There are some great frugal gift ideas, that when you try and use them, turn out to have flaws. This doesn’t mean that they don’t work in any scenario, just that on closer examination, they don’t work for me. These are my findings so far:
1. experience gifts
I wonder whether I know different people to everyone [...]
I never get tired of thinking about personal finance. As usual though, I’m tired in general. I can’t wait for Christmas and New Year - mostly because I have a 10 day stretch without any work, half of which I’ll spend with my family and the other half in my own house.
However, going *home* for [...]
Some of these, I have actually given, others I would like to receive, and yet others I think are just a great idea but I don’t have the perfect recipient. Most of these are cribbed from a list that I found on the now defunct boards of the (still useful) Organized Christmas website, and they [...]