincidence. ' Nicholsons character is afraid of cracks on the sidewalk, drinks nothing but bottled water, has a thing against homosexuals and has one heck of a CD collection. He is in love with a proud waitress who has a sick son, lives with a caring mother and has a' very low income. ; , Then there is the neighbor, a shy painter who loves his dog as much as he loves to paint and has a complete disliking for Nicholson. These three very different characters are drawn together by what you could almost call fate. Hunt and Kinnears ' characters, who both hate Nicholsons character, are dragged on an emotional and almost touching road tnp by the wealthy writer after the artist is beaten , last year, and mails them to relatives. But really folks, who " . , wants a fruitcake? I also stumbled on some ideas . for teens with a little money - the -Chick-fil-A calender. Its funny, and it has coupons worth $30 of free r food. Yep, I said free food. Nuggets, fries, lemonade, ice cream and more. OK. Stop drooling on my article and go get some. Theyre only five bucks. Some teens also give key chains. Theyre cheap, and they cost from 25 cents to ten bucks. . . Here are some gifts to avoid giving: socks, lint, singing telegrams, Tickle Me Elmos and , Nano Babies. Im sorry, but theyre annoying! Sure, its cute and fun at first, but after a few minutes it gets on your nerves. You feed it, it beeps at you. You bathe it, it beeps at you. You leave it alone, it, . beeps at you. You smash it with a . See STRESS10 joke after gay joke. , , With an cast, As Good As It Gets has something recently released movies dont a plot. Yes, thats it, a good, plot. No computer animation or tiring special effects, and this film actually tries to show you something other than 100 percent-realisti- c explosions. I liked it a lot. No, it doesnt really draw the hpge teen crowd, but this is one film where you wont have to dodge little kids running up and down the stairs. It is worth seeing, even though it doesn have pretty-bo- y Leonardo DiCaprio in - . , all-st- ar ;C it " 1 , . ( , ! i - its better than most , As Good As junior Marcia DeVol is this: She just recycles old fruitcakes she got , TX. CHAT TX.s online chat session, received from Northridge High ; is just it. by robbers. Pasts are diagged out, stories are told tod friendships are made, while Nicholson spits out gay t Scott Stephens, a sophomore at Northridge High School, enjoys playing basketball, mountain biking and perfecting the alrcady-perfebody. (His words J ct |