Nov 3 | Holidays
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The Best Gifts for the Coffee or Tea Lover
If you have a coffee or tea lover in your life, let me help you find the perfect gift for them! Check out the following list of frugal gift ideas for the coffee or tea lover. The perfect gift may just be a couple quick scrolls away.
- Bodum Pour Over Coffee Maker – Perfect for the person that wants a good cup of coffee, fast.
- DAVIDsTEA Top Holiday Teas – A selection of 12 popular holiday teas perfect for the tea drinker.
- Multiply Coffee – This is a locally roasted coffee and is so good!
- Drop it Like It’s Hot Mug – Add a little Snoop Dogg to your day with this sassy mug.
- Coffee Scented Candle – Have deliciously scented home with this Canadian made candle!
- You’re My Cup of Tea Towel – Something handmade, but you don’t have to make it!
- Kicking Horse Coffee – Simply Delicious coffee.
- Ceylon Black Tea – For the person that loves quality, fresh loose leaf tea.
- Espresso Thermometer – The perfect tool for the coffee aficionado
- Milk Frother – For those perfect lattes at home!
- Sloth Tea Infuser – This is the cutest tea infuser that I ever did see!
- Bodum Travel Press – Make coffee or tea on the go!
- Coffee Flavorings – A flavored syrup might be just the thing to make coffee a little more magical each day.
- If you Can Read This, Bring Coffee socks – A cute, fun gift!
- Ello Cole Travel Mug – This one has great ratings and looks great too!
- Healing Herbal Teas book – Perfect for someone that may be interested in blending their own teas.
- Silicone Tea Infusers – These are so neat! It comes with 6 in a pack, so you could separate them to make more gifts!
- Mug Warmer – Perfect for the person who prefers to drink out of a mug and not a travel mug.
Nov 3 | Holidays
Frugal Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
Have you got a book lover on your gift list? Books are always good, but these are unique ideas that any book lover would love to receive! Take a look at this list of frugal gift ideas the book lover is sure to love. $30 or Less!
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- When in Doubt, Go to the Library Socks – Well, these library socks are ridiculously awesome for the book lover!
- Get Lit T-Shirt – Perfection.
- The Book Lovers Journal – For someone that wants to remember each and every book they’ve read.
- Personal Library Kit – For the book lover that also loves to loan out their collection.
- I Love Books Tote Bag – Every Book lover needs a tote bag to carry all their books!
- Origami Leaf Book Paper Earrings – These are so cute!
- Minitaure Book Earrings – These earrings are also really great!
- Library Card Art Print – Perfect for the person who would like to decorate the walls at home too.
- Harry Potter Cauldron Soup Mug with Spoon – For the die hard Harry Potter fan!
- “Bookish” Printable Art – An easy and affordable way to add some inspiration to your space.
- Wooden Book Page Holder – This is something I never knew existed, but I could see it being very handy for the avid reader!
- Metal Leaf Bookmark – This would be such a pretty gift to give.
- “Too Many Books” Pillow Cover – I love things with quirky sayings and I’m sure someone who loves books would too!
- Shakespeare Insults poster – This would make for a great conversation piece in the home of someone who loves Shakespeare!
- Funny Mug – For the sassy book lover with a sense of humor.
Dec 18 | Household Tips, Cleaning, Holidays
Can you believe we’re one week away from Christmas day? Wow! Time sure flies when you’re having fun! (or being busy?) Since we’re one week away from Christmas, this also means we’ve reached the last week of the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series! I sure hope you enjoyed it. I also hope it helped you to have a more simple and manageable holiday season!
Christmas usually involves company and no one likes to show their guests a good time in a messy home. So, today, I’ve got a free printable Get Your House Holiday Ready Checklist! It includes suggestions of cleaning tasks to do each day leading up to Christmas day. There’s even plenty of room for you to add your own tasks. I kept it fairly simple, because really, who has time for crazy cleaning this time of year?
Remember, these are suggestions only! Click on the image below or here to print your holiday cleaning list.
What tasks are on your holiday cleaning list? Are you ready for Christmas?
Here are the rest of the posts in the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series:
Dec 11 | Holidays
Can you believe there are only two posts left in this series before Christmas day?? Crazy!
