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The Priceless Holiday Gift

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Gift Ideas for Dad

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Save Money this Holiday Season

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The 15 Worst Gifts

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Ideas for a Priceless Holiday Gift

The season is here once again. No matter what holiday you celebrate, no matter what you believe, you’re being bombarded with exhortations to celebrate, to love, to buy and to give.

The Internet and airwaves are filled with stories about miracles and family gatherings that may be more fantasy than reality. Remember that gifts do not have to be homemade or extravagant to be loving and important.

Here are some suggestions for non-material gifts that capture the spirit of the season.

Give Yourself the Most important Gift Give yourself the gift of realistic expectations. So many of us understand others are human and imperfect, but forget the same is true for ourselves. Forgive yourself for being human, and for having limited time, energy, and resources.

Give the Gift of Time Offer to babysit for someone with small children. Go to lunch with a friend you haven’t seen in a long time. Plan a special evening with your lover. Take time for yourself.

Give the Gift of Life If you haven’t done it already, fill out an organ donor card and carry it in your wallet. Or go to your local blood bank and give blood.

Give the Gift of Unusual Sights and Sounds Give the gift of laughter. There’s plenty of pain and suffering in the world, and laughter helps us cope. Go frolic on a playground, play with a child and tell silly jokes, take someone to a comedy - move, play, or concert.

Laughter isn’t just for kids. Call someone and make it a point to be silly until they laugh. Tell a stupid joke, rhyme something funny, or sing a little tune. Send a silly question to them in email.

Give the Gift of An Open Mind Having an open mind means trying new or uncomfortable things, even if a part of you resists the idea. New things are difficult for many people, so oh, so worth while! Here are a few ideas to get you pointed in the right direction: • Listen carefully to someone who disagrees with you. Find something to agree with in their communication, and don’t comment on the rest.

• Watch a television show you’ve never seen.

• Try a new dish.

• Wear something different.

• Give the gift of love. Tell the important people in your life how much they mean to you. When you are on your death-bed, you are not likely to regret having said, “I love you” too often.

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Holiday Gift Ideas Your Dad will Love

by Jennifer Moore

Sometimes we all wait until the last minute to do holiday shopping for dad.

If this is the case with you and you need some last minute gift ideas for dad. You are in luck; here are some great ideas for a last minute gift for dad.

Last minute gift idea for dad - Plaque

Last minute gift idea for dad - Lifetime fishing license Does your dad love to fish? Instead of him buying a fishing license every year, give him a lifetime fishing license as a last minute holiday gift. Now when he goes fishing, he will not have to worry if his fishing license has run out.

On an eight by ten piece of paper, write down the feelings you have for your dad and tell him what you think of him as a dad. Place it in the center of a large picture frame. At the top of what you have written, place a picture of your dad and mom together. Place pictures of all the children they have together around the paper you have written. Sign your name at the bottom. This last minute gift idea for dad only costs you a few minutes of your time, but will be something he will treasure.

Last minute gift idea for dad - Vacation to favorite place

Last minute gift idea for dad - Hunt club fees

Does your dad have family he has not seen for a long time? If so, talk with them; tell them you will pay the way for them to come for a visit for the holidays. This will make an excellent holiday gift surprise for your dad.

Does your father hunt in a hunting club? If he does, pay the fees for the hunting season for your dad. This will make a wonderful last minute holiday gift because he will now concentrate on killing a big buck instead of the fees killing his wallet.

Does your dad have somewhere he has always wanted to visit, but never got the chance for one reason or the other?

Give him an all expense paid vacation to his favorite place as a last minute holiday gift idea. He will appreciate the free vacation and the relaxation that comes with it.

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How to Save at the Holidays The holidays can get expensive. Here are some ideas to trim costs!

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. Search estate sales and flea markets for inexpensive mismatched dishes. They make the perfect vessels for delivering home-baked goodies to co-workers, friends and neighbors. Best of all, there’s no need to ask them to return the plate.

Set a spending limit on gifts from your spouse or closest friends, says Sara Noel, who runs frugalvillage.net. You could do a second-hand gift exchange.

Or only swap stocking stuffers. Noel and her husband give each other the same “favorite things” each year. She gets a box of chocolates and he chooses nuts and cheeses.

Talk to your family about volunteering or giving charitable gifts to take the focus off of buying and wanting. Help out at a food bank or soup kitchen. Or agree to exchange gifts that support charities.

Give the gift of time. Make gift certificates or coupons to offer free baby-sitting to your friends or to prepare a home-cooked meal for them.

Kids could give breakfast in bed to their parents. A husband might offer candlelight dinner at home.

Let the kids make wrapping paper. Stock up on inexpensive butcher paper or newsprint and let your young artists go to town with fingerpaints, rubber stamps, even stickers. Each package will be a one-of-akind.

Get thrifty with decorations. Use branches, pine cones, wire and ribbon to create your own holiday wreaths. Let kids work on cut paper snowflakes (embellished with glitter glue for extra sparkle) or other decorations.

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The Worst Holiday Gift Ideas You’re sweating, panicked. You’re about to recycle an old gift, buy a weight-loss book for Aunt Josephine or grab the Victoria’s Secret catalog. Stop! Break the cycle of Holiday Gift-Shopping Syndrome!

