Posts Tagged ‘gift’

211 Shopping Days Until Christmas: Are You Ready?

We haven’t even crossed the six month mark for Christmas this year, but here I am, talking about gift-giving. I haven’t lost it, though: along with Christmas, I’ve already got my gift giving for Father’s Day, various birthdays and a few weddings planned for. How many hours each year do you spend shuffling around for birthday presents or holiday gifts? What about cards? Or even trying to remember to… » Continue

May 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: budget, gift, present, time | 5 comments»

6 Mother’s Day Gift Tips for the Productive Lady in Your Life

The problem with picking a gift based purely on productivity is that most people like gifts that they won’t buy for themselves: people want something fun, something special — and your mother is no exception. And Mother’s Day is almost here: it falls on the on the second Sunday of May, which just happens to be this weekend. We each have only a few days to make sure that… » Continue

May 8 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: family, gift, mother, mother's day, present | 3 comments»

The Lifehack Last-Minute Gift List for Productive (and Potentially Productive) People

With less than a week left before Christmas, I thought it would be a good idea to list some of lifehack.org’s favorite gift ideas. Everything on this list would get a hearty smile from the productive person on your gift list. Most of the items shown here are available through Amazon, for fast delivery by Christmas if you hurry. Links here lead to Amazon.com and prices are given in… » Continue

December 19 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, gift, gtd, holiday, Productivity, recommendation, tool | 25 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

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

December 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: christmas, gift, shopping | 15 comments»

Cut Your Clutter Calories!

As Professional Organizers, we talk often with our clients about how getting organized is a lot like losing weight, since they both require a program of prevention, reduction, and maintenance. Preventing clutter from being created is the first step toward reducing your organizational “weight gain.” Here are a few tips to help you cut those clutter calories:

Control your “clutter cravings.”
People often seem to have an appetite for… » Continue

March 6 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, gift, organization, prevention, selfimprovement, shopping | 5 comments»

Rose pricing online

Buying online can usually save you a decent amount of money. The hardest part of purchasing anything online for me is that I rarely have the patience to wait for it to be mailed. Flowers are no different and can also be purchased online. However, it has been my experience that purchasing flowers online does not save any money. In fact, I have found that… » Continue

February 9 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: gift, holiday, online, purchase | 3 comments»

Birthday Gift Hack: Give them Info!

I’m sure there are variations on this site, but I like Paul’s nifty little application. Plop in birthday month, day, and year, and get back heaps of information about your birthday. Here’s some facts about mine:

You are 1,140,004,018 seconds old.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 1 October 1970.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Dog.
The date of Mardi Gras on

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May 23 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: birthday, gift, hacks, life, software, web | no comments»