Christmas stockings come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. Every year there seems to be a new trend. You can write a name with a gold or silver glitter pen or if you’re really lucky you still may have one where your grandmother or mother sewed on your name. At the Stocking Stuffers blog you can find all sorts of ideas to fill those personalized stockings.
The holiday shopping season is upon us! Kids are busy making their lists for Santa. Check out Santa’s requests for most popular toys for 2009. You may want to get your holiday shopping done early before these holiday favorites disappear!
Are you hosting Thanksgiving or Christmas at your house this year? Last year I wanted to try something different with my table setting and place cards. I found these adorable personalized ornaments at Santa’s Ornament Shop; it added a personalized touch to my Christmas table decorations and made wonderful gifts for my guest. I also found some great ideas at the Dinner Parties Blog on how to pull off a simple Traditional Christmas Dinner
Are you feeling the pressure and stress of Christmas shopping already? Picking out that special gift shouldn’t be as difficult as we sometimes make it. These tips from The Christmas Stress Blog have some very helpful points on how to find that special gift without feeling the stress.
To save even more cash while still giving gifts that your friends and family will love, check out SantasMall.com. This blog offers tips on how to plan your shopping list and even gives a list of frugal gift ideas for just about anyone on your list. Now you can give without going into debt.
Funny T-shirts are a great way to get attention or make a fashion statement. Suddenly, a boring old T-shirt becomes a little more interesting when it has a funny statement or graphic printed on it. There are so many available now that it can be difficult to pick just one! Our friends from the Joke Gifts blog have rounded up a few of the top funny T-shirt sites out there, so you can give the gift of laughter this Christmas.
Food makes a great gift, especially for people who already have everything they need. If you give someone a gift they can eat, then you don’t contribute to any clutter and you don’t have to try to come up with something that your gift recipient doesn’t already have. Food gifts in jars are also great candidates for gift baskets and are very inexpensive. Check out this video for some creative jarred gift ideas:
Worried that you’ll never be able to figure out what kind of Christmas gift to buy for your boyfriend? If you haven’t been together long, it can be difficult to choose something that is special but won’t be awkward. You don’t want to buy something too personal, but you want to make sure you buy something he’ll like. ChristmasGiftIdeas.org can help you out — they’re featuring some excellent holiday gift ideas for boyfriends on their blog this week.
I think it’s probably safe to say that most of us would probably never dream of shopping for our Christmas gifts from the Neiman-Marcus holiday catalog. But it’s fun to imagine having enough disposable income to warrant spending $12,000 on a chandelier made of plastic bottles or $25,000 on a miniature car shaped like a cupcake, complete with a frosting hat. The annual Neiman-Marcus Christmas catalog was released yesterday, with all of the usual expected amusement and cries of, “Would anyone really buy THAT?!” Enjoy, and imagine.
Stuck when it comes to buying stocking stuffers for a teen boy? There are some excellent online resources to help you in coming up with gift ideas for a fickle teenager who seems to be a man one minute and a boy the next. Find gift ideas to help bridge the gap at the Christmas Stocking Stuffers Blog.