Pressure, stress and confusion, inexplicable choices, a complete lapse of taste.

Alzheimer’s? No, it’s Holiday GiftShopping Syndrome! If you suffer panic attacks at the mall or you have recurring nightmares about the colossal gift gaffes you’ve made over the years -- you may be an HGSS sufferer.

Take two Advil and keep reading because the only cure is to spot the pitfalls early. The following primer will help you save yourself some angst -- and quite a bit of money -- by avoiding these classic gift-giving faux pas. (And your nearest and dearest deare will be ever so grateful when you give th them hem sstuff they like this year.)

The not-so-subtle suggestion: There’s T e no nott so s nothing oth thing g quite qu q uit i e like watching the expression people’s sion on o on n pe eop ple faces when they open one one of these: th se e: a set se of meditation tapes for Mr. cookbook for your Mr.. Ty Type pe A, A, a low-carb low w-c sister, orr an Elizabeth Arden makeup and s stter,, o si nE liza ab spackling extravaganza for grandma. Just sp packlin ing g ext ta don’t if they all go in on a gift do t be b surprised surpr pr for next fo or you you un nex ne xt yyear: a one-way ticket. xt The Th h useless gadget: Everyone has someone on their list who is seemingly impervious to gift-giving. It might be your boss, your dad or some other (inevitably) male relative. They appear to have no interests, no style, no obvious needs. So you race to one of those stores that specialize in “stuff guys like” and spend more than you should on a PGA-approved golf ball cleaner. In case he ever starts golfing.

Why? Why, why, why?

The lingerie trap: My husband passes

along this lesson learned from hard experience: Never buy lingerie for a woman unless she has ripped out the page from the Victoria’s Secret catalog and circled the exact item herself. If she opens a box and sees something that looks like a black satin hanky, it just opens up a can of worms: “Why does he want me to wear that?

Does he need me to look trashy? Doesn’t he like me the way I am? Next thing you know he’ll want me to wear a blond wig and fishnet stockings like a streetwalker!”

You can go from surprise to Splitsville in five or six mental leaps. Way too expensive on sooooo many levels.

The deadly weapon: My editor admitted that he briefly considered buying his 12-year-old son a water-balloon slingshot (because he wanted one himself, of course). But after reflecting a bit on the damage that a water balloon can do to unsuspecting passersby after traveling 500 feet from his backyard to a nearby road, he decided against it.

Books by the pound: Why buy a mere book when for the same money you can give a tome? That two-thousand-page volume of the sixth installment in the life of Lyndon Johnson is MUCH more desirable than a book someone might actually read. Sure, the megabook can be read by those with more time than taste, but it can also serve as a flower press, a door stop and kindling. Four gifts in one!

Inventiveness or desperation?

Gifts made by your own $40-an-hour hands: At some point, the Spirit of Frugality will pin you to the floor and tell you that the best way to save money during the holidays is to make all your gifts by hand.

Resist this impulse! First of all, just be-

cause you don’t have money doesn’t mean you have talent. Second, handmade gifts always cost more than you think, in both time and money. My truly talented sisterin-law, Deirdre, decided to make people jewelry one year. She quit when she found out how much it was costing her in supplies, never mind the all-nighters spent stringing tiny beads.

Things that can’t be exchanged on this planet: Resist the urge to go down to your local “Tofutti ‘n’ Things” boutique and buy a one-of-a-kind set of embroidered Bolivian hankies imported by the proprietor herself for your sister who lives on the opposite coast. The odds are good your sister will hate them and curse you for making her buy a $400 plane ticket to exchange them.

Last year’s gift, again: My mother’s best friend gave her a kaleidoscope. Several times. At least two Christmases and a birthday. So try to keep track of what you’ve given people in the past. Dad doesn’t need a fourth scarf. (I once gave my sister-in-law the same book three times.) If you’re not sure, ask someone who might remember last year better than you do.

Treasures from King Tut’s tomb: It’s always so tempting to buy from those slick museum catalogs. How can you go wrong giving a replica of something that has

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been sitting in the Smithsonian Museum for a hundred years? But unless you know that your cousin in Denver loves Egyptian artifacts or really wants a lamp that sprouts from the head of Queen Nefertiti, forget it. Warning: If it looks tasteful, keep shopping.

The pro-am present: My brother is a cooking maven. Ask him the difference between braise, stew and sauté and you’d better have a good hour on your hands.

So guess what I never give my brother?

Anything to do with cooking. I know, it’s tempting. Your brother-in-law plays a mean game of golf. Therefore: DON’T waste your money on a golf gift. He already has it. And now he has to return it.

AND FINALLY...

The thoughtlessness that counts: Don’t get pierced earrings for your friend who doesn’t have pierced ears (I did). Don’t buy cookies for a diabetic. No booze for the teetotaler. Don’t get “Fear of Flying” for a born-again Christian. You get the idea.

With these 15 rules in mind, you can easily avoid the worst gift-giving mistakes.

You’ll save time. You’ll save money. And you will thank me when your credit-card bill comes in January and, thanks to this list, you haven’t bought a damn thing for anyone.

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