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I plan on spending less than $100 this Christmas. I used to spend $1000. For my grown daughter, I will buy her two Yankee candles and a candle warmer I found for $4.99. I send for internet freebies all year and either use them for stocking stuffers or to make gift baskets. This year I received several tote bags along with my freebies so I will give her a tote bag filled with freebies.(She's a confessed product junkie). I will also bake a pound cake and cookies I will package in decorative tins. I am making her a box of all occasion greeting cards, I purchased a beautiful, new, hand-crocheted afghan on Ebay for $19.99, I'm sending her some photos in a photo album of the family, and my cell phone plan entitles me to a new free cell phone which I will send her.

Other members of my family are sending for internet freebies now also. There are freebies for children, women and men. I send for about 5 per day and have received a large number and some really nice ones as well as some junk. I throw them all in a drawer and use them for Christmas (except the ones I keep). I receive hundreds of dollars worth of freebies each year. L'oreal recently sent me a coupon for the foundation makeup of my choice up to a $13.00 value, I have coffee and tea samples, cosmetics, tote bags, 2 Swiffer dusters, a Schick razor, detergents, tooth pastes, calendars, coupons for free diabetic drinks worth $22.00, 6 tubes of deodorants,etc. etc. My point is, there are so many nice freebies out there that this could contribute greatly to your Christmas gift giving. I do not send for freebies for children as I have no little ones to buy for, but if I had little money, I would send for children's freebies all year long and have a nice little stash come Christmas. These could be used for their main gifts if need be, or as stocking stuffers.

For dh, I plan on using my Marriott points to buy him a gift. Last year, I used my points to buy him a Camcorder.