Tag Archives: holidays
Vacation Days?
Don’t have enough vacation days? Travel over holiday weekends. Stretch your time off by planning trips around national holidays. For example, if you get Labor Day off, plan to take an extra day or two in addition to that Monday. … Continue reading
Holiday Clearance
Buy seasonal decor on clearance. Shop late October sales and pay reduced prices on Halloween decor and costumes. Hint: Costumes make great holiday gifts for kids and grandkids. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing … Continue reading
Affordable Invitations
With the new year comes the taking down of Christmas decorations, the removal of your Christmas tree, and the recycling of that giant stack of holiday cards you received from friends and family. If you haven’t tossed them already, you … Continue reading
Unfazed, Even in Early Days
The year my boyfriend and I started dating, my parents moved from Canada to Brazil, making it my first Christmas without them. I never told my boyfriend how devastated I felt spending the holidays without family. Out at dinner, I … Continue reading
Joys of Buy Nothing Groups
This past Christmas, partly as an experiment in avoiding the commerce of the holidays, I got my entire extended family — 14 people — thoughtful, personal gifts that fellow Buy Nothing-ers bestowed upon me. (I did this over a period … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 