Posts Tagged ‘holiday’

Rethink the Season of Giving

Next Thursday, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and other charities across the US will be fully staffed with smiling-faced, happy volunteers eagerly doling out food and other assistance to those whose need is greatest. Families across the country will come together in the spirit of giving, and will return home beaming with pride and contentment, knowing deep in their hearts that they have made a difference. It’s the finest side of… Continue reading

November 20 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: charity, christmas, giving, holiday, season, thanksgiving, volunteering | 2 comments»

Holiday Windfalls: 7 Tips on Using Them

The holidays often come with a windfall or two: a monetary gift from a relative or a bonus from an employer. We don't necessarily expect these gifts — that's why they're called windfalls — so deciding what to do with them can be a little complicated. Perhaps you have a pressing need for cash to pay an important bill. If so, that kind of practical application may make your decision… Continue reading

December 25 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: bonus, gift, holiday, windfall | 7 comments»

Holiday Damage Control

Fat season. That's what we call it around my office. It starts on Halloween, and it usually runs straight through January. We are bombarded by holidays that require us to consume copious amounts of meats, pies, cookies, chocolates, and alcohol. On top of that, for those of us living in the north, it gets dreadfully cold and painfully hard to do as much moving around as we would like to… Continue reading

December 24 2008 | By Jamie | Tagged: diet, eating, exercise, fat, fitness, food, holiday, season | 4 comments»

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»

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 | 9 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 reading

December 19 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: book, gift, gtd, holiday, Productivity, recommendation, tool | 26 comments»

How To Convince Your Boss To Let You Work From Home

In this day and age, with communication being to easy through mobile technologies, it makes sense to work out of the office.If you are able to do your job from home, why can't you? What is the benefit of traveling upwards of an hour each day, through stressful traffic, to enter the distraction-full environment that most offices are?Tim Ferriss has written a book called The 4-Hour Work Week and… Continue reading

April 23 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: holiday, home, homeoffice, workfromhome, working | 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 reading

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

Tips for an inexpensive Valentine’s Day

Young Money put together a list of ten tips to help you enjoy a romantic Valentine's Day while saving money. For the unaware, Wednesday is Valentine's Day. If you don't plan on becoming rich in six days, this list might be for you. Valentine's Day is one holiday where this sentiment rings most true. Rich in love unfortunately does not necessarily mean rich in pocket. Yet… Continue reading

February 8 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: celebrate, holiday, inexpensive, saving, tips | no comments»

Budget Vacation Hacks

Here are a few hacks and tips for getting yourself ready for vacations. Some deal with money. Others deal with planning. They all hopefully add up to ways you might get more fun and comfort out of your next vacation:

Save Change and Coffee Money- Make it a project to raise jars of money for vacations. One trick is to always pocket your change from purchases and only buy using bills

June 18 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: budget, expense, hacks, holiday, lifehacks, Lifestyle, morewithless, tips, travel, vacation | 3 comments»

Don’t Celebrate Stressmas

Christmas is a wonderful time of year to practice forgiveness, and especially to forgive yourself. Walk into the New Year with an open mind and a hopeful attitude. Let go of all the baggage you’re carrying. Don’t ever be tempted to feel guilty about your emotions, let alone accept responsibility for anyone else’s. Continue reading

December 19 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: balance, family, happiness, holiday, life, Lifehack, personal, relationship, relaxation, resolution, work-life, worrying | 5 comments»

Holiday Gifts for Working Stiffs

Are you a boss? This post is intended to help you be the Santa Claus everyone who works for you is wishing and hoping, even praying that you will be this month.

What follows are my suggestions for your m.o. as the employer everyone would love to have right now. Take them and you’ll score big-time brownie points, you’ll enjoy the holidays a lot more yourself, and you’ll have the best… Continue reading

December 8 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: holiday, Management, work | 4 comments»