How to Cut Down Your Christmas Gift List
September 28, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Christmas, Holiday Thrift, Seasonal Savings, gifts, holidays, money saving idea, saving money
Earlier this week, I posted about some ways to cut out some of your Christmas expenses. One of the ways listed was to cut down your Christmas gift list. It’s simply not necessary to buy for every aunt, uncle, and cousin. That’s not what Christmas is about anyway.
Tiffany from Stuff Parents Need commented with a great question.
Do you have any tips for how to tactfully remove people from your list? We have a few aunts and uncles that I’d like to stop buying presents for, not because I don’t love them, but because I think us continuing to exchange presents is …read more
Cutting Back Our Eating Lifestyle
July 17, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under food, money saving idea
The following is a guest post.
I read in the paper today how some families are cutting down on their expenses by staying home more with their families and buying no name brands, in a sense living simpler. I won’t say that we’ve changed our life completely but we too have stopped eating out as much, but not completely.
What are some ways you try to save money? Do you buy no name brands? If you do what are they?
For years we’ve been buying no name or store name cereals, but from time to time we’ve been known to grab the occasional …read more
