Make Your Gifts, and Use Imagination

by Urska Breznik
(Slovenia)

Tips on how to rescue yourself from Holiday bankruptcy -

Saving money on presents for holidays

This is the part of every holiday that normally sucks everybody dry. But it shouldn't have to be like that.

I know that me personally didn't spend more than $15 on a single present in over 3 years. But everybody is always more than pleased and they say they like my presents the most.

I always make useful things.

For example: Photo albums, paintings, I always make hand made cards(you can save a few bucks only on these), I knit sweaters, make jewelery and doll-houses, I sew clothing,

I once just painted an ordinary rock with simple flowers and wrapped it up and gave it as a paperweight. My friend loved it! He said it really brings his office to life.

Hand made gifts are always the best way to go, as long as they are useful.

But... I consider myself a very crafty person, so if you're not good at being creative, you could still go buy a set in which you already have all the materials and blueprints on how to make it, so with that it's really easy as 1-2-3! And you have loads and loads of different sets to choose from, pretty much anything you could imagine.

On the other hand, if you are really an anti-creative person you could just go to an antique shop or second-hand shop(they usually don't sell only books and worn clothes.

I once found an unbelievable ring there and I paid $20 for it. Almost nothing for a piece of jewelery.

I only later discovered when I wanted to find out how old it rally was, that the stone inside was a really huge sapphire and silver ring and it was more than 300 years old.

It's worth a fortune. But that's not important.

What is, is that you could find unbelievable things in the least believable places.

Just make gift shopping a nice fun-filled field trip, you'll be amazed on how many cool stuff you can find. Just remember: Not everything cheap is cheap:)