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Almost ready for Christmas

December 17, 2010 by Tricia

I’m almost ready for Christmas … well, if that’s ever possible to say! Honestly I still have a couple of presents to buy, and a little bit of cooking to do – but, hey, I did manage to get the Christmas cards sent out earlier today. That’s a start, especially since I don’t usually send Christmas cards at all.

I was really happy with the Christmas cards I sent out this year. They’re recycled Christmas cards and they were really pretty. I felt like I was doing my “green” part by using recycled material.

I was going to do the last of my shopping tomorrow … but my husband is just started two weeks of temporarily lay off so now I”m thinking … why go shopping on Saturday when everyone else is out and the malls are all crowded and crazy? Since my husband is off work we could go on Monday and I’m sure it will be a lot more relaxing .. a little less hustle and bustle – right? So maybe tomorrow and Sunday I’ll get whatever cooking done that I need to finish and then during the week we’ll finish our shopping. Sounds like a plan to me.

How are you doing – are you ready for Christmas?





Filed Under: Canada, Gift Ideas, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping Tagged With: bustle, busy, buy, Christmas, christmas cards, cooking, crowded, husband, hustle, layed off, mall, presents, recycled, Shopping, store

A traditional 10th Wedding Anniversary Gift

September 5, 2010 by Tricia

Some close friends of ours will be celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary next month and we’ll be helping them celebrate by attending a party held in their honor.

Now all I need to do is figure out what to get our friends as a tenth anniversary gift ?

I spent some time online earlier today doing a little research. Did you know that a 10th wedding anniversary gift is supposed to be aluminum?

Now I know that people don’t always buy wedding anniversary gifts according to the exact anniversary a couple is celebrating – well, with the exception of the 25th (silver) and 50th (gold), but I decided to try and find a traditional 10th anniversary gift.

It didn’t take me long to come across a website called “Paper Roses”. They have a wide selection of traditional wedding gifts. Believe it or not I actually found aluminum roses. They’re really cool looking! They look quite real.

I finally settled on getting them an aluminum vase. They can use it for aluminum roses if someone else happens to get those for them, real roses or other flowers. It’s quite nice and I think they’ll like it. Best of all – it’s a traditional gift that is absolutely perfect as a 10th wedding anniversary gift. I’m sure they’ll be pleased.

Do you try to buy traditional anniversary gifts for your friends or relatives too?

Filed Under: Family, Gift Ideas, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping Tagged With: 10th anniversary, aluminum, aluminum roses, aluminum vase, friends, gift, Gift Ideas, online, party, Shopping, traditional, wedding anniversary

Getting ready for the holiday, house guests and a family wedding! Ahhh!

December 16, 2009 by Tricia

In just 14 days my niece will be married. I’m sure she’ll be both happy and relieved once the big day comes as she’s only had a couple of months to plan this wedding.

You see she was going to get married in June, but her fiance joined the Canadian Forces and well … that caused them to need to get married sooner – so that she can join him when he’s in training in another province.

Along with preparing for the Christmas holidays, a dinner at my in-laws, house guests for Christmas and then house guests for the wedding … I still need to find the perfect wedding gift for my niece.

She’s registered at one of our large department stores, but I’m still trying to decide whether to get her something that she still needs from her wedding registry, try to find a unique gifts for her or just give her money so that she and her new husband can purchase whatever they really need or something that they wanted on their registry list that they didn’t receive.

The other reason why I’m considering giving them money as a wedding gift is because they’ll be moving across the country to another province shortly after their wed .. perhaps the less things they have to move the better, right? They they can use the money, as I said above, to get what they need when they settle into their new home.

What would you do? Especially considering the holidays, house guests and a Christmas dinner with the in-laws out of town as well as getting ready for this wedding. LOL

Filed Under: Canada, Family, Gift Ideas, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping, Toronto Tagged With: busy, Christmas, Christmas dinner, dinner, Family, holidays, ideas, in laws, money, money as a gift, niece, niece married, tizzy, wedding, wedding gift, wedding registry

Need a great wedding gift idea

November 17, 2009 by Tricia

We just found out recently that my niece will be getting married at the end of the year. She had been planning to get married next June, but her fiance joined the armed forces and he’ll be shipping out in January (I think) so they pushed the wedding date up.

So now I’m trying to figure out what to get them for a wedding gift. Of course, we’ve had a lot of financial problems this year so while I want to get them something very nice I also have to try to keep the expenses down.

At least it’s a good time of year to be looking for a gift since there will be lots of Christmas sales coming up! No Black Friday sales here in Canada of course – since we already had Thanksgiving in October (and we don’t have a big sale associated with it unlike our US counterparts).

They are just starting out so I guess they need just about everything … well everything but Couture Jewelry since my niece grew up with a mom and aunt me) in the jewelery trade. LOL

Any good wedding gift ideas for a couple just starting out?

Filed Under: Family, Gift Ideas, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Shopping Tagged With: December, gift idea, married, niece, present, sales, Shopping, wedding

Still shopping for Christmas gifts

December 9, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve slowly been getting our Christmas shopping done, but I’m stuck on a gift for my in-laws. Keep in mind that we have almost no extra money for Xmas this year, so I’ve been being very frugal and imaginative with the Christmas gifts I’ve purchased so far.

My In-laws love to have a movie night at least once a week, and my father in law is really into watching his hockey games. I was thinking of looking at popcorn machines to see if I could find one for a decent price and get it as a gift for them. Obviously they enjoy having a snack when they’re watching movies or hockey so I thought a popcorn machine might be the perfect gift.

How do you go about picking holiday gifts? Do you buy things that you think people need or things that you think (or know) they might want.

Filed Under: Family, Gift Ideas, Items to Try Tagged With: Christmas, Family, frugal, gift_ideas, gifts, hockey, in_laws, movie_night, popcorn, Television, xmas

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