Well I am late coming to this post and I don't know how it all played out, but had I been earlier, I would have suggested the following:
Arrange for the family get together to be a day of volunteering at the local soup kitchen or some such.
Then you could (have) told your dad that you were foregoing the tradition traditional trappings and gift giving for a different kind of giving and left your personal financial woes out of the explanation entirely.
Of course he would have had the option to participate with you or not. And maybe absolutely loved the idea.
Just a thought.
Arrange for the family get together to be a day of volunteering at the local soup kitchen or some such.
Then you could (have) told your dad that you were foregoing the tradition traditional trappings and gift giving for a different kind of giving and left your personal financial woes out of the explanation entirely.
Of course he would have had the option to participate with you or not. And maybe absolutely loved the idea.
Just a thought.
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