Comments on: Holiday Shopping Tips To Be The Perfect Santa http://studenomics.com/personal-finance/christmas-shopping-tips/ Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Studenomist http://studenomics.com/personal-finance/christmas-shopping-tips/#comment-16839 Studenomist Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:42:08 +0000 http://studenomics.com/?p=2746#comment-16839 @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. @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 http://studenomics.com/personal-finance/christmas-shopping-tips/#comment-16805 Roger Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:57 +0000 http://studenomics.com/?p=2746#comment-16805 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. 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 http://studenomics.com/personal-finance/christmas-shopping-tips/#comment-15424 Edwin Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:47:44 +0000 http://studenomics.com/?p=2746#comment-15424 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. 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.

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