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Look for quality that will last. I’d rather have one thing that will last 20 years that I adore (eg. we waited a year to get a really good mattress) than something I don’t like that will be broken in two.
Make gifts. Last year it was free planners from diyplanner.com, and this year it will be handmade photo/scrap books full of pictures of the children for grandmothers and aunties. Other years I’ve done paintings, or painted little boxes. The year I bottled grape jelly made from the concord grapes in our garden backfired in terms of savings because they cost so much to ship, but it was a lesson learnt.
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