February 27th, 2008
5 Ways To Say No
My son’s birthday is exactly one week before Christmas. He’s turning 12 this year and is doing some serious negotiations on whether I can combine whatever I would spend on his birthday with what I would spend for a Christmas present to get a more expensive gift
He’s a little math whiz and is usually comes up with questions like “Well what if you spend 20% of the total on my birthday and 80% at Christmas?” At that point, I’m thinking “Huh???” 
That is when I use strategy #1 below on “5 Ways to Say No.”