I know I said two weeks ago that it was time to get your shit together for the holidays, but now it’s really time to get your shit together. Please, please do not be that sad dude buying whatever scraps are left at Walmart at 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve. To help with the process, here’s this handy guide to formulating your gift budget. Personally, my gift budget looks something like dril’s famous candle tweet, except candles are replaced with presents for my niece.
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying— wint (@dril) September 29, 2013
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Magdalene Taylor
Magdalene Taylor is a junior staff writer at MEL, where she began working two weeks after graduating college. Her work is a blend of cultural analysis and service, covering everything from reconsiderations of low-brow hits like Joe Dirt and Nickelback to contemporary disability issues, OnlyFans and the types of minor questions about life like why baby carrots are so wet. She’s also reported on social media phenomena like “simps” and “pawgs.” In 2018, she published her 111-page undergraduate thesis on Insane Clown Posse, the Juggalo subculture and the subversive aesthetics of class. She is from God’s Country, rural Western Massachusetts.
