8 minutes ago, anachronistic said:

I don't understand how buying gifts over the course of a year would mean more savings than buying gifts for holidays and birthdays. But I also don't understand not doing holidays because holidays to me are wonderful times and all about children and children get the most joy out of them.
 

I, like many of us,😉, wear nightgowns to bed. But I have pajamas for days when I'm in too much pain to leave the house and I know that I'm just going to be going back-and-forth to bed all day, or for when I'm away from home. I don't find jeans comfortable enough to sleep in but whatever. Most clothes today don't need to be ironed anyway. Although I do think that you get a sort of rumpledyness after sleeping in something, I also don't pay enough attention to other peoples clothes that I've ever noticed that in anyone except for myself. Anyway, not buying pajamas isn't something to brag about because it wouldn't save that much anyway, as most can be passed down and according to Karissa, their clothes are really cheap anyway. (although it is very possible that the cheap, fast fashion from Walmart does not hold up enough to be passed down.)

If you don’t celebrate holidays, you have way less to do and way less money to spend. No Christmas tree to buy every year. No decorations to buy and put up. No Christmas lights for your house. You don’t have to wrap a bunch of gifts for 11 kids. Even if you limited it to 3 gifts each, that adds up. That’s 33 gifts for the kids. On Halloween you don’t have to buy or make costumes for 11 kids. You don’t have to buy candy to hand out. On Easter, you don’t have to make Easter baskets for 11 kids. You don’t have to color eggs with 11 kids. You don’t have to hide eggs for 11 kids. And they barely celebrate their children’s birthdays. But they celebrate their own birthdays big. 

I don't understand how buying gifts over the course of a year would mean more savings than buying gifts for holidays and birthdays. But I also don't understand not doing holidays because holidays to me are wonderful times and all about children and children get the most joy out of them.
 

I, like many of us,😉, wear nightgowns to bed. But I have pajamas for days when I'm in too much pain to leave the house and I know that I'm just going to be going back-and-forth to bed all day, or for when I'm away from home. I don't find jeans comfortable enough to sleep in but whatever. Most clothes today don't need to be ironed anyway. Although I do think that you get a sort of rumpledyness after sleeping in something, I also don't pay enough attention to other peoples clothes that I've ever noticed that in anyone except for myself. Anyway, not buying pajamas isn't something to brag about because it wouldn't save that much anyway, as most can be passed down and according to Karissa, their clothes are really cheap anyway. (although it is very possible that the cheap, fast fashion from Walmart does not hold up enough to be passed down.)

49 minutes ago, sleepygirl1 said:

Are they from a Jehovah’s Witness background? Why don’t they celebrate holidays?

No. They used to. But like everything else, when Karissa got overwhelmed by having too many children, she cut it out and used her cherry picked religion as an excuse. 

My oldest hates PJs. He stopped wearing them around age 6-7. He sleeps in his underwear, but I make him wear clothes when we are staying with family. On those nights he wears gym clothes. Sometimes he chooses to wear the outfit the next day which is usually fine for the activity we are doing, but then I make him change before bed that night.

Unless they are wearing matching clothes that Karissa chose, the Collins kids wear comfortable clothing, unlike the Duggar boys who were forced to wear jeans to bed. And didn’t have bed sheets? I seem to remember that from watching the show a long, long time ago.

I wonder too. Olivia Kate is a senior and a talented artist but they don’t seem to encourage art too much within the church. 
I suspect a health industry ie RN, pharmacist, speech therapist in Arkansas, just because that’s where all the academic girls at Calvary seem to go into. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised and she moves away to a small liberal arts college to study art and law or something.