Posts about christmas
Posted by Craig
So you spent all your money on Christmas gifts this year you couldn’t afford. Great! Your credit card company must love you. So, how do you start saving for next year? Since I started my first job, I have always budgeted my money across the board. It’s probably one of the best things my parents have helped me with. Say you get paid 4500.00 a week from your job and you spend about $1,000 on gifts every Christmas. Here is an idea, take $20.00 of every paycheck and put it into safe keeping somewhere or go to your local bank and tell them to take $20.00 from your pay every week. Trust me, the bank loves when you do this. Before you know it, Christmas 2011 will be here and you will have money to spend and you wont have to take it directly out of your pay. Trust me, it works.
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Tags: bank, christmas, christmas shopping
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Posted by Kristin
It’s that time of year again ladies and gents! That’s right… Christmas Time. Now while Christmas is supposed to be filled with cheer and love, you and I both know that it doesn’t always work out that way. Families fight, people never talk again, and relationships come to a bloody end.
If this is your first Christmas with your partner, it could go one of three ways- great, bad, and disastrous. There’s a good possibility that Christmas Eve or Day will be the first time your meeting the entire family. And what do families love to do? (or at least mine anyway) Tell embarrassing, horrifying stories about you. Why? Well because they love us that’s why! So what do you do? When your partner is red in the face from a night full of wine and laughing at embarrassing stories of you, don’t take it personally. It was your past and you know damn well that they’re funny…now. Just wait until you go to their families house and you can laugh about them.
If for some reason your partner isn’t vibing well with the family and you feel a war coming along, think of an exit word like in Four Christmases and get the hell outta there!
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Tags: christmas, christmas eve, four christmases
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Posted by Kristin
Unless you and your significant other were friends for an extended period of time prior to your hooking up, chances are you have two different sets of friends who donʼt know each other, and who donʼt know the person your dating. You have your friends, and he/she has their friends. Girls gossip and guys bullshit, so Iʼm sure your friends already know about the person youʼve dating- even some intimate details, before youʼve actually met them.
Eventually your worlds will collide. You will meet his/her friends, he/she will meet your friends and hopefully you can all be friendly or at least civil with each other (if your friends truly donʼt like the person you are talking too, it will NEVER work..more on that later). But is it a good idea to become friends with your partners friends? I think itʼs a good idea for your friends to be friends with the person you are dating- but there has to be limits. It would be very easy to suspect one of your friends for catching feelings for the person your speaking too, revealing some information that you didnʼt want them to find out about, or becoming too close to where it seems like they are flirting with each other.
You have to set clear boundaries. Texting each other is okay when you want ideas on a birthday, Valentines Day or Christmas- but not all the time. They shouldnʼt be speaking all day. Touching each other is a no-no. Yeah they could say they were “play fighting” but that only means one thing? You need to make sure they remain your friends and donʼt go over to the dark side- I know it sounds dramatic but if an argument should arise between you and your lover, you donʼt want them getting involved, taking it personally or taking sides with the person your seeing and not you. Let your friends talk and get to know each other, but make sure they stay your friends.
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Tags: christmas, Friends, valentine's day
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Posted by Craig
This might be a given to some, but for many, it might change their buying perspective.
1) Save!: Christmas is once a year, just like your Dad’s birthday, your parents anniversary, or even your girlfriends birthday. Save for the event. It’s bad when you go out last-minute and buy something and have a problems paying it off. Most banks offer a Holiday Club. My advice is to vest into that account. You can have your bank do it for you automatically. Take $1o to $20 from your paycheck and deposit that into the Holiday account. The bank will then issue you a check in October so you can get an early start on Christmas shopping.
2) Credit Cards: Did you know that some credit card companies ofer incentives to use their credit card? Take Discover for example, they offer 10% back if you use their card to buy Dell products. It’s not much but, combine that with store sales and promotions and you can have your own mini gold mine of cash just by using a credit card.
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Tags: christmas, christmas shopping, christmas shopping tips, credit cards, discover, holiday club, save money, shopping, visa
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Posted by Kristin
There comes a time when you ask yourself, “Is it that time?” When youʼve been dating someone for a period of time, but without a title, you begin to wonder if itʼs time to make things official. Although itʼs just a title, it does come with certain responsibilities; itʼs not just “boyfriend” and “girlfriend”. You have to worry about getting drunk and having a random bar hook-up that you may or may not remember the next morning. You can look, but you canʼt touch. And you are now obligated to buy birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah gifts and spend money on that god awful holiday known as Valentines Day. (Iʼm so miserable arenʼt I? Iʼd like to shoot cupid with his own arrow!)
So how do you know when itʼs time to make things official? Nothing is ever going to be perfect, so if youʼre waiting for that youʼre going to be waiting a very, very long time. The worst thing you could do is rush into a relationship, so if you have only been dating for a month, itʼs to soon! Youʼre still in the “infatuation” stage and you should wait until you know each other better. Itʼs going to take a while before you feel you know everything about one another, even though you will never know everything, but knowing too little isnʼt good either.
Since you are both adults, and this will never work without communication, at some point a conversation should be had about where you both see it going (this conversation can be around a month or two). At this point, if you both arenʼt looking for the same thing there is no point in continuing and itʼs best you both part ways. If you both arenʼt ready for a relationship just yet but like the direction you are both headed in, just enjoy the ride until itʼs “that time.” Just remember, if you decide to be together, there are going to be upʼs alast and be happy!
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Tags: christmas, friends with benefits, Hanukkah, valentine's day
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Posted by Brendan
This weeks question comes from Guy in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Bren:
Christmas is almost here and I don’t have any of my shopping done yet. I don’t have a lot of cash cause of the apartment I have. Any ideas on cheep, but good stuff for my girlfriend, mom, dad and little sister but not look cheap or cheesy? Thanks.
-Guy
Well Guy, like a lot of men, shopping is always done last minute. It’s great to have your own place, but when it comes down to having extra cash for the holidays, its rough. (BTW, I hope you checked out last weeks article on how to pimp your pad, here.) I have some great tips on how to buy those last minute gifts and make it look like you spent a lot.
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Categories: advice, Broads/Sex, Gadgets/Technology
Tags: Apple, brookstone, cd, charm bracelet, christmas, decorations, disney, dvd, gadget, hannah montanna, high school musical, homegoods, iPod, ipod shuffle, pocketbook, swarovski, the bachelors guide, the jonas brothers, tinker bell, toys 'r us
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