By Darla Youngblood
- Create traditions for your family that cost little money
- Make a budget for Christmas gifts
- Give experiences as gifts
- Shop online early
- Give fudge, cookies or other baked goods as gifts
- shop discount stores
- find stocking stuffers
- give to food banks so people have food for the holidays
- give gift cards or cash to the hard to buy person
- go to a Christmas Eve Candlelight service at a church
- go to a small town Christmas festival
- make a special meal for family and friends
- make Christmas cards
- Add your favorite recipe and a family picture with your Christmas cards
- Think about time as a gift free babysitting for a young family or something else they need help with
- Offer to pay a electric bill or some other bill for a struggling family member or friend
- give a grocery store gift card to a single parent family
- Donate a toy to a toy drive at Christmas
- Take a gift basket and a card to a elderly person who doesn’t have family
- Find ways this Christmas to give from your heart. It will not only bless that person but bring joy to your heart too