{"id":5034,"date":"2018-11-20T14:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:31:27","slug":"necessity-and-christmas-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/necessity-and-christmas-presents.html","title":{"rendered":"Necessity and Christmas Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><link href=\"\/idogjs\/icss\/font-awesome\/css\/ifotorama.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"><script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.11.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/ijs\/ifotorama.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s holiday season and the kids want to decorate their rooms. It&#8217;s time for us to spend money, once a year, this time. Audie wanted a white shelf and Brandon, a 32&#8243; curved monitor and a gaming chair.\u00a0 Audie claimed the stuff for the rooms are necessity and Christmas presents should be a different thing. Well, it does sound like we need to re-define what&#8217;s necessity. 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