How to Shop for Christmas

Some people this Holiday Season are hurting financially. My article is going to help you bargain shop or even help one find out they can cook or be a craft master.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Creativity
• Prezels
• White chocolate
• Dark Chocolate
• Family Pictures
• Ribbon

How to buy Christmas Gifts on a Budget

1. First you have to determine your budget. There are many stores that have excellent sales for you to gift buy.

2. If you want to purchase a gift instead of cooking or giving a family portrait, you can check out the local pawn shops. Believe it or not a lot of Pawn shops have everything you could think of, and at a good price.

3. If you do not have a lot of money for friends an extended family gifts you can opt for my perfect homemade gift.

4. Buy a bag of pretzels, any size will do.

5. 
   Christmas Tin

   Buy a decorative Christmas tin, you can usually finds these for a $1.00.

6. Buy a block of white chocolate and a block of dark chocolate.

7. Melt the chocolate at home, you can melt it in the microwave if you check it every couple of minutes and stir or you can do it the old fashion way on the stove top, the main thing you want to make sure of is that you stir it often.

8. 
   Yum!

   Dip your pretzles into the chocolate alternating back forth between white and dark. Lay out and let the pretzels cool.

9. After the chocolate has cooled you can fill your tins and add a ribbon to give as a great gift. People love food especially homemade food as Christmas gifts.

10. If you are not a cook, you might consider buying some cheap pictures frames and putting in family pictures. Family members such as grandparents and aunts and uncles love to have pictures to display in their home of their family.

Tips & Warnings

• You can find great buys at Pawn shops.
• You can make quick and easy homemade chocolate prezels.
• Or you can wrap up pictures of the family.