Merry Christmas to Me from Victoria’s Secret!

So this year my husband and I decided to do things a little differently for Christmas gifts to each other.  I went through our drawer that has coupons and gifts cards and found that we had a total of $175 in free money at various stores, so we divided the ‘free money’ and that was our limit.  We opened our gifts with my parents and other family this morning and everything was as expected.  I received a puzzle, lotions, sweater…and then something very exciting happened. 

Jason said one more gift and he left and came back with this…

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A Victoria’s Secret Tower of NINE boxes.  He used the scratch off card guaranteeing him $10 and found out it was worth $500!!!!!!!!!  They let him have a personal shopper to help him spend his money and they did a wonderful job.  I cannot even tell you how exciting it was to open all of those boxes.  I am not going to show you what was in them, just know it was embarrassing enough to open them in front of family! 

I hope your Christmas was as exciting as mine 🙂  Also, my husband is wearing 4 pairs of lounge/warm up pants, all of which he received this morning.

Books = Gifts

This year I had decided to make books the theme of my Christmas gift giving.  We have an independent bookstore that I will support by shopping there and I’m compiling my list of ideas before I go.  Last night I found the website, http://www.booksequalgifts.com/, and was excited to see a site with links to good gift ideas, a book sweepstakes, and this fun video
America’s book publishers are proud to debut a holiday video featuring Elmo, Martha Stewart, Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters, Dean Koontz, Maya Angelou, Mary Higgins Clark, Kathie Lee Gifford, Bill O’Reilly, Christopher Paolini, Frank McCourt, Arianna Huffington, Deepak Chopra, Julie Andrews, Cesar Milan, Carol Higgins Clark, Alec Baldwin, Deidre Imus, Jim Cramer, Nora Ephron, Dan Brown, Judy Blume, Jonathan Lethem, Scott Westerfeld, Rachael Ray, and John Lithgow sharing their reasons why books make great gifts.
I hope you will all join me this year in supporting authors, booksellers, and publishers by buying books for gifts 🙂