Save for the holidays.

It's a fact that finances are strained this time of year, but you can still give the impression that you aren't living the ghetto life this Christmas season. Here are some tips on looking like Yorkville while living like Parkdale:

• Get a bottle of liquid paper and paint your earphones white. Wear them around, and pin the earphone jack inside your jacket pocket. Bop up and down constantly as if you were enjoying your new iPod Nano.
• Read the Wikipedia entries on the most popular PS3 or Wii games. Frequently engage in casual conversation about how awesome the game was on your new system. Tell them you finished the game already, and are replaying it on a harder difficulty setting. For extra mileage, say you are relieved that you didn't sell this system on E-Bay like you did for the other 2 that you bought on opening day.
• Tell your workplace that you're off to Switzerland / New Zealand / California for a week long vacation. Spend the next 7 days at home watching TV. Be sure to buy bronzing lotion and apply about 2 days before you go back to work.
• Walk into a expensive store and casually look over their most expensive item. When a salesperson approaches, ask them a question about the item specifications and react with disappointment when they answer. Ask if they have anything better. Repeat this until they have nothing better, then leave the store in frustration. Repeat for the next store.
• Take large empty produce boxes from the supermarket and gift wrap them. Leave them in your car trunk / office / living room for other people to see or carry them around in fancy shopping bags.
• Find empty wine bottles and fill them with water and food colouring. Re-cork them to create your own wine collection. Give them as gifts to people you will never see again.
• Dress well and crash someone else's Christmas party. Remember to bring your re-corked wine and gift-wrapped produce box. Find a table with people that look like they do not know each other.
• If you can't crash a Christmas party, fabricate a extravagant Christmas party that you attended as discuss it in detail with your peers.