Holiday Gift Ideas for Grandkids

You can make a list from mail order catalogs and call in or mail your order. Calling it in allows you the chance to make sure an item is available or backordered. Using the Internet, or catalog shopping, saves you from searching store to store. The plus side is - all the packages are delivered right to your door. The more you utilize these ways of shopping the easier your actual shopping trip to the store becomes. Plan to go to a mall, or three different stores. Make your list for each stop and crossing off who's gifts are purchased. Plan to go around dinner time, or early in the week when the stores are not so crowded. Also for special sales early morning is the best time to get the sale items.

Don't forget to purchase wrapping paper, tags, tape and greeting cards. Dollar stores and discount stores have an abundance of inexpensive gift wrapping items and finishing touches. You may have to buy shipping boxes and packing tape for those out of town gifts. The U S Postal Service, Mail Boxes ETC and Office Max all have packaging supplies. Mail Boxes ETC will even do the packaging and mailing for a fee. Make sure there is the right amount of postage on packages and oversized greeting cards. Don't wait until the last minute to wrap, tag and especially send your gifts. I try to wrap my gift orders as they arrive to my home. I shop early for gifts I need to send out of town, I wrap and mail them before December 12th, with a do not open until Christmas Eve tag on them. After my shopping trips, I sort, box and tag items and wrap them the next day. I pick a cold, windy day, early in December to write out greeting cards and mail them by the 12th as well.

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When all the shopping is done, the gifts are wrapped, cards and packages are sent, I go shopping for my reward. My reward is

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