Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

Cheap Ideas For Christmas Gifts

As with everything else in life, people want to know what are the top ten items in a particular category. Need it be cars, toys, clothing or what-have-you, people want to know. I guess it’s sort of like the old saying of “keeping up with the Jones’s”.  Whatever the reason, the top ten Christmas gift ideas list is one that many look for each and every year before shopping.

We’ve put together the top 10 Christmas gifts list with a few factors involved. One, the list is for gifts for children eighteen and younger, no item on this list is over $100 in price, and they seem to be the popular gift for this year.

1. LEGO Board Game
2. Sing-A-Ma-Jig
3. Dance Star Mickey
4. My Pillow Pet
5. Halo Reach X-Box 360
6. Angry Birds Knock On Wood Game
7. The Loopz Game
8. NerfNStrike Stampede
9. Stick Garbage Truck
10. Qwirkle

Have a safe and stress-free shopping season.

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Jenga is a towering good time and worth screaming about. For 1 or more players, ages 6 and up. Stack the pieces to build the tower. Try not to cause the tower to tumble. Packaged in a customized coffin-shaped box.

The classic Peanuts story is now a fun board game. Join Charlie Brown and his friends to see who makes it back to the Season’s Greetings Patch first to be the one to light the the star on top of the Christmas Tree. Includes the game board, Peanuts cards, character pieces, spinner, and instructions.

Show your support this holiday season for the New York Jets. Snowman in his New York Jets gear ready to join in the festivities

Playstation 2 MLB Wireless Game Pad

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Barbie A Christmas Carol - Eden Starling and the 3 Christmas Spirits Gift Set

Eden is a picture of Victorian London perfection. Barbie is wearing a stunning red ball gown with flowing gold bow and shimmery accents. Beautiful details that are true to the film – her signature cameo necklace, pearl earrings, her voluminous draped velvet skirt and her glamorous gloves.

This special gift set also includes three Christmas Spirits characters from the movie. They are dressed here as the spirits of Christmas past, present and future.

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Jakks Pacific Ultimotion Swing Zone Sports Motion Controller Video Game

Play your favorite sports like a pro with the Ultimotion Swing Zone Sports video game. This fun and entertaining interactive video game will have your five- to 10-year-old child hitting home runs like a champ, tossing a football like a quarterback, and acing their opponents on the tennis court in no time flat. CLICK TO PURCHASE


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.