Six Ways To Save Time And Money While Holiday Shopping
(ContentDesk) December 18 2003--If you're struggling to finish?or even start?your holiday shopping, if your gift list is growing longer as your wallet and your calendar countdown shrink, and if panic is beginning to set in, you can stop worrying. "If you know where to look, you can still purchase thoughtful, creative gifts and get great deals on them to boot," advises Art Beroff, coauthor of The Bargain Hunter's & Smart Consumer's Field Guide: How To Buy Almost Anything For Next To Nothing! (Avebury Books 2003, available at Amazon.com).
"The trick is use the time factor, coupled with smart shopping tactics, to your advantage."1.???As time goes by. If you can handle the approaching-deadline anxiety, waiting to shop until the season is well under way can be a good thing. "The closer the holiday deadline looms, the more retailers mark down merchandise," Beroff says.
"One week before the big day?or even one day?is a terrific time to pick up bargains on everything from clothing to Christmas ornaments." 2.???Leave the shipping to them. Save money, as well as time and effort, by purchasing gifts for out-of-town recipients via mail order or the Internet. Having the merchant send gifts directly to your friends and relatives means you don't pay double shipping (first to you and then to recipients). Most merchants will even provide gift wrap and cards with personalized messages either for free or for a nominal fee. Better yet, some merchants offer free shipping for purchases over a given dollar amount.
"But don't wait until the last minute to shop by mail or Internet," Beroff cautions. "Allow an average of 10 days for delivery or you'll pay extra for express shipping to get your gift to its destination on time."3.???Think outside the gift box. You don't have to spring for something expensive to make someone happy, and you don't have to go with unimaginative?and pricey?offerings like gourmet food baskets for the ?difficult' recipients on your list. "Shop specialty catalogs," Beroff says. "There's one for every interest: cooking, crafts, fishing, knitting, movies, and military history, to name just a few.
Find them, and then shop them online, by entering ?fishing [or whatever your choice] catalogs' in your favorite search engine."4.???Bulk is not just for dog food. Pick up imaginative gifts at great savings by purchasing in bulk. "As we explain in The Bargain Hunter's & Smart Consumer's Field Guide, retailers often give discounts for bulk purchases," Beroff advises. "When you spot a nearing-Christmas sale on holiday-themed table linens, for instance, offer to buy a dozen sets if the merchant will provide an additional discount, and then give one to each host or hostess on your list."5.???Beauty makeover electronics. Save a bundle on electronics?anything from computers to digital cameras to plasma TVs?by shopping for reconditioned or refurbished items.
"These are pre-owned products that have been returned to the manufacturer and then given a complete makeover," Beroff explains. "They've been spruced up, cleaned, repaired, and brought back to like-new condition. And they generally come with a full manufacturer's warranty." Find these great deals by entering ?refurbished electronics' in your favorite search engine or by going straight to the manufacturer's site and then entering ?refurbished' or ?reconditioned' in its search window.6.???Let them eat cake. Or any other restaurant fare. Everybody likes to eat out, and the food tastes even better when someone else pays the tab.
"Purchase gift cards online from national restaurant chains," Beroff suggests. "You can choose from several denominations and have them delivered directly to your recipients. Even better, some chains provide you with discounts, free meals, or other rewards for gift card purchases over a given amount.".
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Sebastian, FL (ContentDesk) July 5, 2006 - For discriminating consumers, finding luxury home decor for a residence, office or that special weekend place in the country; unique gifts that are lifestyle appropriate and appeal to discriminate tastes; can be a near impossible task until now. Upside Living Inc. specializes in luxury lifestyle enhancing merchandise including fabulous sheepskin rugs that celebrities adore, gourmet coffee, fine food and wines as well as unique gift baskets and luxury travel planning. It is a one-stop shop, located online at www.UpsideLiving.com for those who crave the exclusive and deserve only the very best.The experienced staff at Upside Living has searched the world to find the most exquisite home and outdoor d?cor accent pieces. The new website represents some of the best names in luxury goods including Bowron Sheepskin Co., BELLISSIMO! hand painted glassware, fine...
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How To Choose The Best Holiday Gift Basket -- Insider Shopping Tips
(ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) November 29, 2005 -- If you're like most people, there's a gift basket or some corporate gift baskets on your shopping list this holiday season.
After carefully researching the gift basket industry, and talking to a number of suppliers within it, here are some insider tips we've discovered to help you choose a gift basket the recipient will appreciate and remember for years to come:1. Choose a gift basket that's uniqueMost people are no longer impressed with the traditional cellophane-wrapped, gaudy, cheap gift baskets and tins of popcorn...