This week, we’re going to focus on tying up loose ends! (Or in other words, finish the things we skipped over 😉 )
That means we’ll:
- finish shopping for gifts
- send out those remaining Christmas cards
- bake delicious cookies
- buy as many groceries as possible for Christmas day
- finish decking the halls
- do those holiday activities that you want to do
- wrap gifts
What do you still have to finish? I’ll admit, I have to get our Christmas cards sent out still! I’m also waiting for some gifts to arrive in the mail so I haven’t started wrapping yet. But, I like to do that all in one sitting while I watch a Christmas movie! 🙂
For fun, I’m leaving you with a link to Christmas music playlists and a list of Christmas movies to watch!
If you’re looking for some Christmas music, check out Spotify for some fabulous playlists that you can listen to 24 hours a day.
Here are some Christmas movies I think you might enjoy:
- The Holiday
- Arthur Christmas
- The Bishop’s Wife
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- A Christmas Carol
- Christmas in Connecticut
- A Christmas Story
- Elf
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- The Polar Express
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Buddies
- Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Scrooge
- The Snowman
- Frosty the Snowman
- Frosty Returns
- Holiday Inn
- Home Alone
- Home Alone 2
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Jack Frost
- Jingle All the Way
- Love Actually
- The Santa Clause
- White Christmas
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- Mickey’s Christmas Carol
- Miracle on 34th Street
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
Do you have any other Christmas movies on your ‘must watch’ list? How are you coming along in your Christmas preparations?
Here are the posts in the 8 Weeks to a Simpler Christmas series so far:
Dec 4 | Menu Planning, Holidays
I think this will be a fun week in the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series! It’s all about food! Specifically, we’re going to plan our holiday menus. You’ll want to think about:
- Christmas dinner
- Christmas brunch
- Christmas eve
- Boxing day
And well, any meal surrounding Christmas day. My planning is quite simple. My parents cook our Christmas brunch and dinner so all I have to do is bring the cheesecake and some baking!
For inspiration, I highly recommend taking a look through Pinterest.
While you’re planning out your dishes, be sure to start adding items to a grocery list. You don’t want to forget anything!
To help you out, you’ll want to check out the Christmas dinner planner and grocery list that are available in the Holiday Planner, here.
Also be sure to print off the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas checklists to make sure you’re on track for the final week’s until Christmas day!
What will be on your holiday menu? Leave it in the comments! Any food traditions you have to uphold? How do you keep on budget?
Sign up for the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas newsletter to receive a FREE Christmas Dinner Checklist! This checklist is quite detailed and will help you remember all the details needed for a memory filled dinner with family and friends. You’ll also receive a weekly email with each week’s “task”.
Here are the posts in the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series so far:
Nov 27 | Household Tips, Holidays, Organization
Here we are, week five of the 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas series. That means there are only 28 days left until Christmas! Hopefully you’re feeling a bit more organized than usual because you’ve been following along with the series?
We have a “rule” in our house. One that I actually grew up with so it sort of just stayed in place now that I have a home of my own. Christmas decorating (and Christmas music listening) doesn’t begin until December 1st. Maybe you have that same “rule” in your home? Either way, December 1st happens to be this week. Thursday to be exact. So that puts the focus of this 8 Weeks to a More Organized Christmas post on Christmas decorating! (I’m going to add in Christmas baking planning too since it’s nice to have a plan for all those parties and gifting opportunities.)
It’s easy to get carried away with Christmas decorating. After all, the stores are really good at displaying Christmas decorations juuuust right, so you want to buy them all.
This year, focus on decorating simply. Bring out only your favourite decorations. If you must buy something new, limit yourself to one or two things thing. Find contentment with what you already own. (Ahem, something I’m telling myself…)
Here are a few ways to decorate frugally for Christmas:
Buy Secondhand
Head to your local thrift stores to see if you can snag any good deals on Christmas decor, Christmas linens or even objects you can transform into holiday decorations!
Get your Craft on
Christmas is the perfect opportunity to get the whole family involved in creating some cute homemade decorations. Pinterest is full of family friendly craft ideas to help make your home more festive.
Shop the sales
Even before Christmas you can find some great sales on Christmas decor. There seems to always be some sort of Christmas light sale going on, especially at hardware stores. You might even find some clearance deals on last years stock!
How do you save on Christmas decorations?
Now for the baking. Start making a list of everything you want to make this year. At some point this week, purchase all your baking supplies so you’re good to go whenever you have a spare moment. When you start baking, make the items that can be frozen, first.
Here are some ideas from Simply Frugal to get you started:
Here is a free Baking List printable for you to download that should come in handy!
What will be on your Christmas baking list this year?
