No, I'm spending my Black Friday watching movies with Matt and basically digesting from the two enormous feasts we had yesterday with our families. But I can't help but starting to think about my holiday shopping; after all, now that Thanksgiving is over, it's completely seasonally appropriate to start tackling my gifts list.
This year, I'm using a new method for buying presents while staying in budget. And it involves a really cool new Pinterest feature: secret boards.
I'd like to take this moment to disclaimer that this post is not sponsored or in any other way endorsed by Pinterst. It's just something cool that I decided to do and thought to share :)
So anyway, I realized I could make a secret board to organize, tag and price my entire gift list. And I'm the only person who can see it; the pins don't appear anywhere on my profile, but I can see them any time I want. So I just shopped online for everyone, pinned everything I thought might work, and tagged the pin with a name and a price. If you're new to the pinning scene, adding a price to a pin actually displays the price over the image, like so:
Images blacked out so no one guesses what I'm getting them :)
So anyway, as I narrow down my options for each person, I'll have a pretty clear idea of exactly how much I'm spending...and when I'm ready to buy everything, I can just click through the links and have everything delivered to the house. Easiest. Holiday. Shopping. Ever.
Do you have any tricks for not overspending during your holiday shopping?
I usually make a spread sheet and have a set spending limit on each person. As soon as I buy something, I put it into the spreadsheet with the price and subtract that from the total. I keep doing that until I reach my spending limit! I try to buy a few little things so I can give several cool gifts instead of one big one! I hope that makes sense!
ReplyDeleteI wish I had a budget for Christmas this year. I'm so sad that I won't be able to buy anybody a Christmas gift. Europe has drained my checking and my savings accounts, haha
dude, this is such a good idea!!!! I never thought about using secret boards but this is such a great use!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you so much about this ridiculous BF tradition. It's commercialization at its worst. This year, some people even got shot from frayed tempers.
ReplyDeleteI make lists of gifts for people and keep a running total to avoid going overboard. I bought your holiday gift but I'm not sure how to mail a pony. :)