Are you planning a Frugal Christmas? As you know I stockpile for the Holiday’s so Christmas is not too expensive for me. However, this year I am trying to spend even less than I ever have before. We are really trying to utilize our stockpile and think outside of the box when it comes to spending. I decided to post some ideas for ways to be frugal for Christmas this week for Frugal Friday.
1. Gift Gift from your stockpile: Put together a “Snack Attack” Gift Basket or a “Cleaning Supplies” gift basket with items from your stockpile.
2. Gift Giving by hosting a Direct Sales Party: I hosted a 31 Gifts Party during Hostess Hop Up and earned hundred’s of dollars of free product!
3. Give a homemade gift – check out our recipes section. Peanut Butter Fudge, Cookies and Peanut Butter Balls are some of our favorites.
4. Give a craft item made by your children – I love creating a project using my son’s hand print or foot print. You can also use projects they build at Lowes or Home Depot!
5. Give a Magazine Subscription. Right now you can order All You for only $.83 an issue. There are also many more great deals available!
I would love to hear some ideas that you have!
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As stay-at-home moms for eight years, Melissa and Shelley know what it takes to live a savvy lifestyle within a budget. Their passion for helping people has expanded their reach from Stockpiling Moms.com to also including speaking engagements, book authors (Savvy Saving Couponing Secrets from the Stockpiling Moms) and conference co-hosts. Melissa and Shelley are best friends who met through 
I canned a lot during the summer, so teachers, close friends, neighbors and the mailman will all get some form of jam. I have shopped well the past month on freebies and GWP for stocking stuffers. And I shop all year long for everybody so it doesn’t hit our bottom line so much by Dec.
Great tips!
I buy even gifts and toss them in my stockpile … if I catch a loss leader price on a toy or a DVD it gets picked up and placed in the attic … there is always someone it can go to on my gifting list (and worst case toys are then donated to Toys for Tots)