Saving You Time & Money
It’s no secret among friends and family that we are a Lego loving family. In the past 4 years our collection has nearly tripled in size. To reflect our love for Legos, this year our Christmas tree is decorated exclusively with Lego ornaments. It took a family effort to create them, thus giving us lots of extra quality time together (sometimes good, sometimes bad LOL) and that’s an extra benefit. Now, lest you begin to throw accolades of how creative we {Read More}
This post was originally published on December 6, 2011. It is not meant to say that what anyone else does at Christmas is wrong, just to share how our family chooses to celebrate with the giving of gifts. Several years ago was our first time to buy Christmas gifts for kids in our home. It was our first year to be foster parents and we loved getting to know the kids and spoiling them with a life like they had {Read More}
A friend of mine posted this as a status update recently on Facebook. It’s exactly how I feel. Although I may post about how my family celebrates Christmas or Halloween, or how we handle our finances, this doesn’t mean you should do the same thing – each family should do what works for them! If you are a parent who hides an elf every Christmas, dyes dozens of eggs every Easter, carves three pumpkins every Halloween, bakes homemade cookies at {Read More}
Gift giving at Christmas time can be a huge financial strain, but there are many ways to enjoy the season on a budget, while still giving nice gifts. So far I’ve suggested that you: buy gently used items for your kids if you were planning to remove them from the package to display them for Christmas anyway, shop through cashback sites for your online or site to store purchases, buy gift cards at a discount online. This week I {Read More}
Repost from Christmas season 2011. I meant to get this posted for yesterday, but let’s just say that our projects for the kids kept us up until the wee hours of the morning yesterday and I didn’t spend much time on the computer as a result. I’m not the least bit regretful though- they are loving their new things and we had a great family day together. I’ll get a post together to share our projects with you this {Read More}
If you have money to spare in your budget, consider pre-buying gift cards from restaurants and retailers that are offering promotional gift cards or coupons for purchasing a gift card. Many stores are offering a free $5 gift card for every $25 that you purchase before Christmas. That’s a 20% return on your money! I’m not suggesting that you go on a wild and crazy shopping spree for gift cards, but do take a look at the promotional offers available {Read More}
Today is the 2012 free shipping day. Most, if not all stores, are offering some sort of free shipping promotion today. Also, it’s the last day that many retailers will guarantee items to be delivered before Christmas. You can see a list of participating stores and various free shipping offers here. Remember to use Ebates when making online purchases so you can receive a cash back check on them. So far this quarter I’ve got about $35 waiting to be {Read More}
Several years ago I was scheduled to sing a solo for church one Sunday morning in December. About a week before I still hadn’t made a decision what to sing. No Christmas song seemed right. As I was passing over the track titles I saw it, and just had a peace that I was to sing this song. More than any other solo I’d ever sung, people quietly told me how much it had blessed them. How much of a {Read More}