Thursday, December 8, 2011

Taking charge of my gift list

Somehow, despite my best efforts to keep it top of mind, holiday planning has totally snuck up on me.  I mean, I’ve almost sent out all of my Christmas cards and have picked up a few gifts but with 26 people on our holiday gift list, I have a huge mountain to climb (without breaking the bank) in the next few weeks. Ugh.

So I’ve been looking for solutions to my time/money crunch.  As a work-at-home-mom with three monkeys in my midst, online shopping has been my saviour these past few years so I was excited to discover WagJag, which seems to be a great way I can address some of my holiday panic!  Their Holiday Shoppe is the place to start.

Heading over there today, I was able to nab a really awesome deal for Picaboo, the photobook shop that I always order my photobooks from.  In fact, I just this week received my latest Picaboo photobook that I created from our whirlwind adventure to Orlando in August.  I do these for all of our trips now and they're wonderful keepsakes.




Best part?  The books don't need to be created right away! So I was able to get 2 custom photo books (for future order) for just $35 which would normally cost $100!

This is perfect because these photobooks are something I love to gift to special people in my life.  I’ve decided to use these to create some personalized holiday memory books to give to people in the new year!  I'll create some fun "gift certificates" to give them at Christmas that say a special gift will be on its way to them in January. 

That not only gets me two gifts to scratch from my list, it also gives me the time to make them after the holiday madness is over!  Awesome.

Why not head over to WagJag and see what deals you can find that tickle your fancy? A great way to help get through holiday gift buying craziness.  


Oh, they’re also running a holiday contest on their Facebook page where you can win $500!   I shared the details of that here (and you can watch my little video entry… I’m just a little nervous in front of the camera so don't laugh too hard!).  So head over to their Facebook page and enter!

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I am participating in an influencer program with EverythingMom to support WagJag for the holidays. Although I have been compensated for my time to write this post, the opinions expressed are purely my own.

3 brilliant comments:

  1. That sounds like a pretty great offer. I am guilty of taking thousands of pictures and never doing anything with them. I used to find upload times would drag and who has the patience to wait when you've got more picture-taking to do? How quickly can you through together a book on Picaboo?

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  2. I meant to write: "throw together"

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  3. @Diana - I, too, was guilty of never doing anything with my photos. I tried standard photo albums (jazzed up a little - I'm not much of a scrapbooker) but photobooks have been perfect for me. Picaboo works great because you download the software and design the thing on your own computer first. Then once it's done, you upload the whole thing. No worrying about doing your tweaking and design online. I can put together a book with Picaboo in less than a hour.

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