Saving tips on gifts

Article: Saving tips on gifts

Here're some saving tips on gifts:

• Buy gift items from stores whenever they offer special sales, clearance sales, or deep discounts and put them away. When an occasion's coming up, you'll have gift items ready to give. Remember to use coupons and rebates if stores offer them.
  
  
• Make your own gifts. They can be personalized, very meaningful,
  and inexpensive. For example, make a card or a cake in the shape
  or in the resemblance of your gift receiver or his/her favorite
  item; it could be an unforgettable event.

• Making your own food items as gifts. It's one of the oldest
  forms of gift giving since ancient time.

• Use plants and flowers that you grow in your garden to give
  as gifts.

• Check your garage, attic, and closets for items that you never use
  again. You probably leave them forever in these places and discard
  them later; it's a waste of money. Give them as gifts to the needy
  families.

• Make your own gift baskets to give as presents.

• Learn a hobby; you can make great economical gifts with a
  new skill you acquire. Some of the great hobbies are making ice
  cream; making furniture; making beer within government guidelines; creating jewelry and whimsical figures with Polymer Clay.

• Help someone in your spare time. It could be a meaningful
  present to the gift receiver.

• Purchase U.S. Saving Bonds and give them to children as gifts.

Article: Saving tips on gifts
By John Nguyen and Associates
Developers of Savingsforyou.net and Orange County Business Directory, CA