“Ah cyah wait for Christmas. Oh gosh! Soca parang, sorrel,
ginger beer, pastel, black cake”. Christmas is my season.
It’s a known fact that we trinis love to celebrate and one
of our most favourite seasons is Christmas so a lot of us spare no expense in
decorating and stocking up on drinks and food supplies not to mention spreading
some Christmas cheer with presents.
The Christmas expenses though, have a way of adding up and
creating what we call “guava season” come January month. For those who don’t know,
guava season is our way of describing the difficult economic times that we find
ourselves in as a result of our frivolous expenditure. December’s salary is
usually paid before the 25th of the month and the majority of
trinis, captivated by the spirit of the season, spend it on Christmas expenses
and find difficulty meeting their financial obligations in January.
Getting around this guava season can be a simple matter of
spreading out the expenses. Rather than using the November and early December
salaries to meet all the Christmas expenses, try spreading them out throughout
the year leading up to December. Buy a case of drinks every month, a present each
month or buy decorations during the year in the off season when they’ll even be
cheaper. counting this month, we have 5 salaries before December so why not give it a try. Trust me, I did it last year and guava season didn’t come in 2016 for
me or my family.
What other Christmas expenses can we take care of before the
season actually starts?
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