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Giving Homemade Gifts to Cut Back on Holiday Spending

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Summary: Learn how to cut down on holiday spending by giving homemade gifts in this free Christmas shopping video.

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By Melissa Schenk
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Shopping for gifts doesn’t have to lead to financial stress. Melissa Schenk will teach you how to budget your holiday gift spending and make this the year that you finally come in or...read more

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"Hello! My name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village, today we are going to be talking about how to cut down on our holiday spending. In this clip, when we are thinking about our holiday gift spending and how to cut back a little bit, you mjight want to think about shopping second hand. A lot of people love going to garage sales. There are so many treasures at various garage sales, yard sales, the second hand Thrift Store. You never know what sort of treasures you are going to find there. So depending on what you want to buy for the certain somebody in your life and you've got a little bit extra time, if you would give yourself more time instead of waiting to the last minute to go in search of these gift items, you could save yourself a lot of money and it can be a lot of fun in the long run as well. You will probably find something for yourself in doing this too but if you would give yourself a couple of months especially in the earlier clips we were talking about starting in October, November and December, if you would give yourself a couple of extra months, you could go out to those Thrift stores and you never know what treasures you are going to find. "

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