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Celebrate That New Home with a Great Housewarming Gift
Whether you have a friend or family member who bought a home, or a new neighbor who just moved in next door, a carefully chosen housewarming gift will be a welcome gesture. Flowers, home-baked goods, and gift baskets filled with delicious foods are all great ways to say "good luck" or "hello".
A bouquet of colorful mums and carnations or spectacular gladiolas is a wonderful way to add a touch of color and life to a new home. Or give the gift of a living rose or azalea bush, a gift the new homeowners can enjoy for years to come.
A loaf of home-baked bread is a wonderful traditional way to welcome someone new to the neighborhood. Combine the loaf with a selection of gourmet preserves, wrap the loaf in colorful cellophane, then slip it into a new loaf pan, for a tasty and useful gift.
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Holiday Health: Give Get-Fit Gifts
?Tis the season to celebrate -- and a time to eat! Most of us gain a few pounds during the holiday season. With family dinners, holiday parties and gift baskets loaded with goodies, who thinks of staying fit?Instead of giving a pyramid of chocolate, a basket of tempting treats or a bottle of bubbly this year, why not be different? Give your loved ones a Holiday Health Kit to start out the New Year right. With so many inexpensive or low-cost fitness products available, it's easy to combine several items into a customized Get-Fit Gift. Louise Roach, marketing director at SnowPack, a New Mexico-based company that manufactures ice therapy kits, has several suggestions:"If you have someone on your Christmas list who likes to walk or run, think of items like a pedometer, a gift certificate to your local running specialty store, energy bars, a water bottle, a portable CD player, books on stretching, sunscreen, and lip balm. Plus an ice pack just in case they overdo it.
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On this special culinary and cooking tour of Spain you will be based in Aldan (Cangas), a small fishing village on the Atlantic coast of Galicia, Spain in the area called the Rias Baixas (Low Estuaries or Bays). You will get the chance to learn in-depth about the gastronomy of Galicia by cooking side-by-side with a Galician woman who owns/runs the small Charming Country Manor you will be staying at for the trip. Over the year Aurea has been handed down many traditional coastal cooking secrets of Galicia, which she will share with her guest on their cooking holiday in Galicia.In between the cooking & culinary activities you will get a chance to stroll along the ports of small fishing villages and enjoy exclusive visits to various wineries making the highly acclaimed Albarino white wines of the D.O. Rias Baixas. We will also dine in a few hand-picked restaurant with a mix of local flavors...
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OnlineXpressions Announces New Products Offered Online
With the baby-boomer generation aging, retro style products have become popular not only with the boomers, but also with younger generations.
OnlineXpressions caters to this demand through sales of the ever popular Lava lamps and wave machines, nostalgic neon clocks and pictures, retro style radios and phones and other products.To compliment these existing retro and novelty style items, OnlineXpressions proudly announces the recent addition of the Astro clock from Momo-Design and retro style lamps and furniture from LumiSource, Inc.
The Astro clock was inspired by one of George Nelson's most famous clock designs of the 1950's.
Nelson was an influential industrial designer in the post World War II period and his designs were highly prized both by artists and architects.
The Astro clock was modeled to look like the molecular structure of an atom and comes in a variety of colors.
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Anniversary Gift Ideas
A jubilee of any sort is a definite excuse to celebrate and to acknowledge a sense of fulfilled experience. It is another opportunity that serves to extend good will and appreciation. As also to acknowledge that those who travel alongside enrich the journey.
Defining moments, new benchmarks of achievement, a threshold to newer pastures, a lifetime of living-all these events share anniversaries that are unique yet universal. Gifts for these occasions must convey your jubilation and compliments. An intensely personal triumph is being shared and needs to be met with equal warmth and generosity of spirit.
An anniversary should be researched and planned well before the shopping begins.
What is the anniversary all about? How many people are involved in the occasion? What is your link to the event and the people concerned? How do you wish to convey your feelings about the landmark attained? Are you presenting the gift alone or as a group?
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How To Get Your Booty In Shape Before Summer
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A little junk in the trunk. Shake that booty. Rumpshaker. And Jennifer Lopez. For the longest time our society has had a fascination with the derriere.
Whatever it is, people want to make sure that they are looking good from behind. With bathing suit season right around the corner, you have to make sure that area is shaped up nicely. I'm sure you don't want anything jiggling where it isn't supposed to be so that you are able to "strut your...
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Men's Swimsuits
It is a common misconception that there is hardly any variety in men's swimwear. Men's swimwear styles run the gamut from trunks, board shorts and jammers (providing coverage from mid-waist to above the knee) to the classic Speedo-style (i.e., miniscule) form-fitting briefs. The more daring guys can opt for the Brazilian sunga, which is popularly referred to as the men's version of a bikini; the shape of the sunga is similar to the bikini but the side is about an inch thicker.
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