Save money when shipping holiday gifts
October 10, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Christmas, Holiday Thrift, holidays
There’s no time like the present to start saving money on shipping costs for holiday gifts. I know it’s early, but planning and getting started ahead of time is one way to save.
- As we all know shipping costs can be substantial if you wait until the last minute. Choose gifts now, plan on shipping before the holiday rush and save.
- Look for free shipping. It’s lame to pay for shipping when so many online shops offer free shipping. Plenty of places regularly ship for free and many hold special holiday shipping deals.
- Ship to one place when possible. If most of your family lives in Minnesota see if you can ship all the gifts to one family member vs. all family members separately.
- Purchase gifts from one place. For example places like Amazon offer all kinds of goods, not always for less, but they will ship for less, so you could save money regardless of the higher starter price tag.
Of course there’s also all the basics – buy smaller more lightweight gifts, ship everything all at once to avoid time wasted at the post office (time is money), or get free package pick-up at your door (you’ll just need to purchase postage online before hand).
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We are seeing one set of family members at Thanksgiving, and a second at Christmas. The crew we will see at Thanksgiving will be getting their wrapped Christmas presents at that time to take back home and put under their trees. That will save us an arm and a leg in shipping costs!