Posts Tagged ‘christmas’

How to Confidently Handle Festive Family Friction

Help me Steve! The kids, my husband, getting the house ready, the cooking, the shopping plus full-time work - I've got everything to do for Christmas, I'm already running around like a mad thing and time's fast running out! Plus my husband's parents are coming over for the first time and I don't get on with his Mum at all. So Christmas Day itself is going to be… Continue reading

December 10 2008 | By Steve | Tagged: christmas, confident, conflict, family, holiday, personal-development, self-help, stress | 2 comments»

How to Make This Christmas Your Best Ever!

Is Christmas a joyous time for you? Or are you stressed? Overspending on presents, pressure from kids and other loved ones, prolonged and close proximity to difficult family members and loneliness can all build up your stress levels. Christmas can also be very demanding on your relationship as you spend a lot of time together with family and in-laws. However, it doesn’t have to be so. Christmas is meant to… Continue reading

December 3 2008 | By Arvind | Tagged: cheer, christmas, family, holiday, party | 7 comments»

The Lifehack 2008 Gift Guide

It’s that time of year again – time to sally forth in search of the perfect gift for the special and not-so-special-but-they’re-family people in your life. Given the economic situation this year, I made up a list with a few criteria in mind:

Nothing crazy expensive. Everything on this list is under $400, and most is way under. Sure, a 48-foot LCD TV would

December 1 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: christmas, gadget, gift, giving, guide, Hannuka, Productivity, Technology | 13 comments»

10 Reasons Gift Certificates Make Horrible Gifts

I don’t know who came up with gift certificates, but they should receive an award for one of the best marketing jobs ever pulled on the unsuspecting public. How else can you explain how people are willing to trade money, for a less useful and more restrictive form of money at a one-to-one ratio? For those of you who can’t think of what to buy your miserly Aunt Josie… Continue reading

December 25 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: christmas, consumerism, gifts, humor | 82 comments»

5 Things to Do If You Aren’t Celebrating Christmas

Christmas is a great holiday -- you get to spend a day with your family, wallowing in nostalgia and familial love, and you get presents on top of that! But what if you don't celebrate Christmas? What if you're not Christian, or your family is too far away, or you have no family, or you just aren't in the mood?

If you aren't celebrating Christmas, it can be

December 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, annual_review, christmas, holiday, Projects, volunteering, work | 8 comments»

Lifehack Readers’ Last-Minute Gift Suggestions

Last week I asked for your best last-miute Christmas gift suggestion and once again you came through. Usually I give my response to the question first, but I've already done that with my Lifehack Last-Minute Gift List for Productive (and Potentially Productive) People last Wednesday.

There's not a lot of time left for Christmas shopping, but there's plenty here for someone still shopping, even today! Here's… Continue reading

December 24 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: christmas, gifts, giving, last-minute, shopping | 5 comments»

How to Choose the Perfect Gift

It is almost Christmas and many of us are still scrambling around trying to choose the perfect gift for a friend or relative. What do they want? What do they need? What can we buy? We can spend hours in shops asking ourselves these questions. There is another way to select the perfect gift but it involves changing our perception of… Continue reading

December 18 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: christmas, Communication, gift, giving, relationship | 9 comments»

We Ask, You Answer: Last-Minute Christmas Suggestions

Every Monday, we pose a question for the lifehack.org community to answer. The following Monday, I post my answer along with a selection (depending on how many there are) of your responses. The idea is to give you a chance to share your knowledge with the rest of the lifehack.org community -- and to give you the opportunity to see what your fellow lifehack.org readers are doing!

This… Continue reading

December 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: christmas, gift, shopping | 16 comments»

How Not To Overspend On Your Christmas Shopping

Christmas - it's the lovely time of the year again; the time for giving and sharing of gifts with family and friends. As much as we want to celebrate and be jolly during this festive season, we want to make sure that we are careful about spending so that we don’t spoil the festive mood. From past years’ experiences, my challenge with Christmas shopping has always been overspending. Retailers are… Continue reading

December 13 2007 | By Lawrence | Tagged: budget, christmas, finance, shopping | 30 comments»

Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with Pre-Christmas Cleaning

Today is "Black Friday", the busiest shopping day of the year in the US and the official start of the Christmas buying season. If you have kids, that most likely means a new crop of the latest toys and video games. The wholesale (maybe I should say "retail") celebration of consumerism makes a lot of people anxious, with good reason. What kind of values are we modeling for… Continue reading

November 23 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: charity, children, christmas, organization, toys | 31 comments»

Take your Christmas back

It is well into November and the world is ramping up its Christmas hype. We are bombarded with Christmas food, Christmas gifts, Christmas expectations and Christmas pressure. This can be one of the best times of year, but many people end up overcome by stress, guilt, molten credit cards and broken relationships. It doesn't have to be like this. With a little… Continue reading

November 15 2007 | By Tom | Tagged: christmas, improvement | 14 comments»

Your Plan for Christmas?

For people who celebrate Christmas in your country, you may have couple of days off from work. What are you planning to utilize these holidays? Dinner and spending time with family? Party with your friends? Read your personal development books and ready for next year? Tell me your productive plan. Productivity does not meant for work only. For me, productivity means getting what you planned done. For me, I am having one week off… Continue reading

December 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: christmas, Productivity | 3 comments»

16 Tips Digital Photography Tips for Christmas

Photography is important to capture your memories on your Christmas holiday this year. Digital Photography School has 16 tips for digital camera owners to keep in mind. Those tips make sure your photo are as high quality as possible so that you won't lose any moment: