Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

9 Sheets of Holiday Gift Wrap. 4 Sheets measuring 30 inches x 30 inches and 5 sheets measuring 24 inches x 30 inches for a total of 50 square feet.

Self Adhesvie sticker style gift tags, 5 Different images within each box, each box contains 90 labels. Perfect for all occasions. Featuring the Hogwarts School Crest, Hedwig the Owl, and Harry potter in his Robes with his Wand.

Saving money on gifts doesn’t have to just include the gift itself. Check out these money saving ways to wrap gifts for less.

* Wrap gifts in a fabric, drawstring bag.

* Buy and reuse gift bags that don’t create wrapping waste.

* For boxes with removable lids (like shoe boxes), wrap both the box and the lid so that the paper is not torn upon opening, and the box can be reused by the recipient. Use ribbon the close the box instead of stick-on bows that tear paper.

* Save used gift wrap and reuse it next year.

* Decorate an unwrapped gift with reused ribbons or dried grasses and flowers.

* Use a knit hat to wrap a gift, or a pretty dishtowel, a flour sack, or a bandana.

* Use old calendar photos to wrap smaller gifts, or how about an old map? Use blueprints, grocery bags that you’ve decorated with fruit or vegetable prints, or the comics section.


Christmas Facts

Christmas trees were first lighted with actual candles, which presented a fire hazard. As a result containers filled with water had to be kept near the Christmas tree.

Workers in the construction industry are responsible for the tradition of having a Christmas tree on display at Rockefeller Center in New York City. They are credited with placing an undecorated tree at the site in the early 1930s.

Since the mid-1960s, The National Christmas Tree Association has maintained a presence in the White House at Christmas by donating a Christmas tree to the First Family.

The former Woolworth department store first sold manufactured Christmas tree ornaments in 1880.

2011 Christmas Ornaments





More Christmas Facts

Plastic became the primary material used to make tinsel after their use for decorative purposes was at one time prohibited because lead was used in the manufacturing process.

The idea of Christmas greeting cards started in Britain in the late 1830s when John Calcott Horsley started to produce small cards that had festive scenes and a holiday greeting written inside. Similar cards were also being made in the United States at about the same time by R.H. Pease, in Albany, New York, and Louis Prang, who was a German immigrant. The idea of sending the greeting cards during Christmas gained popularity in both countries about 10 years later when new postal delivery services started.

The shortened form Xmas for Christmas has been popular in Europe since the 1500s. It is believed to be derived from the Greek word 'Xristos' which means Christ.

According to the National Confectioners Association, for 200 years candy canes were only made in the color of white and it wasn't until in the 1950s that a machine was invented that could automate the production of candy canes.