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4 Ways to Kickstart Your Holiday Shopping

Starting your holiday shopping can be a hassle but not with these simple tricks

Jillian Rogers

Dec 19, 2016

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4 Ways to Kickstart Your Holiday Shopping

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The holidays are fast approaching and crunch time of buying presents is coming, but sometimes it's just so hard. No matter how many people you shop for it becomes a daunting task, where do you even start? Here are a few ideas to kick start your holiday shopping!

1. Online Shopping (Gift Sections): During the holiday season a lot of online stores have gift sections with different sections.

Here are a few examples:

Hot Topic: http://www.hottopic.com/holiday/

In Hot Topic's holiday gift guide they have all kinds of sections for Christmas shopping, ranging from gifts under certain prices to white elephant gifts to gifts for him and her. This is a great place to start shopping for all your fandom friends and family.

Forever21: http://www.forever21.com/holidayshop/default.aspx

Another easy access place for holiday gift guides. They also have the holiday gifts for him and her section as well sections for cold weather items, bundles, and stocking stuffers starting at $1.

2. Online Shopping (Wish Lists):

The simplest way to start your search for gifts is ask your family (maybe even close friends) to make a wish list of some sort. An easy way and typical way in my family is to make an amazon wish list and update it every so often because this also helps for birthdays. Another way for the family that doesn't have an amazon account is to put links in an email and send them to those family members. I use this for my extended family to give them some choices so you don't know exactly what they're getting you.

3. The Simple Way:

The easiest way to insure your gift is well received is to give cash or a gift card. This is perfect for relatives and friends that are picky or hard to shop for.

4. The Creative Way:

Not all gifts have to be bought in one piece, if you happen to be the creative one in your family or friend group you can use your skills to make something wonderful!

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Starting your holiday shopping can be a hassle but not with these simple tricks

1. Online Shopping (Gift Sections): During the holiday season a lot of online stores have gift sections with different sections.

Hot Topic: http://www.hottopic.com/holiday/

Forever21: http://www.forever21.com/holidayshop/default.aspx

2. Online Shopping (Wish Lists):

3. The Simple Way:

4. The Creative Way:

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

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9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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