christmas shopping

I guess you really can get ANYTHING on Amazon.

We all have them, usually we're related to them: people that are nearly impossible to buy Christmas presents for. I don't know this for a fact, but I would bet one of the most common reason people dread Christmas shopping is the anxiety involved in finding gifts for hard-to-buy-for people. What do you do? Here are a few ideas that might help.

If we keep it up, there will be specific names for every single day in the holiday shopping season. It starts with Black Friday, then there's Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. I also heard something this year about "Green Monday," but I'm not sure what that is, exactly. The latest day name that I read about made me laugh. "Panic Saturday," the last Saturday before Chris

Attorney General Lisa Madigan today released her annual Safe Shopping Guide highlighting hazardous toys, children’s products and household items that have been recalled over the past year to help Illinois families ensure their home is a safe for the holidays.

The holiday shopping season "officially" begins on Black Friday, but plenty of people get started early. In fact, I know some people that buy Christmas gifts all year around, which means that they end up with a pretty stress-free December. (I wish I could plan ahead like that!) The results of a new holiday shopping survey have been released by online marketplace Rakuten, and I thought th

A much anticipated event for early Christmas shoppers for over four decades returns to Palmyra High School Saturday, November 8.

Black Friday is generally accepted as the kick-off date for the holiday shopping season, but a lot of people actually begin their Christmas shopping well before then. Some people pick up items for Christmas all year around, starting with the sales on the day after Christmas! On the other hand, some people (usually men, I've been one of them, but I'm improving) make it a Christmas Eve tradition to

It used to be that giving a gift certificate (before gift certificates became gift cards) as a Christmas present was frowned upon. A lot of people felt like gift certificates were something people only gave when they were too lazy to come up with anything else, or ran out of time before finishing their Christmas shopping. But do people still look at it that way?