Comments on: Holiday Shopping Tips To Be The Perfect Santa

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:27:53 +0000

Heh, go ahead; I’m just sorry I didn’t get here earlier, or I would have done something like this on my own page.

As for price limits, they do seem to work pretty well in my family. Of course, most everyone just gets each other gift certificates at this point; we all earn money and nobody bothers really coming up with a list, so it’s our only real option. So, anyone who goes over the limit just looks like they couldn’t follow directions

By: Studenomist

Studenomist — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:42:08 +0000

@Roger Man you are way better at this than me! I’m definitely going to copy/past this for a post next year.

Btw do price limits ever work? I always find that the person who sets the limit does it so that they can buy something more expensive and look like the best gift-giver of the group. Or maybe I’m just paranoid lol.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:57 +0000

Ah, Christmas shopping, the most dreaded of all holiday rituals (for me, anyway). Here’s the best advice I can give for making the holiday shopping a little less painless:

-Try to start a Secret Santa program within your family/group of friends/coworkers/any other group where giving may be required. Rather than buying a gift for all twelve of your cousins or for the fifteen people in your office, sway everyone into exchanging names so that you only need to buy one gift for each group. In one step, you’ve cut your shopping list down to a small fraction of what it would be otherwise.

-Agree to price limits on gifts. If you have a price limit for everyone on your list, you can more easily budget, and you’ll have more incentive to keep your spending under control.

-Make your own gifts. Probably much more of an option if you happen to be crafty (in a ‘I’m good at making things’ way, not a ‘I’m sneaky’ way), you could always make something as a gift for those on your list. (My fiancee went to a Christmas party for her ceramics club on Saturday, and fully half of the presents that were given out were hand-made; she got a cup from a girl she admired, and she just loves it.)

There you go, a few tips for making your Christmas shopping go a bit easier.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:03:47 +0000

Either I dodged a bullet with a few of my gifts or some of my friends are thick skinned. Luckily I never lost any friends or even got into fights over gifts.

By: Studenomist

Studenomist — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:48:39 +0000

I have a great feeling as to what you are referring to Edwin — and yes I have given similar gifts. Everything is good as long as everyone involved finds it funny. If not, you might have to look for new friends lol.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:47:44 +0000

When money was more of an issue, I would always give friends “inside joke” types of gifts. They would only cost maybe $15 to $20 dollars but everyone loved them a lot because of the sentiment. I won’t give any specific examples because… well it was college and they weren’t always very appropriate for public consumption.