holiday gift plans

Did you know Christmas shopping in an unexpected sleet storm bites? If I didn’t know before I sure do now! Gah! Add in that special circle of hell also known as Wal*Mart and my day today was pretty horrid! I did get a couple of gifts at the local used book store though - yay! That almost redeemed the rest of the day.

I actually have very little shopping to do since I’ve made quite a few presents already. I wish I could tell you more about them but I don’t want to ruin any surprises for my anyone in my family who might be reading this. I thought I could do a post about possible handmade gifts, but I’m making so many of them it would give too much away! Sorry!

I can tell you though, that one of the best things we’re doing to save money this year is a “hand me down” Christmas exchange with the little ones in my family. All the kids have way more toys and books than they can use so they’re picking out some their own stuff to give away to their cousins. I think it’s going to work out really well, and the kids love anything that’s “new” to them, they don’t care if it’s not new in a box! I’m so psyched the rest of my family was as excited to do it as I was! (We haven’t done gift exchanges between the adults in my family for years. There are waaaayyyy too many of us!)

Next up is holiday cards. I think I’m going to have to give up on the idea of making all my own cards. I’ve done it before, but not during a year when I was making all the gifts too! A girl has only so much time for this stuff! At this point I’ll be doing good just to get the cards in the mail on time.

All in all I’m coming along really well with my plans and I shouldn’t have to do any unexpected last minute shopping. I’m soooo glad of that!

ps. This is the final day of NaBloPoMo! Wooohoooo! I think I’ll let you all catch up on your feed readers before I post again! ;)

November 30, 2008 | Filed Under shopping Tagged , ,

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5 Responses to “holiday gift plans”

  1. magpie on December 1st, 2008 1:17 pm

    I scored some Christmas presents in the local thrift shop - that pleased me enormously. And I’m making things too.

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  2. mumma boo on December 2nd, 2008 9:59 am

    Congrats on making it through NaBloPoMo! I enjoyed reading a new post every day, even if I didn’t get a chance to comment. And you are so far ahead of me with holiday shopping - I’m jealous!

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  3. Auds at Barking Mad on December 2nd, 2008 7:46 pm

    Congrats on making it through NaBloPoMo!

    I think your idea of hand me down gifts for the little ones is an awesome idea and only wish we’d thought of that when my older kids were little, as were their cousins. It would have saved some major money!

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  4. MommyTime on December 3rd, 2008 9:08 pm

    I love the hand me down idea for the kids’ gifts. That’s brilliant. If the kids in my family weren’t all so close in age, I would suggest that we do it too. And kudos to you for making many of your presents. I have done that in some years past, though not so much this year. It is a great feeling, though, isn’t it?

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  5. Candy on December 8th, 2008 7:55 pm

    Catnip!! Where are you???

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