All Posts Tagged With: "gifts"
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle Now Has Support For Gifting Books
Released just in time for the holidays, Amazon.com introduced a highly requested feature of the Kindle that allows anyone to easily gift a book to another Amazon.com user to download to their Kindle. This feature was announced in an Amazon.com press release last week. All customers have to do is visit the Kindle Store on [...]
Tips for Tipping Over the Holidays
If you are following your budget and eating or going out less than usual, it may be time for a brush up lesson on tipping during the holiday season. As we schlep around the malls and visit restaurants and family, there may be more occasions that call for a need to tip others who help [...]
Chocolate Bunnies Make More Sense and Save You More Money
Peter Cottontail is soon to be hopping down the bunny trail and if you are not up for a long term, committed relationship, you need to let him keep hopping. Many people make the mistake of buying a cute little chick or a real fuzzy bunny for their kid’s Easter baskets. While the intention may [...]
How to Support Your Favorite Charities Without Busting Your Budget
In times like these, when the majority of us are just trying to make ends meet and have food on the table, we tend to be strict with our budgets because quite frankly there is no way around it. We all have to watch what we spend and often feel a bit bad about not [...]
How to Give Gifts that Are Inexpensive and Practical
Many of us have that one person in our lives that have everything. It becomes an unpleasant task to shop for such a person during the holidays and special occasions. Giving gifts is supposed to be a sign of love, appreciation, and sometimes just an “I’m thinking of you” sentiment. But the hard-to-shop-for person can [...]
How to Be Cheap on Valentines Day Without Getting Your Butt Kicked
Although men have been known to complain that women are “difficult” and “hard to understand,” when it comes to gift giving, women are simple. It’s all about POINTS! That’s right, Points! You see women give you secret points for every action and gift you present no matter what the cost. A dozen roses is awarded [...]
Get Better Wedding Gifts with WedCred.com
Buying a wedding gift that will be remembered and cherished rather than returned to Bed, Bath and Beyond for store credit is a difficult thing to do. Buying presents for Christmas and Birthdays is hard enough, but when anywhere from 50 to 150 people are buying gifts for just two people, it’s almost impossible to [...]
Gift Cards are the Worst Possible Present to Buy Someone This Christmas
Here’s an idea. Let’s trade perfectly good money, ad exchange it for something that serves the same purpose but has an expiration date, loses value over time, and can only be used at one store! That’s exactly what gift cards are, yet people continue to give them as gifts for Christmas year after year after [...]
Why the Black Friday Deals You Scored Might Not Be Deals At All
As I write this article, millions of shoppers across the nation are invading retail stores hoping to get the best possible deals on their Christmas presents. We hit Wal-Mart up at 5:30 this morning and scored a new desktop computer for $399.99 and a Garmin GPS device for next to nothing! There are definitely some [...]
I agree. If a local business is the one offering the sale price I will buy it from them. ...
We are retired and live on a grocery budget of $200 a month for 2 people in the Midwest. That ...