10 Tips for Year-round Gift Buying

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10 Tips for Year-round Gift Buying

1. Create a central location for all your gifts
2. Always be on the lookout for a good bargain but buy with a plan and take it back if you impulse sale buy just because it "was too good to pass up"
3. Use Gift Box Inventory Cards to record all purchases on
4. Keep a Inventory Cards in a card box along with ALL receipts
5. "Shop" out of your gift box FIRST for those extra gifts you need
6. Combine several small gifts you find on sale together to make a larger gift
7. Remember - people do not know you got it at 90% off so look at the gift as if you paid the original price or it and not the reduced price
8. You can "control" your children's wants just like the TV - get them excited about gifts you have already purchased by showing them the items in stores and catalogs
9. Get to know a sales clerk at your favorite store to find out how the store marks items down
10. Have a theme for your holiday purchases and shop accordingly all year long