Are you cutting back your expenses this Christmas if so how are you saving your money?
ByLast year I went all out for my friends and coworkers. This year I’m only buying for my parents, my husband, and nieces. What are you doing to save money? What part are you cutting back on? Quantity or quality?
Well, every year, I have to work within a pretty low budget anyway, but I do tend to get over zealous about Christmas. I’m trying my hand at gifts-in-a-jar this year and I have things in the house already that I bought "in case I needed them" so I will try to "shop at home" first. Luckily, my kids don’t usually ask for too much stuff. I shop online a lot. There are always great sales Thanksgiving weekend. I love http://www.clausforcelebration.com/ There are some great deals on there and they have my favorites which are Wal-Mart.com and Amazon.com.
My parents are older and don’t really need or want anything, so I’ve taken to giving them a gift card for their favorite grocery store. Then I usually do up a gift basket for them with things in it that I hope they’ll like.
I don’t feel like I’m cutting back on quantity as far as the number of people on the list. I actually try to add someone to my list each year. Maybe someone from church or an older person I meet. I just get something small to let them know I was thinking about them. But if you are referring to quantity in dollars, I guess I would choose that as what I am cutting back on.
As for quality, I think homemade gifts, if you can find the time, can be just as nice and perhaps more meaningful than a store bought gift.
Those husbands sure are hard to buy for, though, aren’t they? lol
4 Comments
July 30th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
i went all out with my friends last year too- ended up costing me a fortune. so this year i’m only getting presents for my parents, sister, & 4 best friends. so i’m cutting back on quantity. i guess you could say i’m cutting back on quality too though, since instead of buying all my friends clothes, i’m making them things.
hope it helps,
merry christmas! (:
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July 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
hahaha yea i said that i was cutting back to untill i went shopping today and spent almost 400 dollars and I still aint done
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July 30th, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Well, every year, I have to work within a pretty low budget anyway, but I do tend to get over zealous about Christmas. I’m trying my hand at gifts-in-a-jar this year and I have things in the house already that I bought "in case I needed them" so I will try to "shop at home" first. Luckily, my kids don’t usually ask for too much stuff. I shop online a lot. There are always great sales Thanksgiving weekend. I love http://www.clausforcelebration.com/ There are some great deals on there and they have my favorites which are Wal-Mart.com and Amazon.com.
My parents are older and don’t really need or want anything, so I’ve taken to giving them a gift card for their favorite grocery store. Then I usually do up a gift basket for them with things in it that I hope they’ll like.
I don’t feel like I’m cutting back on quantity as far as the number of people on the list. I actually try to add someone to my list each year. Maybe someone from church or an older person I meet. I just get something small to let them know I was thinking about them. But if you are referring to quantity in dollars, I guess I would choose that as what I am cutting back on.
As for quality, I think homemade gifts, if you can find the time, can be just as nice and perhaps more meaningful than a store bought gift.
Those husbands sure are hard to buy for, though, aren’t they? lol
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July 30th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
My mom always puts £10 (thats roughly $20) a week in a tin starting from the start of January till a couple of weeks before Christmas and then goes Christmas shopping on the mainland (I live on a Scottish island)
Xo
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