Alexander: Counting calories, blessings (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Here is another way to cut down your Christmas expenses and save big this holiday season:
There are numbers everywhere I turn these days, and they’re making me crazy.There’s the number of shopping days left till Christmas . Since I’ve not even thought about shopping yet, that number makes me panicky as well as out of sorts. I don’t even have any great gift ideas to chase this year, which is why I’m putting the whole thing off. I hope you don’t see me in the mall on Christmas Eve.Then …