- I can't believe it,
but Christmas is a little bit more than just a month away.
And I'm so excited.
I mean,
I love Christmas.
Of course.
I feel like it's like majority of people's favorite holiday.
Like mine, I can not wait,
but a word of caution.
This is a holiday that you can tend to overspend,
especially if you're a spender like me.
So you don't want your emotions
just to run away with your money.
So let's have a plan, but also have some fun
and you can give some great Christmas gifts
without going broke.
And the best way to do this
is again to have a budget
and to know the people you're buying for,
you're actually buying them something
that you know they're going to love.
So I created a fun little gift guide
to help you give some great gifts
and save money.
So everything on this list is $35 or under.
You're welcome.
Now, know that the prices can fluctuate all the time.
We're filming this,
and by the time you look at it,
who knows what the price is,
we tried to get in the ballpark,
but just wanted to like let you know,
to do research before buying, okay?
And even some stores will do price matching.
So if you find something you love
and you find it cheaper somewhere else,
but you wanna buy it from this store,
you can contact them.
And usually they will they'll match the price,
which is awesome.
So always look for the best deal.
Do not forget that.
And these are for all the chefs in your life.
All right, up first, is your man a chef?
Mine is. Winston Cruze loves to cook.
So here's some good ideas.
The Simple Feast cooking app, okay.
It's $8.99 a month.
So maybe you just pay for three months or six months.
You don't have to go the full year,
depending on your budget.
But this app is great
because it features recipes and technique videos
from a lot of renowned international chefs
out there that are famous
and great at what they do.
All the chopping and the beautifulness
of how they do things.
Like watch the videos on it all
and learn from them.
It's amazing.
Also a milk frother.
Yes. I'm like straight up black coffee.
I need nothing in it.
Nothing. Winston loves to make great coffee.
So he has one of these milk frothers.
He like even like gets whole beans, coffee beans,
and like grinds them. I'm like, ah,
give me a Keurig black coffee and I'm good.
But if they're fancy,
if they're fancy, and they like fancy coffee,
like Winston, then milk frother,
it's what you should get your man.
You can also give him a handwritten cookbook.
When you take paper,
you write down all your favorite family recipes.
So, I love this idea because usually everyone's like,
what do we want to eat?
Well, make a recipe book,
and then he can go and make some of them.
I mean, can you imagine him
just whipping up your grandma's secret
Alfredo sauce, like precious.
I love it. And it's free.
And if your man is an adventurer,
this one's for him.
The bucket list book.
This is a great book you guys.
Even if it's just for like a coffee table or whatever,
there's so many, so many fun ideas in it.
It's a great gift.
Also binoculars.
Yep.
Winston's dad got him a pair of binoculars last year,
and he loves it.
My girls love the binoculars.
I mean, it's just one of those gifts.
You're like, oh yeah, you see a bird outside,
bring the binoculars and watch the bird
or whatever you do with binoculars.
But dudes left binoculars.
It's like gadgets. I don't know.
They love it though.
Also a lifetime REI membership.
So this is great.
I know Winston has this for sure. Okay.
It's $20 and you get special offers, get coupons.
And when they get like their big REI garage sale,
where everything is super discounted,
you get a ticket for that garage sale.
And again, it's not that expensive.
It's like $20,
but you get a lot of great deals from that.
If your man is an introvert
and just wants to be home all nights,
this one's for him.
A gardener's tool seat.
Yes.
This is a thing.
One of my friends' husband has this
and loves it.
So what it is, it's like a seat out for the yard,
but you can have all your tools here
and then you can actually lift up part of the seat
and it becomes a cushion if they're gardening
or whatever you do down on the grass,
but he has a seat for it.
So apparently he loves it.
And I don't know, if your guy likes to work outside,
maybe that's a great gift for him.
If it's your spouse,
then you could give him just a day at home,
by himself,
without the kids.
Now that is a great gift.
Like the best gift you probably get for like, you know,
from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
the house is yours,
and you can do whatever you want.
And you leave with the kids.
That's a nice gift. And it's free.
These are for all the intellectuals out there.
Audiobooks.
I love audiobooks. I do.
There are, sometimes podcasts.
So I'm like, okay, okay.
Yeah. I like am up on all the episodes.
But ust a good audiobook to have,
it's awesome.
So, some of my favorite audiobooks,
or one of my favorites
is Everyday Millionaires by Chris Hogan.
So if your man's like, yeah, I'm smart,
and I wanna become a millionaire,
it's a great audiobook for him.
You can do it.
It's awesome.
And here's a fun tip too.
If you have audible and they have audible,
then you can actually switch books for free.
So you're like, oh yeah here, you take that.
So, there's an option.
And lastly, a subscription to a national newspaper.
So if they want like the old school newspaper, yeah.
Just get a subscription,
I'm sure they'll love it,
Or if they want the digital side of it,
you can do it there, it's on a website.
But let them read some current events.
They'll love you for it.
For all you creatives out there.
I mean, that is like not bad.
Oh my gosh, y'all. That's actually pretty good.
This one was one of my favorites.
DIY hot sauce kit.
Mmm hmm. Yeah.
You make your hot sauce, people.
Who doesn't love that.
I'm not even creative, but I love that.
That's a great gift.
Artist Sketch wallet.
This is awesome because it's just like very small,
but it's a little sketchpad.
So it's like, if there's ideas,
they need to mark something down, write it.
It's right there in your back pocket, easy.
Create a video tribute from all of their family members
and friends of them telling
how much they love him.
I want that.
Like, that's like the sweetest thing ever.
And it's free.
So just like text a bunch of friends and family
and be like send me a quick video,
put it together, put a little music.
On the same note,
create a mixtape,
mix CD,
maybe just a playlist,
if you want to go 2020, people.
But yeah, their favorite music all together, right there.
And you're like, here.
I think a mixtape is so fun.
Do you remember when you had to do mixtapes?
You like had your boombox.
You had your little cassette tape
and then song come on the radio,
you run upstairs
and you have to hit play and record.
And you always miss
like the first 15, 20 seconds of the song,
which was the worst.
Go back to those days, people.
Time was simpler.
He'll love it for you, I promise.
For all your men out there
who are very tech savvy.
Number one, Tile, for not losing all your keys and wallets
and everything.
Yeah, it's right there.
I need this. I need this.
Oh my gosh. Just the other day we're flying home.
We went out as a family on a little trip,
thought I left my phone in the stroller
as I'm watching it getting towed
underneath the plane.
And I was like, Oh no. Oh no.
So I had to like run up, tell the guy,
I was like, I think my phone's in the stroller.
It wasn't. No, it was in my bag still,
but I lose my phone all the time.
So Tile, I might need that.
Amazon trade-in. Okay.
This is great.
So if they're wanting to upgrade a gadget,
you can actually trade in the old,
the old gadget
and they're gonna give you some money for it.
And you can put that toward something new
that you wanna buy him.
So it's like a trade-in.
It's awesome.
So training an old devices for new devices
and discounted costs is the way to go.
See, you guys, all affordable gifts.
You can get creative,
have some great gifts this Christmas
without busting the budget.
I promise it's possible.
And it's fun to give gifts that you know
they're going to like.
So I've also got some other great gift guides
coming up for you ladies out there and kids.
So make sure to subscribe or like
so you don't miss out on any of those.
And I'll be putting a link in the description
of all the great gifts that we just talked about.
All right, Merry Christmas.