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The holiday season is synonymous with gift-giving, but making a donation as a gift instead of buying something is more common than ever. Everything's gone up so much in the past few years that people ...

Need a quick little gift box? Grab a cd and a sheet of decorative card stock – you can either upcycle it, buy it, or print it with your desired image. Using a pencil, trace the cd as shown and mark ...

Get inspired to make one of these fun gifts to sew for teens. These sewing projects are useful and trendy, and even teens like fun things! Teens are hard to give to and hard to sew for. They want to ...

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3 rules: pick a useful item (no filler), use a small box (not an envelope), add a 1–2 sentence note It stops last-minute overspending, and you keep 80–90% of the budget on the gift card Last-minute ...

For many, this holiday season arrives alongside an uncomfortable reality. Prices are up, budgets are tight, and the pressure to give meaningful gifts has not gone away. Luckily, modern psychology ...

If money is tight right now, you may feel especially stretched by the thought of holiday shopping. Many consumers, particularly those with lower incomes, are looking to spend less than they have in ...

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As a child, I loved being the center of attention. So it was a problem when my baby brother was born a day before my birthday. For years, I would beg my parents for a birthday gift “one day early.” My ...