November 28th, 2008
Do you love to present your friends and family with beautifully-wrapped gifts at Christmas? For me, half of the fun of gift-giving is finding inexpensive, but stylish, ways to wrap my gifts. In fact, I sometimes spend more time agonizing over my gift-wrapping choices than I do my shopping expeditions.
Making your [...]
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November 26th, 2008
Family gifts are some of the most difficult to select. You know your neighbor at the office will be touched that you chose to get them anything at all. The same is probably true for your child’s teacher. But family members can be an entirely different ball of wax.
There are [...]
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November 25th, 2008
If you have a teenager on our Christmas list this year, you already know how hard it can be to shop for them. You might think that you’ll just get your teen a CD, but then you realize you don’t know exactly which ones he already has. Maybe you’re considering getting him a [...]
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November 12th, 2008
You’ve probably already heard a thousand times how important it is to have a budget for your Christmas gift-giving. Having a budget allows you to plan for your holidays expenses and to keep them under control. However, having a budget and sticking to it are often very different things.
You have to [...]
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July 19th, 2008
If you have little ones in your family, chances are you’ve forgotten to get a gift for a child’s birthday party at some point. Maybe your son or daughter forgot to tell you about the party ahead of time. Or maybe you just forgot to add a gift to your shopping list. Either way, here [...]
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June 6th, 2008
The sentiment behind wedding gifts is usually to get the bride and groom off to a great start as they begin their married lives together. Gifts of household goods are a wonderful way to surround the happy couple with tokens of their families’ love and affection in their new home. Every time they eat dinner [...]
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